Press Release
Wacom® Pen Input Enriches Corel® Painter™ 11 Experience
Newest edition of the world's leading painting and illustration software application blends naturally with Wacom's pen input devices to deliver intuitive workflow and inspiring results
Vancouver, WA – Feb. 26, 2009 – Wacom today announced its support for Corel Painter 11, officially launched this last Tueday, providing significant workflow advantages and numerous ways for users working with a Wacom pen tablet or interactive pen display to naturally explore and express their creative ideas as well as enhance productivity. Wacom’s natural, pressure-sensitive pen input solutions are ideally suited for the Painter 11 user. Whether creating a new painting on a digital canvas with some of Painter’s unique new aritistic media or highlighting a digital photo with inventive pen-supported tools, a Wacom pen input device offers the control and interactivity that Painter 11 users seek."For years, Corel and Wacom have worked closely together to provide artists, photographers and other creatives with a worflow that faithfully responds to the artistic impulses and gestures that make every creation unique," said Rob MacDonald, Product Manager for Corel Painter. "Painter 11 users will continue to enjoy the benefits of our partnership as they combine the powerful capabilities of Wacom’s pen input devices with the world’s most advanced natural media painting and illustration software."
In addition to its artistic prowess, the Wacom pen offers ergonomic and control benefits to the Corel Painter 11 user. Since the pen is positioned in the hand in a natural manner and provides exceptional freedom of movement, those working with Painter and other creative applications find it offers superior responsiveness and physical comfort compared to alternative input devices. For example, when combined with a Wacom pen tablet, Painter 11’s new RealBristle™ painting system has the uncanny ability to replicate the sensation and interaction between traditional paint and canvas.
"The RealBristle media set within Painter 11 represents a major breakthrough in pen tablet and creative software communication,“ said Don Varga, Product Manager for Wacom’s professional line of pen input devices. "By incorporating tilt and pressure sensitivity into such media as chalk, markers, pens and pencils, users can now reproduce the look and feel of their real-life counterparts.“
Two Hands are Better than One
Wacom’s Intuos® pen tablets and Cintiq® interactive pen displays feature customizable ExpressKeys™ and Touch Strips for quick access to keyboard shortcuts and modifiers. These non-dominant hand features greatly enhance productivity by fully utilizing the users hand that is not controlling the pen. Since the customized settings can be application specific, Corel Painter 11 users can create and save unique personalized settings for each individual application. For example, the undo command, resizing a brush or zooming in and out of a piece of art can easily be attributed to an ExpressKey or Touch Strip, allowing Painter users to break away from keyboard dependency and seriously focus on the work at hand.
The English version of Corel Painter 11 is available today as an electronic download at the www.corel,com Web address.
About Wacom
Founded in 1983, Wacom’s vision to bring people and technology closer together through natural interface technologies has made it the world’s leading manufacturer of pen tablets, interactive pen displays and digital interface solutions. The advanced technology of Wacom’s intuitive input devices has been used to create some of the most exciting digital art, films, special effects, fashions and designs around the worldand provides business and home users with the ability to express themselves in a natural way. Today, millions of customers use Wacom’s cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology to express their creativity.