Painter Classic provides developing digital artists and beginning web designers with an elegant, quick to learn and use digital painting technology, whether working from existing artwork or painting from scratch. Painter Classic contains a simplified, organized set of Natural-Media¨ tools, including paint, chalk, pen and others so that artwork looks hand drawn and organic, not like computer art. Painter Classic offers intelligent recognition of either a mouse or tablet so creativity in drawing and painting is maximized. Graphic designers, multimedia designers, illustrators and traditional artists will find the tools they need in Painter Classic that empower their creativity.
MetaCreations Corp. (1999) MetaCreations | Painter Classic. www5.metacreations.com/products/painter_classic/
Keep those scissors away from your ears: Painter Classic makes it so easy to create art like a master, you’ll have plenty of time to deal with the metaphysical angst that goes along with it. New from MetaCreations, this package is a “lite” version of Painter 5, cost-reduced and feature-trimmed for less adept and less wealthy users.
If you’re familiar with Painter, you know that its focus is different from that of other image-editing programs, such as Micro-Frontier’s ColorIt and Adobe Photoshop. Painter mimics real-world papers and tools artists already know. Brushes brush, paints run, and inks bleed. Rather than take an existing image and apply filters and changes to it, with Painter you create your own original art.
Painter 5, the big brother to Painter Classic, costs $299 and targets high-end professional artists. It offers mosaics, layers, animation, and more complex color management than does the Classic version. (It also lets you create your own tools, one feature you might miss in Painter Classic.) Classic offers dilettantes a chance to explore our creativity without the hassle of cleaning brushes.
The primary tool in is the brush, a term that applies to many different artistic implements. MetaCreations has taken great pains to include the imperfections, lack of precision, and character inherent in each of its varied brushes. The application comes with 15 brush categories, each with a subset of types. The Pencil, for example, offers 2B, sharp, and colored pencils as options. A plug-in lets you go online and grab all the weird brushes you can find (most, but not all, of Painter 5’s brushes work with Painter Classic).
Another brush, the Image Hose, sprays the page with a variety of changing images. Because it doesn’t simply duplicate a single image, this is a great way to add individual leaves to trees, flowers to a foreground, or people to a crowd. The number of nozzles the CD supplies disappointed me, though; I soon got tired of painting with poppies.
Working with all the brushes can be complex — you can modify each brush’s size, opacity, and grain as well as choose its colors and parameters. Painter Classic has an idiosyncratic interface that takes getting used to. You may have to hunt for basic functions at first and resort to the manual’s tutorials to figure out, for example, why you can’t erase watercolors from your page. But in the end, navigating Painter Classic is fairly easy. We can also thank MetaCreations for the addition of a color wheel. The separate controls for Hue and Saturation/Value are wonderfully intuitive and allow you to control colors perfectly.
Once you’ve laid paint to canvas. Painter Classic’s wealth of image filters cover the basics well. You can soften an image, modify its brightness/darkness, rotate and flip, and apply interesting lighting effects. Another great feature is the Tracing Paper, which lets you see an image behind the current canvas. This is useful if you want to use a scanned photo to start your landscape masterpiece.
Overall, Painter Classic is a terrific tool for someone who’s just getting started with computer graphics and doesn’t need Painter 5’s more advanced features or can’t afford its price tag. Painter Classic probably won’t drive you to metaphysical madness, but creating natural-looking art on your Mac may make you crave a color printer. So much for that price savings.
Love, Scott. (June 1998). Painter Classic. MacAddict. (pg. 50).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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