Personnaly I use Illustrator and Photoshop almost everyday for my
work. Adobe After Effects is my main tool. I gave Painter a try maybe
10 years ago, so I'm not up-to-date on how it has evolved since then.
Illustrator is vector-based. You convert your artwork to pixels at
any resolution you need. You can print perfectly antialiased 5 meters
per 5 meters artwork ! Historically it's a tool dedicated mainly to
logo design and typography. Recently they've included very
efficiently some brushes with textures : calligraphy, charcoal etc...
From what I remember, Painter is pixel-based. You choose a
resolution at the begining of your work. Painter is unbeatable for
natural-looking painting and drawing on any kind of paper texture.
Since illustrator isvector-based, you can scale, distort, rotate your
brushes, or modify their shapes without any quality loss.
Painter has a more natural interface for people not used to analysis/
synthesis thinking.
I mean "roughly" that Painter's interface and workflow is dedicated
to drawers and ...painters, whereas Illustrator is dedicated to
graphic designers.
I hope this makes sense, but the best is to give Painter a try along
with your Illustrator. There is a free trial version on Corel's
website :
http://www.corel.fr/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2Fr/Products/
Content&pid=1047024281283&cid=1047024508349
François
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