Product Code COR02020
Sketch, paint and turn your photos into paintings
Product Information
The Easy-to-Use Home Art Studio
Corel® Painter™ Essentials 4 is the simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy for you to sketch, paint and turn your photos into paintings. Two new workspaces put the tools you need at your fingertips, whether you're turning a photo into a painting, or sketching and painting on a blank canvas. Based on the world's most powerful painting and illustration software, Corel® Painter™, it's the ideal way to get started with digital art!
- What is an Easy-to-Use Home Art Studio?
- Who uses Corel Painter Essentials 4?
- Features
- System Requirements
- What's Included
- Examples
Turn Photos into Paintings
You can create a painting from a photo in just three steps:
- Open the photo you want to paint in the Source Image palette. Your photo will be saved with the Painter Essentials file format, so it's easy to return to a project later
- Choose one of the preset painting styles from the menus on the Auto-Painting Palette to get the look you want
- Let new Smart Stroke™ technology create stunning paintings—with brush strokes that follow the form of your photo!
Discover an Expressive and Natural painting experience
The Drawing and Painting workspace is designed to put the tools you need at your finger tips.
- Identify and choose brushes easily with the New Brush Drawer
- Go back to recently used brushes quickly with Brush History
- Organise your favorite brushes in one spot for easy access
- Select paint colours with a single click on the New Colours palette
- Create new colours easily with the convenient New Mixer palette
Explore Learning Materials
Free video tutorials by Painter master John Derry, combined with the tutorials printed in the user guide, make it easier than ever to get started—and get the results you want.
Features
This release of Corel Painter Essentials 4 offers a completely redesigned workspace that improves colour selection and helps you discover different brushes, media and paper. With the new video tutorials and companion user guide, getting started has never been easier.
Photo Painting
- NEW! Redesigned Photo Painting workspace: provides a tailored environment that includes all the tools you need to paint your photos
- NEW! Smart Stroke™ Technology: preset styles paint with intelligent brushstrokes that follow the forms of the original photo when autopainting
- NEW! Updated File format: Corel Painter Essentials 4 now saves the source image with your painting, making it easier to return to a project for further editing
Drawing and Painting
More Natural Media®
Learning
Compatibility
What is an Easy-to-Use Home Art Studio?
An Easy-to-Use Home Art Studio gives you several ways to explore your creativity...
If you want to do more than just edit and print your photos, Corel Painter Essentials 4 extends your creativity by helping you transform photos into painted works of art.Feeling more artistic? Try painting on a blank canvas. Working just like an artist, you can use one of the 90 brushes and mix paint to get the exact colour you need. Plus, the brush strokes are just like the real thing.
Digital camera owners and anyone who enjoys taking photos can use Corel Painter Essentials 4 to find new ways to work with photographs and express their vision. Try the autopainting features to quickly and easily convert a photo into a painting. Then use the easy-to-access online services to have your masterpiece printed on a canvas, t-shirt, mug or other keepsake.
Creating scrapbooks is fun and rewarding with Corel Painter Essentials 4. Explore the many tools, brushes, paints and effects to add a whole other creative element to your scrapbooks. Painting loved ones is not only expressive but also meaningful.
Use the links below to learn more about all the different ways you can use Corel Painter Essentials 4.
Who uses Corel Painter Essentials 4?
People who like to take pictures
Digital camera users or anyone who uses a camera to capture special moments and express their creativity can find new ways to add unique touches to their photos with Corel Painter Essentials 4. The completely redesigned user interface and the simplified Photo Painting System make it easy to add artistic flair to any project. With the new Smart Stroke™ technology, it's now even easier to turn a photo into a natural and expressive hand-painted work of art.Scrapbookers and arts & crafts enthusiasts
Working with photos, sketching and painting are some of the hands-on projects enjoyed by scrapbookers and arts & crafts enthusiasts. Corel Painter Essentials 4 makes it simple to transform a photo into a painting, sketch or paint an original image, or add creative elements to any project. It's easy to create stunning images that are perfect for hanging on the wall or for adding an extra personal touch to scrapbooks or other creative projects.Art students and teachers
Corel Painter Essentials 4 gives students and teachers a way to explore the visual arts without the costs and mess associated with traditional art supplies. Whether they're working at home or at school, students and teachers can enjoy an ideal learning environment that combines the techniques of classical art training with the unique possibilities offered by digital media.
Want to see it in action?
Try one of the videos below to see how cool Painter Essentials 4 really is:
System Requirements
Windows® version:
- Windows Vista™ or Windows XP (with latest Service Pack)
- Pentium® III, 700 MHz or greater
- 256 MB RAM
- Mouse or tablet
- 24-bit color display
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution
- CD-ROM
- 1 GB of HD space for installation
Mac OS version:
- Mac OS® X 10.4.x (with latest revision)
- Power Macintosh® G4, 700 MHz or greater
- 256 MB RAM
- Mouse or tablet
- 24-bit color display
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution
- CD-ROM
- 1 GB of HD space for installation
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader are required for components of Corel Painter Essentials 4
Safari™ web browser on the Macintosh and Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 (or greater) on Windows are required for components of Corel Painter Essentials 4.
Training Videos
Adobe®Flash® Player version 7 or higher is required to play the Corel Painter Essentials 4 training videos.
What's included
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Corel Painter Essentials 4: Mac OS and Windows versions
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Libraries of Unique brushes, paper textures, patterns and nozzles
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Tutorial based guide book
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Companion video tutorials
Examples
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