Likelihood to Recommend Corel Painter does have a lot of great brushes, and they do emulate real art supplies very well. Especially the thick paint is well done. But unfortunately there are so many functional and UX bugs that overall it is just horrible to work with. When contacting customer support about it, they really seem clueless about the seriousness of the situation, and clueless about what proper UX is in general. They have tried to make it work a bit like Photoshop, which is a good move but then some things are absolutely not intuitive at all and they are definitely missing the mark horribly with so many issues. I would highly recommend using Photoshop instead, though you'll have to download them separately; it also offers a lot of great brushes nowadays and works much much smoother without all those aggravating bugs of Painter. The price of Corel Painter is just not at all worth all these horrible bugs.
Read full review PosterMyWall makes my job as a marketing director easier. It is great for creating social media graphics on the fly, for last-minute invitation requests, posters, flyers, and social media short videos. The background remover is amazing and super easy to use. It takes less than 30 seconds to remove a photo background vs other software that can take half an hour.
Read full review Pros Watercolor Compatible Multiple variety of Brushes and shapes Captured Dab Library Read full review It allows me to modify just about everything on a template. It provides thousands of designs choices. It gives me the option to save and continue at a later time. It stores all my designs for future reference. Read full review Cons Way too many functional bugs, makes it hard to work with Bad UX and usability, too much unintuitive behavior, makes it particularly hard to work with Overall looks and behaves as if it was coded in the '90s, it really needs a complete UX overhaul Did I mention the many bugs yet? Yeah? I'll mention it again because it's bad Read full review Would like to see a broader font library The ability to group content boxes more easily An emoji library would be helpful Read full review Likelihood to Renew It’s a brilliant program.
Read full review Usability If it wasn't quite clear yet, I'll state it again: the usability of Corel Painter is, simply put, horrid. And I am not talking about rendering, lagging, etc., it is not even all that bad there. I am talking about the weird issues like being unable to move a brush into a custom brush palette when you work on a second screen, like being unable to move the software onto the second screen in the first place unless you separate all the palettes and the windows (and if nobody tells you upfront there is no way of knowing because the manual doesn't state this at all), and then having to drag all your separate windows and palettes over one by one every time your computer wakes up again, and they won't really want to move to the other screen but only through a tiny corner of your screen, and the fact that you have to scroll through lists and lists of fonts but can't search and when you apply this font, add another piece of text the font jumps back to the default font of all the text already applied even when you haven't selected any of the text. Just to name a very small few.
Read full review Support Rating It was really hard to get them to understand what I was having problems with. It was hard to get the message through that Painter has an unacceptable amount of functional and UX bugs. When I finally talked to someone who was easier to communicate with, he was very stoic about the situation, like they didn't really care about the awful amount of bugs.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Corel Painter has support to multiple OS and across all the devices. Coloring and multi layer imaging works very well. The new enhanced brush settings and the redesigned brush libraries.
Read full review The system makes it easy to sample without having to pay any subscription fees, I've used the system for quite some time before I could pay for the services (I love the fact that it doesn't limit you for as long as you go by) also the interface makes it so easy to use
Read full review Return on Investment Customer support could be improved in my opinion. Multiple bugs while working with layered designing. Read full review Through the creation of flyers, it allows customers to be more informed. Flyers are usually straight to the point which and grabs customers attention. Read full review ScreenShots