September 20, 2004 - Corel Painter IX Unveiled - Take a sneak peek at the most powerful and fastest version of Painter ever.
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So have you had a chance to try it yet?
what are you thinking of the new version?
I installed CPIX last night, but haven't had a chance to try anything. I was surprised to get a box when I got home. Rich
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by T. Athena Hatton:
So have you had a chance to try it yet?
what are you thinking of the new version? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Hi Athena,
Yes, I've been working with for the past few months on the Painter IX Beta team.
There's been great feedback coming in since the trial version was made available to the public this month and now that pre-orders are being delivered, feedback from high level professionals to hobbyists.
• Speed is greatly improved. Per Corel, some brushes perform up to 10 times as fast and, on average, all brushes work twice as fast.
• Digital Watercolor variants improved and lovely! DWC system improvements too (both wet Ditigal Watercolor paint and dry brush paint on the Canvas or a Layer at the same time without interfering with each other). Wet Digital Watercolor paint remains wet then the file is saved, closed, then opened again. Wet Fringe can now be changed dynamically.
• Water Colors have been improved and some new variants added.
• New Artists' Oils brush category and system. The AO brush variants work much like the Mixer palette brush. Very yummy!
• Customizing keyboard shortcuts is greatly improved so we can set up shortcuts any way we like.
• All palettes are both independant and dockable so we can arrange them however we want and save multiple palette layouts for various projects.
• Brush Controls palettes back again, in addition to the Brush Creator introduced in Painter 8 for those who like to play with the Stroke Designer, Transposer, and Randomizer.
• Layer behavior is even more similar to Photoshop than in Painter 8. Greyed out Collapse command problem is gone and Layers with different Composite Methods can now be Grouped and Collapsed.
• New Align to Path feature added (paint a brushstroke that aligns to a vector based curve or Shape).
• Quick Clone (File > Clone, Select > All, Edit > Clear, turn on Tracing Paper all in a single command). File > Clone remains for those times when it's needed.
• Iterative Save (Use Save As once, then use Iterative Save and the files are given a series of numbers added to the original file name).
• New Welcome Screen that opens when we launch Painter, looks like a spiral bound book with four tabs, includes drop down lists for recent documents and templates. As you flip through the book, a rotating sampling of work from top Painter artists is displayed on the pages along with a link to their website.... and more.
• Free Lynda.com training videos.
• Handbook containing tutorials from top Painter artists.
In a nutshell, it just feels good and it's fun to use.
Download the Free 30 Day Painter IX Trial and see what you think.