Corel Painter Essentials 4 Win/Mac
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Manufacturer: Corel
Model: PE4ENPCM
Binding: CD-ROM
Publisher: Corel
Label: Corel
Platform: Macintosh
Platform: Macintosh
Features for Corel Painter Essentials 4 Win/Mac :
- The simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy for you to draw, paint or turn your photos into paintings--the ideal way to get started with digital art
- Enhanced Photo Painting System reduces the complexity of turning a photo into a painting
- Incredible selection of brushes, paints, pens and paper textures for adding unique touches to photos or creating cards, scrapbooks and other fun projects
- Compatible with Intel and PowerPC Macs, Windows Vista, the entire Wacom product line, and major photo-editing applications
- Tutorial-based guidebook and accompanying video tutorials/sample files teach you the application while you complete fun, instructional projects
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Customer Reviews
It's no Photoshop - but does the job 
2008-09-20
As a long time Photoshop user I was, admittedly, skeptical about the capabilities of Painter4. I was pleasantly surprised. It certainly is a mid-end product, but has all of the basics you world expect. For the price it really does the job. My kids (13, 15) took to it very well enjoying a very (matter our hours) swift learning curve. For quick picture touch-up's I actually now prefer this over Photoshop (I never thought I'd every say that about another product!).
Great Intro to Photo painting 
2008-09-07
I found this Painter Essentials to be a great introduction to painting. A must for those interested in learning the basics of painting using the computer.
Corel Painter Essentials 4 
2008-08-17
I haven't had much luck using this. Nothing comes out the way I want it to. I'm not crazy about it and you don't have a lot of personal control with it.
Easy to Use 2008-08-16
This product is easy to use but it takes about a minute or so for it to do its thing in the auto painting. I recommend playing the video tutorials first as they were very helpful.
Another great product from Corel 2008-07-17
I really loved this product. I'm an Adobe Photoshop man myself but found Corel's Painter Essentials to be excellent when doing a few simple things to pictures. It's very easy to use. Highly recommended!
Not what I needed after all 2008-07-10
PAINTER ESSENTIALS 4 EN PCM FOR WINDOWS AND MAC
A Quality Product 2008-06-26
Corel Painter Essentials 4 is a software package that runs on either Windows or Mac systems designed to enable you to draw or paint using a computer or to edit digital photographs to make them look like drawings, paintings, or to do touch up. The application would be most applicable to artists and designers looking for a tool with which to create new images, or to regular non-professionals looking for a nice way to edit photographs to make them look more interesting for family and friends.
The software comes with a tutorial that explains the process and makes the program easy to use. If the uses of this application are something that you would like to do, then this seems to be a very good software package. Take a look at the reviews here for yourself, and you'll notice that the only 1 and 2 star reviews are from people who could not figure out how to install the software or didn't take the time to watch the tutorial to learn how to use it. In other words -- no negative reviews of the actual product itself! That's pretty good design for software.
However, if you are not interested in drawing from scratch or creating painting/drawing-like pictures, this may not be necessary for you. I use Photoshop to edit my photographs, and as I am not a designer, that has been enough so far for me. But I could see uses for this and may use it more in the future should the need arise.
Good for Tech Imaging 2008-06-10
This looks like a fine software program if you're into creating images. I'm really not that tech savvy and have not used the program only for that reason. The product does not come with the markers, etc. that are pictured - that is for illustration purposes only.
Corel makes great products and this one should be no different.
Masterpieces the Easy Way 2008-05-28
Whether you're using a Wacom tablet or just a mouse, you can quickly achieve painterly styles either free hand or with existing art and photographs with a few clicks and create unique pieces of art with minimal effort.
Being a user of Photoshop for about 14 years, I can tell you, this is not a competing product - it is a complementary product. The two do very different things in very different ways. Great for amateur artists or professionals, Painter 4 Essentials has great video tutorials to get you started.
I installed this on two different machines to test it out - once on a one-year-old MacBook that has the older video card w/ 64MB of shared graphics memory and on a new (early 2008) iMac with a 512MB graphics card. The difference is striking on performance. While this product would probably be great on one of the newer MacBooks with 144MB of shared memory, it stuttered and was slow on my older MacBook. It flies on my iMac... and this is clearly due to the graphics memory differences and not because of a moderate processor jump.
I'd recommend anyone trying this new out of the box to sit through the tutorials at least once to familiarize themselves with the interface - to me, it was not initially intuitive.
Fun, affordable, powerful product.
A great painting program for the price. 2008-05-24
Well I've only had Painter Essentials4 for a few days but I'm a fan.I get the feeling it is to PainterX what Photoshop Elements is to Photoshop - a lot of the power at a fraction of the price.
I've used PS Elements for a while and have a plug in (Virtual Painter) for rendering paintings from photos and it does a good job. But for a few bucks more PE4 has it beat. And if you are familiar with Elements you will be at home with PE4.A lot of the same tools and you can save in photoshop format.Highly reccomended.
