Painter XI release?

#14

Have you signed up for the Webinar they’re having on the 24th? I bet that will be allot of teases as they introduce the new features.

#15

Those webinars on the 24th are full now, they have two more on Wednesday the 25th.

#16

I can’t see any Webinar for Painter 11?! hurmph

#17

I received an email Invite from Corel. I didn’t see it publically listed on a website. I don’t know if there is a way to sign up for the Webinar without the Invite.

#18

Fes,

If you hurry, you might get into one of the webinars on Wednesday the 25th.

Go to the Corel page at Twitter to learn how to register.

#19

Glad they dropped the roman numbers.

#20

Cheers Jinny:)

#21

Here is some info: http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1166553885783#tabview=tab0

#22

ANY news about the new features ? from the link in the previous post it seems they have allowed us to expand the mixer pad. That is cool.

#23

I guess my timing for asking was pretty good. :thumbsup:

Reading over the features, “tighter” color flow w/ Photoshop is most, most welcome (I use several semi-workarounds)… and a quiet prayer in that this version can handle the memory many of us stock our Mac Pro’s w/. Painter X is “crippled” in this regard, and sadly very frustrating for a “professional” program, used by professionals (after all, I’m not turning family photos into “paintings”, during 15 hour days). I’m a huge Painter fan, but c’mon… this should not be just coming (if indeed it is?), but I’ll will take it now, please… however, the language of the new features, is not specific in this regard.

My two top wants are better color management, and “power user speed”… anything else is gravy.

#24

the feature list seems is a little disappointing but as mentioned in the previous post…power use should be good if it is addressed…

#25

Exactly my feeling too. Being able to see transforming is good and if the overall stability and strength has truly been enhanced then it might be enough to sell it. Can anyone see if the Control Windows/color adjustments have been enlarged?

#26

To me stability would be reason enough to upgrade. I lost so much work because of not saving often enough! So I really hope this version won’t crash anymore.

Better color management seems nice too.

#27

User iterative save… then make backups :wink:
Iterative save is already there since at least Painter IX.5
I actually have it as a button on my Intuos 3 ^^

More speed (up to 30% is what I read), better color management, better transformation tool, scalable color palette… imho Corel devteam has been reading the critique very well and it looks quite promising!

I’m very curious about hardware issues myself.
Planning to buy a new pc soon and the main tool used on it should be Painter 11

#28

Is the transform tool live, you see the transformation before accepting it. This isn’t clear on the features page.

#29

For me all the enhancements sound very good.

  • Selection tools are getting better. Good!

  • Everything making transformations easier is great, especially when I’m sketching an illustration (in Painter X there even was a bug that made it impossible to use distortion etc. in mac os 10.5).

  • To be able to make color palette and mixer larger is also veeery good, making me sooner than later change my 22"-screen to a 30". I think I begin to use more mixer after this.

  • If brushes perform really up to 30% faster, that’s really fine!

  • And if color management is better and more in harmony with photoshop, that sounds very good too.

L.

#30

Also is the 8GB memory limit under Vista 64 unlimited fixed ?

#31

No-one seems to know yet.

#32

camparison chart

http://www.corel.com/content/painter11/compare/Painter_11_Family_Product_Matrix.pdf

#33

Thanks, that was helpful. Hmmm, not sure I’m thrilled about multi core listed only as “during transformations”… double “hmmmmm…”

…Ever tried to paint w/ good size brushes on poster size document w/ 4 or 5 layers in Painter X. Here I am w/ 10 GB or RAM, and in those instances I might as well be on an older iMac? I do many of my transformations in Photoshop anyway! – who wouldn’t, if you have PS?

Am I being an alarmist (probably not - but I’ll be glad to be wrong) by thinking if brush engine, and etc., were multi core supported, then it would just have an “X” under multi core and not a specific item in the PDF?