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Procreate > Painter

        I have found this graphics software to be head and shoulders above the competition.  Its chief merit, from my viewpoint is the integrated way in which it handles the two great divisions of image formatting -the Raster, or Bitmap versus the Vector with its utilization employment of Polynomials and other mathematical formulations.   This is in sharp contrast to the Adobe tradition of holding these two approaches apart in different software packages -though perhaps they are changing their tune;  I have not seen their recent offerings.  I also believe that many users will find its organization more intuitive than the traditional "Adobe style".  It is also remarkably inexpensive.

       This graphics package was put together primarily for the use of the artistically talented by providing them with brush stroke options that closely simulate and emulate the techniques used by artists in the 'Real World'.  But what its creators and maintainers do not seem to realize is that their same software is equally ideally suited to putting together diagrams of every kind -and this by people like myself who have no artistic skills whatsoever.  To find out what I'm talking about, look at the scores of images within the present website.  Almost all of them were put together within Painter -plus some of the 'plug-ins' of KPT sort that are also available at the same site.

      I wish these people would give the same attention to the needs of the image makers  as to the artists, as they seek to enhance their software.  Or alternatively, bring our a parallel product expressly tailored to the needs of people like myself.  As the reader will discover in a perusal of this site (and also to my second website that reviews modern physics), these diagramming techniques are as pedagogically useful within the intangible fields of philosophy and metaphysics as in the hard-core sciences of physics, biochemistry, and in engineering.   This software may be found at  http://corel.com