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  New Features in Corel® Painter™ IX.5

Introducing Corel® Painter™ IX.5
Now it's easier than ever to transform photographs into beautiful paintings! Corel® Painter™ IX.5—the world's most powerful painting and illustration software.

Top New Features and Enhancements

1. Turn photos into paintings with NEW Photo Painting palettes
Create stunning paintings from your photographs with ease! Using new Underpainting, Auto-Painting, and Restoration palettes you can automatically apply random, hand-painted strokes to your photos. It's never been easier to get started with Corel Painter!


2. 11 hours of movie-based training from lynda.com—FREE when you purchase Corel Painter IX.5!
This movie-based tutorial is designed to introduce new and existing Corel Painter users a basic understanding of the features in Corel Painter IX.5. Enjoy over 50 movies on two training CDs, hosted by Painter Master John Derry, and Tanya Staples. (Includes exercise files; not included in the download version and the Update Patch)

3. NEW! Eraser tool
Enjoy easy access to a standard eraser for removing any medium in Corel Painter IX.5!

4. NEW! Rubber Stamp tool
Perform point-to-point cloning in Corel Painter IX.5 using this easy-to-access toolbox tool.

5. NEW! Cloner tool
Conveniently located in the toolbox, the Cloner tool provides immediate access to the last-used Cloner brush and brush variant.

6. NEW! Corel® Paint Shop Pro® support
Open Corel Paint Shop Pro X files directly in Corel Painter IX.5 (Windows® version only). Click here to learn more about Corel Paint Shop Pro X.

7. NEW! Corel® Photo Album™ support
Send images directly from Corel Painter IX.5 to Corel Photo Album 6 (Windows® version only). Click here to learn more about Corel Photo Album 6.

8. Apple® iPhoto® support, and support for Mac OS® X Tiger™ (10.4)
Work seamlessly with Apple iPhoto (requires changing 'Preferences' in iPhoto), Mac OS X Tiger, and run Corel Painter IX.5 on Intel-based Macs with Rosetta.


9. Wacom® pen tablet support
Work more smoothly thanks to extended support for Wacom pen tablets—Intuos®3, Cintiq 21UX and the new 6D Art Pen.

10. NEW! Art Pen Brush category
These 10 new brushes—specifically designed to work with the new Wacom 6D Art Pen—are perfect for calligraphy! (Introduced in Corel Painter IX 9.1 Update)

11. NEW! Dual Monitor support on Windows® XP and Windows 2000
Move palettes, toolbars and the toolbox to the outside of the application window. (Introduced in Corel Painter IX 9.1 Update)

Also includes many other features introduced in the Corel Painter IX -
9.1 Update:

Airbrush enhancements
Targa channel support
enhanced Adobe® Photoshop® file support
improved zoom functionality
enhanced brush resize functionality
digital watercolor improvements

Attention registered Corel Painter IX users
Corel Painter IX.5 is now available as a FREE download for registered Corel Painter IX users! Click here to download the version IX.5 Update Patch.




 

Attention registered
Corel Painter IX users

Corel Painter IX.5 is now available as a FREE download for registered Corel Painter IX users! Click here to download the version IX.5 Update Patch.