Even for artists who know real-world media, there's no free ride in the learning curve world either. Eureka is doable. Here's a sampling of Painter's outstanding new innovations. Finally, artists can dream in layers. You can organize and group an image into discrete layer logistics, make selections on a layer, apply a current selection to a different layer, adjust blending mode and opacity, plus cut, copy and paste among layers.
Brushes are more realistic than ever.
Some of version 6 brushes still use dabs of colored pixels to achieve paint strokes, which can result in undesirable broken lines or patterns that repeat. This feature is especially robust when combined with another addition called brush loading, which allows you to pick up color on each individual bristle of a brush, letting you create realistic blends and smears with underlying colors. A responsive palette knife also takes advantage of multi-color brush loading as it picks up, molds and moves paint responding to stylus bearing, tilt, and pressure. Hundreds of new Image Hose nozzles have been included with this version. Interactive Image Hose sprays rotate and scale images on to your image based on the bearing, tilt and pressure of your hand.