Corel's popular graphics software, Painter X, has been announced. It offers a broad range of tools and features to create a natural, organic and expressive simulation of traditional art media. A full-featured trial version is currently available at Corel's website, while the retail box will be available in late February 2007.


What's New in Corel Painter X:

• The new RealBristle Painting System faithfully replicates the natural movement and behavior of the artist's brush against the canvas.


• At the planning stage, artists and photographers can use the new Divine Proportion composition tool, which is based on a ratio used as an aesthetic guide throughout history.


• The new Layout Grid composition tool also helps artists and photographers arrange the canvas prior to drawing or painting.


• Enhanced Adobe Photoshop support that includes easier layer grouping and combining, and improved support for layer merge modes.


• Universal binary for Macintosh; Optimized for Intel-based Macintosh computers.


• The enhanced Photo Painting System makes it easier than ever to tranform photos into stunning paintings - in three easy steps.


• With new Color Schemes, the enhanced Underpainting palette now offers predefined styles or lets photographers match colors between different images.


• Artists and photographers can easily duplicate the color and intensity of an image with the new Match Palette effect.


• The new Universal Mixer palette gives artists greater control over color blending between the Mixer palette and the canvas.


• The new Workspace Manager makes it easy to share customized workspaces, including custom palettes, brushes, paper textures, and libraries.


• The Corel Painter X toolbox includes the new Dodge and Burn tools, improving the capabilities of these image enhancement effects.


• Corel Painter X provides new Secure Saving and Auto-Backup, which give more assurance that you will not lose your work in case of a power outage or system crash.


• Corel Painter X provides enhanced Wacom support so that users can take advantage of the entire Wacom product line - including the Cintiq 21 UX interactive pen display, the Intuos3 pen tablet, and the Wacom 6D Art Pen.


• Built-in support for OS X Spotlight.

Minimum System Requirements:

Mac OS version:
- Mac OS X (version 10.3.9 or higher)
- Power Mac G4, 700 MHz or greater; or any Macintosh computer with the Intel processor
- 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
- Mouse or tablet
- 24-bit color display
- 1024 × 768 screen resolution
- CD drive

Windows version:
- Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista (with latest service packs)
- Pentium III, 700 MHz or greater
- 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
- Mouse or tablet
- 24-bit color display
- 1024 × 768 screen resolution
- CD drive


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