...artwork? Hi, I've seen some great works of art in photoshop but now painter has come onto the market I'm not sure which to use. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks Sab

yes, it was specifically made for like that painting sort of rendering style, look at the website and search for stuff made using it on deviant art, its all really good looking, although, you can use photoshop for it, but its just that corel painter is made specifically for that purpose... cheaper too! i think..

yes, it was specifically made for like that painting sort of rendering style, look at the website and search for stuff made using it on deviant art, its all really good looking, although, you can use photoshop for it, but its just that corel painter is made specifically for that purpose... cheaper too! i think..

I personally prefer Photoshop as a bitmap editor... I have CorelPaint and know how to use it but rarely do I use it.

I do use CorelDraw as a vector based drawing program and I like it [I can also use & have Freehand & Illustrator as vector based programs but I prefer CorelDraw]

My working pattern would be to creat in CorelDraw the imagery that I want to develop... then if I need to... convert the image to a bitmap and refine it in Photoshop.

They are different programs. I work as a lab tech for a professional photography studio, and we usually use PS for fixing and airbrushing photos, and adding certain effects. However with skill you can be incredibly creative with PS.

We use painter for giving a standard image effects that make it look like an oil painting. Or you can flat out paint something on a blank canvas. You can do all sorts of creative things with it with some practice. But you really want a tablet for painter.

For pure art purposes painter is more creative software. But since they are quite different programs, its tough to make a valid comparison. And the thing is, we usually use them in conjunction with one another. However, there are free apps out there that are similar to PS (Gimp for instance) - but there are no good free alternatives to painter. So you could potentially get away with just having Gimp and Painter.

My advice always is, if they offer a free trial (I know PS does, not sure about Painter) download it, mess around with it, and see if it suits you.

Hope this was helpful, and good luck!

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