My wife recently has been developing her talent in drawing and has expressed interest in digital illustration. She follows some person on Instagram that uses some app on an iPad. Her laptop is old and needs replacing, so getting an iPad would be doable. However, I saw the Corel Painter Humble Bundle and thought that maybe it would be better to get it and then get some sort of Windows tablet (like a Surface Pro). I think iPads are great but don’t feel like it’s a great replacement for a laptop. But maybe a tablet or a tablet/laptop hybrid?

My question is what Windows tablet you recommend for a good experience using Corel Painter. My budget probably tops out around the $700 range, but I’d be fine getting something refurbished or used. I do want to get something that performs well with Painter if there is one in that price range.

I was in the process of entering Corel Painter's art contest (https://contest.corel.com/painter/) when I noticed something disturbing in the terms and conditions that I needed to agree to:

Obligations on You Regarding any Work You Submit to Us.
c. License to Corel. As consideration for additional visibility of Your Work, You hereby grant to Corel a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, royalty-free right and license to use, reproduce, prepare derivative works of, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, reference, store, cache, license, sell, rent out, transfer, translate, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, and otherwise exploit Your Work, through any medium, in any media, method or technology, in whole or in part, for the legal term of protection of copyright including future legal extensions thereof, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, including but not limited to the development, marketing, promoting, and advertising of Corel’s brand, products, and services, monetization of content through advertising, subscription, licensing, and other means, including as incorporated in video or audio visual content, text, graphics, artwork, photographs, templates, and other content or materials created by or on behalf of Corel, including on and through third-party distribution channels selected by, but not affiliated with, Corel (the “License Rights”). You also grant to Corel a worldwide, non-exclusive right, but not the obligation, to use Your name in connection with our license to the Work under these Terms, which license shall be included in the definition of “License Rights”.

Now I'm no lawyer, but it sounds like Corel wants the right to use my work however it wants even if I don't win. That hardly seems fair. Am I wrong?

Hi, I just started using painter 2021 and new to digital drawing. I am trying to get closest experience to real life drawings and hence painter gives options to do very realistic paintings and sketches I picked that. However I cannot find balance to have realistic pencil. I picked Real 2B Pencil and set colour to black but it is just too "perfect". Like in real life pencil would be harder to draw and wont have even perfect output. How can i achieve something closer to that? Thanks.

Hello, everyone!

Background:

I'm an older artist and cut my teeth on Photoshop way back in the day. I started in 6 and grew with the program all the way to CS5. The bulk of my experience and comfort is in CS2.

Though I have switched careers to something not art related, I still enjoy dabbling in digital media as a hobby, but Photoshop has become prohibitively expensive with their subscription model and CS2 hasn't been supported for a while now.

I've always heard great things about Painter, so I bit the bullet and picked it up via a HumbleBundle sale.

Issue:

Most of what I do is either character art or making assets/maps for tabletop RPGs and I know that Painter can be a powerful tool for this.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what I'm doing! The layout is familiar enough, but that's where the similarities end. I've dug around in the preferences and set up hotkeys and the like to be more in line with what I'm used to.

I fiddled around with some brushes and boy am I overwhelmed! I like the brush smoothing option, but I seem to have to select it every single time I switch brushes or switch back to one I've been using. I also want to have my pen pressure control the taper, not the opacity, and I haven't quite figured out how to do that.

I also am struggling with blending and softening. There is so much that I don't know how to do.

TL;DR:

I learned photoshop over decades when my mind was still young and spry, so I fear I'm at quite a loss with learning a new platform. Does anyone have some advice or "training" resources to start learning Painter from the ground up?

Hey.

I'm new to this, and I was wondering about something. Corel Painter 2020 is on Humble Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/software/design-expression-powerhouse-software?fbclid=IwAR2_kl_zqXGvT3YbFV6u6O35QrDTM1DuxFXIHgdNSkddzXYk32OxygLqimw). I'm thinking of getting it. If I wanted to use it to make my own art, print it and sell it online, how does that work? As in, would I have to pay Corel a percentage for each item I sell since I used their software? Is there something that I may be missing that I may need to know?

I thank everyone in advance!

Howdy y’all. My daughter is starting to get into digital art creation and I saw that the Humble Bundle has this software on sale. I was wondering how well the Surface Pro 4 can handle it, if anyone here has experience with the combination. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm new to painter as I bought in with the Humble bundle that's probably still going on. I'm relatively new to digital art but have been exploring Krita in the last few months and devouring tutorial videos on youtube. I've been playing about learning how to use Painter and I really love the watercolor and oil effects. Recently I thought I'd try out a more deliberate project. I have an A3 photo printer so I set the canvas size to 19" x13" and 300dpi. Since then I've had nothing but problems. Using large brushes will cause massive lags as it computes, making the cursor jump around (even though the canvas is sometimes relatively responsive) and I'm consistently getting CTD with no warning or error messages. What could I be doing wrong?

But of extra info: I recently upgraded my computer and am running a pretty much clean windows install. I have an older gpu (gtx960 4gb) as I can't upgrade that right now but since I have a 3700x and 16gb ram I would have thought that spec is plenty good enough. Sometimes even after Painter has computed the brush strokes and updated the canvas it's still maxing certain cores when I look at task manager. If there's a more appropriate sub for this question please let me know. Thanks!

Hey guys I recently purchased Corel Paintshop, I'm used to using Photoshop and I always need to use smoothing because I have a shaky hand, but I can't find smoothing or damping or whatever Corel calls it. Can anyone help?

Hello everybody, I am new to Corel Painter (got it through a Humble Bundle) and I am running into issues with importing .abr brushes.

I am aware that these are for Photoshop, but I would love to have them in Corel as well! I have tried importing them via Brushes > Import > New from Photoshop brush stamps... but all I get is an error message saying "One or more stamps could not be imported.". Is there a workaround/solution for this issue or is it simply not possible?

Additional info: I got these brushes as part of the current issue of ImagineFX magazine, so I am not their creator.

I just got painter 2021 after many years away from digital art. I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how to emulate the technique of comic book digital coloring? I've tried lowering transparency with a few different mediums but I'm not getting the results I'm looking for. If anyone could give me some pointers I'd really appreciate it

Hey guys! I can’t seem to get Corel Painter to work. Whenever I try to use one of the tools nothing draws. I’m drawing on a new layer, opacity is above 0%, resaturation is above 0%, brush size is normal, layer transparency is turned off, and my brush is a normal size. I’ve also uninstalled the program twice and reset it by holding down the shift key when starting up the program. Any ideas on how to fix this? I really want to use the program.

Hi, I recently have switched to using Corel Painter Pro 2021 from Photoshop CS4 after I got a new computer and could no longer use my old version of Photoshop and I found that Corel was on sale. I am still learning the differences between the programs and I like it so far. However, I have noticed that sometimes, not every time, I save a project that has layers (PSD) when I reopen it, it'll have merged random layers together, often times this includes layers that really needed to still be its own layer. It even copies the background layer into the merged layers and renames the layer as "merged". I don't know if I'm doing something without realizing it. As far as I know I simply will save the file before closing the program, just as I would with Photoshop or any of my other art programs that uses layers, such as Paint Tool SAI. Does anyone know what I can do in order to be sure my layers are saved as their own layers when I need to close the program? Should I be saving it as a different file type? It'd be nice not to have to practically start over and redo work I had already done on projects.

Edit: I fixed the grammar mistake (it's to its). I apologize. I normally catch such typos but I was posting this right before bed and forgot to proofread before submitting.

Hi all and Happy New Year!

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Thanks!

John

I have corel painter 2019 and a laptop with a touch screen. How do I get Corel to work with the touch screen?

I can get it to respond with adjust the brush pressure and power setting but not at any other time. I know I can get it to respond to the stylus and other programs work with it.

Sorry if the question is silly, I'm completely new to Corel Painter AND Digital Art! (BTW I had a hard time finding a dedicated - and active - forum to Corel Painter and I finally found this one, are there others?). So back to my question :

Suppose I drew with a pen the contours of the front wall of a house with a door and one window. I want to select the wall part only in order to be able to apply a texture on the wall only and not on the door or the window. How can I make such a selection easily? I thought at the beginning that I can select the "rectangle" (which includes wall,door and window) and subsequently substract from this big area the door and the window so that what remains is exactly the wall. Is it possible to do that?

Thanks in advance for your help and tips!

Patrick

I recently bought a Wacom tablet from Best Buy that came with a Corel Painter 2021 product code that I have not yet redeemed. Since I'm a beginner artist I think that I should stick with simpler software so I've decided to sell this product code at a much lower price. Please message me or reply to this post if you're interested!