Corel Painter 12 is the world's leading digital art software. Its combination of inventive drawing tools, Natural-Media brushes, image cloning capabilities and virtually unlimited customization options give you total freedom for creative expression. Internationally recognized for its RealBristle brushes, Painter offers the most realistic form of digital painting available in the digital art realm. And with the introduction of new Real Watercolor and Real Wet Oil brushes, plus exciting creative features exclusive to this version, Painter continues to change what's possible in art!
Overview
Designed for artists by artists, Corel Painter 12 opens up a world of creativity. With an impressive array of brushes, paper textures, paints, oils, watercolors and more, if you can dream it, you can create it in Painter! Thanks to extensive file support, you can also build upon projects you've started in other programs, making Painter a great complement to Adobe Photoshop. This latest version of the world's leading digital art software helps artists evolve their creative possibilities more than eversee it for yourself with a free trial!
Learn who uses Painter.
Painter rocks the art world
In honor of Painter's milestone 20th anniversary, artists from around the world have created video vignettes to share their favorite Painter tools and techniques. Dive into the heart of their art and discover just what makes Painter rock for them!
Most realistic digital painting experience
Painter's RealBristle brushes represent a major milestone for digital painting, reproducing the movement and feeling of traditional art on canvas when paired with a graphics tablet.
Progressive digital art capabilities
Exciting new Kaleidoscope and Mirror painting features let you create electrifying patterns and colors on canvas, leveraging the symmetry, speed and precision of mirrored planes. This Kaleidoscope painting capability is exclusive to Painter!
Designed for comfort
A new interface streamlines your brush selection, libraries, color controls and image set up. High-quality rendering gives you a clear view when zooming into the finer details.
Perfect complement to other software and hardware
Photoshop support lets you easily work with Photoshop files and correctly preserve colors and layers when transferring files from Photoshop to Painter. Support for the latest pen tablets from Wacom gives you exceptional freedom of movement.
More reasons to love Painter!
"The most realistic digital brushes on the planet just got better!"
- Mike Thompson - Illustrator, Designer & Painter Master
"Love it! By far the best yet! Congratulations to the Corel Painter team who have really thought through the user experience and workflow on this latest version."
- Jeremy Sutton - Portrait artist & Painter Master
"The redesigned interface in Painter 12 is streamlined and more efficient to use. If you like to paint, then Painter is the application for you; its natural media brushes and textures are not available using other programs."
- Cher Threinen-Pendarvis - Fine Artist & Painter Master
Features
What's included
Main Application
- Corel Painter 12 Mac OS and Windows versions
Content
- Libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper textures and brushes
- Getting Started Guide (printed & PDF versions)
- Online videos and tutorials
- HTML Help files (Windows)
- Apple Help files (Mac)
- 7 Downloadable workspaces
Progressive digital art capabilities
New! Kaleidoscope painting
Create electrifying kaleidoscope effects on canvas with this exciting new tool that only exists in Painter 12! Use your choice of media to paint transfixing patterns and colors, using three to 12 mirrored planes. No other digital painting software in the world can produce such a 'wow' reaction!
New! Mirror Painting
Save time as you paint with perfect precision! This new tool copies every stroke you make onto the opposite side of your canvas. You choose whether it's mirrored horizontally, vertically or both. It's double the fun in half the time!
RealBristle Dry Media
Reproduce the movement and feeling of traditional art on canvas! Painter's RealBristle brushes represent a major milestone for digital painting, providing the most realistic painting experience when paired with a graphics tablet. Designed to work with a Wacom pen tablet, Painter's RealBristle Dry Media tools, such as Chalk, Marker, Pen and Pencil media, let you control opacity, color intensity, ink and shading simply by adjusting the pressure, angle and speed of your pen on tablet.
New! Real Watercolor
Achieve the most authentic results! This breakthrough tool blends and dries more realistically than any other watercolor brush. Control wind direction for drying, and watch colors interact with the paper grain and change pigmentation in the most lifelike way. Also customize your paper texture settings to influence how the watercolor paint flows and pools on the canvas.
New! Real Wet Oil
All of the fun, none of the mess or smell! With 12 new tools, the Real Wet Oil category offers the perfect solution for blending and painting flowing colors. Add solvents to the canvas for even more control. This new brush category gives artists that heightened sense of realism that only Painter 12 can deliver.
New! Clone source palette
Save time when working with photos. You can now create and manage numerous images for cloning within a single Painter file, using the new Clone Source palette. Simply create a library of objects that can easily be cloned and inserted into a painting.
Smart photo-painting tools
Transform photos into paintings by hand or let the Auto-Painting palette paint a photo for you, using your choice of brush and media. Painter contains sophisticated SmartStroke brush technology that follows the lines and contours in a picture just like a real artist would.
Customizable surface texturing
Give your art a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting software or photo-painting tools can produce. Choose paper textures for your canvas or create and customize your own texaftures to produce really unique artwork. The new Real Wet Oil and Real Watercolor palettes give you further options for controlling canvas texture.
Smart Blur effect
The Smart Blur effect lets you quickly apply a painterly effect to an image. By smoothing out colors and sharp details, the Smart Blur effect softens the appearance of an image with a result that is similar to applying soft brushstrokes.
System Requirements
Windows
- Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows XP (32-bit edition), with the latest Service Packs installed
- 1 GHz processor or higher
- 1 GB RAM
- 600 MB hard disk space for application files*
- 1280 x 800 screen resolution
- Mouse or tablet
- DVD drive
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or higher
*Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
Macintosh
- Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 (with latest revision)
- Intel Core Duo
- 1 GB RAM
- 300 MB of HD space for application files
- 1280 x 800 screen resolution
- Mouse or tablet
