Painter and Photoshop

[dividingcanaan]

I am thinking of purchasing Corel Painter eventually. Would like see why so many people say it's easier to "paint" with and why it's easier to blend colours compared to Photoshop. Will still use Photoshop too, however

Comments

[lx]

People are attached to features on different versions I've found, particularly with older brushsets they preferred, but I love the recent versions -- I'm using X, and will probably upgrade to XI eventually.

It's definitely far superior for blending and textural stuff in my experience to Photoshop.

[dividingcanaan]

Cool. Thanks!

Ever try Illustrator?

[lx]

I have but it's much more of an exacting design tool -- it's not really something I have a lot of use for. I have used it for some t-shirt and poster design work here and there but I still even then like to draw stuff by hand elsewhere and then bring it in and do live trace on it to vectorize it. :)

Addendum

[lx]

Also I find the Illustrator interface really frustrating -- it's got years of cruft and backwards-compatibility stuff in it. It feels really counter-intuitive to me, not having the years of experience most AI users probably have and rely upon.

It's more for when you want to make really precise lines and integrated typography, 100% vectorized -- meaning you can scale the art arbitrarily large or small without loss of detail. It's all placing points and lines and bezier curves, and geometrical shapes.

It's a neat tool but not really for "drawing" as much as very deliberate designing. That "live trace" feature I mentioned is neat though because for cleanly separated artwork it can produce scalable vectors from hand drawn work.