Painter's exclusive tool set offers an extensive array of brushes, textures, canvas choices, and art materials to faithfully capture the subtleties of an artist's style for high-quality output for print and the Web. The artist can now create their finest work using the next generation brush engine technology, with new features including text along a curve, layering of vector and bitmap images together, improved performance, better memory handling and an easier to use interface.

Features

Liquid Ink
The realistic new Liquid ink layer mimics the viscosity and surface tension of a thick, gluey medium like ink or paint.

The Tools
Hundreds of brushes. Thousands of effects. You specify angle, pressure and bristle thickness to get the look you want. The new brush library architecture makes it easy to organize brushes, create custom libraries and share brushes with other users.

Enhanced Adobe Photoshop Compatibility
Open PSD files and save Painter images as PSD files, which you can open in Adobe Photoshop with the layers intact.

New Continuous and Variable Zoom
The number one request from Painter users, this new feature lets you view and work on an image at an arbitrary zoom factor.

Enhanced Text Capabilities
The shapes-based text tool and the Dynamic text feature are now integrated into a single, easy-to-use tool. Access all text options, including font, alignment, point size, tracking, leading, opacity and curve style, from a single drop-down palette.

Enhanced Color Management Features
Painter includes an enhanced interface for CMYK preview and profile selection, updated ICC profiles and color-managed CMYK import and export.

New Perspective Grids
Create three-dimensional scenes easily with this non-printing array of lines that converge at a single vanishing point. You can turn on vertical or horizontal lines (or both), and modify the location of the vanishing point, horizon line and ground plane using the Perspective Adjustor tool.

Features & Benefits

Brush loading allows you to pick up color on each individual bristle of a brush, letting you paint multi-color strokes on scanned images or creations started from scratch.

Interactive Image Hose sprays rotated and scaled images on to your image based on bearing, tilt and pressure of your hand. Hundreds of Image Hose nozzles have been included in Painter.

Painter lets you create and manipulate an unlimited number of industry-standard extensive layers in an image, each with its own blending mode and opacity. Grouping, masking and selections on and between layers is now easier than ever before!

CMYK TIFF format support makes it easy and fast to open and save your CMYK TIFF images without the use of an additional application.

Type text on a path and reshape the baseline by moving the Bezier curve handles. With Painter's Dynamic text, you can insert and edit, tilt, rotate, stretch, scale and type your words on a curve--all with automatic, yet configurable, drop shadows.

Accessible user interface provides you with the most streamlined, yet informative, user interface ever designed for Painter. The simplicity and the power of compact, expandable palettes will make working with Painter even more productive and fun!

Responsive palette knife that picks up, carves and moves paint responding to stylus bearing, tilt, and pressure--plus takes advantage of the new multi-color brush loading.

Brushes optionally may paint with thick Impasto paint. Impasto painting can both build up above the canvas or cut through multiple layers of paint all the way down to the canvas. Impasto paint is "plowed" around by brushes, giving a very realistic look. Each layer in Impasto painting can have its own depth and way of combining its depth with the depth of the layers beneath.

Natural airbrushes are now so realistic you'll swear you can hear a compressor in the background. Responding to tilt, bearing and pressure, paint pools and sprays in conic sections so realistic, the only thing missing is the mess.

Brush-size and shape cursors provide instant feedback for each painting tool used.

And for the fastest, smoothest painting ever, Painter includes multi-stroke spooling, motion damping and cubic interpolation.

And Much More...

Painter has superior support for the Wacom Intuos tablet, pen and airbrush technology. Take advantage of 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity, for smooth curves, gradual transitions and precise control. With it you'll paint more intuitively, illustrate with more freedom and edit images faster than ever before.

Updated plug-in host lets you add even more capabilities to Painter using popular plug-ins.

Increased file handing efficiency allows you to work on large images at high-quality print resolutions.

Supported Formats