Description:
MetaCreations Painter 6 offers an exclusive toolset with an extensive array of brushes, textures, canvas choices, and art materials to faithfully capture the subtleties of an artist's style for print and the Web. The artist can now create his or her finest work using the next generation of brush-engine technology. New features include the ability to place text along a curve and layer vector and bitmap images together. Painter 6 also has improved performance, better memory handling, and an easier-to-use interface.Among the new features with Painter 6: Brush loading allows you to pick up color on each individual bristle of a brush, letting you paint multicolor strokes on scanned images or creations started from scratch. The interactive image hose sprays rotated and scaled images onto your image, based on the bearing, tilt, and pressure of your hand. Painter 6 includes hundreds of new image hose nozzles and lets you create and manipulate an unlimited number of industry-standard extensive layers in an image, each with its own blending mode and opacity. Grouping, masking, and selecting on and between layers are now easier than ever. Support for CMYK TIFF format makes it easy and fast to open and save your CMYK TIFF images without the use of an additional application. Also type text on a path and reshape the baseline by moving the Bezier curve handles. With Painter's dynamic text, you can insert and edit, tilt, rotate, stretch, scale, and type your words on a curve--all with automatic, yet configurable drop shadows. An accessible user interface provides you with the most streamlined, yet informative user interface ever designed for Painter. The simplicity and the power of compact, expandable palettes will make working with Painter 6 even more productive and fun. A responsive palette knife carves and moves paint--depending on the stylus bearing, tilt, and pressure--and takes advantage of the new multicolor brush loading. Options include painting with thick impasto paint; impasto painting can build up above the canvas or cut through multiple layers of paint all the way down to the canvas. The paint is "plowed" around by brushes, giving a very realistic look. Each layer can have its own depth and way of combining its depth with the layers underneath. Brush size and shape cursors provide instant feedback for each painting tool used. And for the fastest, smoothest painting ever, Painter 6 includes multistroke spooling, motion damping, and cubic interpolation. Painter 6 has superior support for the Wacom Intuos tablet and pen and airbrush technology. Take advantage of 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity for smooth curves, gradual transitions, and precise control. With it you'll paint more intuitively, illustrate with more freedom, and edit images faster than ever before. An updated plug-in host lets you add even more capabilities to Painter 6 with popular plug-ins. Increased file-handing efficiency allows you to work on large images at high-quality print resolutions. Import formats supported are RIFF; CMYK TIFF; PICT; Photoshop 2, 3, 4, and 5.0; BMP; PCX; Targa; GIF; JPEG; EPS; Pyramid; and Illustrator. Export formats supported are RIFF, CMYK TIFF, PICT, Photoshop 2.0 and 3.0, BMP, PCX, Targa, GIF, JPEG, EPS, Pyramid, and Illustrator.
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