Perhaps it can be tweaked in some way but it looks poor out of the box. Cloning with thick paint is more like the Hard Cover Cloner and it just rolls out a photocopy of the original with a sort of gel effect over it. You could then take that specific colour and smear it elsewhere (and it had the depth and quality of the brush used). With older brush types, when you selected Cloning, ‘clone colour’ was what was drawn on. The cloning og Thick Paint is still poor. I still don’t find them that convincing emulating thick paint and I have even seen iPad apps do it better. However, I do have a fairly good speed, and graphics card on my PC though.Ĭhanges to thick paint haven’t improved things enough for me- though putting a real-time slider for thickness more readily accessible, is better. I have used the software since Painter 11 and any old lags are mostly gone a while back. Yet, I have no interest in faster brushes and mine have performed more than adequately for me. However, my main reason is that it doesn’t add anything new for my use.Įnhanced performance is the prime promotional push.

The cost, even at early reductions for upgrades, was still way overpriced. I downloaded the trial of Painter 2021 and have decided not to update this year (even though I did in past years).

Painter 2021 upgrade