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Feb 17 - Feb 24, 2002 |
Procreate Painter 7
By Alessandro Cancian
Originally Published: 2001-11-18
Creativity is in our DNA, and each of us expresses it in a different way. For most of us, the early experiments involved nothing more than a sheet of paper and a box of crayons. Paper and felt pens were essential in the past, but nowadays painting can also be cultivated using a computer.
Procreate's Painter 7 is a cross-platform "Natural-Media" painting application, allowing people to simulate tools such as felt pens, charcoals, coloured pencils, watercolours, oil paints, pastels, and much more.
Behind the Procreate brand there is one of the best known and well-reputed companies in the field of graphics, i.e. Corel, also famous for products such as Corel Draw and WordPerfect.
Painter 7 includes many technological innovations that noticeably improve the quality of the simulation, offering the same look and feel that would normally be given by an artist's real canvas and tools.
Liquid Ink is a new tool that mimics the viscosity and surface tension of thick, gluey medium ink. Liquid Inks work on layers of their own, which can be created automatically or manually, according to need. Applying Liquid Ink strokes to images in close proximity to one another will generate the same spread effects the real ink does. There are several different ways to apply Liquid Inks, simulating a variety of artistic media using Liquid Ink technology, including ink- and wax-resistant painting, scratch board, glass scraping, enamel, encaustic painting, intaglio, woodcut, linoleum, deckle-edges and erosion. You can apply a negative, resistive variation of Liquid Ink to carve away or remove Liquid Ink from an image.
Among other innovations, the Watercolour technology also underwent major improvements. Even though this technology had been present in previous editions, Corel now implemented it to a further degree, achieving spectacular results. The Watercolour technology emulates almost perfectly the diffusion effects that a pigment-laden brush creates when it touches wet areas on watercolour paper. Of course, like in the real world, one can juggle with many variables, such as the wetness and the evaporation rate of the paper.
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