Corel Painter 2017 is out

New features in Corel’s natural media painting software include:

• Texture Painting – create or import a texture source inspired by earthly and industrial materials, skin types or even art styles and then seamlessly blend the source directly into your painting. Offers full control over color, luminance, location and distortion of the texture.
• Artist Layouts – Painter streamlines and organizes its UI layout to bring you the essential tools and controls needed for your particular workflow.
• Dab Stencils – intelligently mask your brush dab before applying paint to the canvas. Work with enhanced control and creativity for everything from basic blending brushes to watercolors and even impasto. Choose from a variety of stenciling media to achieve a subtle and controlled application of artistic elements in your final work.
• Glazing Brushes – control the evolution of your painting using velvety, translucent paint transitions inspired by the work of Renaissance masters. Smoothing within the dab opacity will eliminate any harsh transitions and evenly blend colors for a luminescent finish.
• Interactive Gradient Tool – drag and drop a gradient and edit the color and opacity in the context of your painting using the enhanced node control. Modify the transparency, merge modes and smoothing to further fine-tune and get the exact look you want.
• Gradient Express Paint – allows to apply a wide variety of painting styles automatically to any gradient.
• Palette Drawers – now you can organize palettes and reduce clutter by freeing up precious painting real estate. Combine panels, brush variants and custom palettes in a convenient grouping that can be opened and closed on command.
• Workflow and interface enhancements.

Painter 2017 is available for $429. Registered owners of any previous version can upgrade for $229. A 30-day free trial is available. More on Corel’s website.