
By combining paper and brush types you can get a specific feel like “felt pen on watercolor paper” or “chalk on cotton paper.”Ĭorel says Painter 12 is up to five times faster than Painter 11. You can also select a paper type for your image out of a rich paper textures library, and even create new textures on your own. Out of the box, Painter offers seven hundred different brushes, but you can endlessly tweak and modify each brush to create your own unique style. That was a truly eye-opening moment–it is just like water color.Ĭorel Painter’s new Real brushes also include Real Wet Oil, which is similar to Real Watercolor but for oil brushstrokes that are virtually infused with solvents to create artistic effects. But when I stopped drawing, the strokes I made suddenly blended into the paper, diffused, and actually “dried” right in front of my eyes, becoming slightly faded.

Paint showed up on the screen so far, nothing new. I picked out a brush and started clumsily scratching away at my Wacom. The first thing that struck me about Painter 12 is the new Real Watercolor brushes.

To review Painter, I dug out my trusty old Wacom tablet (a Graphire 2 model aimed at consumers).
