The Top Choice in Painting Software by Artists Worldwide!
Create your signature style with Painter®. Sketch, paint, illustrate and make unparalleled photo-art with hundreds of realistic brushes, exclusive media, and an array of artistic tools. Painter 2021 is as diverse as your imagination.
- Create: Paint from a blank canvas or create amazing photo art.
- Customize: Create your own brushes, textures, patterns, palettes and so much more.
- Extend: Enhance your paintings with outrageously creative brush packs.
From traditional paint brushes to those found only in the digital world of Painter, we’ve got your canvas covered with every brush and media type possible.
NEW! Features include:
Performance Updates
Run the intuitive Brush Accelerator™, which makes the most of your computer’s hardware and graphics card, to deliver the best possible painting experience. Work faster with double the number of GPU accelerated brush technologies, optimized drip and liquid brush technologies, and quicker brush and tool switching.
Thick Paint Workflow
Enjoy enhanced Thick Paint brushes and a NEW Thick Paint-compatible brush category that takes full advantage of the depth, lighting and shadows of piled paint. Easy-access panels let you instantly adjust how paint is applied to the brush and how the paint interacts with existing media. You can also convert the canvas or any layer to Thick Paint to create in surprising new ways.
Artificial Intelligence
Quick start your art by taking advantage of the 12 AI Styles that create a stylized painting from an image. Fine tune the settings for custom results and save your own presets. Experiment by adding a style, or more than one, to any type of imagery. Try stylizing a sketch, painting, illustration or just brushstrokes and see where styles can take you.
Clone Tinting
Enable the Clone Tinting feature while painting, then choose any color you like, use any clone brush, and render your clone source with custom color. This versatile tool also works with multi-point cloning allowing you to create entirely new compositions from existing artwork. Bonus! Create with a new Clone Tinting brush category.
Layers
Enhance your workflow by choosing to paint on any layer type and hide the canvas right from the New Image dialog. Visually identify what brushes are compatible with various layer types including Liquid Ink, Thick Paint and Watercolor. Plus take advantage of many other user-requested layer improvements.
Mac Touch Bar Support
On MacBook Pro and iPad, increase efficiency with new support for the Touch Bar that offers context-sensitive controls that change depending on the selected tool.
Mac Multi-Touch Trackpad Support
Responsive multi-touch Trackpad support allows you to perform useful actions by swiping and pinching, or spreading your thumb and forefinger on your trackpad.
Mac Sidecar Support
Use Sidecar on macOS Catalina to use your iPad as a secondary display that mirrors your Mac desktop. The Painter UI will auto-adjust based on the resolution of your iPad.
Apple Pencil Tint
With new tilt support for Apple Pencil, you can now tilt the selected brush while you paint to precisely control the shape of the brushstroke while using Sidecar.
Mac Core ML Support
Painter uses the latest and greatest machine learning (Core ML) technology from Apple to optimize your AI style experience.
Other Features include:
Canvas Control
Pan, zoom, rotate and apply lighting and surface texture with ease.
Additional Media
Enliven your canvas by using Papers, Flow Maps, Textures, Gradients and more.
Color Mixing
Use the Color Wheel, Mixer, Color Sets and Harmonies to craft the perfect color palette.
Brush Controls
Modify brush size, shape, angle, flow and so much more with in-depth brush control panels.
UI Customization
Create custom brushes, palettes and workspace layouts plus import custom content from others.
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