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This is where users can find the best tips, artistic techniques and creative ideas: with the Painter Essentials Café (www.essentialscafe.com), Corel is introducing a new online community for all users of its Corel Painter Essentials painting and illustration program. Through the new international web platform, Corel aims to give parents, teachers, arts-and-crafts enthusiasts and keen photographers an opportunity to exchange ideas and benefit from a wealth of additional information and workshops. In the “Painter Café,” they can also present their work and inspire other artists with their ideas. Corel Painter Essentials provides all the tools graphics beginners need to draw and paint on screen.
Corel Painter Essentials lets interested users familiarize themselves with digital art immediately and quickly transform photos into impressive paintings. The program features a wide selection of brushes, pens, paper textures and tutorials. Corel Painter Essentials 4 is based on Corel Painter, the well-known painting and illustration program. A free trial version and further information are available at http://www.corel.de/painteressentials.
“After introducing the Painter Factory for painting artists at the beginning of March, we are now delighted to offer our Painter Essentials customers a similar forum,” explains Christoph Cyrol, product manager at Corel. “Every time they turn photos into paintings or start a completely new project, this strong worldwide community helps them. Everyone here enthusiastically shares ideas and offers advice.”
Karen Bonaker, Corel Painter instructor, adds: “With this service, the Painter Essentials team at Corel once again demonstrates how deeply it cares about the needs of artists who are just taking their first steps in the world of digital art. The Painter Essentials Café provides a welcoming platform for exchanging ideas and experimenting with this new and exciting medium.”
