Corel Painter Help | Comparing tools in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop

Comparing tools in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop

The following table lists Adobe Photoshop tools and the corresponding Corel Painter tools. Many of these tools create similar results but operate slightly differently. For that reason, we also provided a link to a corresponding help topic that describes the Corel Painter tool.


Adobe Photoshop tool	Corel Painter tool	For more information
Actions palette	Scripts panel	See Displaying the Scripts panel.
Blur tool	Focus effect	See Using focus and esoterica effects.
Burn tool	Burn tool	See Dodging and burning.
Clone Stamp tool	Rubber Stamp tool	See Performing offset sampling.
Crop tool	Crop tool	See Cropping images.
Dodge tool	Dodge tool	See Dodging and burning.
Drop shadow	Drop shadow	See Adding drop shadows to layers.
Elliptical Marquee tool	Oval Selection tool	See Creating pixel-based selections.
Eyedropper tool	Dropper tool	See Sampling colors from images.
Filter Gallery	Effects menu	See Common options for effects.
Freeform Pen tool	Quick Curve tool	See Drawing lines and curves.
Gradient tool	Gradients panel Gradient fill, available with the Paint Bucket tool	See Applying gradients.
Hand tool	Grabber tool	See Repositioning images.
Lasso tool	Lasso tool	See Creating path-based selections.
Magic Wand tool	Magic Wand tool	See Creating pixel-based selections.
Move tool	Move mode of Transform tool	See Moving selections.
Paint Bucket tool	Paint Bucket tool	See Exploring painting media.
Path Selection tools	Shape Selection tools	See Selecting a shape.
Pen tool	Pen tool	See Drawing lines and curves.
Polygon Lasso tool	Polygonal Selection tool	See To make a freehand selection.
Rectangular Marquee tool	Rectangular Selection tool	See Creating path-based selections.
Type tool	Text tool	See Adding text to images.

Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 2015, and are not included in Painter Essentials 5. For more information about Corel Painter 2015, visit http://www.painterartist.com/.

To get started with Painter Essentials 5, see the Painter Essentials 5 Quick Start Guide.