Hello Friends,

Melissa Gallo and I were having a Go To Meeting, and nosotros started playing with the new Corel Painter Essentials 5.  After playing for a while, we decided to tape the rest of the session and share with yous.

Corel Painter Essentials 5 is and upgrade to Corel's pop Painter Essentials iv.  It is an extremely rich plan for a small-scale price.  Melissa and I barely touched the features included with Essentials v.  I did a quick watercolor from scratch and a motorcar-painting with some actress brush work using oil type brushes.  I hardly touch oil brushes anymore, only Melissa made me…just kidding.  Do go to Corel Painter Essentials 5 web site and bank check out all the new stuff added to this version of Essentials.  The list includes NEW…particle brushes, mirror and kaleidoscope painting, user interface, navigator, brush tracking utility, 2 in 1 mobile painting interface, real-time furnishings preview, transformation tools, native 64 bit for Mac and PC, plus more than.  And I didn't even become to the enhanced features.  The all-time part, Corel Painter Essentials 5 is on sale for $39.99 until November 28th.  I call back that is an astonishing toll.

During the recorded video I created two images, ane from scratch and the other using Essentials Photo Painting features.  I wasn't thinking when I finished the watercolor roses and I deleted the image without saving.  I was non interested in saving the image, simply without it, I didn't have annihilation to post on my web log. So…I made a similar image off camera for the blog.

Here is the recreated watercolor rose:

Watercolor Roses, Corel Painter Essential 5

Watercolor Roses, Corel Painter Essential 5, Skip Allen

Next nosotros explored the photo-painting capabilities of Corel Painter Essentials five.  It was fun.  Here is the paradigm created during the meeting:

Butterfly and the Rose, Corel Painter Essentials 5, Skip Allen

Butterfly and the Rose, Corel Painter Essentials 5, Skip Allen

Video of coming together between Melissa Gallo and Skip Allen.  Skip paints two images…check it out.

OK folks, that'due south it…two posts in one day.  Wow.

Relish,

Skip

Hello Everybody,

Corel Painter has just posted an update for Painter 2015.  Follow this link: Service Pack 1

Savour,

Skip

PS:

Following is from Corel and lists the items that have been addressed:

Corel Painter 2015 – Update i Readme

Painter 2015 Update 1 will update the initial release of Painter 2015 (xiv.0.0.728) to 14.1.0.1105. The following items have been addressed.

  • You tin can now click direct on a layer mask to select it (yous no longer take to click the layer, and so click the layer mask.)
  • The Fill dialog box (Edit > Fill) now displays dynamically your clone source or the pattern that you have called.
  • Improved functioning of Gravity Particle Brushes: the repeating design that is created when you use local chaos with Gravity Particle Brushes at pocket-size document sizes is now random and far less obvious.
  • Improved user experience when resizing brushes onscreen by pressing Command + Option (Mac Bone) or Ctrl + Alt (Windows) and dragging, by using the Castor size (onscreen) command in a custom palette, and past using the Castor size (onscreen) tool in the toolbox in the Simple workspace layout. The Legacy-style onscreen brush sizing control has improved accuracy and more closely resembles the look and feel of the brush sizing control in earlier versions of Corel Painter.
  • The Canvas now appears in the Layers panel after you switch from the Uncomplicated workspace layout to the Default one past using the Welcome screen.
  • The values that y'all enter in the Canvas size dialog box are no longer truncated if they exceed three digits.
  • Painter no longer crashes when you double-click a Liquid Lens or Liquid Metal layer in the Layers panel to edit it.
  • Painter no longer crashes when you first increase the bristle density (Feature) and and so increase the size of a Real Moisture brush.
  • All relevant options on the Layers bill of fare are now available later on you create a new layer by copying a pick from the canvas and pasting information technology as a new layer.
  • Later you create a new layer and printing the space bar, the selected layer no longer changes from the one that y'all just created to the one below it in the Layers palette.
  • (Windows) Subsequently you apply or delete a layer mask, information technology no longer appears in the Layers console.
  • After you lot select a colour (Select > Color Select) and so create a new channel from color range, the color range is converted properly.
  • In the Color Correction dialog box, you can now elevate the nodes of the color-correction bend to the superlative or bottom of the graph.
  • When you use the Equalize event to a selection that has been copied and pasted, the upshot is practical to the whole pick.
  • When you load a custom nozzle file for 2-rank or 3-rank nozzles, you can change the settings in the Nozzle Definition dialog box.
  • Use Surface Texture effect is at present applied when clicking OK when Preview checkbox is unchecked.
  • Clone Source Prototype dialog is now appearing correctly later on making a change to the source image.
  • In the Shape Attributes dialog box, y'all can modify the fill up or stroke color past choosing a color from the Color console.
  • The Smart Blur result at present applies the concluding-used value when the dialog box is re-launched.
  • When yous switch between workspaces, the Clone Color setting in the Color console is maintained.
  • The Glass Baloney effect tin exist practical to an alpha channel.
  • When you use the Apply Surface Texture effect, the settings are maintained for subsequent images.
  • The Corel Painter Multi-touch setting in the Tablet preferences at present works as expected with Cintiq 24HD touch and Intuos touch tablets.
  • When you lot create custom wide icons for items on a custom palette and so re-launch the awarding, the icons no longer revert from wide to small.
  • The Delete Layer button on the Layers panel is at present disabled when the layer is locked.
  • When you paint within a option, then delete the choice and disengage the brushstroke, and then create a smaller selection in the same area of the canvas, the new pick no longer appears distorted, and brushstrokes remain within the boundary of the new pick, rather than the old one.
  • Polygonal selections behave as expected when part of the selection is outside the sheet.
  • Zooming using the Magnifier tool at present works every bit expected.
  • When placing an image with the Retain Alpha check box enabled in the Place dialog box, the unabridged placed epitome is at present displayed.
  • The default setting in the Using list box in the Adjust Color dialog box is now Uniform Color.
  • When applying the Soften result to a selected layer, the effect no longer increases the dimensions of the layer.
  • When applying the Depth of Field effect to a selected layer, the upshot no longer increases the dimensions of the layer.
  • When applying the Movement Blur event to a selected layer, the effect no longer increases the dimensions of the layer.
  • Adjustments you make in the Color Correction dialog box are now also applied to channels.
  • Indicators for cloning-sample and cloning-destination reference points now display a expected.
  • Using the Soften effect on a rectangular selection on the canvas at present works every bit expected.
  • The settings in the Nozzle Definition dialog box now work equally expected.
  • Clicking Cancel in the Drinking glass Distortion dialog box now works as expected.
  • Cropping an image now works as expected.
  • The selected aqueduct in the Color Correction dialog box is now clearly identifiable.
  • When using the Polygonal Selection tool, pressing Command + Z to Command + D (Mac OS), or Ctrl + Z or Ctrl + D (Windows) now closes open selections.
  • Changes you brand in the Equalize dialog box are now applied to the entire prototype.
  • You lot can choose a color from the Colour panel when the Surface Lighting dialog box is open up.
  • The colour chip in the Dye Concentration dialog box is updated when you choose a new color in the Color panel.
  • Changing the color in the Shape Attributes dialog box no longer changes the current color.
  • Painter no longer crashes when you lot adjust the Softness slider in the Use Surface Texture dialog box.
  • Choosing a new colour in the Utilize Lighting dialog box at present changes the principal colour on the Color Wheel. In addition, yous can choose a colour from the Color Wheel when the Employ Lighting dialog box is open.

Mac OS Specific

  • Clicking the light-green button in the upper-left corner of the paradigm window resizes the window frame to fit around the prototype, instead of expanding the frame to the whole screen.
  • The position of the sheet no longer shifts when you use the Grabber tool to drag the image into a corner.
  • Loss of stylus force per unit area no longer occurs when you utilise the same pressure-sensitive brush variant afterwards re-launching the awarding.
  • Sliders in the advanced brush controls panels no longer appear flattened.
  • You can at present paint on the image subsequently moving the sheet to the secondary brandish on dual-monitor systems when the primary and secondary displays are offset.
  • Brandish color values are now consistent between Painter 2015, Painter X3 and Photoshop.
  • A tone shift in your colors will no longer happen when panning.
  • When y'all enable the Smart Stroke Painting and the Smart Settings bank check boxes on the Motorcar-Painting panel and click the Play button, the car-painting stops every bit expected.
  • Canceling a color deletion from the default Painter color set now works as expected.
  • The Welcome Screen no longer appears when starting the application by double-clicking a RIF file.
  • The Brush Tracking dialog box now appears in the eye of the screen.

Windows Specific

  • The Glass Distortion effect is no longer applied to the epitome when the Preview check box is disabled.
  • When you type text, pressing Shift or Alt no longer results in unrecognized characters.
  • Pressing Ctrl + Alt + ane twice closes the temporal colors palette.
  • In the Edit Slope dialog box, you can click the Colour Hue options (the square box in a higher place the color ramp bar) to change the hue of the blend.
  • Selecting the content of a layer and then widening or contracting the choice more once (Select > Modify) no longer results in an error message.
  • When yous apply a gradient fill to a layer, the fill is now centered on the layer and does not autumn outside the canvass expanse.
  • When you create a new color set afterward deleting all colors from some other color set, the awarding no longer crashes.
  • Creating a custom brush category and a Brush Controls custom palette will no longer cause the workspace to crash.
  • Grouped layers are no longer collapsed into a single layer when the canvas is flipped horizontally.
  • When you set up a depression Spacing value in the Liquid Lens dialog box then elevate on the canvas, the application no longer freezes.
  • When saving an image as a JPEG, the quality settings are retained when the file is opened.
  • The Prototype Warp effect works every bit expected on all layers and can be undone.
  • The settings in the Resize dialog box now work as expected.
  • Clicking Reset in the Surface Lighting dialog box restores all controls to factory default settings.
  • Opening the Utilize Surface Texture, Woodcut, or Bevel World dialog boxes no longer changes the current color.
Application Initial Release Update 1
Painter 2015 fourteen.0.0.728 fourteen.1.0.1105

Hey Friends,

Ordinarily, I wouldn't be writing about something personal, but heck, my 70th birthday…drum coil please…is tomorrow.  I can think equally a kid, I thought 40 was ancient and gosh, nobody hardly fabricated information technology to 70.  And hither I am; it happened and so fast.

As you lot know, I am education at DAA in the Vacation Open Studio class; well, I but finished my week.  I taught calligraphy in Corel Painter.  Since it is my 70th…drum scroll please, and I am practicing calligraphy, I thought I would make a birthday greeting for myself.  Sounds lamentable doesn't it…poor baby has to brand his own card.

The commencement affair I did was etch the verse.  I enjoyed that.  I'g not a writer and I struggled with the final line, but I like the sentiment.  I don't view seventy as the end only standing the journey.  There is always a new block to explore.

Photography is my adjacent exploration.  OK, I accept taken photographs for a while, bought a number of photographic camera and lenses, but never really learned to take pictures other than point and shoot.  I am going to spend some fourth dimension with my camera and learn a few things.  I bought a new camera that is style too fancy, and then I have a lot to learn.  I know you lot want to know what I bought…it is a Nikon D810…and I think it is pretty slick.

Only, I digress.  I was telling yous about my birthday greeting that I made for myself.  Elaina is didactics the second week of Holiday Open up Studio.  Her class is about making a blackboard card for the Holidays.  I figured a black card would be perfect for my 70th…drum ringlet delight.  And so I started making my black image.  I created a slap-up brush to practise the calligraphy and I was gear up to outset.  The blackboard idea had lots of texture in information technology, and that made my letters look funny.  And so I abased the blackboard, only kept the image black.

Keeping information technology blackness and slick is a mistake.  Information technology now looks like the text screen at a silent movie.  Oh right, you guys don't remember those.  Well, accept my word for it.

This is a long atomic number 82 to this light-headed image.  I hope y'all similar it.

My altogether greeting to myself:

Birthday Greeting to myself, done in Corel Painter 2015, using one of my custom brushes.

Birthday Greeting to myself, done in Corel Painter 2015, using one of my custom brushes.

Happy Thanksgiving to the Americans…

Enjoy,

Skip

Hello Everyone,

OK…this is your terminal chance.  Registration for Holiday Open up Studio 2014 at the Digital Art Academy is open until Saturday, Nov fifteen.  After that information technology is too late.  The form started this week and I am the first teacher.  During my week, nosotros learn virtually making calligraphy in Painter 2015 or Painter X3.  I provide some special calligraphy brushes for Painter 2015 and Painter X3.  Over the final couple of days, I have made 4 more than variants to add to the set.  The post-obit video is a shameless promotional video for the grade, just you do run into me practicing calligraphy in Painter 2015.

Four more weeks follow my week.  The instructors are Elaina Moore-Kelly, Aaron Rutten, and Karen Bonaker.  For more than data and to annals get to Holiday Open Studio or the Digital Art Academy.  You don't desire to miss out.  Last chance for Holiday fun. 🙂

Enjoy,

Skip

Hey Gang,

Believe it or not, for the first time my Wacom Desktop Centre notified me of a new driver.  This time, instead of downloading the driver from the Wacom site, I permit the Wacom Desktop Eye download and install the new commuter.  A follower mentioned that he used the Wacom Desktop Centre last time and it worked fine.  I oasis't used information technology before because information technology never notified me of a new driver…so, I figured that something was amiss.

Simply, manifestly nothing is amiss.  I just followed the prompts and my Wacom Desktop Center downloaded and installed the new driver.  It worked like a charm.  And, my tablet settings were still in place.  I didn't demand to back up and restore my settings.  I'k very excited about this.  Information technology means I do not have to continue checking for updates.  Yippee!  Not bad job Wacom.

In example your Wacom Desktop Center didn't do the task, go to Wacom Drivers and download the latest drive for your tablet.

Relish,

Skip

Hey Everyone,

It is that time of yr again.  Vacation Open Studio, a tradition at Digital Art Academy, starts twenty-four hour period later on tomorrow, Sat, Nov eight, 2014.  As usual, it will be a fun packed few weeks.  Do join usa and click the link above and register for this session.

A beautiful image created by Corel Master Painter, Karen Bonaker.

A beautiful image created by Corel Chief Painter, Karen Bonaker.

This yr, I commencement the political party with lessons on calligraphy.  OK, I'1000 not a calligrapher or a scribe, only I created some absurd brushes and show you the basics of calligraphy.  I teach a type style called Foundational Hand, which Edward Johnson developed from a 10th century manuscript.  Want to come across a quick video of me starting the alphabet with Foundational Manus.  Well, it is below, only fair warning…it is actually a shameless advert for the form…just you do see me making function of the alphabet.

Elaina Moore-Kelly reserved the second week for an old-fashioned cornball await at Christmas.  She explains how to create a Christmas menu that looks like a chalkboard card.  It is very cool and  this type of image is very trendy in craft circles this twelvemonth.  Elaina provides written and video lessons.

Elaina Moore-Kelly's Chalkboard Christmas

Elaina Moore-Kelly's Chalkboard Christmas

Next up is Aaron Rutten with something fascinating.  Aaron demonstrates how to paint totem art in a traditional Native American mode.  Totemic art is found in cultures all around the world, which allows the student to draw inspiration from a variety of places.  Aaron encourages each student to choose their own totem animate being or symbol, and pigment it abstracted instead of in a realistic style.

Totem Art by Aaron Rutten

Totem Art by Aaron Rutten

Corel Master Painter Karen Bonaker takes the lead for the two terminal weeks.  She developed a wonderful technique to create digital Japanese woodcuts.  I have seen some of her images and they are stunning.  She is very excited about the process and I tin can tell it will exist a lot of fun.

What color is snow?  Karen tells us in her second week.  I can't wait to find out.  I thought snowfall was white.  Didn't yous?  Karen paints snow scenes in a glorious rainbow of colors; after the grade, we can too.

Winter Road - Digital Woodcut by Corel Master Painter Karen Bonaker

Winter Road – Digital Woodcut by Corel Principal Painter Karen Bonaker

OK…that'south the skinny.  Check out Vacation Open Studio at the Digital Art Academy.  Register today and join u.s.a. for this years seasonal fun.

Enjoy,

Skip