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Review by Carlos Santiago
Corel Painter Essentials 4 is user friendly program that allows you to transform digital photos into paintings, or just to plain sketch and paint away on a blank canvas. The program offers beginners video tutorials to introduce the basic tools and shortcuts.
Photo painting transforms a digital photograph into a painting. You just import a photo and click on the auto-paint button, which transfers the image into any specified medium (oil painting, water-color, chalk drawing, etc.)nnThe interface is very well organized, with easy toolbars and many keyboard shortcuts. The Painter’s tools allow image editing operations such as cropping and cloning, as well as adding touches like smearing brush strokes and bringing some photographic detail back into a painting. You can manually trace and paint the image or use the auto-paint feature.
A graphics tablet is recommended to get the most out of Painter. Also, some of the more advanced functions are harder to understand, but it’s still a very user friendly program overall.