The Top Choice in Painting Software by Artists Worldwide!
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 25 years! We know that Painter® 2020 will make you a passionate artist too.
Make a Natural Transition from Traditional to Digital
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!
An Unparalleled Photo Art Experience
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.
Colossal Brush Collection
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.
Time-Saving Performance
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.
NEW! & Enhanced Features of Painter 2020:
New 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.
New Color Harmonies
Six new color harmonies can be saved as color sets, plus universal color selection advancements throughout Painter make color selection a breeze.
Real Watercolor
Enjoy wet brushes that interact with paper texture and grain—flowing, mixing and absorbing into the paper, just like the real thing.
Enhanced 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.
New Automatic Performance Optimization
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.
New Interface Advancements
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.
Other Features include:
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
Painter’s superior blending capabilities are highlighted in this category, with Just add water being a cherished finishing brush.
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.
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