Corel Painter 11 Reviews

alaTest has collected and analyzed 19 reviews from magazines and websites. Reviewers really like the performance. The usability also impresses, but many are less positive about the interface.

Performance, Usability, Unmatched

Interface

Experts rate this product 74/100 and users N/A/100. We analyzed these ratings, the product age and more factors. Compared to other Utility Software, the Corel Painter 11 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of -1/100 = quality.

Painter has been around the computer graphics world almost as long as Photoshop and has always been the absolute leader in the realm of simulating natural media (paintbrushes, pencils, inks, and so on)-and retains the title to this very day. While ...

Faster paintbrush response. Excellent natural media tools. Useful interface tweaks

Unimpressive as an upgrade to previous versions. High upgrade cost

If you've just purchased your first graphics tablet or want the most capable natural media painting tool on the Mac, Painter is still your primary choice, but as an update to a venerable and important computer graphics program, Painter 11 doesn't ...

In this newest version of Painter, users will see a marked increase in speed along with 40 new Natural-Media brushes, more intuitive brush customization, resizable Colors and Mixer palettes, PNG support, and a ton of other time-saving features.

Faster performance ; new Real brushes ; enhanced selections and transformations ; improved color management ; resizable color palettes ; PNG support ; e-mail within the program

Large size brushes still slow to load

By adding this level of functionality, Corel proves that it not only listens to the feedback of its community of artists, art students and teachers, designers, and photographers, but it seeks to make them more productive as well