Corel has announced the next major version of the company’s popular Painter application called ‘Painter X.’ Not to be confused with Sonic-X, my son’s favorite cartoon show, this is a premier painting and illustration application that has many added new features geared toward commercial designers, entertainment and fine artists, as well as amateur and professional photographers. Full price is $419.00 USD, while the upgrade will cost $219.00 USD. There is also a trial version available from the Corel website. It features new composition tools including one interestingly titled tool called ‘Divine Proportion’, layer system, a new Workspace Manager, and the all-new RealBristle™ painting system that models traditional brushes, with individual bristles that blend and splay. Corel Painter X will open native Photoshop (PSD) files maintaining the layer masks, layer sets, and alpha channels. I’ve used older versions of Painter, but tend to fall back on Adobe Photoshop, but I will definitely be downloading the trial version of ‘Painter X’ to check it out, and of course it’s just cool to say ‘Painter X!’
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