I've tried Corel Painter on a few occasions, and for me it's just a bit too hard to get used to. Something like 50$, which is a steal, IMO. It's a great program, and really cheap for what it does. It's a good place to start for understanding how Sai uses textures and brush heads, how to import them, how to build them if you want, and how to use them once you've got them. Google Ramon Miranda for his Sai zip set. Hands down, Sai has been the program I've been most impressed with for realistic painting, once I imported some textures, brush heads, and paper textures for the layers. It also has a great blending engine that works with real transparency, unlike in Painter, for instance. And you can get a lot of rich textural qualities right in the process of painting with the brushes, instead of having to overlay textures later, like in PS. That's where it really shines to me- it's really easy to build FAST brushes that zip around at 500 pixels with little to no lag, and don't use much computer power to do it. If you really want to get the most out of it you need to import a lot of textures for the brushes and layer textures. But it also is really really good at textural effects. Sai, comparatively, can do a lot right out of the "box." Yes, it's got the lineart stuff, and its used by a lot of manga artists. In the end, it can produce very realistic looking effects, but the feeling and process of creating art was not really any fun. It also has, IMO, a sh*t engine for blending, much like the videos I've seen of PS blending too. The new UI in Painter 12 is a dramatic improvement, but I found it buggy and slow, and it crashed way more than 11 did. The interface got in the way of everything. I never felt like I got down to really painting, but instead spent all my time fiddling. There are just too many dials, sliders, etc. The short of it? My recommendation is Sai.Īfter many months of classes and trying to learn Corel, I dumped it. I've not used PS, so take my opinions with a grain of salt, but I have a reasonable amount of experience in Corel Painter, Sai, and Artrage. But, IMO, for 90% of users who are painting and sketching digitally Sai is the best answer because of- price, speed, resource needs, customized textural abilities. I think a certain amount depends on what your planned usage pattern is. It also lots and lots and lots of filters you can run, etc and Sai is very bare bones in the department. I will say that PS has a very big community, and that helps a lot with classes or forums or tutorials or videos, etc. And I don't find the lack of CMYK an issue because I paint in a more realistic color palette of muted hues anyways. I don't find #2 an issue because 500 is big enough for anything I could possibly want to paint. But Sai will let you do a 32" x 24" poster though at 300 dpi if you've got 8 gb of ram. I also don't find #3 an issue unless you're really working on something huge at a print-style dpi- like, for example, you can't do a 36" x 24" poster at 300 dpi (10800 x 7200). I don't find #4 an issue because Sai is so quick with its brushes, even at 500, that there's just really no lag. Sai does have its limitations though, and those things probably relate most to those who do oversized professional work- 1) it doesn't work in CMYK, so if that's an issue, you'll have to convert it from RGB after having finished your painting, 2) it limits your brush sizes to 500 max (and I think PS lets you go bigger?), 3) it has a 10,000 x 10,000 canvas max, 4) its not multicore optimized. PS is the most powerful all around tool that allows you the opportunity to do just about _anything_, but Sai is reportedly better at emulating the experience of actually painting/sketching/drawing. The description from parkdaleArt is probably most accurate, and how I've had it described by others. If you buy the liscence, you get an email with a code, and you then have to go through a process of (in a gist) opening sai's folders, pasting the liscence in to a certain spot and rebooting sai. None of that "you signed up so we're giving you this now whether you want it or not" kind of stuff. First, for Sai, the trial period just ends, so that's that.
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