There were also opaque flat and opaque round oil brushes for when I didn’t want to blend, and a fine camel brush which allowed the pressure sensitivity of my Wacom Pen to control the diameter of the stroke I made. The harder I pressed on my Wacom tablet, the less of the other color it picked up, which allowed me to control the blending. Specifically, when using the smeary round or smeary flat oil brush any color you used would pick up some of the color where you started your stroke. What I did like was the amount of blending you could do with a lot of the brushes.

I still didn’t end up liking that feature, but I tolerated it. It was sort of weird, but after I found the shortcut for that-alt and space at the same time-it got a little bit easier to rotate the canvas without pausing much between strokes. The only option available is to rotate the entire canvas. Some of the brushes were permanently angled or flat and there was no way to change that. What did bother me was the inability to rotate the brush. You can turn that off with a click, though, if you don’t like it.īut I didn’t mind. There are several options of different brush types, and since I started off using the thick acrylic flat brush, the paint did actually pile up a little bit over time. The first thing I noticed after briefly “painting” some color onto a new “canvas” was that the paint actually looked a little three-dimensional. There are better versions available that are just called Corel Painter-but since this version was free, I’m definitely not complaining. Keep in mind throughout that this is only Corel Painter Essentials, and it came free with my Wacom drawing tablet. I’m not going to extensively compare and contrast Painter with Photoshop in this article, but I WILL point out some of what you’ll get with Painter if you’re a traditional artist interested in going digital. Well, this week I actually took a look at Corel Painter to see if I was right. Since I had Photoshop already, I didn’t even bother installing Painter at first-I figured that anything Corel Painter could offer me I could already do in Photoshop. When I bought my Wacom Graphire a few months ago it came with Corel Painter Essentials.

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