Core Painter allows you to create next-level results with trusted, professional digital art software. Sketch, paint, illustrate and produce unparalleled photo-art with hundreds of impeccably realistic artist-created brushes, superior blending, and an array of versatile art tools.
- Create – Paint from a blank canvas and create amazing photo art.
- Customize – Create your own brushes, textures, patterns, palettes and so much more.
- Extend – Enhance your paintings with creative additional brush packs.
Experience brushes with greatness!
Painter has your canvas covered with every brush and media type possible. Craft your masterpiece with stunning reality using renowned dry, wet, and blending media.
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What’s New
Stamp-type brush customization These popular brushes have received a versatility overhaul. Change shape, edge effects, rotation, squeeze and anti-aliasing plus, create, add, import, export, organize and export dabs in record time! |
Watercolor brushes and workflow New Watercolor compatible brushes and workflow optimize the painting experience. Paint with dry media types on Watercolor layers to achieve new and exciting mixed-media looks. |
Brush library experience Reap the benefits of a refined brush library. Enjoy new categories, variants and brush previews plus, now you can easily find, filter and favorite beloved brushes for easy access from the Brush Selector. |
Brush size selector Choosing brush size has never been so speedy and visual. Just open up the Size Library and add, reorder, delete and change size preview to accommodate your workflow. |
User requested enhancements After reviewing customers’ valuable feedback, there are many layer workflow and other enhancements to boost your productivity. |
FASTEST version yet! Run the Brush Accelerator and enjoy huge GPU, Multicore & AVX2 speed gains of new and enhanced cover method brushes along with a boost in several other brush engines. |
Compatibility
- Photoshop – Preserve file content with ease when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter.
- Drawing tablet – Support for stylus tilt, rotation, bearing & pressure control creates the most natural painting experience.
- Mac or PC – Whether you’re a Mac or PC person, we support both platforms with licensing and subscription options to suit you.
Features
Composition
- Brush controls – Modify brush size, shape, angle, flow and so much more with in-depth brush control panels
- Canvas control – Pan, zoom, rotate and apply lighting and surface texture with ease
- Color mixing – Use the Color Wheel, Mixer, Color Sets and Harmonies to craft the perfect color palette
- Composition tools – Establish appealing compositions using Divine Proportion, Layout Grid, Perspective Guides and Mirror Painting tools
- Unique content – Enhance your artwork by using Papers, Flow Maps, Patterns, Textures, Gradients, Nozzles, Looks, Weaves, Images and Selections.
Unparalleled Photo Art
- Stylize any image or photo using artificial intelligence and easily transform photos into paintings with powerful auto-painting and cloning tools.
Workflow
- Customization – Create custom brushes, palettes and workspace layouts plus import custom content from others
- Performance – Run the enhanced Brush Accelerator, which makes the most of your computer’s hardware and graphics card, to deliver the best possible painting experience with one click.
- Wacom compatibility – Painter and Wacom are built to work together and take advantage of stylus pressure, tilt, bearing & rotation.
- Apple support – Improve your overall Mac workflow in big ways with Touch Bar, Trackpad, Sidecar, Apple Pencil tilt, Core ML and M1 with Rosetta 2 support.
Specs
Windows
- Windows 11 or Windows 10* (64-Bit), with the latest updates
- Intel or AMD 64-bit multicore processor with SSSE3 (or higher)
- 4 physical cores/8 logical cores or higher (recommended)
- AVX2 instruction set support (recommended)
- Modern GPU with OpenCL (1.2 or higher) compatibility (recommended)
- 8 GB RAM
- 16 GB RAM or higher (recommended)
- 3.0 GB hard disk space for application file**
- Solid-state drive (recommended)
- 1280 x 800 @ 100% (or higher) screen resolution
- 1920 x 1200 @ 150% (or higher) (recommended)
- Mouse or Wintab-compatible tablet
- To activate your product, you must connect to the Internet and register it first.
Mac
- macOS Monterey 12, macOS Big Sur 11 or macOS 10.15 with the latest revision
- Apple M1 processor or multicore Intel with SSSE3 (or higher)
- 4 physical cores/8 logical cores or higher (recommended)
- Modern GPU with OpenCL (1.2 or higher) compatibility (recommended)
- 8 GB RAM
- 16 GB RAM or higher (recommended)
- 1.5 GB hard disk space for application files
- Solid-state drive (recommended)
- Case-sensitive file systems are not supported
- 1280 x 800 @ 100% (or higher) screen resolution
- 1920 x 1200 @ 150% (or higher) (recommended)
- Mouse or tablet
- To activate your product, you must connect to the Internet and register it first.
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Which version of Painter is right for you?
Painter | Painter Essentials | |
User Interface & Tools | ||
Captured dab library | ✔ | |
Dab Effects | ✔ | |
Brush size library | ✔ | |
Brush favorites & filters | ✔ | |
Grayscale in the Navigator | ✔ | |
Clear layer content with Delete | ✔ | |
Lock, Move and Covert multiple layers | ✔ | |
Color Dodge and Color Burn composite methods | ✔ | |
Photo art quick palette | ✔ | |
Interactive gradient tool | ✔ | |
Color ramps in sliders | ✔ | |
Brush customization | ✔ | |
Customizable user interface | ✔ | |
Perspective guides | ✔ | |
Texture painting | ✔ | |
Reference Image | ✔ | |
Customized artist layouts |
✔ 9 layouts |
✔ 4 layouts |
Color Sets |
✔ Unlimited |
✔ 4 color sets |
Color harmonies |
✔ 5 harmonies |
✔ 3 harmonies |
Shape & Shape Editing tools | ✔ | |
Image Navigator | ✔ | ✔ |
Selection tools | ✔ | ✔ |
Text tools | ✔ | ✔ |
Eraser | ✔ | ✔ |
Mirror painting | ✔ | ✔ |
Kaleidoscope painting | ✔ | ✔ |
Crop tool | ✔ | ✔ |
Effects menu | ✔ | ✔ |
Drag to zoom | ✔ | ✔ |
Fill tool | ✔ | ✔ |
Color wheel | ✔ | ✔ |
Transformation tool | ✔ | ✔ |
Brushes | ||
Built-in collection of brushes |
✔ 1000+ |
✔ 170+ |
Real Watercolor | ✔ | |
Pigment Watercolor | ✔ | |
Brushes compatible with Watercolors | ✔ | |
Thick Paint | ✔ | |
Brushes compatible with Thick Paint | ✔ | |
Watercolor Sumi-E | ✔ | |
Artists Oils | ✔ | |
Real Wet Oil | ✔ | |
Gouache | ✔ | |
Erasers | ✔ | |
Stamps | ✔ | |
Impasto | ✔ | |
Palette Knives | ✔ | |
Selection Brushes | ✔ | |
Sargent | ✔ | |
Liquify | ✔ | |
Liquid Ink | ✔ | |
Cloners | ✔ | |
Texture brushes | ✔ | |
Acrylics | ✔ | ✔ |
Airbrushes | ✔ | ✔ |
Artist Favorites | ✔ | ✔ |
Auto-Painting & Photo-Painting brushes | ✔ | ✔ |
Blenders | ✔ | ✔ |
Chalks, Pastels, Crayons | ✔ | ✔ |
Dab Stencils | ✔ | ✔ |
Dynamic Speckles | ✔ | ✔ |
Digital / Fringe Watercolor | ✔ | ✔ |
F-X | ✔ | ✔ |
Glazing brushes | ✔ | ✔ |
Image Hose | ✔ | ✔ |
Markers | ✔ | ✔ |
Particle Brushes | ✔ | ✔ |
Pattern Pens | ✔ | ✔ |
Pens, Pencils | ✔ | ✔ |
Sponges | ✔ | ✔ |
Photo Art Specific Tools | ||
Artificial Intelligence Style |
✔ 12 styles with customization |
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Artificial Intelligence Presets |
✔ unlimited |
✔ 10 presets |
Clone Tinting | ✔ | |
Cloning with texture | ✔ | |
Multiple clone sources | ✔ | |
Resize clone sources | ✔ | |
Auto-Painting with SmartStroke™ technology | ✔ | ✔ |
Photo Painting panel | ✔ | ✔ |
Rubber Stamp | ✔ | ✔ |
Dodge | ✔ | ✔ |
Burn | ✔ | ✔ |
Performance/Support | ||
Brush Accelerator™ | ✔ | |
GPU acceleration for new and enhanced cover methods | ✔ | |
GPU acceleration for stamp brushes | ✔ | |
Brush search engine | ✔ | |
Apple Sidecar support | ✔ | ✔ |
Apple Pencil support | ✔ | ✔ |
Apple Touch Bar support | ✔ | ✔ |
Apple Trackpad support | ✔ | ✔ |
Apple Core ML support | ✔ | ✔ |
Wacom multi-touch support | ✔ | ✔ |
Windows touch support | ✔ | ✔ |
Pressure sensitive brush tracking | ✔ | ✔ |
Unlimited layers | ✔ | ✔ |
Multi-Core support | ✔ | ✔ |
Layout switch for 2-in-1 devices | ✔ | ✔ |
64-Bit Mac and Windows | ✔ | ✔ |
Built in learning resources | ✔ | ✔ |
Compatible with Photoshop | ✔ | ✔ |
Content | ||
Captured Dabs | ✔ | |
Textures | ✔ | |
Selections | ✔ | |
Weaves | ✔ | |
Gradients | ✔ | |
Images | ✔ | |
Looks | ✔ | |
Nozzles | ✔ | |
Patterns | ✔ | ✔ |
Flow Maps | ✔ | ✔ |
Papers | ✔ | ✔ |
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Painter | Painter Essentials | |
User Interface & Tools | ||
Captured dab library | ✔ | |
Dab Effects | ✔ | |
Brush size library | ✔ | |
Brush favorites & filters | ✔ | |
Grayscale in the Navigator | ✔ | |
Clear layer content with Delete | ✔ | |
Lock, Move and Covert multiple layers | ✔ | |
Color Dodge and Color Burn composite methods | ✔ | |
Photo art quick palette | ✔ | |
Interactive gradient tool | ✔ | |
Color ramps in sliders | ✔ | |
Brush customization | ✔ | |
Customizable user interface | ✔ | |
Perspective guides | ✔ | |
Texture painting | ✔ | |
Reference Image | ✔ | |
Customized artist layouts |
✔ 9 layouts |
✔ 4 layouts |
Color Sets |
✔ Unlimited |
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Color harmonies | ||
Shape & Shape Editing tools | ||
Image Navigator | ||
Selection tools | ||
Text tools | ||
Eraser | ||
Mirror painting | ||
Kaleidoscope painting | ||
Crop tool | ||
Effects menu | ||
Drag to zoom | ||
Fill tool | ||
Color wheel | ||
Transformation tool | ||
Brushes | ||
Built-in collection of brushes | ||
Real Watercolor | ||
Pigment Watercolor | ||
Brushes compatible with Watercolors | ||
Thick Paint | ||
Brushes compatible with Thick Paint | ||
Watercolor Sumi-E | ||
Artists Oils | ||
Real Wet Oil | ||
Gouache | ||
Erasers | ||
Stamps | ||
Impasto | ||
Palette Knives | ||
Selection Brushes | ||
Sargent | ||
Liquify | ||
Liquid Ink | ||
Cloners | ||
Texture brushes | ||
Acrylics | ||
Airbrushes | ||
Artist Favorites | ||
Auto-Painting & Photo-Painting brushes | ||
Blenders | ||
Chalks, Pastels, Crayons | ||
Dab Stencils | ||
Dynamic Speckles | ||
Digital / Fringe Watercolor | ||
F-X | ||
Glazing brushes | ||
Image Hose | ||
Markers | ||
Particle Brushes | ||
Pattern Pens | ||
Pens, Pencils | ||
Sponges | ||
Photo Art Specific Tools | ||
Artificial Intelligence Style | ||
Artificial Intelligence Presets | ||
Clone Tinting | ||
Cloning with texture | ||
Multiple clone sources | ||
Resize clone sources | ||
Auto-Painting with SmartStroke™ technology | ||
Photo Painting panel | ||
Rubber Stamp | ||
Dodge | ||
Burn | ||
Performance/Support | ||
Brush Accelerator™ | ||
GPU acceleration for new and enhanced cover methods | ||
GPU acceleration for stamp brushes | ||
Brush search engine | ||
Apple Sidecar support | ||
Apple Pencil support | ||
Apple Touch Bar support | ||
Apple Trackpad support | ||
Apple Core ML support | ||
Wacom multi-touch support | ||
Windows touch support | ||
Pressure sensitive brush tracking | ||
Unlimited layers | ||
Multi-Core support | ||
Layout switch for 2-in-1 devices | ||
64-Bit Mac and Windows | ||
Built in learning resources | ||
Compatible with Photoshop | ||
Content | ||
Captured Dabs | ||
Textures | ||
Selections | ||
Weaves | ||
Gradients | ||
Images | ||
Looks | ||
Nozzles | ||
Patterns | ||
Flow Maps | ||
Papers |
✔
Painter | Painter Essentials | |
User Interface & Tools | ||
Captured dab library | ✔ | |
Dab Effects | ✔ | |
Brush size library | ✔ | |
Brush favorites & filters | ✔ | |
Grayscale in the Navigator | ✔ | |
Clear layer content with Delete | ✔ | |
Lock, Move and Covert multiple layers | ✔ | |
Color Dodge and Color Burn composite methods | ✔ | |
Photo art quick palette | ✔ | |
Interactive gradient tool | ✔ | |
Color ramps in sliders | ✔ | |
Brush customization | ✔ | |
Customizable user interface | ✔ | |
Perspective guides | ✔ | |
Texture painting | ✔ | |
Reference Image | ✔ | |
Customized artist layouts |
✔ 9 layouts |
✔ 4 layouts |
Color Sets |
✔ Unlimited |
|
Color harmonies | ||
Shape & Shape Editing tools | ||
Image Navigator | ||
Selection tools | ||
Text tools | ||
Eraser | ||
Mirror painting | ||
Kaleidoscope painting | ||
Crop tool | ||
Effects menu | ||
Drag to zoom | ||
Fill tool | ||
Color wheel | ||
Transformation tool | ||
Brushes | ||
Built-in collection of brushes | ||
Real Watercolor | ||
Pigment Watercolor | ||
Brushes compatible with Watercolors | ||
Thick Paint | ||
Brushes compatible with Thick Paint | ||
Watercolor Sumi-E | ||
Artists Oils | ||
Real Wet Oil | ||
Gouache | ||
Erasers | ||
Stamps | ||
Impasto | ||
Palette Knives | ||
Selection Brushes | ||
Sargent | ||
Liquify | ||
Liquid Ink | ||
Cloners | ||
Texture brushes | ||
Acrylics | ||
Airbrushes | ||
Artist Favorites | ||
Auto-Painting & Photo-Painting brushes | ||
Blenders | ||
Chalks, Pastels, Crayons | ||
Dab Stencils | ||
Dynamic Speckles | ||
Digital / Fringe Watercolor | ||
F-X | ||
Glazing brushes | ||
Image Hose | ||
Markers | ||
Particle Brushes | ||
Pattern Pens | ||
Pens, Pencils | ||
Sponges | ||
Photo Art Specific Tools | ||
Artificial Intelligence Style | ||
Artificial Intelligence Presets | ||
Clone Tinting | ||
Cloning with texture | ||
Multiple clone sources | ||
Resize clone sources | ||
Auto-Painting with SmartStroke™ technology | ||
Photo Painting panel | ||
Rubber Stamp | ||
Dodge | ||
Burn | ||
Performance/Support | ||
Brush Accelerator™ | ||
GPU acceleration for new and enhanced cover methods | ||
GPU acceleration for stamp brushes | ||
Brush search engine | ||
Apple Sidecar support | ||
Apple Pencil support | ||
Apple Touch Bar support | ||
Apple Trackpad support | ||
Apple Core ML support | ||
Wacom multi-touch support | ||
Windows touch support | ||
Pressure sensitive brush tracking | ||
Unlimited layers | ||
Multi-Core support | ||
Layout switch for 2-in-1 devices | ||
64-Bit Mac and Windows | ||
Built in learning resources | ||
Compatible with Photoshop | ||
Content | ||
Captured Dabs | ||
Textures | ||
Selections | ||
Weaves | ||
Gradients | ||
Images | ||
Looks | ||
Nozzles | ||
Patterns | ||
Flow Maps | ||
Papers |
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