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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.

Painter 2023

  • New Fluid Paint
  • New Fluid Papers
  • New Selection panel
  • New Color Selection brushes
  • New Overlay presets

A full 15-day free trial of this drawing software.
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Painter 2023
Build up the smoothest strokes with Fluid Paint

New 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.

Visualize better with overlay option

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.

Access to Selection controls

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.

Work faster with enhanced selections

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

New 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

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.

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What's Included

Main Applications

  • Corel Painter 2023 – Mac OS® and Windows® versions

Online Content*

  • Libraries of unique brushes, gradients, nozzles, patterns, paper textures and textures
  • Introduction Guide (PDF)
  • Videos and tutorials
  • HTML Help files (Windows)
  • Apple Help files (Mac)

*Internet connection required

System Requirements

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)
  • 3.6 GB hard disk space for application files*
    • 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 12 Monterey or macOS Big Sur 11.0 with the latest updates
  • Multicore Intel with SSSE3 (or higher) or Apple M1 processor (or higher)
    • 4 physical cores/8 logical cores or higher (recommended)
    • AVX2 instruction set support or NEON (recommended)
  • Modern GPU with OpenCL (1.2 or higher) compatibility (recommended)
  • 8 GB RAM
    • 16 GB RAM or higher (recommended)
  • 2 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.

* Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7

** Corel Painter supports pen and display tablets from Wacom, Xencelabs, Huion and other Wintab-compatible tablets.