Corel Painter Essentials 4 (Win/Mac)

As a long time Photoshop user I was, admittedly, skeptical about the capabilities of Painter4. I was pleasantly surprised. It certainly is a mid-end product, but has all of the basics you world expect. For the price it really does the job. My kids (13, 15) took to it very well enjoying a very (matter our hours) swift learning curve. For quick picture touch-up's I actually now prefer this over Photoshop (I never thought I'd every say that about another product!).

I found this Painter Essentials to be a great introduction to painting. A must for those interested in learning the basics of painting using the computer.

I haven't had much luck using this. Nothing comes out the way I want it to. I'm not crazy about it and you don't have a lot of personal control with it.

This product is easy to use but it takes about a minute or so for it to do its thing in the auto painting. I recommend playing the video tutorials first as they were very helpful.

I really loved this product. I'm an Adobe Photoshop man myself but found Corel's Painter Essentials to be excellent when doing a few simple things to pictures. It's very easy to use. Highly recommended!