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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