Painter 2022 stamps its quality
Tooled up Art director and vis-dev artist Isis Sousa reflects on Corel Painter 2022’s new direction
Corel’s latest software has some new tricks.
Corel Painter has long been the go-to software for artists yearning to give their digital art a tangible traditional feel, whether that’s workflow, brushes or finish.
The newly released Painter 2022 is “streamlined, modernised and userfriendly,” says Isis Sousa (www.isissousa.com), who reveals that the interface is cleaner, the workflow is slicker, old brushes have been enhanced and new brushes have been added.
One new feature is the Favorites option, where you can tag your preferred brushes. “You can easily browse your brushes by different categories, such as Favorites, Layer Compatibility, Stamps, etc. Now artists can find their most-used tools quicker and more effectively,” says Isis.
The addition of Stamps enables full customisation of your brushes. Isis loves it, saying: “There are many things you can do, such as customise multiple aspects of them in Painter’s great Brush Engine. You can also capture new Dabs of your own and refine them, or use the Captured Dab Library that Painter offers, creating entire new libraries with these different options.”
We particularly love the new optimisation feature. Painter 2022 will tailor its tools to make the most of your GPU, offering accelerated performance where needed. It makes Painter 2022 the best version yet.
“It’s an easier-to-use edition, where the software’s complexity is broken down into more intuitive steps,” says Isis. “Its tools maximise the digital drawing and painting experience.” Painter 2022 is available for order now priced $429/£360. Visit Corel’s site for details at www.painterartist.com.