Corel Painter Essentials 5 Digital Art Suite for PC and Mac (Old Version)

3.8 | 304 ratings

Price: 28.94

Last update: 08-24-2024

About this item

Sketch, draw, or paint to create amazing art at any skill level, whether from scratch or existing Photos
Brush and other art tools closely mimic Real oil paint, chalk, charcoal, WaterColor, and other media with Corel's RealBristle technology
Convert Photos into paintings with a click, or use the brush of Your choice to personalize Your creation
Native 64 bit Support ensures that you can find all the essential tools you need for Your individual Workflow
Wacom Tablet Support and the 2 in 1 Mobile painting interface give you flexibility to create Your work organically on the go with fine tuning via keyboard input

From the manufacturer

Painter Essentials 5

Turn every inspiration into impressive art

Corel Painter Essentials 5 is specially designed for art enthusiasts and emerging photo artists who want to go beyond ordinary and turn everyday inspiration into seriously impressive art. It’s easy to be amazing with award-winning Natural-Media brushes, and time-saving painting tools like Mirror and Kaleidoscope that let you create one-of-a-kind art with just a few strokes. The photo-painting and cloning tools are unmatched, transforming your photos into oil and watercolor masterpieces. For even more impact, use revolutionary Particle Brushes to add details like hair or fur with ease. It’s the most natural way to show your unique personality and style.

New Features

Revolutionary Particle brushes
Jitter brushes
Mirror painting
Kaleidoscope painting
Enhanced Paper textures
2 in 1 mobile painting interface
Native 64-bit for Mac and PC

Features


Trace and hand paint from images Sketch or paint right over your photo using tracing paper as a guide. You can use color right from the image itself or custom select your own colors.	Smart photo-painting tools Sit back and watch the Auto-Painting tool magically paint a photo for you and add amazing photo effects. Just choose your image and a painting style, and then let the SmartStroke brush technology follow the lines and contours in your picture just like a real artist would.	Mirror painting With Mirror painting, every stroke you make is copied onto the opposite side of your canvas. Not only does this new tool greatly increase your precision and accuracy when painting symmetrical objects, but it also saves you a lot of time.	Kaleidoscope painting Go where traditional painting can’t. This exciting new tool allows you to create beautiful kaleidoscope effects on canvas. Use your choice of media to paint electrifying patterns and colors, and see amazing results when you add a blending tool to the mix.

System Requirements

Windows:

Windows 8.1 (64-Bit), or Windows 7 (64-Bit) (with latest Service Pack)

Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64 or AMD Opteron

2 GB RAM

650 MB hard disk space for application files*

Mouse or tablet

1024 x 768 screen resolution

DVD drive

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or higher* Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Mac:

Mac OS X 10.9 or 10.10 (with latest revision)

Intel Core 2 Duo

2 GB RAM

500 MB hard disk space for application files

Mouse or tablet

1024 x 768 screen resolution

DVD drive

Safari v5 or higher


	Painter Essentials 5	Painter 2015
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Customer Reviews	304	73
Price	$28.94	—
Streamlined autopainting with presets	✓
Real Watercolor Brushes		✓
Native 64-bit for Mac and PC	✓	✓
Enhanced Wacom tablet support	✓	✓
Streamlined interface for hobbyists	✓
Workspace manager		✓
Advanced brush editing		✓
Save/Export/Import custom brushes		✓
Advanced Color Management		✓
Multiple Clone Sources		✓

Top reviews from the United States

B. Piper

Try it you will like it!

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2015

I really enjoy my Painter Essentials 5. A real value for the price. I have used the full program Painter in the past and find even with its limitations (such as no masks, limited ways of selection from individual layers etc) PE5 it is a good program. Very stable and has many of the basic good brushes. (Would love to be able to add more ). I found auto painting works very well. The buyer should have a basic knowledge of using layers to use this program to its full potential. I found it very compatible to use with work done in Photoshop Elements. Good videos on YouTube, but we could use more with simple basic painting use of the program. A good starting program for painting and a good painting program that does not take a lot of hard drive space up on your laptop. Try it you will like it!

Lanke

Good Software But Watch How You Start It

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2018

I had a problem getting this program to run, getting a missing .ddl file message and assumed that I needed Windows 10 to run it. But when I did the same thing happened. I found however that if I ran the program from its own directory or the Start Menu it would run. It would not run from the Desktop icon I created. The program unlike many others does not put an icon on the desktop.
If it doesn't run in one location for you, then try another like its own directory or the Start Menu not the Desktop.
The software is a pretty good value for the money and has a lot of capability. But like its parent Corel Painter its heavily orientated towards emulating traditional art. A part of me feels "why bother". If you want a traditional look then use traditional materials. I might be disposed towards that view because I'm used to working with them. Still you don't have to mix paints or clean palettes and brushes and if you don't absolutely have to have a piece of hand done original art, I guess it's OK. And you don't get that "computer done" look to the Art. This is a matter for the individual to decide.

gythaendahl Quickwind

Works well

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2019

Does what It says it can do. It works with Win 7. I was missing the scan photo feature in building backgrounds for illustrations that every later version of Corel Draw, Painter and Essentials lacks. This has sped up my illustration creation ability to also match my art style, instead of looking like the same f stop throughout the photograph, background.
I also like the tools that work well in the blending of color and creating better illustrations that is more like when I paint by hand on canvas or bristol board with oils or acrylics.

Margaret Freund

Purchased it in May 2015 and was told, because ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2017

Purchased it in May 2015 and was told, because I called, that this download was forever mine as they do not send out CDs any longer. Hurricane hits west coast of Florida and I cannot retrieve Corel Essentials. Went to the software library where it failed to upload only a partial ergo another call to an agent who does not live in the U.S and whose speech is difficult to understand. Told me that my 2 year warranty ran out. Oops..nowhere was I told there was a 2 year warranty as it is a download and was told I could use it in perpetuity. Not so. There is nothing on the ad which Amazon has up that speaks of a 2 year warranty. Was told to return it???? How do you return a download. So now I am out $40 and lots of luck to you and yours.

Michael J. Sutherland

Installs fine on Mac, can't even get Setup to work on Windows 7 Pro

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2015

I have used Corel Painter and Painter Essentials since 2008. My first experience was Painter Essentials 3 or 4 (bundled with my Wacom Intuos 3 graphics tablet). I used Painter X up until OSX Snow Leopard (10.6) ceased to run it (thank you for nothing Apple) and I upgraded my PC beyond 8GB of RAM. Since then, I've been Painter-less and itching to get back into using it again. While other programs come close, Painter has the best simulation of oil and other natural media.

I purchased Essentials 5 to get that back. Unfortunately, it won't even install on my Windows 7 Pro workstation. Windows installs go through a browser based setup and use Active X controls. Despite my best efforts to turn these off, and make myself vulnerable to malware while doing so, the Windows installation never gets beyond the browser window "Loading"

So I went and installed it on my late 2009 iMac 20 inch running OS 10.9.5 and it installed and ran just fine. Not that I mind that Mac, but its only got 4GB of RAM and a 128 MB ATI video card compared to the 16GB of RAM and 1GB NVIDIA on my workstation running Windows. This limits the images and workflow.

Lesson learned, don't bother with Corel products. They still don't know how to produce quality user friendly software. This will be my final Corel product ever. I will save my money for their competitors (take Smith Micro putting out Manga Studio for example, you can still Manga Studio 4 Windows or Mac, and it's the contemporary of Corel Painter X which is now a coaster on my desk collecting dust and coffee stains).

On the plus side, the brushes look very natural, and it does work. Just not where I needed it to.

George W.

pretty self explanatory I think as I went more into ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2017

I was sold a product that has a SN# in the package with a CD-Rom to load the product and using the SN# is will not load on my iMac late 2012 with all updates in system running macOS Sierra Version 10.12.5 and I get a drop down box with two options load trial or load as purchased to do and I clicked the Load and I get another box saying incorrect Serial number ...after repeated conversation with custormer service and waiting one day or more between each response and refusing to acknowledge anything I said I finally asked just to issue me a replacement that would work or a download that would work and all I get back was I am available 3-11 so I asked for a day and a time for open conversation and I get take a pic of the two selection Box....pretty self explanatory I think as I went more into detail on our conversations. I am 89 almost and am limited in doing some thing such as cut & paste and screen capture and have no desire to learn and my phone skill are limited after 30 years on Navy Carriers working jets. So usually order the DVD and update driver if necessary

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