New Virtual Painter 5 Provides Highest Quality Artistic Filters to Create Painting Masterpieces

The latest version of award-winning artistic filter application comes with enhanced 16 artistic filters and more painting surfaces.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 22, 2006 -- P. & A. America, Inc. today announced the release of Virtual Painter version 5 (http://www.virtualpainter5.com) for the Windows operating system. Virtual Painter 5 turns digital photos into beautiful paintings with a few mouse clicks.

Virtual Painter 5 is a collection of 16 different artistic filters such as watercolor, oil painting, color pencil, pastel, etc. The application applies those filters to digital photos with a variety of painting surface options which include canvas, paper, wood, cork and more. As well, users can adjust several filter settings including rendering, coloration and deformation to the way in which each filter effect is applied. The quality of each filter effect has been drastically improved since the previous version as if it were a completely new set of filters.

There are 2 different versions of Virtual Painter 5; the Standalone and the Plug-In version. The Standalone version runs by itself to create beautiful art. It does not require any other applications. The Standalone version would be a great choice for most PC users.

The Plug-In version runs with other graphic applications which support Adobe plug-in such as Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro. Users can run Virtual Painter 5 directly within their favorite graphic applications. This makes the Plug-In version extremely flexible.

Available Artistic Effects

Watercolor, Oil Painting, Gouache, Color Pencil, Pastel, Rectangles, Triangles, Impasto, Pointillism, Silk Screen, Collage, Drawing, Airbrush, Embroidery, Gothic Oil Painting and Fauvist Oil Painting

System Requirements

Virtual Painter 5 runs under Windows 98, ME, 2000 and Windows XP. It requires 64MB of RAM and 20MB of free hard disk space.

Availability

Virtual Painter 5 is available starting at $55.00 from the Virtual Painter Web site: http://www.virtualpainter5.com

About P. & A. America, Inc.:

P. & A. America, Inc. was established in Los Angeles CA, July 2000. Our parent company, P. & A., Inc., located in Tokyo Japan, is taking care of the licensing, localization, production, promotion and distribution of software for the Japanese market. P. & A. America, Inc. takes care, with our partners, of the licensing and distribution of software in various markets around the world.

Contact:

Koichi Okuno, marketing manager

P. & A. America, Inc.

310-202-1356

http://www.panda-america.com

© 2006 P. & A. America, Inc. © 1995-2006 Umemura Taka Software Design, Inc. All rights reserved. Virtual Painter is a LiveCraft brand software. LiveCraft is a registered trademark of Umemura Taka Software Design, Inc. in the USA and Japan.

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