Design Evolution of Products

Adobe Photoshop

Very basic design.

Limited brushes or gradients.

Similar to ms paint.

Used and designed for photo touchups.

Started to become common amongst photographers and digital artist.

Options to adjust color, mini menus, more tools.

Layers.

Has become the industry standard. Very customizable user interface.

Many more options and abilities.

Easily integrated with 3D applications.

GIMP

Introduced as a photo editing program free for download.

Doesn’t have the same power or amount of customizable brushes.

Started to become very user driven, users develop their own brushes and contribute in a community.

Starting to get more advanced, more brush and layer options

Still being offered free, usable for everyone, highly user driven, and made very customizable. Users create code and brushes, to make their program customizable to them.

Corel Painter

Limited customizable brushes

Colorwheel and color graphs

Limited tools

More advanced with color mixing, taking more of a painter’s approach

More tools, and color options

Very advanced color features.

Focus on digital painters more than 3d integration.

Customizable interface and tools

Very user friendly

Final thoughts on the productsPhotoshop has become the industry standard for digital artists. It is widely used in film and animation studios, due to it refining it’s tools to work seamlessly with film and animation software. Photoshop is almost limitless with what can be created on the canvass, with it’s vast amount of custom options. What sets it apart, is the seletion, masking, and layers.

Gimp has become very popular in the digital artist community. Because it is free, everyone has the opportunity to learn how to create art on the computer. It’s advantage is it’s communities’ contributions, with tutorials, code and brushes. What sets this program apart is it’s users.

Over the years Corel has really fined tuned itself to becoming a great painting program. It’s design allows it to be very intuitive to the painter. It bases it’s design on the act of painting on canvass. It’s really become very popular to the digital painter, with it’s vast options of user color and brush. What sets this program apart, is how well it appeals to the painter, and it’s color mixing options.