Photo-to-paint apps like Prisma create digital paintings in a few clicks, but starting with a blank canvas in a digital art program offers more room for custom refinements. Now, Corel Painter ...

In photo imaging, one program reigns supreme for turning photographs into fine art resembling natural-media-like paintings and illustrations, and that program is Corel Painter. Painter gives the ...

Artists of every stripe—fine art, comic art, photo art—rely on Corel Painter to create original works, as its natural media methodology uses tech to mimic paint on canvas. From its better photo art ...

Corel’s Painter mimics real paint mediums on a digital interface from the strokes to the way the “brush” even runs out of paint — and the new Painter Essentials is bringing more of those features to a ...

Since we first reviewed Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 two years ago, Corel has introduced an expanded Ultimate edition that spices up the original photo-editing software with potentially useful features ...

It’s not a revolutionary update for the world’s leading natural-media painting application, but key improvements keep Painter 2015 at the top of its class. Corel Painter faces an interesting problem: ...

There’s image editing and then there’s fine art—and Corel has always positioned Painter, its flagship professional painting program, on the creative end of the spectrum. With the release of Painter X3 ...

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