The translucency and color blending is quite realistic.

There are also blenders, which you can use to smooth two colors together, or simply to smooth your lines or add shading, much like you’d use a tortillion when drawing with pencil or charcoal. Examples include: watercolor, acrylic, oil, chalk, airbrush, etc. There are a lot of different brushes to choose from, which will give your lines texture and fluidity.There are a lot of different paper textures to choose from, so you can make your drawing appear as if it was sketched on plain paper, watercolor paper, canvas, or any number of surfaces.The application also supports the Photoshop PSD file format, making it possible to integrate Essentials within an existing workflow. For example, it provides 32 levels of Undo, allowing creatives to be free to explore different artistic directions, with little fear of losing earlier work. But the program provides enough functionality that it should also be able to meet the needs of many designers. Corel positions Essentials 5 as an affordable natural media application for the consumer market, allowing users the choice of either applying presets to an existing image (think Impressionist Painting and Watercolor Sketch) or beginning with a blank page.

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