A Complete Digital Art Studio!
Expand your artistic capabilities using a phenomenal collection of
the world’s most realistic digital Natural-Media®. Accomplish
natural, professional results with Painter® 2018 that will have
people asking – Is it real paint or is it Painter? Craft your art
with painting software that comfortably blurs the lines between
analog and digital.
Top Reasons to try Painter 2018:
Exclusive Media
Create outstanding art with other-worldly media types that only
digital art software can deliver.
Incomparable Composition
Paint a masterpiece with perfect symmetry & perspective using
built-in composition tools.
Flexible and Productive
Custom brushes and palettes, and the ability to import content from
others or create your own.
Supports Popular Hardware and Software
Painter plays well with Photoshop and drawing tablets, and runs on
Mac and Windows.
NEW! Features of Painter 2018 include:
Thick Paint
Plunge into a digital painting experience like no other with
voluminous media that lets you pile up, push around, carve into,
scrape, and blend your way to realistic painted perfection. Apply
pressure, tilt and rotation using Bristle Brushes, and work with
Palette Knives to achieve unbelievably real brushstrokes.
Cloning Capabilities
Award-winning photo art tools just got even more powerful, and the
ability to collage and edit photo art is now incredibly simple.
Create clone sources in Painter 2018, or import and adjust the size
and shape of your clone source on the fly. Experience the new
freedom of painting from transparent clone sources that seamlessly
blend into your composition. Bonus! Save your favorite clone
sources with transparency to your library for use in future
masterpieces.
Texture Synthesis
Select an area of your canvas or a favorite texture and allow
Painter to use its DNA to automatically generate a larger image for
you. Use this unique texture fingerprint to add captivating depth
and detail to your final works of art. Best of all, you can save
these newly expanded textures for use in your future works of
art.
2.5 Texture Brushes
Paint with stunning 2.5D texture brushes that lift paint off the
canvas. Import a 2D rendering of a 3D model and use source blending
to brush on thick scales, pores or nubby texture. Or, paint direct
onto your canvas to add alluring character to your art. Finish
things off by skillfully adjusting the ambient surface lighting of
the painted result to really make your canvas shine.
Enhanced Drip & Liquid Technologies
Artist-favorite brushes that use drip or liquid technologies are
now extremely versatile. Paint with the beloved Sargent brush on an
empty layer while blending with underlying brushstrokes. Plus, with
a wide range of fresh new Natural-Media® brushes, you’ll find
endless inspiration for your canvas creations.
Selection Brushes
Use Painter’s new selection brush tool, including the ability to
customize unique brush shapes in order to rapidly add or subtract
from selections with precision and control. Once you select and
customize the perfect brush, you can save it to use repeatedly in
forthcoming artwork.
Texture Fill
Fill your canvas with dramatic texture. Whether using the Paint
Bucket or the new Fill Effect menu, your entire texture library is
waiting to be artistically transferred to your canvas.
Random Grain Rotation
Select your favorite grainy brush, enable the random grain
rotation, and Painter will slightly rotate the grain in each
individual stroke, creating a more natural and organic look to your
work.
Included Content
Explore the new Natural-Media brush library for easy access to
brushes that mimic traditional media, plus additional textures to
add structure to your art. Find just what you need by exploring the
new 2018 brushes. Simply enter “2018” into the search window and
your list of results will instantly appear.
And much, much more....
Other Features include:
Auto-Painting Panels
No experience required! Open a photo, launch the Auto-Painting
Panels and prep, auto-paint and restore details with ease.
Clone Source
Use the Clone Source Panel to open the clone sources of your
choosing, change size and shape if desired, and paint from the
embedded opaque or transparent images.
Clone Brushes
These brushes are built to grab and paint. Choose the Cloners brush
category and any brush variant and paint direct from the photo.
Image Hose
Artfully spray the objects of your imagination onto the canvas.
Paint your own custom hose or choose from the included library to
quickly populate your canvas with anything you desire.
Particles
Physics-inspired brushes that spring, flow, glow and gravitate onto
the canvas, offering an infinite number of creative
possibilities.
Pattern Pens
These unique brushes produce visionary strokes incorporating
exciting patterns. Choose from the existing library or create your
own unique pattern to paint with.
Texture Source Blending
These brushes seamlessly blend the texture source directly into
your rendered 3D output, or let you paint with full control over
the texture color, luminance, location and distortion.
Divine Proportion and Layout Grid
Use guides & grids based on classical composition, creating a
sense of proportion that guides the eye of the viewer across a
painting.
Mirror Painting & 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.
Perspective Guides
Display non-printing Perspective Guides to create objects that give
the impression that they are receding, or vanishing, from view.
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