Hi, my name is Thomas Boldt, and I’ve been working in the digital arts for well over a decade.
While it’s probably the hardest of the three winners to learn, the payoff is an incredible digital painting tool that works flawlessly with drawing tablets. While I’m pleasantly surprised to be including two Corel apps as winners in this post, Painter’s success shouldn’t surprise anyone thanks to its incredible reproduction of brushstrokes and paint media. Those of you looking to take your painting skills into the digital world, look no further than Corel Painter. Easily one of the most impressive tools to be added to any graphics app in the last several years, LiveSketch lets you dynamically generate vector shapes as naturally as you would sketch with paper and pencil. Almost as old as Photoshop, it boasts some of the best vector drawing tools in any of the programs I reviewed, and the latest version has a secret weapon for illustrators: LiveSketch.
If you’re more interested in drawing, sketching, and illustration, the best program for you will be CorelDRAW. If you can name it, there’s probably a Photoshop tutorial in that format.
The basics are easy to learn but hard to master, so thankfully there is a huge support community filled with active and helpful users, tutorials, books, workshops, and videos. It is unquestionably the gold standard when it comes to photorealistic image editing, but it offers even more beyond that. The best overall digital art program by far is Adobe Photoshop, thanks to its unbelievably rich feature set and powerful yet intuitive tools.
There are many more categories of digital art such as 3D modeling, texturing and video editing, but those are distinct enough that they deserve their own separate posts. As a result, I’m going to break down the programs in this review into three main categories: an overall ‘one-stop’ program, a drawing/illustration program, and a painting program. Whether you love to paint, to draw or to work with photos, there’s a perfect program for you. One of the best things about digital art is that there are so many ways to create it. But those days are long gone – although sometimes working late into the evening, we all still get frustrated with our favorite program. The hardware simply wasn’t up to the tasks we could imagine, and many artists felt that it wasn’t worth the trouble. If you experimented with digital art in the early days of home computing, you probably had something of a frustrating experience.
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