An interesting new graphics software release. Corel’s features-heavy natural-media software Painter has a new Painter Lite version now available. Price is just $69 (about £47 in the UK).
There’s already the Painter Essentials version, but even that was too confusing for some. So Corel has stripped Painter down even more. The Macworld magazine review of Painter Lite says that…
“Corel really has stripped Painter right down to the bare wood for this Lite version … [ Lite has ] everything anyone starting out with Painter would actually need, but it’s a huge reduction on the facilities offered by the parent program … makes painting much quicker and simpler.”
Lite lacks Painter Essentials’s Photo Painting Palette — but given the naff results which auto Photo Painting gives, that lack may be no great loss. Lite seems like one for digital painting beginners to consider, if they want to learn how to manually overpaint DAZ/Poser renders using layers and ‘proper’ natural-media brushes/papers.