procreate Painter 7

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Summary: Painter 7 & Photoshop
Review: An absolute must for the digital photographer wanting to add an artistic touch to their work. Worth the cost just for the bility to create digital "backgrounds". A pressure sensitive tablet such as WACOM helps a lot but is not essential to start. Create a digital "grafitti" wall with all the effects, especially acid etch. Save as a .bmp file (slight problem with maintining acid etch in other formats when transferred to Photoshop). Use PS to image-adjust-colorize to a gold-bronze hue (full-color is too distracting). Feather select a portrait area with the lasso tool, colorize, paste on background. Creates absolutely knock-out portrait "frames".

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Summary: hmmm
Review: Do not buy this software. Your marriage will be ruined in just a few short months, your kids will only recognise you by the back of your head and custom brushes and layouts will occupy your every thought. You have been warned!

Rating:
Summary: hmmm
Review: Do not buy this software. Your marriage will be ruined in just a few short months, your kids will only recognise you by the back of your head and custom brushes and layouts will occupy your every thought. You have been warned!

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Summary: Best Natural Media software out there!
Review: I have been a regular Painter user for a few years, comming from a traditional background in illustration and animation. So far, Painter 7 has definitly openned up a new creative world for me. The plethora of tools in this software are fantastic, and make a nice compliment to Photoshop. I am yet to see another application that does a better job of emulating natural media. There are some bugs and the interphase could use tightening up, but still this app is a must for any digital artist, graphic designer or CG arsist.

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Summary: Best Natural Media software out there!
Review: I have been a regular Painter user for a few years, comming from a traditional background in illustration and animation. So far, Painter 7 has definitly openned up a new creative world for me. The plethora of tools in this software are fantastic, and make a nice compliment to Photoshop. I am yet to see another application that does a better job of emulating natural media. There are some bugs and the interphase could use tightening up, but still this app is a must for any digital artist, graphic designer or CG arsist.

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Summary: The best software for 2d digital art
Review: I have Painter 5 and 7, and I love them both. Combined with a tablet (a must-have for digital drawing)this comes as close as you can get to real natural media--a couple of times I have wiped my stylus on my jeans, forgetting I wasn't using real paint. It also works fantastically well with Photoshop, trading files easily back and forth.
What are it's flaws? It's a memory hog,and can slow down following your brushstrokes if you haven't alloted it enough memory--your PC needs at least 128RAM.(I have 256 and it's happy--I haven't tried it on the Mac.) You really need a tablet with it. You also need The Painter7 Wow! book since the manual is competent but not as useful as the book. It has so much functionality and brushes it's sometimes hard to remember where you left a particular brush, or where a particular effect is. But with 7 you may never need any other 2d program,and it even does a lot of the Photoshop digital-to-print functions, and has some of the vector features that Illustrator has.
Oh, and the Amazon price is a lot cheaper than what's over on the Corel site;-)

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Summary: 7's cool...I want 8!
Review: I have Procreate Painter Classic and Painter 7...Classic is cool..7 is far better. So many more brushes, nozzles, all kinds of cool stuff...if ya dig digital art..peep Painter 7..I do advise a good strong PC..or MAC.. I use the same PC for this as Photoshop 7, but Painter seems to hang more. I run a WinXP, 1.4 Ghz AMD, 768MB RAM, and I can hang it good..real good..pull the cord from the outlet good :) Maybe a 2.8P4 will run better, or a nice MAC OS-X! overall I give it 5 stars as far as the software goes..the creative possibilitys are endless, it runs good, and you can make killer stuff! It seems to be more professionally biased, so recreational users may want to look at other programs..but it's your $$$ man!!

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Summary: Well worth the price.
Review: I'm fairly new to Painter. The best description of Painter 7 is it's like an art studio w/o the mess. It comes w/ many varying tools that can aid many artists needs. The program itself has a very high learning curve and takes a lot of customizing to get the result you want. Along w/ the software I recommend buying a tablet because painting w/ a mouse isn't a fun thing to do.

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Summary: Well worth the price.
Review: I'm fairly new to Painter. The best description of Painter 7 is it's like an art studio w/o the mess. It comes w/ many varying tools that can aid many artists needs. The program itself has a very high learning curve and takes a lot of customizing to get the result you want. Along w/ the software I recommend buying a tablet because painting w/ a mouse isn't a fun thing to do.

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Summary: Absolute playground for artists!
Review: I've always wanted Painter 6. Well I waited long enough for Painter 7 to come along. I purchased the product about 3 months ago and I'm still overwhelmed by this program. There are too many features to explain within a thousand words here. If your an artist with a computer and tired of rinsing brushes, buy this program.