Corel has released the latest version of its Painter art studio software, offering more tools and increased creative freedom for users.

 

February 25, 2009: Corel has released the latest version of its Painter art studio software, offering more tools and increased creative freedom for users.
Designed for visual artists of all types, Corel Painter 11 claims to be the fastest and most dependable Painter to date. It includes the ability to build unique brushes and media variants, and to customise how any brush interacts with the canvas. Users can also experiment with colour theory and composition and turn digital photographs into hand-painted works of art.
New features include 40 customisable hard media variants for drawing and sketching (Acrylic, Blenders, Chalk, Coloured Pencils, Conte, Erasers, Pastels, Pencils, Pens, Sumi-e and Watercolour), customisable rendering markers, a redesigned colour palette covering all colours and a resizable Mixer palette. Pen tablet users gain improved velocity control and the colour management has been redesigned and simplified.
Corel Painter 11 is available in Mac OS and Windows versions for an RRP of $429. It comes with libraries of gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper textures and brushes plus a printed Getting Started Guide, HTML Help files, an online User Guide. Online training videos and tutorials are also available. For more information ø¢â‚¬” and to download a trial version ø¢â‚¬” visit www.corel.com.