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Sketch, paint, illustrate and produce unparalleled photo-art with hundreds of realistic artist-created brushes, superior blending, impressive textures, and an array of versatile art tools.
Natural-Media® brushes & exclusive media types
• Hundreds of included brushes to experiment with
• Realistic dry media like chalks, pencils and pastels
• Authentic wet media such as Thick Paint, palette knives, watercolors
• Particles that spring, flow and glow
• Image Hoses, Pattern pens and 2.5D Texture brushes add interesting elements
• Selection, blending, cloning and F-X brushes
• Brush controls at your finger-tips for customization on the fly
Performance
• Painter’s Brush Accelerator™ applies optimal performance settings based on your CPU and GPU
• Now experience brushes up to 4.7X faster when running on the Apple M1 chip! Painter is optimized to run natively on Macs with M1 chip and Intel processors.
• Monterey 12 compatible
• Most popular brush engines are supported by GPU for faster performance
• Manage large brushes and memory-intensive operations at top speed
• Tilt and pressure sensitivity with Apple Pencil
• Two-finger gesture support on Apple Trackpad for pan / zoom / rotate
Intelligent Photo Painting:
• Artificial Intelligence Styles to quickly transform images to paintings
• Powerful cloning tools
• Clone Tinting brushes
• SmartStroke™ Auto-painting
Customization
• Create your own brushes & dabs, import libraries and share with other artists
• Adjust how brushes interact with canvas for optimal control
• Customize the workspace UI, papers, patterns and textures
• Organize media content in Custom Palettes and Palette Drawers
Comprehensive Design Tools
• Non-destructive layers and composite methods
• Symmetry tools include Mirror and Kaleidoscope
• Perfect composition with Perspective Guides, Layout Grids and Divine Proportion
• Adjust lighting, colors, depth of field or motion blur
Color tools
• Universal color selection tools
• Save Color Harmonies as Color Sets
• Mix colors in the artists’ Mixer panel
• Sample colors using the Dropper
• Paint with clone color and Clone Tinting
Compatibility
• Save files in PSD and preserve colors and layers when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter.
• Save or export to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, EPS
• Support for stylus tilt, rotation, bearing & pressure control while using a drawing tablet
Included Content and Learning
• Library of included canvas Papers, Flow Maps and Textures that interact with brushes
• Helpful tutorials, webinars, videos right in the Welcome Screen
• Access Help topics, Hints and Visual Tooltips to learn on the fly
Create the smoothest strokes with Fluid Paint
Gently build up paint, blend, sculpt, glaze, add texture and reflective light easily with Fluid Paint—the innovative new technology that gives you unmatched opacity control and smoothness in your brush strokes.
Repaint, edit, and adjust faster with improved selections
This update offers a more intuitive selections workflow, by enhancing visibility of selected areas, bringing critical controls forward, and improving most used Selection tools.
Select areas based on color with brushes
Combine the power of a Magic Wand and the versatility of a Selection Brush to quickly select portions of an image based on color. The new Color Selection gives you complete control as you brush over areas of the same color to create a selection. Then easily change colors, lighting, add textures or effects to the selected area.
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