Corel Painter Essentials 7 | Digital Art Suite | Amazon Exclusive Includes Free PhotoMirage Express Valued at $49 [PC/Mac Disc] [Old Version]

I ran Painter Essentials 7 on a Toshiba laptop with 32 GB RAM, a SSD, Intel Core i7vPro CPU, and Windows 7 Pro 64 OS.

I think this is a fine entry-level program for the non-artist or the artist new to digital painting. I am not an artist but play with simple graphics for my own amusement. I had tried at least one previous iteration of Painter and was quickly overwhelmed with the options. This version gets around that by limiting the options and permitted user variations. The most noticeable of that being that users cannot tweak the settings to create their own brushes and then save that brush for later use. A professional artist might find that a limitation but for a casual user like me that is really not an issue, given the huge--HUGE--number of preprogrammed brushes. For those who dont anticipate creating original art but do want to enhance or just plain play with existing images, there is Auto-Paint, which lets you take any picture and convert it into styles suggestive of classical techniques: from Smooth Acrylic to Pastel to French Impressionist to Van Gogh. The program supports Layers, a Tracing function, a Text tool and, of course, painting from scratch. Overall, Painter Essentials is a non-intimidating introduction to painting software for the novice and, compared to expensive fully-featured packages, a fair value.

This was my first attempt at using an art program like this and I have to admit I was a little overwhelmed. The features are out of this world and create some of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen. There is definitely a learning curve to this, but if you are willing to invest the time to learn how to use this to its maximum potential, the results would delight.

Fantastic program

Returned.

I shouldve looked deeper into reviews before I got this. It wouldnt download onto my windows HP..it would either take hours just to get to 27% or it would stay at 0%. When I looked up ways to get it to work you had to literally shut off all of your computers protection which was weird. I sent it back and got a different one from best buy (ultimate paintshop pro 2021)..just for it to have the exact same program on it..I had to message customer support to get it to download. They had me shut all my protection and administrator stuff off. It did download and its a decent program but kinda wishing I went with something else with a bit more options to it.

This is an excellent cost-effective option for anyone who doesnt need the entire functionality of the much more expensive full Painter software. For less than a tenth of the cost (at the time of this review), I feel this has the features that most amateurs and even some avid amateurs need in this type of software.

Corel painter essentials is the more simplified version of the full Corel Painter program. There is a bit of a learning curve when it comes to using painter, but there are plenty of online instruction manuals and video tutorials. I am more of a visual learner when it comes to these types of programs, so its nice to be able to see someone using this specific program to create their art.

good software

This is the first digital painting software Ive ever attempted to use. As a novice, I can say that Corel makes a good product thats relatively easy to pick up on. Yes, theres a learning curve, but its not nearly as severe as something like Photoshop.