Editors Note: There are three photos and one video associated with this release. Corel today released Painter Essentials 5, the all-new version of its starter digital art software for Windows and Mac.

Awakening from seven years of slumber, a new version of Painter Essentials has finally hit the streets. Targeted toward hobbyists, art enthusiasts and emerging photo painters, Painter Essentials 5 was ...

Corel’s Painter mimics real paint mediums on a digital interface from the strokes to the way the “brush” even runs out of paint — and the new Painter Essentials is bringing more of those features to a ...

This "lite" version of Corel's digital painting app has vastly improved tools for transforming digital photos into paintings or for producing realistic paintings on a computer. For users of previous ...

The ungainly mix of Roman and Arabic numerals notwithstanding, I love Painter IX.5. Corel's professional-level digital painting application remains the ultimate program for simulating real-world media ...

Photo-to-paint apps like Prisma create digital paintings in a few clicks, but starting with a blank canvas in a digital art program offers more room for custom refinements. Now, Corel Painter ...

Corel today unveiled Corel Painter Essentials 3, the complete home art studio built on the award-winning power of Corel Painter IX. The latest addition to Corels digital imaging portfolio, Corel ...

Nowadays, it seems that nearly every new release of a graphics application boasts a "redesigned" interface. However welcome the redesign may be, it usually amounts to nothing more profound than, say, ...

For whatever reason, everyone seems to be coming out with news about their image editing software. On Tuesday we had the Pixelmator 1.0 release, and also got word that Photoshop Elements 6 isn't ...