Version 3 also had these trippy brushes, but version 4 gives you more things to do with them, though not as many as I'd like. Painter Essentials also comes with Painter X's Image Hose and Pattern Pen brushes, which spew out patterns and streams of little photographic images of objects like flowers and butterflies. Otherwise, I found the new brushes a much-appreciated addition. My only complaint: The new Sargent brush somehow didn't make me paint like another John Singer Sargent. Improvements have been made to existing brushes, and some brand-new brushes have been added, such as the hyperrealistic RealBristle category-carried over from the professional-level Painter X-as well as new charcoals and pens. ![]() When closed, the drawer displays your most recently used brushes and your designated "favorite" brushes in a column beside the toolbox for easy access.Īnd it's not just the new Brush Drawer that I like. Now expanding out logically from the toolbox, the Brush Drawer offers clearly delineated categories of brushes. I'm especially fond of the new Brush Drawer. ![]() Tool icons and slider controls are larger, therefore much easier to control with a pen tablet. Some enhancements pertain to both workspaces, such as the vertical toolbox that stretches down the left side of the screen. The bright yet nondistracting interface is divided into two tabbed workspaces: Drawing & Painting and Photo Painting. Not that there was a heck of a lot wrong with Painter Essentials 3 to begin with, but Corel has taken a very good program and made it even better. Not only is the entry-level digital painting program almost unrecognizable from version 3, but its new interface signals a reimagining of the program on Corel's part. Not so with Corel's Painter Essentials 4. However welcome the redesign may be, it usually amounts to nothing more profound than, say, the new "graphite" tones applied to the interface of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. ![]() ![]() Nowadays, it seems that nearly every new release of a graphics application boasts a "redesigned" interface.
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