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(More customer reviews)Like others posting here, the serial number that shipped with my education version did not work. I contacted Corel and they emailed me a new serial number. After I received that the installation went smoothly and Painter 12 works on my Windows 7 64-bit machine. It hasn't crashed, yet but it does take longer to load than Painter 11.
They have changed several things in Painter 12 so it will take a while to get used to the new interface. I've had to run several searches to find out simple thing like:
1. How to add a brush to a custom palette? In Painter 11, you clicked and dragged. In Painter 12, you have to hold down the shift key while you click and drag! You won't believe how long it took me to find that out!
2. How to turn the tracing paper off and on? In Painter 11 there was a button near the upper right corner of the image. Now the toggle is on the new navigation menu but you have to first click on the settings button located near the bottom left corner of the navigation window. (Update 9/1/2011: A recent Painter 12 update put the tracing paper option in the Clone Source window. Thank you, Corel!)
3. How to I set the clone image source? It's not in the dropbox menu anymore--it has a window all to itself.
While it is tempting to go back to Painter 11, I will stick with Painter 12 because I use this software in a course I teach and it is important that I keep up to date.
I do believe that in the long run I will like the new interface. It reminds me a lot of Photoshop. I like the new navigation window--but who would have thought the tracing paper function would be hidden in a setting there? The brush controls have also been improved. The brushes are a lot faster (at least on my machine), and that in itself makes it worth upgrading.
Overall, I'm happy!
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