So, to start, what's new in this version? Well there's a new bristle system, to go with all the others, which it complements, not replaces, the Divine Proportion and layout grid composition systems, there's a new Photo Painting system, an auto painting function, some palette matching and tweaks to the Mixer palette, then performance and productivity enhancements. It's even more idiosyncratic, less intuitive and harder work and yet looks bland. This, in itself, I have no issue with, if it makes the program easier to navigate and pleasant to use. Now with Corel at the helm, the interface is less the creative outlook of old, and more consistent with other Corel programs, and to be honest, more corporate looking. When a release went off on a tangent, the next version invariably brought it back in line. Painter has always been a brilliant program, even if Fractal Design took the occasional wrong turn in its development.
So we're up to version X, or 10 to you and me, of what was Fractal Design's Painter and latterly has become Corel's Painter. Using the Impressionist Cloner brush to create artwork from a photo.
