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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
• Most popular brush engines are supported by GPU for faster performance
• Manage large brushes and memory-intensive operations at top speed
• Access top controls from Apple Touch Bar
• 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

New in this version

Get the latest update:
- 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.
- macOS Monterey 12 compatible
- Captured Dab Hotfix: Reset a brush that uses a captured dab in order to restore its original dab shape.