Corel Painter Essentials 3 Win/Mac [Old Version]

Name: Corel Painter Essentials 3 Win/Mac [Old Version]
SKU: 74641
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3.2 | 9 ratings

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Last update: 08-05-2024

About this item

Photo Painting Palettes: create stunning paintings from photos in 3 easy steps
Artists’ Oils: smear colorful oil paint on the canvas with thick, bristly brushes that are remarkably realistic.
Digital Watercolor: breathtaking brushes behave like real watercolor and stay wet between sessions!
Welcome Screen: Easily access recently used files, and tutorials. Browse the Painter Masters art gallery.
Includes brand-new Nozzles and Patterns, and more than 75 Natural-Media brushes.

Top reviews from the United States

Kelly g.

Should NEVER have been sold!

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2022

This item should be thrown away and NEVER have been sold in the first place! When it didn't work I contacted Corel and they said this program was not supported anymore... it cost me $19.00 just to send it back! I hope they do the right thing and throw this out before anyone else gets ripped off!

Tana ebbole

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016

Excellent

Chris

It was a good program for its time....

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2010

I'd been waiting for the WACOM/Painter program for a long time. I don't know HOW I did without it. That having been stated, I liked Painter Essentials 2 and 3. But 3 glitched once in a while, and when I got a new Dell PC with Vista, Vista wouldn't "take" it. You need to go to Wacom co. to download a "patch" so Vista would accept 3. Don't bother. If you have Windows ME, XP or other OS, you won't need one and the software may or may not give you problems. Since then I've traded up to Painter X....SO much more control and more "brushes" to play with than Essentials, which was merely the bottom of the bucket at the time. Good for scribblers and beginning painters. (I began to turn out/edit the best art of my life, and I started art around 2-3 years.)
If you want to take the leap of faith, go for it. But if you want horse power and realistic "tools" such as Colored Pencil, Conte, Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Image Hoses and Oil Paint, don't go for Essentials. IMO, Essentials is the milk, Corel Painter series is the meat and potatoes. Both are good softwares, just don't say you weren't warned about 3's glitchiness/Vista's refusal.

RPettibone

A different experience

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2006

I've not had the difficulties others have expressed with this program. My first experience was with version 2 which was bundled with my Wacom tablet. After using it for a while I was hooked and upgraded to version 3. With a tablet the program is very intuitive, unlike Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2, and produces wonderful results. I've never liked working with digital media until now.

A tablet is essential to getting the most out of the program.

ZedTheSleeper

Not Worth It

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2006

I purchased this product to use as a drawing instrument. It worked great for the first 3 times I used it. After that it started to crash every time I clicked on something/anything. I was told it was the result of a corrupt user profile. I created a new user profile and it worked great...for three times and bam! It started crashing again. Corel will not refund money for a product not purchased directly from them and I had the product just long enough so that I can't get a refund from the place I purchased it. BEWARE and do not get this software. Don't make the same mistake I made. I wasted money I could have used on a program that could have worked.

consumer of goods

Unstable, approach with caution

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2007

I got version 2 "free" with my Wacom tablet. After reading another review here of version 3 it seems not much has changed.

Almost every time I try to use this on a Mac it crashes. Not an elegant crash, the app just disappears and the OS tells me "the application has unexpectedly quit". Of course my work disappears with it.

Not very impressive. A piece of software with 5 million features that crashes is useless. Period.

If it actually worked, this would probably be a good piece of software.

Steven R. Maxwell

Excellent Results, Stable as a Rock

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2007

I've been using Painter Essentials 3 for most of a week, and find it excellent in every way. My four kids are having a ball with it, too. No glitches whatsoever. The [...] tutorial videos that came as part of the package are very effective, too. It takes a little practice and artistry to produce attractive results, but that's exactly as it should be.

I'm using this program on a G5 iMac. Perhaps the folks experiencing the glitches are running that other kind of computer :-(

All in all, a great program at a great price.

Thomas Klumb

Not 1-2-3 more like 9-14-23

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2006

Who ever wrote the product discription never try to use it.

There is a long learning curve and not a lot of help out there for you to get through it.

My advice is buy Photoshop at least they publish books to help you get familure with the program.

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