thanks for joining me today I'm Corel
Painter master Aaron Rutten and in this
tutorial I'm going to show you how to
use the new performance enhancements in
Corel Painter 2020 Corel Painter 2020
features significant performance updates
for the brush engine the new
acceleration engine utility
automatically chooses optimal
performance settings based on your
computer's hardware this allows stamp
brushes to leverage your GPU or graphics
processing unit which can greatly
improve brush performance there are also
many CPU performance enhancements
throughout painter 2020 we can access
the acceleration engine from several
different places you can find it under
performance in the welcome book it can
also be found in your preferences under
performance and you can find it in the
properties bar under advanced and then
look in the performance panel for brush
accelerator I'm going to go ahead and
run it from the welcome screen I want to
make sure to first close any unnecessary
applications that might be running in
the background and then I can click on
optimize now and as you can see there is
a canvas here and it's creating some
marks automatically I want to make sure
that I don't press any buttons on my
keyboard or do anything else on my
computer until this test is finished
once the test is completed you will see
your score and the score gives you an
idea of how well your computer can run
Corel Painter so I have my overall score
which says it's excellent and the next
to that I can see how each component
contributes to the performance of
painter beneath that score you have a
score that says whether or not you meet
the recommended specifications for Corel
Painter and then next to that you have
more detailed information about each of
the components that contribute to
performance so basically what this says
is that my system can take full
advantage of what Corel Painter has to
offer as far as the performance updates
and I should get pretty good overall
performance if I were running this on a
different system I might have fewer
cores I might not have a nice video card
and I might have less memory in which
case these wouldn't be green cylinders
they might be yellow or red that would
also mean that my score would be much
lower and of course that would affect
performance
so this is an opportunity to gain an
understanding of what you can do to
upgrade your computer to make Corel
Painter work faster
so basically what I've learned here
about my
system as it pertains to running Corel
Painter is that I could use a few more
cores and that that video card that I
installed on my system is having the
most impact on the performance of Corel
Painter now let's close the test and
let's go ahead and test out some of
these accelerated brushes I'm gonna make
a pretty big canvas let's say four
thousand by four thousand pixels I'm
gonna go to window and then I'm going to
open the search panel and let's try
typing in GPU I'll hit enter now this is
going to show me a list of all the
brushes that can leverage GPU which
means that instead of relying entirely
on your computer processor to make these
brushes work faster it's going to let
your GPU help so there's quite a few
brushes here that can use this
technology let's go ahead and select the
first one acrylic gel wash I'm gonna
make the brush as big as I can seven
hundred and fifty pixels let's do a test
stroke here and you can see it actually
works pretty fast now if you're familiar
with older versions of the Corel Painter
then you might already have an idea of
how much faster that was but let's take
a look let's go to advanced and we'll
look in the performance panel we can see
that GPU is checked as well as avx2 and
multi-core so this particular brush is
able to take full advantage of the
performance enhancements we can disable
GPU and we can get a feel for how it
used to perform go ahead and do some
strokes here and you can see it starts
to get pretty laggy it takes time to
catch up you can really see the
difference here when we compare them
side-by-side it's really a huge
improvement
so I don't have time to go through all
of these GPU brushes but you can feel
free to experiment you can also search
for a multi-core and avx2
and you can get a list of the brushes
that have those performance enhancements
and if you have pre-existing brushes
that you want to be able to leverage the
GPU all you have to do is just uncheck
disable GPU and that will essentially
enable the GPU if that brush can support
it now not all brush technologies can
support GPU it's only the stamp brushes
but if you give it a try I think you'll
be pleasantly surprised at how much
faster these brushes really are I hope
you enjoyed this tutorial make sure to
check out some of my other
demonstrations of painter 2020s top
features
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