Corel Painter 2016 released

As the title says Painter 2016 appears to be out: www.painterartist.com/us/product/paint-p...487754611.1439307587

why the sad face? Would you prefer Painter to stay inside?

I don't know how the emote got in there. I was typing on my tablet so I may have accidentally clipped the tool bar as I was posting. Having said that, the new version doesn't appear to do much of anything that the 2015 version doesn't already do, I will need to spend a bit more time looking at the features list but I don't see myself upgrading at the moment.

Reading your post above, you already answered the question I was going to ask. ... As in what was new or better with the 2016 version.

Seems lately that some of these art program upgrades have less and less to offer with each new version. Can't imagine it gets many people to upgrade without offering something substantial to the older version.

A new version of Painter! This is happy news indeed!

The new Dynamic Speckles are really rather nice. They are far superior to the Real Bristle technology and you can now get much more usable bristle type brushes. There's also an improvement to the blending process too. It clears up most of the "white fringe" issues of the past. These would be the main reasons for upgrading in my opinion although it is quite expensive for an upgrade. I'd wait to see if there are any special offers available soon.

There is also the ability to use the particle technology with all of the other dab types, etc. so you can now have a particle watercolour brush or impasto. These improvements may not sound like much but the brushes just got a whole lot better.