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Corel Painter 12 for Photographers - part 2 of 1 2 3 4 5

by Mike McNamee Published

The colour management defaults may be set up to mirror those of your Photoshop application.

A graphics tablet is essential to using Painter, a mouse cannot provide anywhere near the feel of brush stroke-making.

The colour management does not perform a clean translation from one RGB colour space to another. On the right is Photoshop as it should be.

For Painter 12 the interface has been redesigned with the aim of improving interaction and to make it more intuitive. Although we do not care at all for the rather childish simplification of the tool icons, some of the interface modifications such as presenting a palette of 'recently used' brushes are actually very useful. The interface will be vaguely familiar to Photoshop users and some the terminology and short cuts are identical.

The integration with Photoshop is vital for users of the program and most people will own both. Most take a finished image into Photoshop for final tweaks prior to printing and we certainly uncovered some flaws in the allegedly improved colour management engine. We also note that integration no longer extends to CMYK images and that 16-bit and Lab images are also incompatible. There is no RAW file capability. The Twain Acquire interface has also gone although it has disappeared from Photoshop as well (certainly on our machine) - it might be a 64-bit thing.

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