Instead of switching over to Photoshop for selecting and transforming, you can now do much of that in Painter-a big time-saver. This makes sense once you realize Photoshop wasn’t built specifically for painting it’s always been an image editor first. As always, Painter remembers any changes you make to brush variants (Corel’s name for attributes), as opposed to Photoshop, where the brush settings are global that is, unless you’ve saved custom brushes (and even then settings like opacity are still globally controlled). Experimenting with Color Variability is a great way to introduce texture and can keep your art from looking too digital and smooth, as if it were plastic. Here you can see the difference between color created with a single marker stroke (left), and that of a color buildup made with multiple overlapping strokes (right).īrush customization also got a little easier with a new Hard Media palette and a more accessible Color Variability palette (the latter had been buried deep within the Brush Creator). This new functionality is most evident when using the Real Pens or Real Calligraphy media, though by tweaking the settings in the Brush Creator, you can alter the velocity recognition so it’s more noticeable on other brushes. However, not all brushes take advantage of velocity. With velocity recognition, you can tweak settings in the Brush Creator dialog box so that an increase in speed produces a thinner stroke, alters opacity, affects color variability, and so on. You can also transition between different types of strokes within a single stroke, by merely changing the angle of your stylus. This means that for the first time ever, Painter artists can shade artwork with a pencil by turning it on its side, just like the real deal. (To date, all Wacom Intuos tablets recognize tilt, though the Wacom Bamboo ( ) and Graphire ( ) do not.) For example, as you tilt the stylus (or rather, brush) onto its side, your brush stroke gets wider. In Painter 11, many brushes now recognize tilt (brush angle) and the velocity (brush speed) of your stroke when used with a graphics tablet. The actual cursor is shown above each brush stroke. Here you can see the difference between drawing with a regular pencil and drawing with the new Real pencil, which recognizes tilt. The new brushes are sprinkled throughout several brush categories and include goodies like a pen that acts like a real-world Sharpie, pencils that you can shade with, a new Markers category, and more. While the RealBristle Painting System-an amazing technology allowing brushes to behave as they do in real life-was introduced in Painter X ( ), version 11 includes 40 new Natural-Media brushes, many of which are specific for drawing and sketching (any brush with the word Real in its name takes advantage of this technology).
The packaging for Painter 11 is certified green, thereby reducing its carbon footprint, and the reduced electronic pricing certainly encourages downloads. (Both palettes have to be undocked before they become resizable.)Īnd the aforementioned tidying isn’t limited to the interface, as Corel has also given a nod to the environment in this release. While users have long been able to change the Mixer background themselves, this kind of attention to detail is a nice touch. By default it sports a parchment background instead of stark white, which had always made it challenging to spot differences between very light colors when mixing.
The Mixer palette is resizable too, revealing more preset color swatches as it’s enlarged. You can also use your arrow keys to refine a selection in the Colors palette: just make an initial color selection on the Hue Ring and then tap any arrow key to adjust the saturation of the predominant hue. The Transform tools have been relocated to a more intuitive home (the Edit menu and Property Bar), and new Hard Media and Color Variability palettes give you quick access to brush customization tools (about which you’ll learn more later).Īt long last, the Colors palette is now resizable-something users have requested for years. For example, the interface color is now totally consistent, and the Show/Hide text in some pull-down menus (the Window menu, for example) has been replaced by a single checkmark to indicate if the palette is hidden or not. One of the first things you’ll notice in Painter 11 is that the workspace has been tidied up in variety of ways.
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