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Question for those of you who use Corel Paint

I have a windows 10 surface, and so when i use art programs I usually just use my finger. I lost my stylus a while back and am getting a new one soon, but until then I was wondering: is there a way to draw with just your finger?

Corel responds to my touch (I can zoom in and out and move the canvas around) but I can’t seem to actually make art using my finger.

Is there a way to rectify this?

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Xavien

September 2017

Portrait - Corel Paint - ART 260 Computer Graphics

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Wow. This is what I did this afternoon, after working and working in Corel PaintShop and searching for free images to use in a collage. I started by downloading a vintage wallpaper pattern of some chains, ran it through Dreamscope with a picture of ductwork for a space age effect, then used the texture option in Corel to make this “painting”. It’s the first piece I’m really happy with.

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Corel Paint (re: Flight Rising accent work specifically)

Okay, so.... when I decided to spend a lot of money on an art program, they just so happened to be a sale on Corel Paint 2016. Because, for me, the sale cost was even really high, I was eager to go for it. Now I did go online to see reviews, but what mostly seemed to be the case was that it was such an unpopular program that there was just very little to find out about it, good or bad. I watched a few excellent video guides by Arron Rutten and decided the program should be more than enough for what I needed. The lack of popularity just wasn’t a deterrent for me- I wanted very structure examples to know exactly why something’s bad. Popularity doesn’t necessarily indicate if a program’s good, right?

heh, yeah, NO

Here’s the deal. I bought it, now I’m going to spell out the problems:

It doesn’t support clip-able layers. This means things have to be done manually (select layer, inverse selection, and then ctrl + X the shade layer, for example.)

That’s fine, right? No one really minds a little extra work, right?

heh, yeah, again? NO: doing this creates the oddest pixelation effect. There is a tiny white-ish blurr all along the edges of the newly clipped layer. Good luck trimming that crap off of a 350 sized layer (I say that, because it becomes twice as evident that it’s there after resizing!)

Speaking of blur, you HAVE to ensure to check the box “Enhanced Blending” for every single brush- especially the blenders!- or blending will create that white smudgy stuff too, except even worse.

Resizing, for some reason, re-positions the layers. They stay positioned together, but they will no longer plop down in proper place when they get opened elsewhere. For example when FR staff gets you accent submission? Yeah, that bad boy won’t be lined up, and unless they nudge it in place for you, you can expect to get it denied.

Composition effects on the layers do not remain in effect when converting to .png. This may happen in other programs. The trouble with Corel though? It isn’t consistent! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and sometimes the work around does and doesn’t work (creating a duplicate and merging it instead, one layer at a time). I spent just under an hour testing different things to see if there was rhyme or reason- it’s just... finicky! Do you wanna spend that long too?

Crashes. A lot. Oh my gosh, so much. I was saving so frequently I thought I was playing an rpg.

Lastly, the support is poor. The tech specialists once asked for information but couldn’t give me directions on how to get it. I actually had to give up and find the solution by myself!. The service staff is also difficult to work with. I explained this last time when I contacted them that I had tried one of the recommendations they suggested at which point they simply replied, “OK. Thank you for contacting Corel Customer Service and have a great day.”

This last one matters a lot to me, because by “find the solution myself” I mean that I had to spend significant time writing forum posts, dealing with fellow users who may or may not understand the problem I’m having, and asking friends a lot of question. I’ve not only used a lot of my own time dealing with these issues, but I’ve ended up using up friends’ time as well.

So, NOW hopefully I made this mistake for everyone else, and no one else will have to deal with these issues.

The positive I have to say is it has a lovely interface, and is enjoyable to use for portrait/illustration means, however, it saves png with slight blurriness and with a loss of the colors. Side by side, the rif/psd image is much brighter and clearer than the png. Which is a shame because if I post art here, it’ll be the png of course! I’ve actually opened completed corel illustrations in my generic photo editor to fix the brightness and sharpness because corel wasn’t doing it well enough :/

Good luck! I’ve decided since to use FireAlpaca for accents and skins- giving it a try now. So far no complaints!

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