Corel Painter 11 Education Edition OLD VERSION

2.9 2.9 out of 5 stars | 9 ratings

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Last update: 11-01-2024


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Painter 11 offers a broad range of digital painting, photo-painting and drawing tools that enhance your creativity, expand your digital darkroom, support unlimited experimentation and help you work faster
All-new RealBristle painting system models traditional brushes like never before--replicate the sensation and interaction between traditional paint and canvas with your pen and tablet
Painter 11 is the world's most powerful Natural-Media painting and illustration software, ideal for commercial designers, entertainment artists, pro photographers, fine artists and students
Support for the entire Wacom product line, including industry-leading Cintiq interactive pen displays and Intuos drawing tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting experience so your hand and brush work fluidly as one
Box version includes bonus brushes, gradients, image hose nozzles, paper textures, patterns and weaves

Top reviews from the United States

E. Blake
5.0 out of 5 stars good
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2009
Works good. Very stable so far (no crashes), and no software restrictions on the educational version. A lot of the fancier brushes lag my computer, as do large brush sizes. I would recommend Ryan Church's intro to Painter for a jump-start setting up and using Painter (though the final illustration isn't great).

Favorite things about Painter: The tools are much more responsive than Photoshop's. The brush ghosting gives feedback on the mark you are about to make, and the pressure and tilt seem much more sensitive and accurate. The brush engine is of course more sophisticated than Photoshop's, though I miss Painter's control of pressure and tilt effects more than it's natural media simulation when I go back to Photoshop.

The Painter educational edition is a good value, and a good chance to get a grip on Painter before deciding whether or not to buy a full license. One oversight though is that there is no upgrade path provided with the educational edition. You would still have to pay full price to buy a full license - leaving you out a hundred dollars. I'm sure there are illegal options available and, although it is close, this educational version doesn't offer much competition to the 'free' alternative.
jalywol18
1.0 out of 5 stars Not Ready for Prime Time (or Vista for that matter)
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2009
I have Painter X, and I bought 11, thinking it would be an upgrade. What a mistake.

First of all, it does NOT run on Vista 64 machines. The information on the Corel site about it does not say this, but if you ask the company, they will acknowledge it. (I am not sure why, since Painter X does...not as well as it could, but it does). When I did get it to run, it simply would not display the brush selector, so there was no way to change what you were working with! (I tried every correction for this that others who use the programs had suggested, but to no avail.)

It does not have dual or quad core processor support either.

It also takes far longer to render brush strokes than Painter X; not sure why, but it almost seems like the program is hanging somewhere.

All in all, STAY AWAY from this product. Get Painter X if you can find it, it at least works.

Corel, you should be ashamed of yourself. Take this off the market, go back to the drawing board and release a real upgrade; one that uses multiple cores and x64 architecture. If you can't figure out how to do that, you should not be in the software business anymore.
standbackstudio
2.0 out of 5 stars buggy to be sure!
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2010
A great product? Yes, in a way (still the best drawing and painting experience) -- but save every few strokes because they may be your last. I've had problems with virtually every project I've started. Inevitably the brush palette disappears first and you will need to restart the program and reopen your project to gain selection again. And if you are going for high resolution artwork? -- "forget about it" -- beyond 72dpi you are certain to reach the spinning rainbow of crash and burn. That's been my experience on the Mac side (with a new Mac and 2GB of memory).
Stack⠀Overflow
3.0 out of 5 stars Buggy But Usable
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2010
I upgraded to Corel Painter 11 from Corel Painter X.

Here are a few quick specs on my system: I'm running Painter 11 on Windows XP (2.5 GHz processor with 2.5 Gigs of memory). The tablet I use is a Wacom Graphire "Steel-Blue" Tablet.

There are a couple of major improvements in Painter 11 over its predecessors.

- Tilt Recognition
If you have a tablet with pen-tilt detection, Painter 11 makes use of the tilt feature to broaden or narrow brush strokes with the tilt of the pen - narrower strokes with the pen perpendicular to the tablet and broader strokes with the pen at an angle to the tablet. (Alas, my Graphire series tablet is not tilt-aware and thus I'm unable to take advantage this feature.)

- Velocity Recognition
Painter 11 recognizes the velocity of a brush stroke and renders the stroke accordingly.

For a complete comparison of Painter 11 with previous versions, G00g1e for "Painter_11_Family_Product_Matrix" and follow the first link to view the PDF file.

I found Painter 11 very buggy and quirky. For example, I would get the following problems sporadically:

- Brush size lever refuses to budge
After I change the brush size beyond a certain threshold, I have a problem reducing it back down in size.

- Pasted layer shows up blank
After I copy and paste a layer, the pasted layer shows up blank.

- Custom Paper Library does not save
I'm unable to save a paper library that I've created and for the life of me, I can't figure out a way to make it save.

- Bush strokes don't show up
Periodically, brush strokes fail to show up. The only way I've found to fix this is to quit the application and start it back up.

These are just a few of the problems I can name off-hand. I doubt these are problems that are specific to my computer system because Painter support newsgroups are rife with accounts of people having similar problems. Some of these are a mild annoyance, but others are absolutely exasperating!

Painter requires lots of memory to run. The minimum requirement for memory on specs is 1 GB. I'd say 2GB or more would be ideal. Of course, it goes without say the faster processor you have, the better. Painter is VERY CPU-intensive.

As of now, I really wouldn't recommend Painter 11 until they've ironed out the bugs and quirks. If you already have Painter X or an earlier version of Painter, you might want to wait for the next release of Painter, which should hopefully be coming soon (Painter 11 was released in February, 2009). If you really can't wait to try out the aforementioned new features, I suppose Painter 11 is usable; just be aware that it is not quite ready for prime time. Overall, I would rate Painter 11 3.5 Stars.
GB4711
5.0 out of 5 stars For a college course
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2013
It was required for a college course and was very useful for art illustration. It remains in my collection today.
gerard ouimette
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2015
Very happy with purchase, would recommend to all.

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