Corel® Painter™ X offers artists and photographers professional art & design tools that are unmatched by any other software. Delivering the next-generation art studio, Corel Painter X blurs the line between traditional and digital art like never before. Setting the standard, Corel Painter X introduces unparalleled performance, new color and composition tools, and the revolutionary RealBristle™ Painting System that provides an organic painting & illustration experience—right down to the individual bristles on the brush.

• New RealBristle™ Painting System: Representing a major milestone for digital painting, RealBristle brushes emulate their traditional counterparts right down to the individual bristles on the brushes.While artists have always marveled at how closely Corel Painter simulates the look of traditional art media, Corel Painter X takes realism to a whole new level.
• Performance: Corel Painter X has been significantly optimized to provide artists with the fastest version of Painter—ever!
• New Composition Tools: Help artists and photographers visually arrange a blank canvas prior to sketching or painting, or create an aesthetically pleasing composition from a photo using the Divine Proportion tool and the Rule of Thirds.Widely used throughout history by artists, designers, and architects, the Divine Proportion helps you compose your paintings like the masters! Similarly, professional photographers often use the Rule of Thirds to compose their photographs. Now you can use either of these compositional systems to create impactful paintings and drawings.
• New Workspace Manager: Corel Painter X allows you to customize your workspace as well as export and share it with your friends and colleagues.
• Enhanced Photo-Painting System: Now it’s even easier than ever for photographers to create stunning paintings from photos with Corel Painter X! Major improvements provide more control over the underpainting step, as well as add more intelligence during Auto-painting using new Smart Stroke™.Watch your painting automatically come to life!
  a. The Underpainting palette includes color schemes based on various artistic styles, such as Impressionist, Classical, Modern,Watercolor, Sketchbook, and Chalk Drawing.You can also match your underpainting’s palette to that of any open image.
  b. The Auto-Painting Palette transforms a photograph into a painting by automatically applying brushstrokes while intelligently changing stroke size and direction using new Smart Stroke technology.
• Downloadable Training Videos: Getting up and running quickly with the new training videos by Painter Master Jeremy Sutton!
• Universal Mixer Palette: Now you can work with multi-color blends directly out of the Mixer palette when using Artists’ Oils brushes, RealBristle brushes or any other bristle-type brush!
• Enhanced Adobe® Photoshop® support: With easier layer grouping and combining, and improved support for layer merge modes, artists can more effectively work between Corel Painter X and Adobe Photoshop.
• Windows Vista™: Now Corel Painter X is compatible with Microsoft’s latest operating system—Windows Vista.