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When Painter 8 appeared, it was hailed as the breakthrough version that finally transformed Painter’s ghastly interface into something usable. The changes in Painter IX are less dramatic, but it’s still a good upgrade. Corel has put a great deal of effort into the documentation, help, and tutorials.
Corel has announced the release of Painter IX in October, and claims improved speed and productivity, enhanced creative tools and improved Photoshop compatibility in the latest version.
Corel has announced the sale of its landscaping and animation software tool Bryce to DAZ Productions. DAZ claims that it has extensive development plans for Bryce, which has stagnated under Corel’s ownership – it was last updated in 2001. Bryce's new owner has renamed the application DAZ|Bryce and plans to build integration with its other tools.
The relative success of CorelDraw upgrades is inconsistent to say the least. CorelDraw was already at version 3 before anyone took any notice; version 4 was astonishing; version 8 was a blinder; version 10 was the dog’s bollocks. All the intermediate releases, however, have come across as fillers, as if they were produced by contractual obligation. This is how version 12 feels too.
It’s fair to say that when it comes to natural-media-style artwork in the digital realm, Painter has it sewn-up. There never has been a 2D ...
After buying Micrografx at the end of 2001, Corel rushed out a less-than-compelling Designer 9 release – which was little more than a rebranding exercise. ...
The original desktop publishing package for IBM PC, Ventura lost ground over the years to strong competition from the likes of PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and now ...
After a long period of consistently failing to keep the Windows and Mac versions of CorelDraw Graphics Suite in sync, Corel now looks like it ...
Picture Publisher 10 is a surprisingly comprehensive graphics application given its budget price point. The latest version in a long line from Micrografx – now ...
Procreate KPT Effects is a smorgasbord of creative plug-ins pitched at designers looking to push the pixel envelope of photographic effects. Nine Photoshop-compatible filters are ...
All photo-editing software packages provide a handful of paint tools that mimic natural media, such as brushes, chalk, pencils and calligraphic nibs. But none can ...
Bryce is a 3D tool that specializes in 3D environments – something that most packages consider secondary to character animation. Bryce has no character tools, ...
Celebrating ten years of its flagship graphic-arts application, Corel has rolled out an upgrade to CorelDraw bumping it to – appropriately – version 10. A ...
Unix aficionados have for years chronicled vendors’ attempts to push Unix onto the desktop. We’ve watched all such attempts end in abject failure and total ...
