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Corel® Painter™ 8 inspires creative artists
New version of popular digital sketching and painting application due this spring
London, April 11, 2003, Corel Corporation, (NASDAQ: CORL, TSX: COR) today announced the upcoming availability of Corel® Painter 8 ™. In collaboration with some of the industry’s most talented artists, Corel has developed a powerful new version of Corel Painter that can digitally replicate natural media like other product.
Across the world thousands of creative professionals use Corel Painter to give expression to their ideas. These ideas take shape in films like Men in Black II and Spiderman. From story boarding and pre-visualisation, to package design, advertising and photography, Corel Painter 8 amplifies artistic expression as ideas are transformed into art and industry.
“Corel Painter 8 replicates the subtleties of an artists’ hand with stunning accuracy,” said Brett Denly, vice-president of global marketing at Corel Corporation. “This realism makes Corel Painter 8 an essential tool for digital artists and technical illustrators as well as story-boarding and production artists. These professionals require dependable tools that accelerate the creative process and deliver flawless results.”
To ensure Painter 8 replicates the experience and output of traditional media tools, Corel worked closely with professional artists during the development of the product. Corel Painter 8 gives artists freedom, power and flexibility, offering compatible tools that allow them to remain competitive in their industries.
Unleash your creative power with Painter 8
· Mix your own colours – The new Mixer lets you mix colours interactively as you would using paint and a palette
· Experiment with over 400 new brushes – Includes new brushes for more than 30 different mediums
· Design your own brushes interactively – The new Brush Creator is created specifically to let you design your own custom brushes in a visual, interactive environment
· Create sketches from photographs – The new Sketch Effect lets you convert photographs to pencil drawings easily while giving you control over the amount of paper grain, heaviness of the pencil line, and level of detail
· Paint with digital water colour – The new Digital Water Colour is ideal for hand painting line drawings, touching up photographs and creating simple water colour washes
Painter 8 lets you increase your productivity
· Redesigned Interface – The new streamlined interface provides easier access to tools and makes it easier to choose brushes
· Keep track of brushes – The new Tracker palette keeps track of your most recently used brushes so you can navigate between brushes quickly
Corel Painter 8 lets you stay compatible
· Open and save Adobe® Photoshop® files – Enhanced support for opening and saving Adobe Photoshop files, including layer sets, layer masks, and channels
· Hide and reveal areas of a layer – The redesigned Layer Masks let you hide and reveal areas of a layer without making permanent changes
· Create and store masks – Use alpha channels to create and store masks to modify, separate, and preserve specific areas of an image
· Upgrade easily – Painter Classic and Adobe Photoshop users can now purchase the upgrade package of Corel Painter 8 at the upgrade price
Pricing and Availability
Scheduled for availability in early May, Corel Painter 8 will be offered in upgrade and full versions on both the Macintosh® and Windows® platforms. Corel Painter 8 full version has a suggested retail price (SRP) of £399 / £259 (exc VAT). In keeping with Corel's commitment to rewarding customer loyalty, existing users of Corel Painter* will be eligible to purchase Corel Painter 8 at the upgrade SRP of £229 / £199.
More information about Corel Painter 8 can be found at www.corel.com/painter8 .
