![]() ![]() Most recently, Corel released an update Painter Essentials. In the summer of 2019, Corel released its latest update of Painter, with AI features and added support for modern computers with GPUs and multiple cores. It released the ParticleShop utility which enables Painter’s powerful brushes to be used within Corel’s other imaging tools such as Paintshop Pro, and also Adobe’s tools Lightroom and Photoshop. In 2017, Corel decided to capitalize on the popularity of Painter’s capabilities and effects. Corel’s CAD products have Mac versions as well. As a primarily Windows-centric tool, Painter gave Corel an important product on the Mac and it inspired the company to port its flagship CorelDraw to the Mac. More importantly, over the years, Corel has made Painter much more accessible.Ĭorel acquired Painter in 2001 and has continued to develop the product. Painter is a survivor, which is a tribute to its appeal for creative users. On the flipside, MetaCreations also left a legacy of opaque interfaces, and mystifying workflows. The implosion of MetaCreations as a company at the turn of the century is a big bang event that scattered innovative modeling and imaging technology throughout the tech universe like seedlings. They were early pioneers in computer graphics software for artists and the work they did lives on at Daz3D, Poser, and most vibrantly at Corel in Painter. The Painter family of products has its origins in MetaCreations, a digital arts development powerhouse in Santa Barbara. And once again, David…thank you so much for your generosity.Latest version of Painter includes benchmark tool giving users insight into how brushes work. I think I have some videos somewhere, probably You Tube, about making Ebru like images in Painter. Other groups of people used the same techniques. Google it and learn more, there’s even a few videos about it on You Tube. In case you didn’t know, Suminagashi is an ancient Japanese paper marbling technique. I altered the velocity of the stroke to showcase the different look at different speeds. ![]() In this example, I used Life Form for the top stroke and Life Form Mono for the bottom stoke. Use a slower stroke speed to produce a more closed, tubular form, and faster strokes to give a more open “backbone” effect. The Color Variability Panel randomizes the colors/values within the strokes. The strokes produced by the Life Form and Life Form Mono variants appear alien, hence the name. Suminagashi and Suminagashi Grad Variants I thought I would give you a few tips copied from David’s JitterBrush site about those variants. Many folks have requested Suminagashi 2 category included in the library. Some of David’s brushes are pretty complex and need a bit of explanation. You will need to switch back and forth between libraries. Please note, the installed file is a separate library. To install these brushes, first download the above file and save it to your computer, then open Painter, go to the Menu Bar and select Brushes > Import > Brush Library and select the downloaded file. With many thanks to David here is David Gell Brush Library. But, I have always loved David’s variants, old or new, so I have kept them over the years. ![]() This library contains 28 brush categories and some of them are quite old and haven’t been available for some time. I created a David Gell Brush library so that I could have all of his variants in one place. I have followed David’s Painter tutorials since I started using Painter and most of what I know about brushes comes from his generous sharing. Well…since today is my birthday, I thought I would pass David’s gift to my blog readers. He did give me permission to post all of them for you. Many of David’s brushes were on his site, JitterBrush, but he took the site down and his variants were not available on-line. And at least a year ago I promised to post brushes created by David Gell, who I consider to be the best brush master ever. I know…I have been a very bad person and neglected my blog…sigh. ![]()
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