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Corel Painter IX
Corel updates Painter with speed, stability, and creative control
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Painter IX
Price: $229 ($199 as an upgrade)
Minimum System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP running on a Pentium 11 500MHZ system or Mac OS X on a Power Macintosh G3 500MHZ, 128MB of RAM, 380MB (395MB on Mac) of hard disk space, a 24-bit color display with 1024x768 resolution, a CD-ROM, and a mouse or tablet.
Corel Corporation
www.corel.com
As digital artists and content creators, we're longtime users of Painter, Corel's painting and illustration software solution. Like no other program we've used, it provides us with digital materials-paints, brushes, inks, pencils, papers, and more-that closely mimic those used in the traditional creative process. Corel refers to these digital tools of the trade as "Natural Media."
We installed Painter IX on an Apple Power Mac G5 equipped with dual PowerPC G5 processors, Mac OS X, and a Studio display. We also set up a Wacom Intuos3 pen tablet and 6D Art Pen, as well as Corel's Art Pen Brush Pack, a collection of six brushes designed to take advantage of Wacom's six-dimensional pen stylus.
Painter IX greets the user with a new, clean, and organized welcome screen on start-up that provides...