Painter 11 Trial Now Available

#1

Painter 11 Trial version is now available here .

David

#2

They forget to mention about main feature:

  • the slowest version ever.

Only one nice thing after couple minutes. Scaleable color wheel. Still no serious Color Adjustment, Free Transform is restricted only to scaling (why not also rotation with some addictional key for ex. Ctrl or Alt?). And complete lack of ideas for this software. This is some X.6 ver.

Oh, and did I mentioned that this Painter is slow as hell? :slight_smile:
And hmmm, thats it? Lol. This all new “oh-ah brushes” are just a joke for nice advertisement.

Really great update…but not for me.

#3

When in Free Transform there are additional options in the Property Bar - Rotate, Skew, Distort and Perspective Distort. I think I might be agreeing with you on the slow brushes, unfortunately, at least for watercolour.

#4

I don’t know about all of the other stuff (the speed probably depends on your computer, on mine it seems snappier), but you can rotate the free transform by holding the Command Key (on Mac), don’t remember the key in Windows.

#5

I can free rotate without issue Drevious, and also adjust the center of rotation in 11 (unless I have misunderstood you). It is up to you of course, but I wouldn’t dismiss the application out of hand without giving it a fair trial over a week or two.

Speaking generally, and I don’t think it is my imagination, but it just seems like every time Corel release something, it has become something of a ritual blood sport to launch an attack on the developers and rubbish the application. I don’t work for Corel, and have to agree that certain features can always be improved upon, but what I am seeing from Corel is a genuine commitment and sincerity in what I suspect is a quite limited budget and resource climate. For the developers, it must now feel like whatever they do will automatically be wrong, which surely can’t be correct, and I can’t imagine it being much of an incentive for them to even try anymore either. Surely, the best way forward is a positive one, with constructive criticism and suggestions for further improvement?

David

#6 
-They rarelly listen to the user suggestions which makes people lose patience.
-They do tons of primary and elementary errors and illogical decisions.

-Painter 6 was developed with a much smaller team and on a tighter budget for sure.

This version fixes some things like zoom levels and the interface is a bit better (color wheel) but it also has very little new features, this is Painter X.5.
#7

Ok, sorry for rotation issue, it works now. Have no idea why it didnt work at first time coz i tried all options. My bad and I am sorry for this! Its great now.

And about criticism. Im stick with Painter right now only for first phase of doing artwork. Sketching. For some time its just easier/more efficiency to do all other shit in Photoshop for me (transformating, layer editing, color correcting etc). My thought is, that I would love to see Painter some day self sufficence and I think its not so long road (not so much to do to make it great). Just think, adjusting color in crappy small window, and its 11 version of software. LOL:) I mean, who is doing this software right now? Chemical Scientists?:slight_smile: How it is possible to manage colors of whatever artwork in small window without preview shot on whole art. Im doing such a things very often, to often, so im stick in PS for more of paiting-color work.
Sketching is still the best in Painter, but watch what Autodesk did to their Sketchbook last time. For example cool ideas like Elliptical ruler, Sketching with symmetry etc. I dont see any creativity in Corel. I think they should to listen communites more often. But to hell with this, got other softwares and Corel wont get my money for this upgrade.

I am still loving painter, coz if I woudnt, probably never use it anymore. Still it has the best caligraphic/pencil/sketching feeling and its fast. And about speed Cometsoft, hmm I`ve got Core Duo with 4GB ram and GF 8800GT. Photoshop cs4 with 20 huge layers and its new OpenGl support works faster than 1-2 layered file in new Painter. What say you?:slight_smile: I think they did some crap like in 8 or 9 version, when it get slowdown from previous version those days, so they improved it in X. Chemical Scientists, get to work!

Sand Dragon, you give no shit about positive aura when your deadline is coming to end, and you have to jump to Photoshop very often to do some small color correction or transform simple box, coz your software on which you spend some money cant do this:) And Workbench said true words.

Dont get me wrong, I just need for fully happieness color adjustments like in Photoshop, and I still cant understand why its SO undoable to make this feature useful. I know, they will add this feature as some huge breakdown in Painter pipeline in Painter15 and it will be typed with bold font on a back of the box. Got for it Corel!

Joeparis, transforming when clicking on a Bar? Come on!:slight_smile: I ve got all windows hidden instead of color wheel and layers. I am happy that transformations however works, and sorry for lightning storm about that once again.

#8

Yes, it’s a killer when an application requires you to press tab. :wink:

#9

painter 11 first and foremost seems to work well on my Mac pro with 10 Gb RAM in Vista 64. That is reason enough to celebrate but it soon turns out to be a little disappointing when u see very few features and improvements. But all of that is forgiven for this release if painter is rock solid. Time will tell once it is put through its paces

Photoshop cs4 64bit is a monster and one heck of an update especially for print work. Sketchbook pro 2010 though takes the crown for innovation. Two features - the elliptical rulers and symmetry are bang on target for what I have been looking for in the 2d digital medium over the years.

One annoying problem in the painter 11 demo as well as the sketch pad is that sometimes when i swith between my cintiq and my main monitor the brush draws a straight strok from the edge of my drawing to wherever my cursor is placed on the canvas. THAT is annoying.

This version does seem to be snappier but has serious performance issues once there are a few layers for print res images.

I agree that painter must be a full blown app with all things 2d inside one box without having to switch back and forth though the improved compatibility with photoshop is good especially the proof color mode. I can rest assured that is what I will see in photoshop as well.

Finally I think it should have been called 10.5 and not 11.

Still awaiting a full robust oil and water color engine. and oh - symmetry and oh - rulers and oh - decent stencil / mask modes.

#10

Solid is good to hear. One big reason I didn’t bother upgrading last time was “oh look, it crashed again. Useless toy.”

#11

Open a new Canvas, create a Layer, and paint a brush stroke on the Layer.

Use Edit > Free Transform. The Transform tool is automatically selected, the Property Bar now contains several icons to Reset Tool, Reset Reference Point, Move, Scale, Rotate, Skew, Distort, do Perspective Distortion, Cancel Transformation, or Commit Transformation.

You’ll see bounding box handles around the Layer.

Click and drag a corner bounding box handle to scale.

Hold down the Ctrl key (Windows) or Command key (Mac), hold your cursor over a corner bounding box until the cursor changes to a circular arrow, then drag to rotate the Layer.

If you want to rotate the Layer using some part of the Layer as a pivot point, click and drag the center Reference Point to where you want to designate the pivot point, then use the method described above to rotate the Layer.

For more information on the Painter 11 Transformation system, read the following:

Painter 11 Help Topics > Contents tab > Selections and Transformations

On the right panel, click the link named “Transforming Selections” and read that page, then click each of the links and read those pages.

Oh, and did I mentioned that this Painter is slow as hell? :slight_smile:
And hmmm, thats it? Lol. This all new “oh-ah brushes” are just a joke for nice advertisement.

Really great update…but not for me.

Give it a little more time and you may discover there’s more in Painter 11 that you thought.

Or… maybe someone else will benefit from this post.

Cheers!

Jinny

#12

oh man, i should visit this website more often, i just bought painter X two weeks ago!

#13

It might be worth contacting Corel about the possibility of a free upgrade. With some companies (Adobe certainly), there is a grace period. I don’t know about Corel, but it’s worth a try.

#14

I believe it was mentioned that it is possible to upgrade if Painter X was purchased within 30 days prior to the Painter 11 release, but the customer would incur something like a $25 to $35 charge. You would need to contact Corel sales or customer service to get the actual details.

David

#15

Thanks for the information! Will do.

#16

Yes, I just installed the trial version of painter 11. And I agree, it is so slow that I CAN NOT work on this !!??

Maybe its my hardware ?

I am runing AMD Athlon 3000+. 1.8Ghz, 2 gb ram, win xp…the file is 6000x4000 pix, 400 DPI. 5 -8 layers

…on Painter X, I can work with this file with no problem, but on Painter 11 —IMPOSIBBLE—

…maybe Painter 11 works fine with new mashines ???

#17

Hmmm…

Am I the only one experiencing this? It’s like the clipboard isn’t functioning at all.

Copy paste layer : Nothing
Copy paste from marquee : Nothing
Copy paste in place : Nothing

Anyone bought the full program and face similar issues?

Thanks.

#18

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