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Corel® Painterâ„¢ X software, announced in early February, is now available for shipment. The English version of Corel Painter X is offered in a full version, upgrade version, education edition and Limited Edition Painter Can. According to Corel, “the latest version of Corel Painter continues its focus on giving professional artists, designers and photographers a natural painting and illustration experience that is unmatched by any other software”. It blurs the line between traditional and digital art with the introduction of unparalleled performance, new composition tools and the revolutionary RealBristle Painting System. PainterX is a Universal Binary application, so it runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

Updated Compatibility

• Windows XP / 2000
• New! Windows Vistaâ„¢ support
• Enhanced! Mac OS® X support*
• Enhanced! Adobe® Photoshop® support
• Enhanced! Wacom support

*Requires Mac OS X 4.0 or higher.

The RealBristle Painting System now heightens the responsiveness of the brush for the artist, according to Rick Champagne, product manager for Corel Painter. RealBristle brushes faithfully replicate traditional art media with individual bristles that blend and splay, as in the traditional world.

Painter X also adds new Composition Tools to the tool box. The new Divine Proportion composition tool provides guidelines that follow the Divine Proportion (also known as the Golden Ratio) to enable artists to compose their images “like the Masters." The new Layout Grid composition tool provides guidelines that follow photography's Rule of Thirds, but can be customized to other desired grid patterns.

PainterX has an enhanced photo-painting system, a new Match Palette effect that lets you match the color and intensity between two image and a Universal Mixer palette, which offers better control over color selection when using any bristle brush. A new WorksSpace Manager is designed to simplify backing up, sharing or switching between customized workspaces. PainterX also has new dodge and burn tools and beefed-up color management.

The pricing for Corel Painter X in the US and Canada is US$429 for the full version, $229 for upgrades and $99 for the education edition (US MSRP). The Limited Edition Painter Can is available for $499.

Order

All versions are available from www.corel.com/painterx.