Corel Corp. on Monday introduced Painter Essentials 3, a consumer application based on the company’s pro-level Painter IX. Targeted to digital photo enthusiasts, scrapbookers and other hobbyists ...

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using Corel’s Painter Essentials 3, an application targeted to consumers that would like to transform their images into paintings.

Rounding out the pack, Corel (remember Corel?) released a new version of its slimmed-down drawing software, Painter Essentials 4.

Painter is maybe the best amateur art program ever. With matchless emulation of analog art media, particularly painting, and superior use of drawing tablet technology, Painter leads the pack. So ...

Using machine learning and what Corel calls SmartStroke technology, Painter Essentials 7 takes a photo and converts it to a user-selected painting style. The program builds the painting in layers ...