Here you can easily adjust the horizon level, vanishing points and grids. Sure, there is the vanishing point tool but it’s not nearly as helpful and easy to use as the perspective grid tool in Painter. Perspective grid tool should have been added to Photoshop a long time ago but is still missing (as of 2021). In Photoshop you have slightly more options, such as splitting your canvas using a circle, spiral or parallel lines. It is very handy and time saving when painting symmetrical shapes or patterns. While using this tool your canvas is split by horizontal or vertical lines and whatever you paint in one segment will be mirrored in the others. Mirror Painting is a tool very similar to Photoshop’s Symmetry Painting. On a side note, I was happy to discover that thanks to Painter’s Brush Accelerator in the latest version of Corel Painter (2022), the brush lag which I had experienced when using the older version was much smaller and I was able to enjoy all brushes mostly without problems. I have also struggled to control my brush strokes in Painter and I found myself spending a lot more time on the same sketch which in Photoshop took a lot quicker to finish. To me, Photoshop’s interface seems more intuitive and easier to use but that could be because I have been using it for years already.

Both programs provide tools which very successfully simulate traditional media. Honestly, as much as I love Painter’s brushes, I don’t see that much of a difference between the two images. I did two quick sketches referenced from the same photograph, one in Corel Painter and one in Adobe Photoshop.

Left sketch done in Painter, sketch on the right in Photoshop They became so popular that Adobe decided to invite the creator to join them, converted the presets to brushes and made them available as free downloads to all Photoshop users. Webster who sold them as digital downloads. These were originally tool presets created by an illustrator Kyle T. Webster, Photoshop CCĪlthough Photoshop doesn’t have many brushes when you first open it after installation, you can very easily add a whole collection of traditional media brushes directly from Adobe’s website. Sketch using watercolor brushes by Kyle T.

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