Review by Jeff & Wendy S

This product strikes a good middle ground serious art tool and fun. Due to my artistic ineptitude, I’m afraid I can’t exercise and review it nearly as well as it deserves. But even if you are artistically challenged, as I, there’s still a lot of room for fun. There are a wide variety of brushes, textures, and styles to play with, and even if you’re really hopeless, the coolest part is that ability to pull in a photo and sic auto-paint on it… you can choose from a bunch of artistic styles and then let it go at it. You see each stroke being rapidly applied, each second bringing slightly more detail. Simply stop the process when it looks the way you want it and then apply a different style, or begin manually touching it up.

Even if I can’t produce any great original art, as a photographer, this opens up a realm of new artistic possibilities for me.

Works great on the Mac. It’s Photoshop-style interface is a little tricky at first (aren’t they all). I’ve observed no crashes or incompatibilities as used to be common with Corel products from long ago (and which I haven’t used again until now). It work great on OS X Yosemite, and it works without any problem with my Wacom tablet.