Corel Painter 2023 (Download)

Venture outside the lines
Step into the world of endless possibilities with our trusted, professional digital art software. Sketch, paint, illustrate, and produce unparalleled photo-art with hundreds of impeccably realistic artist-created brushes, superior blending, and an array of versatile art tools.

Experience brushes with greatness
We’ve got your canvas covered with every brush and media type possible. Craft your masterpiece with stunning reality using renowned dry, wet, and blending media.

Your art. Your way.
Professional painting software built by artists, for artists, to create and develop their signature style.

• Illustration
Bring ideas to life for published materials, fantasy art, films, games, and manufacturing using the most diverse digital art software.

• Fine Art
The mixture of realistic natural media and unique Painter artistic tools offer the freedom to create amazing end results no matter what the subject matter.

• Photo Art
Use artificial intelligence to jump start the painting process. Next, use Auto-Painting and cloning tools to masterfully paint images and produce stunning keepsakes or sellable works of art.

• Concept Art
Take advantage of Painter's versatility to quickly develop concepts for films, games, and manufacturing and create environments, creatures, and vehicles that inspire.

Natural-Media® brushes & exclusive media types

• New Fluid Paint brushes to paint softly with reduced dab or stroke overlap
• Realistic dry media like chalks, pencils, and pastels
• Authentic wet media such as Thick Paint, palette knives, watercolors
• Image Hoses, Pattern pens and Texture brushes add interesting elements
• Selection, blending, eraser and F-X brushes

Intelligent Photo Painting

• Artificial Intelligence Styles to quickly transform images to paintings
• Photo Restoration
• Smart Stroke auto painting
• Cloning with image, texture, or pattern

Customization

• Create your own brushes; import or buy from other artists
• Easily adjust color and brightness tolerance with handy sliders on your canvas
• Customize overlays and save them as presets for particular projects
• Organize media content in Custom Palettes and Palette Drawers  

Comprehensive Design Tools

• Grayscale in Navigator
• Symmetry tools include Mirror and Kaleidoscope
• Customizable Papers & Flow Maps
• Interactive Gradient tool & Express Painting
• Adjustments such as lighting, colors, depth of field or motion blur

Color Selection tools

• Universal color selection tools
• Work with artwork of different styles, by using color selection brushes
• Combine the power of a Magic Wand and the versatility of a Selection Brush
• Quickly select portions of an image based on color
• Paint with clone color and Clone Tinting

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
• Improved Drip & Liquid (Sargent) brush technologies
• Improved pan, zoom, and rotate speed

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

Windows

• Windows 11 or Windows 10 (64-bit), with the latest updates
• Intel or AMD 64-bit multicore processor with SSSE3 (or higher)
• 4 physical cores/8 logical cores or higher (recommended)
• AVX2 instruction set support (recommended)
• Modern GPU with OpenCL (1.2 or higher) compatibility(recommended)
• 8 GB RAM
• 16 GB or higher (recommended)
• 3.6 GB hard disk space for application files*
• Solid-state drive (recommended)
• 1280 x 800 @ 100% (or higher) screen resolution
• 1920 x 1200 @ 150% (or higher) (recommended)
• Mouse or Wintab-compatible tablet**
• To activate your product, you must connect to the Internet and register it first

Mac

• macOS 12 Monterey or macOS Big Sur 11.0 with the latest updates
  
• Multicore Intel with SSSE3 (or higher) or Apple M1 processor (or higher)
• 4 physical cores/8 logical cores or higher (recommended)
• AVX2 instruction set support or NEON (recommended)
• Modern GPU with OpenCL (1.2 or higher) compatibility (recommended)
• 8 GB RAM
• 16 GB RAM or higher (recommended)
• 2 GB hard disk space for application files
• Solid-state drive (recommended)
• Case-sensitive file systems are not supported
• 1280 x 800 @ 100% (or higher) screen resolution
• 1920 x 1200 @ 150% (or higher) (recommended)
• Mouse or tablet**
• To activate your product, you must connect to the Internet and register it first.

* Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7

** Corel Painter supports pen and display tablets from Wacom, Xencelabs, Huion and other Wintab-compatible tablets.