Corel Painter 2015 "Cascade"

During a visit to my Friend Riyad  Quinta "La Quinta Anabtawi" I took a panoramic photo using 53 raw files, crashing my Photoshop many times during the post processing, but the result was amazing and I decided to do some painting on it using Corel Painter 2015, this program used a lot of juice and can crash too if not using a high performance graphic card, I am using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M extreme performance, I also have an Intel HD 4600 graphic card installed on my computer for other application. With a high graphic program like Painter Intel card can handle the workflow but it is a lot slower and will make the program crash from time to time.
My advice is that you check your card performance before buying Painter and do the 30 days free trial to check if you your computer can handle it. I always do the free trial before buying into any program.

The result from the panoramic photo below

To the Digital Painting using Corel Painter 2015

Corel Painter 2015 is in my opinion one of the most advance digital painting program.

 

 

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Winter Dream

I always liked to work with Corel Painter, lately I upgraded to Painter 2015, and I had problem with my brushes pressure using my Wacom tablet, the problem was haft fixed, some of the brushes still have pressure problem.
My tablet is an old version, I probably be better with the newer version mine is 6 years old and I used it everyday, that will be the first thing on my list to buy when I go back north.

Even with the problem I was able to do a painterly winter scene, from a picture that I took almost a year ago it wasn't a winter scene, using Painter I brush out the background and painted over the horses using different brush, mostly oil.

After I added a texture, light and snow using Alien Skin Exposure 7 to add smaller snow flake I used Akvis Nature Art.

Took me few days to finish it, for me it's a relaxing activity,  it can take weeks before I get my vision on the media, many times I am not successful and my work end up in the garbage, that's fine, even with the best software it's often hard to bring a vision into a 2 dimensions media.

Winter Dream

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Corel Painter 2015

Few months ago, when trying the new Corel Painter 2015, I found out that the new version had a lot of bugs,  brush pressure problems, most of the brush didn't respond to Wacom tablet stylus. I was very frustrated and continued to use my older version.

Corel Painter is an expensive and extensive program and the new version had a lot more creative tools, I sent an email to Corel about the problem and at that time they were working on a patch.

Yesterday I decided to check if the patch was ready and it was.

 The New Particle Brushes and Jitter Smooth tool create organic shape and it's excellent to create texture directly on the canvas.

During the next few months I will experiment with the new tools, a lot of tutorial to watch!!!

Experimenting with Corel Painter 2015,

Original Photo, Canon 5D Markiii and Lensbaby double glass optic.

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