Newbie question: Painter brush jumping

[handrawn]

things to check:

menu edit > preferences > brush tracking

pay attention to the size of your canvas, its resolution, and the size and other settings of the brush, it's easy to eat up memory with painter

it could be your graphics, although on a brand new computer you should have a reasonable graphics card, check the graphics drivers are up to date...

[Maureen]

Since Painter 12 has been launched at SP1 and a hotfix has been released. Go to the Corel website and look for updates and patches. you will find them there.