If you draw comics for example, you may only use a couple of sizes and brushes to ink your work – now, your custom palettes mean your flow is even more super smooth. You can keep a selection of your favourite brushes at hand in a custom palette, and the brush size library gives you easy access to your most used sizes, again, if you know what you usually need before you start painting it is now even easier to have everything at hand. The possibilities just rocketed in terms of experimenting with mixed media.Īnother super handy addition to the brush library is the ‘like’ button. You can now add the texture of wetness to dry media brushes, directly on watercolour layers, too. Use filters such as ‘watercolour compatible’ and hey presto – a list of every compatible brush from every category appears. It’s easy to forgive, however, and actually perfect for beginners, as every brush is now alphabetised and in easy to remember categories – with the addition of a filter search being its crowning glory.
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Note: The Download button on the Product Information page takes you to the vendor’s site, where you can download the latest version of the software.An overhaul and, some might say unnecessary, reorganisation of the brush library is the first thing that grabs you about Painter 2022.
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If you ever outgrow it, the transition to the full Painter is a natural and easy one. Painter Lite is more than powerful enough to get you started.
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Whoever went over the full version of Painter to decide what to drop and what to keep for Lite made careful decisions resulting in a product that offers excellent value for money, and is fun to use. Fortunately, this isn’t the case for Painter Lite: It feels like a powerful toolkit with plenty of possibilities for artistic expression. Things that have Lite in the name sometimes end up feeling like shoddy substitutes for the real thing.
Just like the full Painter, Painter Lite can adjust to your individual tablet pen stroke style. You can also adjust a layer’s colors independently of the rest of the painting, and apply effects such as motion blur or depth-of-field just to that specific layer. You can even make two alternative versions of the same part in your painting, each on its own layer, and toggle between them to decide which one you like best. These make it easy to manually trace over existing photographs, or to separate your background and your subject and experiment with different brushes and looks. Just like the full Painter, Painter Lite supports layers. Still, if you’re a beginner looking for an affordable auto-painting tool, you can always check out Dynamic Auto-Painter. I was surprised at the decision to drop this from Painter Lite, because in my mind auto-painting is mainly for people who aren’t professionals and still need a hand creating the paintings they’re after–in other words, exactly the sort of users who get into digital painting for the first time with Painter Lite. In the full Painter 12 you can load an image, pick a brush and settings, and set Painter loose to recreate it with brush strokes, resulting in a convincing painting. One interesting decision Corel made with Painter Lite was to remove the Auto Painting feature. Painter Lite comes with 97 art brushes categorized according to type and style. Still, the wide variety of bundled brushes makes it easy to create many different looks, from finely detailed pencil sketches all the way to large, expressive impasto creations. Notably missing are the Real Watercolor and Real Wet Oil brushes, two extremely realistic brush types that drip, dry, and blend in ways that impressed me when reviewing the full Painter 12. Corel bundled no fewer than 97 different brushes with Painter Lite, including markers, airbrushes, watercolor brushes, special effect brushes, and many others. The most important part of Painter is, of course, the paint brushes.
When you use a pen tablet, Painter Lite reacts to your stroke pressure and the angle in which you’re holding the pen, making for a natural painting experience. Painter Lite’s welcome screen showcases a collection of art created with both Painter and Painter Lite, and makes it easy to get started.Ī pen tablet, by the way, is something you really should get if you’re serious about digital painting: You can use Corel Painter Lite with a mouse, but it feels a bit like trying to cook dinner with nothing but a spoon.
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