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Corel Painter

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Corel Painter offers realistic traditional media simulation with features like customizable brushes, extensive format support, layering, blending tools, and more, tailored for professional artists working in drawing, painting, and printmaking.

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  1.  Paint simulation
  2.  Sketching
  3.  Conditional styles

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Corel Painter information

  • Developed by

    Corel Corporation

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase ranging between $250 and $450, and / or subscription that costs $12 per month.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.8

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Corel Painter, and it has gotten 68 likes

Corel Painter was added to AlternativeTo by Journeyman on Apr 19, 2009 and this page was last updated Feb 13, 2025. Corel Painter is sometimes referred to as Painter.

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Jill Cooke
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Top positive comment •Feb 24, 2019

Great choices, easy to use, and versatile. I only wish I could afford it.

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Top negative comment •Aug 18, 2018

Beware, If you are a Mac user steer far away from this product! Painter and painter essentials 5.x never worked. If you were to try the 30 day trial version of the software you would find that instead of fixing the software Corel would simply try up-sale you one of their more expensive programs. They don't even try to get the program working at all. I even own the program and have never gotten it to run successfully. I consider this company an perfect example of a shady dealer of vaporware that use bait and switch practices. At one time Corel use to be a leading alternative to mid-tier graphic suite but today I would stay as far away as possible from any Corel product.

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danielsirait

Well it's not Corel. It's Apple fault, they always update their latest OS library requirements to be incompatible with the previous programs. FYI, next time buy Windows machine. Windows 10 32-bit still can run 16-bit DOS programs.

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RatPackLove

Sorry to say but I bought Corel well over 7 years ago when Apple was still supporting 32-bit applications. BTW: I is time for 32-bit to go for Linux, Mac and Windows. The only real reason to keep anything lower would be embedded or actual assembly

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Positive comment •Jan 1, 2018

Painter was "aquired" by Corel, not created by Corel. Corel bought quite a few apps and tech from others.

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What is Corel Painter?

Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative tool.

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