I’ve used Corel Painter less and less in favour of Photoshop and other programs.
I’ve used Corel Painter less and less in favour of Photoshop and other programs. There seems to be a paid update every year which is far too expensive for me to maintain and I don’t need more features than it already has. If anything I would like fewer features, more stability and no internal advert nags. Other than that it’s a great program and still has gorgeous and customisable brushes. I find the layer system very frustrating but it is fine if you generally paint on the canvas layer. The version I use is the 2016 release. Layers may have been improved in future editions. What I do to overcome the layer problem is paint in Corel Painter on the Canvas layer only. I then go into Photoshop or Krita with the image if I need to do further work on other layers and editing. This version has a bug that doesn’t let you disable the advert nags. It was fixed in the version after this but they released that as a paid version so I felt pretty resentful at the time.