Overall Satisfaction with Corel Painter
I am using Corel Painter for design, and art (painting, drawing) purposes.
- 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
- 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
- Waste of money
- Waste of time trying to work around all the bugs
- Waste of time trying to talk to customer service
Like I already mentioned Photoshop is so much more pleasant to work with. Though out of the box Photoshop definitely has a lot fewer brushes; you can definitely download bushes often for free, or otherwise a small fee (you have to pay to add more brushes with Painter as well). Painter has so many horrible bugs, functional as well as usability bugs, it's just very, very sloppy definitely compared to Photoshop which is virtually bug-free nowadays. All due respect to programmers, I have been a coder myself, but it is obvious that Painter is built by coders and coders alone, it is obvious there have not been many designers (UX or otherwise) involved in the development of Painter.
I got Painter on a discount (luckily or I would have been really ticked off) and I wanted to try it out. I would NEVER pay $500 for it now I know it is riddled with bugs.
I got Painter on a discount (luckily or I would have been really ticked off) and I wanted to try it out. I would NEVER pay $500 for it now I know it is riddled with bugs.
Do you think Corel Painter delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with Corel Painter's feature set?
No
Did Corel Painter live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Corel Painter go as expected?
No
Would you buy Corel Painter again?
No
Using Corel Painter
Pros | Cons |
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None | Do not like to use Unnecessarily complex Difficult to use Not well integrated Inconsistent Slow to learn Cumbersome Feel nervous using |
- They have made it look a bit like Photoshop, that helps if you're used to that
- A lot of choices in brushes and drawing tools
- Way too many functional bugs in general (too much to name one by one)
- Way too many UX issues overall
- Way too many inconsistencies (too much to name)
- When you use two or more screens, the problems quadruple