Review by N. Beitler

This is my first experience using the Corel Painter program. I am a novice when it comes to using video and photography editing software, though I enjoy learning new things like this and hope to develop my skills enough that one day I’ll be posting more videos and photos with my amazon reviews!nnThis product is easy to install and installs fairly quickly. Once installed, it was pretty easy to grab photos from my files stored on the computer and import them into the software to begin tinkering with them. I also have Photoshop Elements installed on my computer, and though there are clearly some similarities between the two, both offer features that the other does not. I probably enjoy using the various filters from both programs the most. The filters can give some dramatic changes to ordinary photos and make you look a lot more skilled that you really are.

I found this product to be quite a bit more limited in what it could do compared to my Photoshop Elements program. I noticed a few other reviewers claiming that this product seemed to lack features or capabilities that were a part of previous versions of the product, but I really can’t speak to that, as this is my first outing with it. Like any new software, I’m sure the more time you spend with it the more you can get out of it. I’m hoping this program will be useful to my junior high and senior high students who often have projects to do in their classes.

Though not as robust as Photoshop, I still think this is a decent program that gives you some fun options for dressing up your photos or other images.