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Definition: Painter
A full-featured paint program for Mac and Windows from Alludo (formerly Corel). Painter is a very sophisticated paint program with a huge array of tool palettes. It can simulate natural painting styles, such as oil, watercolor and charcoal, on almost every kind of paper texture. Painter's packaging used to be as unique as the product... a paint can! In 2000, Corel acquired Painter from MetaCreations Corporation.
An Electronic Paintbox
Oil or Pixels?
The program offers an amazing variety of painting tools. Brushes, felt pens, ink pens and chalk can be fine tuned, and different types of paper can be simulated. Shown here is only a glimmer of the program's repertoire.
Believe it or not, this "oil" was created in Painter on a Mac by Rhoda Grossman using brush strokes with Painter's Van Gogh cloner. Named "Clo-nay, France," the impasto look (thick paint) was accomplished with Painter's Apply Surface Texture command. (Image courtesy of Rhoda Grossman.)