Painter Sick!!

Anyone who is into photoshop I suggest to check the program (Corel Painter) its pretty sick. For the longest time I've been using photoshop to illusrate any image or edit any image which is great, I can use it pretty fast and usually never run into any problems but it can't quite do what painter can do. With this magical wand you can make any image seem as if it were actually painted with brush strokes awesome because that can really help inspire new and different techniques. I found that messing with an image or just drawing it scratch in photoshop and then taking that image into painter afterwards, can produce something completely different looking things that I never would of fathomed. here are some examples

-making photo as if painted:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVOwOvGhrdg

-drawing in Painter example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viUKwozKXOc&feature=related

-Overview of Painter:           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChqkPjDyGuo