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Corel Painter Essentials 3 Win/Mac [Old Version]
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| Part No: | B000BCICUC |
| Manufacturer: | Corel |
| MFG Part: | PTRESS3ENGPCM |
| Customer Rating: | 2.5 / 5.0 |
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| It was a good program for its time.... | 2010-05-07 | 3 / 5 |
| I'd been waiting for the WACOM/Painter program for a long time. I don't know HOW I did without it. That having been stated, I liked Painter Essentials 2 and 3. But 3 glitched once in a while, and when I got a new Dell PC with Vista, Vista wouldn't "take" it. You need to go to Wacom co. to download a "patch" so Vista would accept 3. Don't bother. If you have Windows ME, XP or other OS, you won't need one and the software may or may not give you problems. Since then I've traded up to Painter X....SO much more control and more "brushes" to play with than Essentials, which was merely the bottom of the bucket at the time. Good for scribblers and beginning painters. (I began to turn out/edit the best art of my life, and I started art around 2-3 years.)
If you want to take the leap of faith, go for it. But if you want horse power and realistic "tools" such as Colored Pencil, Conte, Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Image Hoses and Oil Paint, don't go for Essentials. IMO, Essentials is the milk, Corel Painter series is the meat and potatoes. Both are good softwares, just don't say you weren't warned about 3's glitchiness/Vista's refusal. |
| Excellent Results, Stable as a Rock | 2007-10-29 | 5 / 5 |
| I've been using Painter Essentials 3 for most of a week, and find it excellent in every way. My four kids are having a ball with it, too. No glitches whatsoever. The [...] tutorial videos that came as part of the package are very effective, too. It takes a little practice and artistry to produce attractive results, but that's exactly as it should be.
I'm using this program on a G5 iMac. Perhaps the folks experiencing the glitches are running that other kind of computer :-(
All in all, a great program at a great price. |
| Unstable, approach with caution | 2007-04-25 | 1 / 5 |
| I got version 2 "free" with my Wacom tablet. After reading another review here of version 3 it seems not much has changed.
Almost every time I try to use this on a Mac it crashes. Not an elegant crash, the app just disappears and the OS tells me "the application has unexpectedly quit". Of course my work disappears with it.
Not very impressive. A piece of software with 5 million features that crashes is useless. Period.
If it actually worked, this would probably be a good piece of software.
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| Good program, great results; but can be glitchy. | 2006-07-08 | 4 / 5 |
| | I tried the download trial version from the Corel website. The direction are SPARSE, to say the least, and SUPPORT during the trial is non-existant, but eventually, I was able to use the product to produce some gorgeous "paintings." I used it in combination with effects from Adobe Photoshop Elements, and sometimes with Microsoft Photodraw. Just BEE-YOU-TEE-FULL! When I get a little extra spending money, I may invest in the full product purchase, but leaning toward going all out for the Painter software. I think instructions would have helped me get started sooner --you can check books out of the library-- but I liked the program and think it's worth working with. Yes, it was glitchy sometime, but not much, and certainly not more than AdobePE 3.0. I did reload the trial version once, but then it worked fine. I can't complain--it was a 30 day Free trial from Corel's website. Try it first--they give you that option with many of their programs. You don't like it--don't buy it. All you've wasted is a little time. |
| A different experience | 2006-06-10 | 4 / 5 |
| I've not had the difficulties others have expressed with this program. My first experience was with version 2 which was bundled with my Wacom tablet. After using it for a while I was hooked and upgraded to version 3. With a tablet the program is very intuitive, unlike Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2, and produces wonderful results. I've never liked working with digital media until now.
A tablet is essential to getting the most out of the program.
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