What is the advantage of Corel Painter over Photoshop, or is PS just as “capable” a painting program?
There’s no “right” answer here, as you’ll find there are great paintings being created with both programs. Photographers tend to use Painter, and illustrators (especially younger ones right out of art school) tend to use Photoshop. The illustrators are probably just using the program they already know (Photoshop) and never get around to learning Painter, since they’re gotten comfortable with PS. Painter is a “natural media” program, in that it does a good job of mimicking the look and feel of traditional brushes and media. Watercolor brushes run and bleed in Painter, but not in PS. PS’s brushes are bitmaps that get repeated over and over, giving the illusion of a stroke. Painter has a very sophisticated “engine” that allows the stroke to interact with color already on the canvas, mixing colors as though they are still “wet.” PS can’t do that. The greatest advantage Painter has for photographers is the Clone function, which allows you to paint an image using color from a photograph. It
