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Corel Painter

Score9.9 out of 10

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What is Corel Painter?

Painter is a digital art and painting application, from Corel Corporation.

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A horrible amount of functional and UX bugs

Iris ShieldsView profile
Senior UX/ UI Architect in Engineering at Self Employed (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Emulate real art material like paints, drawing materials, etc.
  • Has a lot of different brushes and other art materials
  • It has a set up that can initially test your system to analyze and enhance performance

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

Return on Investment

  • Waste of money
  • Waste of time trying to work around all the bugs
  • Waste of time trying to talk to customer service

Alternatives Considered

Adobe PhotoShop

Usability

Other Software Used

Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator CC

The Best painting app with multi device/OS support

Incentivized
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C-Level Executive in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Corel Painter to design multiple structure designs and architecture diagrams for multiple different clients. The major benefit that this application gives is the uniqueness in the finishing and final product or design.

Pros

  • Watercolor Compatible
  • Multiple variety of Brushes and shapes
  • Captured Dab Library

Cons

  • This product has multiple bugs in terms of overlaying.
  • Customer support could be improved.
  • Frequent updates to shapes, design, and colors could be done.

Most Important Features

  • Brush setting
  • color options
  • integration with multiple layers

Return on Investment

  • Customer support could be improved in my opinion.
  • Multiple bugs while working with layered designing.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe InDesign, Design Pickle and Oki Data ColorPainter

Other Software Used

Adobe InDesign, Altium Designer, Oki Data ColorPainter