Painter 2023. Venture outside the lines.
Step into the world of endless possibilities with our 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.
- Expand
Enhance your paintings with creative additional brush packs.
Features
- Compatibility
- Photoshop- Preserve file content with ease when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter.
- Drawing tablet- Support for stylus tilt, rotation, bearing, and 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.
- 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.
- Tablet compatibility
Painter is built to work together with a variety of drawing tablets, and to help you take advantage of stylus pressure, tilt, bearing, and rotation.
- Apple support
Improve your overall Mac workflow in big ways with Trackpad, Sidecar, Apple Pencil tilt, and Core ML. Painter is optimized to run natively on Macs with M1 chip.
- Build up the smoothest strokes with Fluid Paint
Gently build up paint, blend, sculpt, glaze, add texture and reflective light easily with the new Fluid brushes. Built to take advantage of layer transparency, these versatile brushes give you unmatched opacity control and smoothness in your brush strokes.
- Improved Selections
- NEW! Visualize better with overlay option
Use the new color overlay option in selection tools for improved visibility of selected areas. Especially useful for selections with complex shapes and transparency, the overlay helps to speed up the creation, editing, and refinement of your selection.
- Improved! Access to Selection controls
Accelerate your workflows with the new Selection Panel that gives you quick access to all controls while performing selection-intensive tasks. Quickly feather your selections with a handy slider in the property bar and adjust up to 2000px.
- ENHANCED! Work faster with enhanced selections
Use improved keyboard shortcuts to switch from addition or subtractive selection modes. A selection is auto-applied when creating a mask and several other enhancements will make your interactions with Selections faster and more predictable.
- Select areas based on color with brushes
Combine the power of a Magic Wand and the versatility of a Selection Brush to quickly select portions of an image based on color. Enable Color Selection for any Selection brush and select specific areas on your canvas based on a color. Then easily change colors, lighting, and textures in the selected areas.
- Experience User Requested Enhancements
Users will benefit from easier image placements and center alignment, improved responsiveness while using square bracket keys to resize brushes, Magic Wand, Paint Bucket and Dropper tools, remembering last used settings, and precise gradient filling tools for an unforgettable painting experience.
- Optimized painting experience!
The Brush Accelerator in Painter continues to boost performance! Most popular brush engines are now optimized to make the most of your machine. Work at lightning speed with Painter's newest Fluid Paint which runs up to 50X fast by taking advantage of both CPU and GPU!
