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Why not try the original, time-tested, digital painting software built by artists, for artists? Our virtual art studio has exceeded the creative expectations of illustrators, concept, fine, photo and manga artists for over 28 years! We know that Painter® 2020 will make you a passionate artist too.
Painter 2020 offers realistic Natural-Media® and unique digital art brushes that dynamically respond to stylus movements and canvas textures, resulting in magnificently authentic brushstrokes. Best of all, there’s no waiting for paint to dry, no limit to media mixing, no running out of supplies, no toxins and no mess!
Let the intuitive tools within Painter guide you through the transformation from a photo to a painted masterpiece. Rapidly paint a photo using the technology of SmartStroke™ Auto-Painting. Or grab a brush and hand paint the canvas using your photo as a clone source, while Painter magically pulls the photo colors through the bristles. Whatever your approach, the result will be momentous.
Unleash your creativity with 900+ brushes! Create with Painter’s revered traditional media and experience proprietary Dab Stencils, Dynamic Speckles, Particles and Pattern Pens brushes, plus so much more. Bring that extra special something to your artwork. Don’t stop there! You can also import brushes from other artists and create your own brush variations that produce a singular result.
Painter will keep up with every brushstroke, saving you valuable time! The Brush Accelerator™ utility scores your system and automatically applies the optimal Painter performance settings allowing GPU and CPU to ensure Painter can move at lightning speed. Benefit from the bonus functionality that tells you how to strategically upgrade your system to further improve Painter’s performance.
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Up to 20x FASTER
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Up to 4x FASTER
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Up to 5x FASTER
Click an image below to explore the workflow for the type of art you create.
Browse our outrageously creative brush packs to enhance any kind of painting. Simplify your workflow with the perfect brush pack solution!
Find just what you need to succeed! Hundreds of useful tutorial videos await you in our Discovery Center. Browse by Painter version to learn tricks relevant to your goals. Or, share artwork, benefit from tips, register for webinars and enter contests.
Check out the brush categories that make Painter stand apart from other painting software!
You’ve never experienced such blazing brushes. Test out the Fast Simple and Ornate categories to assess Painter’s performance enhancements and check out new Watercolor and Digital Watercolor variants.
These brush variants are so popular we created a special category to highlight them. Sargent is an everlasting expressive favorite.
Painter’s superior blending capabilities are highlighted in this category, with Just add water being a cherished finishing brush.
Imagine knocking out areas of a brush so that the selected choice of media, including papers, flow maps, and textures, take center stage.
We narrowed down the beloved, true-to-traditional, brushes into an easy-to-access brush library to save you experimentation time.
These physics-inspired brushes spring, flow, glow and gravitate onto the canvas, offering an infinite number of creative possibilities.
These unique brushes produce visionary strokes that incorporate exciting patterns for a one-of-a-kind end result.
Paint with revolutionary, voluminous media you can pile up, push around, carve into, scrape, and blend to painted perfection.
Paint with stunning 2.5D texture brushes that cover or blend with a source image extruding strokes off the canvas.
Click here to see all of Painter’s amazing brush categories!
Explore 36 brush categories and view improved brush dab and stroke previews at-a-glance. Rapidly switch to your last used brush and enjoy more painting pixels with a compact Brush Selector option.
Enjoy the largest selection of digital art media types on the market comprised of award-winning Natural-Media® and Painter signature brushes, plus create your own. Watch Now
Brush optimization is in your hands. Modify any brush variant to suit your needs. There are many different adjustment options such as size, shape, angle, flow, and many more. Watch Now
Use a combination of amazing tools and media to craft the perfect composition
Six new color harmonies can be saved as color sets, plus universal color selection advancements throughout Painter make color selection a breeze.
Improvements to the contextual and high-level menus save time and workflow tweaks to collapsing, locking, selecting and pasting improve layer quality and responsiveness.
Use guides and grids based on classical composition, creating a sense of proportion that guides the eye of the viewer across a painting.
Display non-printing Perspective Guides to create objects that give the impression that they are receding, or vanishing, from view.
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.
When finalizing your painting it might help to add touches such as exhibiting paper texture, emphasizing 3D brushstrokes or applying directional lighting.
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.
Flow maps are textures designed to maximize the creative potential of the Real Watercolor and Particle brushes by helping direct the flow of paint.
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.
No experience required! Open a photo, launch the Auto-Painting Panels and prep the photo, auto-paint and restore details with ease.
You can use images, textures, and patterns as clone sources. Use the Clone Source Panel to open the clone sources, change size and shape if desired, and paint from the embedded opaque or transparent images.
Choose Clone or Quick Clone and photo paint using Cloners brushes. Clone creates a new document with your image on canvas where Quick Clone clears the image from the canvas activating Tracing Paper reference of your photo.
A painting environment that puts the focus on your art
The Brush Accelerator™ scores your system and applies the optimal Painter performance settings, which automatically allows the GPU and CPU to ensure Painter is lightning fast.
Revamped property bars, flyouts and palettes for brushes and tools put the most important controls at your fingertips, and consolidated Library Panels save precious painting pixels.
The pressure of your stylus on a tablet determines the density and width of your strokes. Each artist uses a different pressure level and you can adjust Painter to match with Brush Tracking!
Customize brushes, media content, palettes, shortcut keys and more to set up the perfect work environment. Plus, import content from others to complete your toolset.
Improve your painting performance by taking time to learn. Our Discovery Center is a one-stop shop for video tutorials, tips, webinar registration, contest entrance, gallery uploads and more!
Many Painter artists use Photoshop to edit imagery while turning to Painter to add artistic brushstrokes. Open layered .PSD files in Painter and save back out to Photoshop.
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.
When painting with a Wacom pressure sensitive device, Painter’s brushes automatically react to pressure, tilt and bearing plus you can use the Art Pen for full rotation.
Painter 2020 |
Painter 2019 |
Painter 2018 |
Painter 2017 |
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User Interface & Tools | ||||
NEW Color Harmonies | ||||
NEW Color ramps in sliders | ||||
NEW Mirror & perspective tools in brush property bar | ||||
NEW Narrow Brush Selector | ||||
NEW Single access point brush editing | ||||
NEW UI shape and media distinction | ||||
NEW Universal color picker | ||||
ENHANCED Consolidated library panels | ||||
ENHANCED Easy access to tool controls | ||||
ENHANCED Inline dab and stroke previews | ||||
ENHANCED Layer control | ||||
ENHANCED UI for color controls | ||||
Dark User Interface | ||||
Drag to Zoom | ||||
650+ resigned application icons | ||||
Brush Hints | ||||
Selection Brush Tool | ||||
Texture Synthesis | ||||
Customizable User Interface | ||||
Customized Artist Layouts | ||||
Interactive Gradient tool & express painting | ||||
Palette Drawers | ||||
Portable Brush Selector | ||||
Quick Access Property Bars | ||||
Visual Tooltips | ||||
Brush Search Engine | ||||
Color Wheel, Mixer, Color Sets | ||||
Command Bar | ||||
Composition Panels | ||||
Document lighting control | ||||
Fill Tool | ||||
Image Navigator | ||||
Paper and Flow Map Rotation | ||||
Perspective Guides | ||||
Reference Image Panel | ||||
Symmetry Tools | ||||
Transformation Tool | ||||
Photo Art Specific Tools | ||||
NEW Clone color mode from all color UI | ||||
Cloning with Texture | ||||
Multiple Clone Sources | ||||
Resize Clone Sources | ||||
Transparency Cloning Support | ||||
Auto-Painting Panels | ||||
Clone Source Palette | ||||
Performance/Support | ||||
NEW Brush Accelerator | ||||
NEW GPU acceleration for stamp brushes | ||||
ENHANCED Brush lag reduced | ||||
ENHANCED Brush switching performance | ||||
ENHANCED Eraser tool lag reduced | ||||
ENHANCED Impasto brush performance | ||||
ENHANCED Pan, zoom and rotate speed | ||||
ENHANCED Startup and shutdown speed | ||||
ENHANCED Tool switching performance | ||||
Crash Reduction | ||||
Multi-Core Support | ||||
Wacom Multi-touch support | ||||
Windows Touch Support | ||||
Adobe Photoshop Support (PSD) | ||||
Color Management Support | ||||
PNG Support | ||||
RTS Support | ||||
Wacom Tablet Support | ||||
2-in-1 or dual personality | ||||
64-Bit Mac and Windows | ||||
Brushes | ||||
NEW Fast and Simple performance brush category | 12 additional |
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NEW Fast and Ornate performance brush category | 14 additional |
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ENHANCED Digital Watercolor | 1 additional |
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ENHANCED Watercolor | 4 additional |
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Stamps | ||||
Natural Media Brush Library | ||||
Sargent | ||||
Selection Brushes | ||||
Thick Paint | ||||
Dab Stencils | ||||
Glazing | ||||
Texture Cover | ||||
Texture Source Blending | ||||
Acrylics & Gouache | ||||
Airbrushes | ||||
Artists' Favorites | ||||
Artists' Oils | ||||
Audio Expression | ||||
Blenders | ||||
Chalk, Pastel & Crayons | ||||
Cloners | ||||
Dynamic Speckles | ||||
Erasers | ||||
F-X | ||||
Image Hose | ||||
Impasto | ||||
Liquid Ink | ||||
Markers | ||||
Oils | ||||
Palette Knives & Sponges | ||||
Particles | ||||
Pattern Pens | ||||
Pens & Pencils | ||||
Real Wet Oil | ||||
Simple | ||||
Smart Strokes | ||||
Content | ||||
Patterns | ||||
Flow Maps | ||||
Gradients | ||||
Images | ||||
Looks | ||||
Nozzles | ||||
Papers | ||||
Selections | ||||
Textures | ||||
Weaves |
* Versions 1803, 1809 and 1903 of Windows 10 are supported as well as versions that will be released during the life cycle of Painter 2020.
** Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.
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