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Corel Painter 2023 Changelog

What's new in Corel Painter 2023 22.0.0.164

Jun 22, 2021
  • NEW! Stamp-type brush customization:
  • These very popular stamp brushes have received a versatility overhaul. Open the Captured dab panel and choose from the included Captured dab library to get you started. Change shape, edge effects, rotation, squeeze and anti-aliasing on-the-fly. Plus, create your own dabs, organize, import and export libraries all from the Captured dab panel!
  • NEW! Watercolor brushes and workflow:
  • Enhance your artistic creations with new Watercolor compatible brushes and improved workflow options. Easily paint with dry media types on Watercolor layers resulting in new creative mixed-media looks. Plus, Watercolor layers can be easily transformed without needing to convert to a default layer.
  • NEW! Brush Library experience:
  • Reap the benefits of a refined brush library. Enjoy new categories, variants and brush previews plus, now you can easily find, filter, and favorite beloved brushes for easy access right from the Brush Selector. We have renamed, reorganized, and streamlined brush categories and variants for a logical content experience. Don’t worry, you can still access your previous favorites that you can’t live without!
  • NEW! Brush Size Selector:
  • Choosing brush size has never been so speedy and visual. Just open up the Size Library and away you go. Want additional sizes? You can add and reorder them. Need to change the size preview, no problem. Plus, you can also delete sizes you no longer require to streamline the panel content.
  • NEW! User requested enhancements:
  • After reviewing your valuable feedback, we have made many layer productivity improvements and other enhancements to accelerate your workflow. Layer spotlight, mask selection loading, clear a layer with delete, and new color dodge and burn composite methods, along with Navigator grayscale display, are just a few of the many advancements.
  • Fastest version of Painter yet:
  • Run the Brush Accelerator™ and enjoy huge speed gains of new and enhanced cover method brushes with up to 50x GPU boost and up to 18x acceleration when using Intel multicore processors with AVX2. Easily find these popular brushes by typing enhanced cover into the Search Panel. Several other favored brush engines are also up to 2x's faster.

New in Corel Painter 2023 2020 20.1.0.285 (May 29, 2020)

  • If you experience any issues after installing this update, we recommend that you reset your workspace to ensure that all of the new features appear correctly. You can reset your workspace by holding down the Shift key when starting the application. A dialog box appears to confirm the restoration of the factory default settings.
  • Support for macOS Catalina (10.15):
  • Now when you choose a file format in the Save Image As dialog box, the correct extension is added to the filename.
  • The Append File Extension and Use Lower Case options in the Save and Export dialog boxes have been removed due to compatibility issues.
  • After you create a custom palette by pressing Shift and dragging brush variants from the Brush Selector to the document window, you can rearrange the brush variants or remove them from the palette as expected.
  • The installer no longer includes a driver that lets you select the Soundflower option and allows Audio Expression brushes to use internal audio. For information on using internal audio for Audio Expression brushes on macOS, visit the Corel Knowledge Base.
  • Application Fixes:
  • The application no longer stops responding when you:
  • run the Brush Accelerator test on some systems with NVIDIA graphics cards;
  • select, switch, and resize brushes;
  • select the Eraser tool or any other tool after applying and editing a gradient in the document window;
  • select a different gradient while working with Express Paint;
  • Corel Painter launches as expected on iMac 10.13.6 with ATI Radeon HD 4850 and ATI Radeon HD 4670.
  • If you apply a gradient in the document window, then click another tool in the toolbox, and then choose the Interactive Gradient tool again, the tool now functions as expected.
  • The Eraser tool now functions properly when you select a brush variant in a custom palette and switch back and forth between the Brush tool and the Eraser tool.

New in Corel Painter 2023 2020 20.0.0.256 (Jun 25, 2019)

  • NEW Brushes:
  • You’ve never experienced such blazing brushes. Test out the Fast Simple and Ornate categories to assess Painter’s performance enhancements and check out new Real and Digital Watercolor variants.
  • NEW Color Harmonies:
  • Six new color harmonies can be saved as color sets, plus universal color selection advancements throughout Painter make color selection a breeze.
  • NEW Automatic Performance Optimization:
  • The Brush Accelerator™ scores your system and applies the optimal Painter performance settings, which automatically allows the GPU and CPU to ensure Painter is lightning fast.
  • NEW Interface advancements:
  • Revamped property bars, flyouts and palettes for brushes and tools put the most important controls at your fingertips, and consolidated Library Panels save precious painting pixels.
  • Layer Workflow:
  • Improvements to the contextual and high-level menus save time and workflow tweaks to collapsing, locking, selecting and pasting improve layer quality and responsiveness.

New in Corel Painter 2023 2019 19.0.0.427 (Jun 26, 2018)

  • New Performance improvements
  • New User-interface overhaul
  • New Brushes and patterns
  • New Color workflow

New in Corel Painter 2023 2018 18.1.0.651 (Oct 16, 2017)

  • Support for OS X High Sierra (10.13):
  • On macOS 10.13 with APFS, brush categories and brush variants now appear in alphabetical order.
  • The Corel Painter installer includes a kernal extension, the Internal Audio Driver, that is affected by the new secure kernel extension loading feature on macOS 10.13 which requires that only kernel extensions approved by the user are loaded on a system. If at the end of the installation there appears a System Extension Blocked OS message, chose System Preferences > Security & Privacy, and allow Corel Corporation to load the Audio Driver extension.
  • Application Fixes:
  • Any brush variant that uses the Selection method now works as expected.
  • You will no longer experience issues with the color overlay when switching between painting with a regular brush in a selection (created with a custom selection brush) and painting with a custom selection brush.
  • Brush artifacts no longer appear when you enable Pick Up Underlying Color and paint with variants from the Sargent category.
  • On macOS, Corel Painter works as expected after you hide it and show it by using the Dock.
  • With tracing paper enabled in multiple clone documents, you can now disable tracing paper in the active clone document and clone as expected.
  • The active clone document is no longer corrupted and the application no longer stops responding after you make a selection in the clone source image.
  • With tracing paper enabled in multiple clone documents, transparency in clone sources is now maintained when you disable tracing paper in the active clone document.
  • Corel Painter no longer stops responding after you delete an embedded clone source image and choose a different pattern.
  • When you open a file with embedded clone sources, the default source type in the Source panel is the one that was selected when you saved the document. For example, if you select Embedded Image as a source type when saving a file, the next time you open the file, the default source type will be Embedded Image.
  • Now you can use any Drip or Liquid brush in legacy mode (i.e. Painter 2017 and earlier), so the brush only mixes in the current color when there is content on the layer. To use a brush in legacy mode, disable the Enhanced Drip or Enhanced Liquid check box on the property bar, and save the brush as a new brush variant.

New in Corel Painter 2023 2018 18.0.0.600 (Aug 2, 2017)

  • New:
  • Thick Paint
  • Cloning Capabilities
  • Texture Synthesis
  • 2.5D Texture Brushes
  • Natural-Media brushes

New in Corel Painter 2023 2017 16.1.0.456 (Feb 25, 2017)

  • Support for OS X Sierra (10.12):
  • (Mac 10.12) When purchasing a brush pack, the Close button in the payment wizard is now displayed correctly.
  • Application Fixes:
  • (Mac OS, Wacom tablet) Now Painter properly changes focus to the selected brush after you use keyboard shortcuts.
  • Applying gradients with the Interactive Gradient tool works as expected when switching channels.
  • Choosing a paper after applying a paint effect to a gradient no longer affects your brush size.
  • Dual monitors: The Brush Selector appears as expected when moved to the upper-left corner of the secondary display.
  • It is now easy to add nodes to shapes.
  • Now when you hide all palette drawers in the Default workspace layout and exit the application, and then re-launch the application and display the palette drawer list (Window > Palette Drawers), Painter properly displays a list of all palette drawers that are available in the Default workspace layout.
  • Now when you reposition a palette, hide it, and do not display it over two consecutive launches of the application, the next time you launch Painter and show the palette, it opens in the expected location.
  • Painter no longer stops responding after you choose a Digital Watercolor brush, try to transform a texture, and then cancel the transformation and exit the application.
  • Painter no longer stops responding when you delete content from custom palettes by using the context menu.
  • Painter no longer stops responding when you manipulate nodes on captured gradients that have numerous nodes.
  • Painter no longer stops responding when you remove, rename, import, or export a brush category and then try to purchase a brush.
  • Painter no longer stops responding when you try to paint in the image window using a Wacom stylus pen without first creating or opening a document.
  • Texture Cover brushes now work as expected when you paint on a document, then create a new document, paint on it, close it, and then paint on the first document.
  • The cursor icon size no longer affects the accuracy of the sampled color when using the Dropper tool.
  • The Preserve Transparency layer setting is no longer ignored when you apply a fill (Edit > Fill) while the Interactive Gradient tool is selected.
  • The Scale Selection dialog box accepts new values by default so you can now complete the scaling operation by pressing Return (Mac OS) or Enter (Windows).
  • There's no longer a flow map or paper shift with dab stencils when you paint on a layer versus when you paint on the canvas.
  • When you reinstall Corel Painter or install it on another computer, you can restore your purchases. This will help you download the brush packs that you have already purchased and reinstall them.
  • When you select a custom media library and relaunch Painter, Painter no longer reverts to the default library.

New in Corel Painter 2023 2017 16.0.0.400 (Aug 18, 2016)

  • NEW! Texture Painting - Transform an environment or object, or alter a character’s face and body to make it literally come to life.
  • NEW! Dab Stencils - Mask your brush dab before applying paint to the canvas, plus change the opacity before you paint.
  • NEW! Glazing brushes - Apply velvety, translucent paint transitions just like the Renaissance masters, by essentially adding layers of paint to your masterpiece.
  • NEW! Interactive gradient tool - Create gradients quickly and easily with the enhanced node control to edit the color and opacity within the context of your painting.
  • ENHANCED Dropper tool - Work faster and smarter while running multiple applications. Open and edit more large files at once, and process larger files and images faster than ever.

New in Corel Painter 2023 2016 15.1.0.740 Update 1 (Jan 12, 2016)

  • Support for OS X El Capitan:
  • Lag and performance issues have been fixed.
  • Monitor screen no longer goes black when you exit Split View mode from a Painter document.
  • New color profile available:
  • The new Corel Painter default color profile sRGB_IEC61966-2-1 black scaled displays improved contrast for most systems. For more information about the profile, visit the International Color Consortium (ICC) website http://www.color.org/srgbprofiles.xalter#v2.
  • (Mac OS X El Capitan) If you experience color display issues, we recommend you use the new color profile.
  • The following actions no longer cause Painter 2016 to stop responding:
  • opening a JPG image, creating a new layer, enabling Pick Up Underlying Color, and then trying to paint with a Dynamic Speckle Impasto variant
  • (Mac OS) opening a RIF file that is created on Windows and contains fonts that are not supported on Mac
  • collapsing shape layers
  • committing a transformation to a reference layer
  • Other changes:
  • You can now hide visual tooltips by clicking Edit > Preferences > General, disabling the Text and images or Text only option, and restarting Painter.
  • You can now flip a selection horizontally or vertically by clicking Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical.
  • We recommend you use Edit > Flip Horizontal or Edit > Flip Vertical only to flip shapes.
  • Now any content that you add to a custom palette during multiple Painter sessions is properly saved with the palette.
  • You no longer need to remove spaces at the beginning of ABR variant filenames before saving the variants.
  • Thumbnails of RIF files display correctly on systems that run both Painter 2015 and Painter 2016.
  • The Find more brushes online... control in the Brush Selector now changes dynamically when new brush packs are available.
  • Ditigal Watercolor Dynamic Speckle variants now use the Gel composite method by default.
  • (Mac OS) Launching Painter by opening a file no longer results in an error if the Welcome screen is set to open on startup.

New in Corel Painter 2023 2016 15.0.0.689 (Aug 10, 2015)

  • New Rotatable media:
  • In Corel Painter 2016, you can change the angle of paper texture and flow maps to get an unprecedented variety in the look of your brushstrokes.
  • Enhanced Default-settings restoration:
  • Corel Painter 2016 makes it easier to preserve custom content when you reset the application to its factory settings. Now when you restore default settings, you can maintain custom brushes and palettes, paper textures, nozzles, scripts and more. In previous versions, retaining any customizations required exporting libraries, restoring default settings, and then importing the libraries.
  • New Dynamic Speckles:
  • This feature combines Particle System physics and brush-thickness control linked to your touch, allowing you to create luscious Natural-Media brushstrokes or progressive-looking Pollock splatters. You can use this feature with select Bristle, RealBristle and Particle brushes, so you can take full advantage of those revolutionary, Painter-exclusive technologies.
  • New Audio Expression:
  • Corel Painter 2016 lets you use audio from your computer’s microphone or internal audio to modify the look and feel of any brush. For example, your brushstrokes may change their appearance in synch with streaming music. Audio Expression allows you to link a variety of brush controls to audio input. In addition, you can adjust the strength of an audio signal, controlling its impact on a brush. For example, if you link brush size to quiet audio, increasing the strength will result in wider brushstrokes. Conversely, if the audio is loud, decreasing the strength will result in narrower brushstrokes. In addition, you can set the range of the audio expression to achieve a wider range of brushstroke variation (for example, minimum to maximum brushstroke width) regardless of whether the audio is consistently strong, low, or varies.
  • Enhanced Document Views:
  • Whether you are working on a project, showing your work, or demonstrating a technique, Corel Painter 2016 makes it even easier to switch between document views. You can switch document views from the toolbox, the Window menu, and by using keyboard shortcuts. The Default view shows all the open documents together with commonly used application controls while the Single Document view lets you focus on the active document. The Presentation Mode hides the menu bar and the taskbar of the operating system, leaving only essential controls.
  • New Brush Hints:
  • Depending on the brush type you are currently working with, context-sensitive brush hints provide useful tips about brush technologies. It’s a great way to discover different ways you can take advantage of a variety of unique Corel Painter features, including Particles, Watercolor brushes, Liquid Ink, Cloner, Impasto, and the new Dynamic Speckles.
  • New Visual tooltips:
  • Some tooltips include illustrations that show the effect of using high and low values of specific settings.
  • Enhanced Adobe Photoshop brush file import:
  • With Corel Painter 2016, you can import the brush stamps of pixel-based Adobe Photoshop brushes stored in Adobe Brush Resource (ABR) files. These files contain a collection of Adobe Photoshop brushes, including shape, texture, dynamics, and other brush information. All other brush attributes specified in the ABR files are not imported, but can be fully customized in Corel Painter.
  • Enhanced Custom content sharing:
  • Corel Painter 2016 simplifies sharing content saved in a custom palette. When you save a custom palette as a Painter Custom Toolbox (BOX) file, all custom brushes, papers, patterns and flow maps in the palette are saved with the file.
  • Enhanced Welcome Screen:
  • With the Welcome Screen, you can quickly start or open an image, choose a workspace that suits your needs, access online learning videos, find new brushes and other content online, and get inspired by a gallery of original artwork created with Corel Painter. The Welcome Screen appears when you start the application, and you can also access it by clicking Help >Welcome.
  • New Special media brushes:
  • Corel Painter 2016 offers additional dab types, which are methods for applying media to the canvas. The new dab types use both Particles and Liquid Ink or Watercolor dabs. These combination dab types include: Liquid Ink Gravity Particles, Liquid Ink Flow Particles, Liquid Ink Spring Particles, Watercolor Gravity Particles, Watercolor Flow Particles, and Watercolor Spring Particles.
  • Enhanced Layer blending:
  • Whether you are painting with a single color or blending two or more colors on a layer, the Enhanced Layer Blending option can help you produce brushstrokes without white fringes.

New in Corel Painter 2023 2015 14.1.0.1105 (Jul 24, 2015)

  • You can now click directly on a layer mask to select it (you no longer have to click the layer, and then click the layer mask.)
  • The Fill dialog box (Edit > Fill) now displays dynamically your clone source or the pattern that you have chosen.
  • Improved performance of Gravity Particle Brushes: the repeating pattern that is created when you use local chaos with Gravity Particle Brushes at small document sizes is now random and far less obvious.
  • Improved user experience when resizing brushes onscreen by pressing Command + Option (Mac OS) or Ctrl + Alt (Windows) and dragging, by using the Brush size (onscreen) command in a custom palette, and by using the Brush size (onscreen) tool in the toolbox in the Simple workspace layout. The Legacy-style onscreen brush sizing control has improved accuracy and more closely resembles the look and feel of the brush sizing control in earlier versions of Corel Painter.
  • The Canvas now appears in the Layers panel after you switch from the Simple workspace layout to the Default one by using the Welcome screen.
  • The values that you enter in the Canvas size dialog box are no longer truncated if they exceed three digits.
  • Painter no longer crashes when you double-click a Liquid Lens or Liquid Metal layer in the Layers panel to edit it.
  • Painter no longer crashes when you first increase the bristle density (Feature) and then increase the size of a Real Wet brush.
  • All relevant options on the Layers menu are now available after you create a new layer by copying a selection from the canvas and pasting it as a new layer.
  • After you create a new layer and press the space bar, the selected layer no longer changes from the one that you just created to the one below it in the Layers palette.
  • (Windows) After you apply or delete a layer mask, it no longer appears in the Layers panel.
  • After you select a color (Select > Color Select) and then create a new channel from color range, the color range is converted properly.
  • In the Color Correction dialog box, you can now drag the nodes of the color-correction curve to the top or bottom of the graph.
  • When you apply the Equalize effect to a selection that has been copied and pasted, the effect is applied to the whole selection.
  • When you load a custom nozzle file for 2-rank or 3-rank nozzles, you can change the settings in the Nozzle Definition dialog box.
  • Apply Surface Texture effect is now applied when clicking OK when Preview checkbox is unchecked.
  • Clone Source Image dialog is now appearing correctly after making a change to the source image.
  • In the Shape Attributes dialog box, you can change the fill or stroke color by choosing a color from the Color panel.
  • The Smart Blur effect now applies the last-used value when the dialog box is re-launched.
  • When you switch between workspaces, the Clone Color setting in the Color panel is maintained.
  • The Glass Distortion effect can be applied to an alpha channel.
  • When you use the Apply Surface Texture effect, the settings are maintained for subsequent images.
  • The Corel Painter Multi-touch setting in the Tablet preferences now works as expected with Cintiq 24HD touch and Intuos touch tablets.
  • When you create custom wide icons for items on a custom palette and then re-launch the application, the icons no longer revert from wide to small.
  • The Delete Layer button on the Layers panel is now disabled when the layer is locked.
  • When you paint within a selection, then delete the selection and undo the brushstroke, and then create a smaller selection in the same area of the canvas, the new selection no longer appears distorted, and brushstrokes remain within the boundary of the new selection, rather than the old one.
  • Polygonal selections behave as expected when part of the selection is outside the canvas.
  • Zooming using the Magnifier tool now works as expected.
  • When placing an image with the Retain Alpha check box enabled in the Place dialog box, the entire placed image is now displayed.
  • The default setting in the Using list box in the Adjust Color dialog box is now Uniform Color.
  • When applying the Soften effect to a selected layer, the effect no longer increases the dimensions of the layer.
  • When applying the Depth of Field effect to a selected layer, the effect no longer increases the dimensions of the layer.
  • When applying the Motion Blur effect to a selected layer, the effect no longer increases the dimensions of the layer.
  • Adjustments you make in the Color Correction dialog box are now also applied to channels.
  • Indicators for cloning-sample and cloning-destination reference points now display a expected.
  • Using the Soften effect on a rectangular selection on the canvas now works as expected.
  • The settings in the Nozzle Definition dialog box now work as expected.
  • Clicking Cancel in the Glass Distortion dialog box now works as expected.
  • Cropping an image now works as expected.
  • The selected channel in the Color Correction dialog box is now clearly identifiable.
  • When using the Polygonal Selection tool, pressing Command + Z to Command + D (Mac OS), or Ctrl + Z or Ctrl + D (Windows) now closes open selections.
  • Changes you make in the Equalize dialog box are now applied to the entire image.
  • You can choose a color from the Color panel when the Surface Lighting dialog box is open.
  • The color chip in the Dye Concentration dialog box is updated when you choose a new color in the Color panel.
  • Changing the color in the Shape Attributes dialog box no longer changes the current color.
  • Painter no longer crashes when you adjust the Softness slider in the Apply Surface Texture dialog box.
  • Choosing a new color in the Apply Lighting dialog box now changes the primary color on the Color Wheel. In addition, you can choose a color from the Color Wheel when the Apply Lighting dialog box is open.
  • Clicking the green button in the upper-left corner of the image window resizes the window frame to fit around the image, instead of expanding the frame to the whole screen.
  • The position of the canvas no longer shifts when you use the Grabber tool to drag the image into a corner.
  • Loss of stylus pressure no longer occurs when you use the same pressure-sensitive brush variant after re-launching the application.
  • Sliders in the advanced brush controls panels no longer appear flattened.
  • You can now paint on the image after moving the canvas to the secondary display on dual-monitor systems when the primary and secondary displays are offset.
  • Display color values are now consistent between Painter 2015, Painter X3 and Photoshop.
  • A tone shift in your colors will no longer happen when panning.
  • When you enable the Smart Stroke Painting and the Smart Settings check boxes on the Auto-Painting panel and click the Play button, the auto-painting stops as expected.
  • Canceling a color deletion from the default Painter color set now works as expected.
  • The Welcome Screen no longer appears when starting the application by double-clicking a RIF file.
  • The Brush Tracking dialog box now appears in the center of the screen.

New in Corel Painter 2023 2015 14.0.0.728 (Aug 12, 2014)

  • Highlights:
  • Particle Brushes, 64-Bit Support for Mac and Windows Real-Time Stylus Support.
  • Revolutionary digital brushes:
  • Painter 2015 features incredible new physics-inspired Particle Brushes that let you experience ultimate chaotic creativity or pinpoint precision. Use the world's most revolutionary paint program to produce unreal brushstrokes that spring, flow, glow and gravitate onto the canvas, or choose from a huge selection of realistic Natural-Media brushes to create stunning contemporary digital art.
  • Enhanced speed and performance:
  • Work smarter, faster and more accurately with native 64-bit Mac support and CPU performance optimizations. Get more control with the new brush tracking utility and experiment with effects on your canvas in real-time. Immerse yourself in the world's most realistic paint program without having to think about the technology behind it.
  • Mobile art that moves you:
  • Create art on the go with incredible mobile capabilities. Use your Windows Real-Time Stylus and Tablet PC or work with the Painter Mobile for Android app and import your masterpiece directly into Painter 2015 to add the finishing touches. With this unique mobile paint program, now you can find inspiration anytime and anywhere.
  • A fully responsive experience:
  • Discover why Painter 2015 is the most flexible paint program on the market, with tools and options that respond directly to your needs. Choose from a selection of intuitive user interfaces inspired by Painter artists or create your own. Paint your passion with custom brushes, media and art tools that are as unique as you are.

New in Corel Painter 2023 13.0.0.704 (Jul 24, 2013)

  • Universal Jitter:
  • With Universal Jitter, you can add random elements to your brush strokes. Not only do these happy accidents make things more interesting, Jitter also enhances the realistic painting experience you have come to know and love about Painter.
  • You can integrate Jitter into a range of brush controls including: opacity, grain, size, angle, airbrush particle size, airbrush flow, liquid ink volume and color expression.
  • Painter X3 also features 25 new Jitter brush variants. These brushes are fully customizable and easy to modify. You can use these brushes to create unique and irregular brushstrokes that will further personalize artwork.
  • Brush Search Engine:
  • Have you ever struggled to find that perfect brush? Now you can simply type a keyword into the new Brush Search Engine and let Painter do the work for you. Try one or multiple keywords to narrow down your search. I recommend typing X3 to see all of the new X3 specific brushes, and real for brushes that will take full advantage of your Wacom pen tablet. Not only does this speed up workflow, it also makes Painter X3 much easier to navigate for both veteran and new Painter users.
  • Advanced Brush Controls:
  • Painter X3 now lets you see only the most commonly used panels and settings relevant to the currently selected brush with smart brush controls. This takes away the clutter and guesswork from your brush customization, and allows you to focus more on what matters, your artwork. New users can now experiment with brushes easily, making the learning process less daunting. Advanced Brush Controls also include a Media panel, so you can experiment with different paper textures and flow maps, which direct the flow of paint from your Real Watercolor and Real Wet Oil brushes.
  • Inspirational Mixers:
  • We have been asked so many times by new artists, “How do I choose an appropriate color scheme?” In Painter X3, you can sample colors from four Inspirational Mixers. These mixers were created by professional artists Jeremy Sutton, Karen Bonaker, Skip Allen and John Malcolm. You can also import files to use as a custom Color Set Library, which can now hold from 1-256 colors so you can create the perfect color set for your composition.
  • Cloning workflow:
  • In response to photo fine artist feedback, Painter X3 includes support for its traditional Cloning Workflow. You can now position the source image beside the clone, and view the crosshair cursor which indicates the area being cloned. Viewing the crosshair cursor allows you to see the fine paint details on your canvas and increases painting accuracy. Plus, you can make adjustments to the source image, such as applying effects, and then save both the original and adjusted image on the fly.
  • Transform Across Layers:
  • There is no longer a need to leave Painter in order to select and transform multiple layers! Simply select your layers, including layer groups, make the adjustment and commit your transformation. Your workflow just became much simpler.
  • Perspective Guides:
  • Based on artist request, we developed a tool to allow you to draw 1-, 2- and 3-point perspectives more accurately: Perspective Guides. This comes in handy for paintings that feature objects and scenery that show depth. Vanishing points allow you to set up alignment to a reference image. You can then toggle perspective-guided strokes, which snap the direction of the brushstroke so that it aligns with the vanishing point. It’s never been easier to add dimension to your objects!
  • Reference Image Panel:
  • After watching so many of our artists refer to an inspirational image, we decided that it would be a great improvement to allow you to keep your visual source right in front of you as you paint. This is how the new Reference Image Panel was born. This panel allows you to capture those subtle elements that turn a good painting into a great one, without disrupting your workflow.

New in Corel Painter 2023 12.2.0.703 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • Flow Maps:
  • Now, you can have even more control over how paint interacts with your canvas! Introducing Flow Maps, a creative way to direct the flow of paint from your Real Watercolor and Real Wet Oil brushes. This technology guides pigment/oil/water to create less saturation at the peaks of textures and more saturation in the valleys. Included are 3 new watercolor brushes, 3 expressive Flow Maps and new palettes that allow you to create custom Flow Map textures and brushes.
  • Multi-Touch support for Wacom Intuos5 and Cintiq 24HD touch interactive pen displays:
  • Navigate your canvas with precision and ease using finger gestures on your pen tablet. The enhanced and intuitive Multi-Touch support allows you to pan, rotate, zoom and more – all at the same time! It's a seamless and responsive way of positioning and manipulating the canvas in just the right direction, with only a few simultaneous finger motions. In addition, you can alter the rotation and zoom reference point depending on the position of your fingers; center is no longer the only option!
  • Vertical Docking:
  • With simple drag-and-drop functionality, you can dock a palette header to the vertical edge of the application window. Move palettes around by simply detaching them from the workspace, and easily dragging the palette to another workspace location.
  • Corel Cinco for Painter:
  • A handy companion application that gives you the ability to remotely access and control Painter from your iPad. This app allows you to expand your canvas area while reducing onscreen clutter and distractions. Save time and stay focused on your art, as Cinco can also replace the need for traditional shortcut keys. With a few simple steps, you can download Corel Cinco for Painter from the Apple App Store. Plus, you can securely control Painter with an Authentication Code that pairs Corel Cinco with your desktop.

New in Corel Painter 2023 12.1.0.1213 (Jan 12, 2012)

  • Enhanced:
  • Brush Management
  • Brushstroke Preview
  • Color Mixing
  • Workspace Management
  • Panel Options
  • Fixes:
  • Third-party plug-ins are now supported.
  • After choosing Smart Stroke Painting and Smart Setting options on the Auto-Painting panel, you no longer have to manually choose the Smart Stroke brush category.
  • The cursor is now updated when inside the Mixer panel.
  • Blank palettes no longer appear when opening workspaces.
  • Navigator content now displays correctly.
  • Menus are maintained when creating custom palettes and toggling screen modes.
  • Panels remain in their intended location when rearranging.
  • Brush icons on custom palettes are maintained when adding additional items.
  • Duplicate names are no longer supported when creating new brush categories.
  • Feature setting is maintained when switching between the brush and the eraser.
  • Scale Feature to Brush Size calculations are now correct.
  • Settings in the Clone Source Panel are maintained between PC and Mac.
  • Crosshairs are now displayed when performing offset cloning.
  • Empty groups are now removed when converting a color profile with the Flatten checkbox enabled.
  • The Preview pane in the Open dialog box can now be toggled off.
  • The Layer mask now works with the new digital airbrushes.
  • PNGs set as custom icons for brush categories or variants now maintain their transparency.
  • Extra brush category folders are no longer created when switching libraries.
  • The cursor color changes when a color is selected in Preferences.
  • Preferences now reflect the actual state of the interface after restoring the default palette arrangement.
  • The cursor no longer disappears after adjusting the Kaleidoscope segment number slider.
  • A tooltip was added to the Reset Eyedropper Button on the Property Bar.
  • The Rubber Stamp Tool now performs offset sampling correctly.
  • Various instabilities in areas such as layers, brushes, cloning, and movies were addressed on both PC and Mac.

New in Corel Painter 2023 12.0.1.718 SP1 (Aug 11, 2011)

  • A new option was added to the Performance Preferences to control Multi-core usage.
  • Changing your OS font size no longer hides palettes (PC only).
  • Creating drop shadows on collapsed layers no longer crashes the application (Mac only).
  • Cubic Interpolation setting is maintained when switching brushes.
  • Documents will now display maximized on second monitors (Mac only).
  • Double-clicking the Grabber Icon zooms to fit the screen.
  • Restored File Recovery functionality to the crash report feature (Vista and Windows 7 only).
  • Tool cursors in the Mixer Panel are updated to reflect the selected tool.
  • Launching as User on Mac no longer crashes the application (Hot Fix 1).
  • Layouts are maintained when importing a PC-created workspace on Mac (and vice versa).
  • Application launch speed was improved.
  • Painting on a layer that contains a floating object using a Real Wet Oil brush no longer crashes the application.
  • When dragging panels to the center of the workspace, they will no longer automatically snap to the upper-left corner.
  • Paper settings can be adjusted when the Apply Surface Texture dialog box is open.
  • PSD files with long layer names will open correctly.
  • Playing back a script that contains text no longer crashes the application.
  • Real Watercolor speed was improved.
  • Right-clicking to change a brush no longer results in random strokes and the preview is now updating correctly.
  • The application launches correctly on Mac 10.7 (Hot Fix 1).
  • The corners of the Color Triangle now report correct values.
  • The online help includes updates to the following chapters: Preferences, Workspace Tour, and Selecting, Managing, and Creating Brushes.
  • The Property Bar is maintained after closing the Toolbox and re-launching the application.
  • The Single Pixel Cursor can be used in conjunction with the Brush Ghost.
  • The Temporal Color palette is maintained when using a PC-created workspace on Mac (and vice versa).
  • Workspace customizations are maintained on dual monitors (PC only)
  • The Ruler tool arrow position now corresponds with the inputed value.
  • The current color no longer shifts when switching between the Brush and the Eraser tools.
  • Dropping layers while Real Wet Oil strokes are not fully dry no longer crashes the application.
  • Adding and or switching layers while Real Wet Oil strokes are flowing no longer crashes the application.
  • Applying an effect or drop shadow to Real Wet Oil strokes while they are flowing no longer rashes the application.
  • Dropping layers by clicking the Layer Commands button or from the Layers options menu produces the same result.
  • Zooming in on a large-sized brush no longer crashes the application (Mac only).
  • Applying the “underpainting” effect no longer crashes the application.
  • Saving a resized Clone no longer crashes the application.
  • The Layout Grid Panel no longer obscures the Enable Layout Grid control.

New in Corel Painter 2023 11.0.016 (Feb 26, 2009)

  • Hard Media Controls.
  • RealBristle Dry Media.
  • Enhanced Selection Tools.
  • Enhanced Wacom Support.
  • Color Management.
  • Enhanced Adobe Photoshop Support.
  • Enhanced Mixer Palette & Swatches.
  • Enhanced Performance.
  • Many more enhancements.