Digital art & painting software

Pattern Pens

These unique brushes produce visionary strokes that incorporate exciting patterns with 5 new patterns to choose from in our 2019 version. Select from the existing library or create your own.

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Stamps

Save tons of painting time by applying impactful adornments to concept and character artwork such as tattoos, scars, scratches, dents, trees and more.

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Real Watercolor

Enjoy wet brushes that interact with paper texture and grain—flowing, mixing and absorbing into the paper, just like the real thing.

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Sargent

These Painter brush variants are so popular we have further expanded the category to include six exciting new brushes. Paint with rich brushstrokes that will enliven your canvas.

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Thick Paint

Paint with voluminous media that lets you pile up, push around, carve into, scrape, and blend your way to realistic painted perfection.

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Natural Media Library

We narrowed down all of the artist-favorite Natural-Media® emulation brushes into an easy-to-access and explore brush library. Experimenting has never been so effortless.

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Particles

Physics-inspired brushes that spring, flow, glow and gravitate onto the canvas, offering an infinite number of creative possibilities.

Texture Brushes

Paint with stunning 2.5D texture brushes that extrude texture off the canvas. Choose from Texture Cover or Texture Source Blending categories.

Color Selection

View color choices more clearly, pin the Temporal Color Selector for color selection where you need it, and use shortcuts to reliably sample with the eyedropper.

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Divine Proportion and Layout Grid

Use guides and grids based on classical composition, creating a sense of proportion that guides the eye of the viewer across a painting.

Flow Maps

Flow maps are textures designed to maximize the creative potential of the Real Watercolor and Particle brushes by helping direct the flow of paint.

Mirror Painting and Kaleidoscope

Easily create a symmetrical painting by allowing Painter to create a mirror image by reproducing brushstrokes on the opposite side of the canvas or multiple reflections of mirror planes.

Papers

Choose from a library of included canvas Paper textures. Adjust, import or create your own and either cover or reveal texture using a variety of media types.

Perspective Guides

Display non-printing Perspective Guides to create objects that give the impression that they are receding, or vanishing, from view.

Surface Texture

When finalizing your painting it might help to add touches such as exhibiting paper texture, emphasizing 3D brushstrokes or applying directional lighting.

Textures

Integrate intricate surface texture into your projects by selectively painting or filling portions of the canvas. Use Texture Synthesis to automatically generate a larger texture for you.

Performance Enhancements

Thanks to enhanced support for multi-core processors and CPUs that use AVX2 extensions and extensive code optimizations, this is the fastest version of Painter yet. A huge selection of brushes are noticeably faster — some as much as twice as fast. You can also take advantage of faster document rendering when zooming, panning and rotating — up to 50% faster.

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Dark user interface

Launch a refreshing, professional interface that makes your artwork the focus. We have meticulously transformed the main user interface elements in Painter 2019 to reveal a darker theme that allows the interface to melt away and painting to take center stage.

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Application icons and controls

Bring simplicity to your workspace with crisp, clean and responsive environment! Painter now features over 650 redesigned icons to make things easier on the eyes, simple to understand and more efficient to use. Also try using modifier keys to precisely select values.

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Drag to zoom

Use your stylus or mouse to zoom in and out of your document quickly by using the Click + Drag option. Move to the right to zoom in, and move to the left to zoom out. Hold the Shift key and drag-click to zoom into a specific area of interest. Now you have all your zooming needs in one tool!

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Brush Ghost

Paint without any lag time with strokes that will always track underneath your Brush Ghost. You will now see a cursor while painting but you can change which icon appears during brushing. As you rotate the stylus, your Brush Ghost will rotate with you and offer real-time feedback.

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Windows Multi-touch

Experience the intuitive way to simultaneously pan, zoom and smoothly rotate your canvas using two fingers on a Windows touch device. To reset your painting view simply double-tap with two fingers. You will greatly enjoy this natural sketching and painting experience.

Customizable User Interface

Customize brushes, media content, palettes, shortcut keys and more to set up the perfect work environment. Plus you can import content from others to complete your toolset.