The sixth iteration of the beginner-friendly paint program also sees a 1.3 to 1.5 times speed improvement over the previous version. A kaleidoscope tool will similarly repeat brush strokes across multiple plane lines.

Painter Essentials 6 also includes a handful of tools designed to speed up the editing process - a mirror mode will create the other half of symmetrical drawings automatically in real time. “The big thing that separates Painter is the natural media - it really mimics traditional media, emulating real-world strokes,” Corel’s Digital Arts Product Manager Chris Pierce said during an early demo of the software. Along with starting from a blank canvas, Painter Essentials 6 can also convert a photo to a paint style, or, for more control, users can paint in the details of the image with the different photo cloning brushes. When pairing the desktop software with a tablet, the program is also pressure-sensitive to the stylus (and flipping the stylus around automatically swaps to eraser mode).

Brushes from chalk and pencil to oils and watercolors are designed to behave like the real thing - digital artists can even mix the paint colors together like with the physical paint palette. Like the predecessors, Painter Essentials 6 is designed with traditional art mediums in mind. On Tuesday, January 6, Corel launched Painter Essentials 6 with enhancements to brush technology, boosts in performance, and additions previously only available on the pricier version of the software. Introducing Corel Painter Essentials 6!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 simplified user interface.

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