Painter 2016

Description

Dynamic Speckle brushes combine 2015’s Particle System Physics and brush thickness controls allowing for new brushstrokes, continuous strokes made of colour spots or speckles that are generated as you paint. These new Dynamic Speckle brushes can be found in the 2016 brush library categories.

More brush types have also been added including a range of dab types. These new dab types use both the Particles and Liquid Inks or Watercolour dabs combining to make Liquid Ink Gravity Particles, Liquid Ink Flow Particles, Liquid Ink Spring Particles, Watercolour Gravity Particles, Watercolour Flow Particles and Watercolour Spring Particles. These are all brushes that create quite random effects and it’s really going to be down to the individual to work out just how useful they will actually be in your own workflow.

Another introduction to Painter’s range of brushes is Audio Expression. Exactly as the name suggests, these are brushes that react to sound input- either from your speakers or mic, using the audio streams to modify the look and feel of the brushstroke – so yes, you can control your brushes’ parameters by singing to them.

Enabling the Audio Input and selecting an input source gives you the ability to add even more randomness to your marks, affecting controls such as the size, opacity, angle, stroke jitter, colour expression and variability.

Better performance
Brushes are critical, but these new technologies rely even more heavily on the improved performance and stability that Corel has built into Painter 2016. Corel says that brushes are up to three times faster than the previous version.

The new Painter version also makes it faster and easier to blend strokes across layers and media types. Plus, you can now import the brush stamps of pixel-based Adobe Photoshop brushes for further customization in Painter.

System Requirements

Windows

• Windows 10 (64-Bit), Windows 8.1 (64-Bit), or Windows 7 (64-Bit) (with latest Service Pack)
• Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64 or AMD Opteron (Intel Core 2 Duo or higher recommended)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB RAM recommended)
• 750 MB hard disk space for application files*
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution (1280 x 800 recommended)
• Mouse or tablet
• DVD drive (required for box installation)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or higher

Mac OS

• Mac OS X 10.10 or 10.9 (with latest revision)
• Intel Core 2 Duo
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB RAM recommended)
• 540 MB hard disk space for application files
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution (1280 x 800 recommended)
• Mouse or tablet
• DVD drive (required for box installation)
• Safari v7 or higher

*Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5