Painter Essentials 4 Student Guide Kit w/ VisTablet Mini 5x7 Tablet

Painter Essentials 4 Student Guide Kit
This release of Corel Painter Essentials 4 offers a completely redesigned workspace that improves color selection and helps you discover different brushes, media and paper. With the new video tutorials and companion user guide, getting started has never been easier.

Features

Photo Painting
NEW! Redesigned Photo Painting workspace: provides a tailored environment that includes all the tools you need to paint your photos
NEW! Smart Stroke™ Technology: preset styles paint with intelligent brushstrokes that follow the forms of the original photo when autopainting
NEW! Updated File format: Corel Painter Essentials 4 now saves the source image with your painting, making it easier to return to a project for further editing

Drawing and Painting
NEW! Brush Drawer: selecting a brush easier is than ever before with brush stroke examples for each brush
NEW! Mixer palette: helps you get the exact color you want
NEW! Colors palette: lets you pick a color with a single click
NEW! Tablet Support: the redesigned workspaces feature larger icons, buttons and sliders that are easier to navigate with a tablet
NEW! Magic Wand tool: makes it easier for you to select specific portions of a photo or painting
NEW! Paper Selector: gives you quick access to paper textures and displays the current color
NEW! 32 Undo Levels: go back to earlier versions of your work
NEW! Online Print Services: order prints of your artwork on canvas, watercolor paper and other fine art materials directly from the File Menu

More Natural Media®
NEW RealBristle™ brushes: authentically reproduce the natural movement of the artist's brush right down to the individual bristle
NEW Pens: such as the Scratchboard Tool and Smooth Edge Calligraphy, are perfect for inking comic books or doing calligraphy
NEW Charcoal brushes: range from pencils to hard or soft charcoal sticks
NEW Sumi-e brushes: let you create flowing sumi-e-style brushstrokes
NEW Sargent brush: lets you paint in the style of master artist John Singer Sargent
Enhanced Brush Ghost: gives you better control through unprecedented visual feedback of brushstroke behavior
NEW Nozzles: for use with the Image Hose, and patterns for use with Pattern Pens have been added

Learning
NEW tutorial-based guidebook: learn to use Corel Painter Essentials 4 while completing fun, instructional projects
NEW Video Tutorials: accompany the guidebook and offer additional instruction from Painter Master and Ambassador John Derry.
NEW Sample files: for the guidebook and video tutorials are accessible directly from the File Menu

Compatibility
NEW Universal binary support: the Mac OS version of Corel Painter Essentials 4 is optimized for use with either Intel or PowerPC processors
NEW Windows Vista™support: Corel Painter Essentials 4 works with Windows Vista™
Enhanced Support for Wacom® products: use Corel Painter Essentials 4 with any product in the entire Wacom line
Enhanced file compatibility: Corel Painter Essentials 4 works with major photo-editing applications, such as Adobe® Photoshop® Elements, Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, and Ulead PhotoImpact®

System Requirements:
Windows® version:

• Windows Vista™ or Windows XP (with latest Service Pack)

• Pentium® III, 700 MHz or greater

• 256 MB RAM

• Mouse or tablet

• 24-bit color display

• 1024 x 768 screen resolution

• CD-ROM

• 1 GB of HD space for installation

Mac OS version:

• Mac OS® X 10.4.x (with latest revision)

• Power Macintosh® G4, 700 MHz or greater

• 256 MB RAM

• Mouse or tablet

• 24-bit color display

• 1024 x 768 screen resolution

• CD-ROM

• 1 GB of HD space for installation

Adobe® Acrobat® Reader are required for components of Corel Painter Essentials 4

Safari™ web browser on the Macintosh and Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 (or greater) on Windows are required for components of Corel Painter Essentials 4.

VisTablet Mini 5x7 Tablet
The VisTablet graphic pen tablets are designed for serious photographers, designers and artists at a price that everyone can afford. VisTablet gives you the control to quickly easily edit your digital photos, paint, draw or anything that you can imagine to have more fun with your PC or MAC. VisTablet's patented technology along with 1024 levels of pen sensitivity provides you the most natural feel and outstanding performance of any comparable graphic pen tablet for maximum productivity. Vistablet is fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter as well as 100's of other major software applications.

With 1,024 levels of sensitivity in its pen, this tablet is ready to become part of your creative process.

VisTablet is compatible with the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows XP (SP 2)
• Apple OSX (10.3 and later)

Please note that the VisTablet graphics tablets are designed to take advantage of built-in features in Windows Vista. Some capabilities will not be available to all users. Mouse capabilities are universal with all compatible operating systems.

Always be sure to download the latest drivers available for your operating system.