Digital art & painting software

Brushes

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.

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Artists Favorites

These brush variants are so popular we created a special category to highlight them. Sargent is an everlasting expressive favorite.

Blenders

Painter’s superior blending capabilities are highlighted in this category, with Just add water being a cherished finishing brush.

Dab Stencils

Imagine knocking out areas of a brush so that the selected choice of media, including papers, flow maps, and textures, take center stage.

Natural Media Library

We narrowed down the beloved, true-to-traditional, brushes into an easy-to-access brush library to save you experimentation time.

Particles

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

Pattern Pens

These unique brushes produce visionary strokes that incorporate exciting patterns for a one-of-a-kind end result.

Thick Paint

Paint with revolutionary, voluminous media you can pile up, push around, carve into, scrape, and blend to painted perfection.

Texture Brushes

Paint with stunning 2.5D texture brushes that cover or blend with a source image extruding strokes off the canvas.

Color Harmonies

Six new color harmonies can be saved as color sets, plus universal color selection advancements throughout Painter make color selection a breeze.

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Layer Workflow

Improvements to the contextual and high-level menus save time and workflow tweaks to collapsing, locking, selecting and pasting improve layer quality and responsiveness.

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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.

Perspective Guides

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

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.

Surface Texture

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

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.

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.

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.