But I’ve looked at Painter in the past and now it doesn’t appeal. Or wait for Corel Painter to come around again as a $20 ‘Humble Bundle’ bargain buy (as it was about a year ago). In the meantime, the remaining choices would be Paint Tool SAI 2, with its old-school Windows 3 interface but superb big/fast brushes. A different XP-Pen driver may work better with Paintstorm. Possibly all this will change, though, as I believe I may have an XP-Pen (formerly Ugee) monitor review-unit on the way.
Updating drivers and changing settings has had no effect. Paintstorm will work for a while, then will kill the driver and the PC needs to rebooted to restart it. The wondrous Paintstorm Studio would have been ideal I think, except… it doesn’t play nicely with the driver my Ugee pen-monitor display. Especially not ideal after you’ve seen Realistic Paint Studio and Paintstorm Studio (both from the same maker). But the question was, do I want to learn to paint watercolour? Because Rebelle’s watercolours are so real that you basically have to learn to do the real thing.īack to Photoshop, then? Mmmm… not ideal, despite some nice third-party brush sets and fast brushes.
Superb ‘watery’ watercolour, works very smoothly with imported lineart. 8BF Photoshop plugin form, and I can run it easily in the lightweight PhotoLine (which incidentally is for photos, and not something you would want to paint in). The other thing is that Windows 7 (which my 12-core Xeon workstation runs) cannot run Krita beyond its 3.2.6 version (Summer 2017). In Krita, David Revoy’s nice brush pack and the G’Mic filter were both big draws, but I was increasingly put off by the core UI itself - put off especially by what Borodante rightly calls the relentless annoyance of “the trying to be NOT like Photoshop”.
I began with Sketchbook Pro, and then drifted back to Photoshop but it didn’t feel right for full-blown painting and so I went over to the free Krita - as Krita developed and became usable. My pursuit of the perfect painting software continues.
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