Corel has launched Painter 2016, a new version of the venerable painting app for Mac and Windows. The upgrade introduces new brush technologies as well as performance and interface improvements and enhanced learning modules designed to benefit newcomers. There’s the 131 brand new brushes added to the app, paired with new brush technologies that infuse those brushes with new capabilities. A new dimension to Painter 2016’s brush tech is Dynamic Speckles, based on particle system physics combined with brush thickness controls. These generate continuous brushstrokes from speckles or spots of colour that are dynamically generated as you paint for distinctive strokes and splatters.
A new Brushes palette arrangement displays the panels and controls to access the latest brush technologies. New dab types for applying media to canvas — now use particles and liquid ink, water-colour or impasto to create more realistic brushstrokes than in previous versions. Paper and flow map rotation features let users change the angle of paper textures and flow maps to add to brushstroke variety. These new features are easy to access from the new Brushes palette arrangement, which lays out the panels and controls for the newest brush upgrades.
