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 Who says you can't be creative? , 2008-01-17
Who says you can't be creative with a click of a button? Create your own masterpieces with a few simple clicks! It's definitly EASY! That sold me for sure!
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Instant fun!, 2008-01-17
Although a bit of a resource hog, the assortment of brush options and the presets make this more than appropriate for someone who wants to do editing or add special effects to their own photos. It's pretty easy to learn and provides instant fun. That's coming from the viewpoint of a graphic designer who has a great deal of experience with Photoshop and similar programs. The program may require more effort to learn from someone without that experience.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Amazing product in many respects, 2008-01-16
The installation of this program went smooth with no problems whatsoever (Windows XP with Service Pack 2).
While this is basically a scaled down version of Corel's professional product, ParitnerX, it still has a tremendous number of options and abilities that are more than enough to meet the needs of the home or hobby user. With two workspaces You can choose to create a picture or illustration from scratch or apply various effects to your photographs to give it an artistic effect.
I did find that the interface was confusing until I actually bothered to read the manual. Afterward it was very easy to use and in fact seemed intuitive, guess I just needed a jump start to understand what it was supposed to be doing. With options for detail level adjustments, brush types, brush sizes, opacity, paper type and many, many other choices you can pretty much create any effect you want.
The Drawing & Painting workspace is fairly easy to use but seems to be yet another drawing and painting program with nothing in particular to recommend or detract from other products. Much more than Paint, much less than Illustrator it strikes a good solid middle ground. However, when it comes to the Photo Painting area this is an amazing product. Want to take a picture and make it look like an oil painting? No problem. What about a watercolor? No problem. Charcoal, chalk, sketch.... no problem. It did an amazing job and I was really pleased with the results after working with it a while and getting to understand the program. I did notice that photos with a lot of color and contrast variation turn out much nicer than those that are predominantly dark or composed of a predominantly small range of color.
The program is well worth the price for the photo painter ability by itself. The results are really amazing and I was very please with the results.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Fantastic Amateur Painting Program, 2008-01-16
I have found this to be a wonderful and fun program. There are a wide variety of paint brushes, pastels, and pencil effects to choose from in the painting area. The results are largely accurate with rich brush stroke textures and even bleeding on brushes that would do the same in real life. There are also a number of erasing effects available. You can free paint, draw straight lines, and resize your brush. There is a mixing pallet for mixing just the right color to suit your tastes.
The photo painting area is fantastic with incredibly simple auto painting features and a wide array of custom settings to choose from to get just the look you are interested in. You can doge details back in wherever you like for exactly the look you want without losing important details.
Another fantastic thing about this program is the ability to work in layers. It is also compatible with tablets. The software comes with very helpful tutorials to help you get rich, lovely results.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Turn your photos to paintings on your walls..., 2008-01-15
I love this software. Painter 4 gives me the ability to be an artist using my own pictures. I love taking pictures of my children. This software allows to me take their photos and modify them to a variety of digital paintings. Painter 4 is for those people who want to turn a photo into a painting or draw an original artwork. If you've never thought of yourself as an artist, this software will restore your faith in your ability to create painting photos and/or digital original art using techniques as impressionist, oil, ink drawing, pencil drawing or watercolor.
The software comes with a detail Painter Essential Guidebook to help you work through each kind of painting or drawing style.
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