Corel® Painter® 2021

Create your signature style with renowned digital art software. Sketch, paint, illustrate and make unparalleled photo-art with hundreds of realistic artist-created brushes, exclusive media, and an array of artistic tools. With substantial processing strength to easily handle large canvases and powerful media you can confidently paint original works as diverse as your imagination. Find inspiration by sharing custom content with fellow artists and extend your knowledge with a library of free learning resources and live webinars. Try our 30-day trial for Mac or PC for a first-hand painting experience. Painter® 2021 – Accelerate your art.

Top 10 Reasons to Buy
 
1. Natural-Media® that replicates reality
Immerse yourself in an extensive selection of professional Natural-Media® brushes. Craft your masterpiece with stunning reality using authentic dry, wet, and blending media. From chalks, pencils, and pastels, to Thick Paint, acrylics, palette knives, pens, watercolors, and so many more realistic brushes. 

2. Exclusive media types
Create unforgettable art with Painter’s proprietary media, including Particles that spring, flow and glow, along with Image Hoses that spray the image of your imagination. Make an unforgettable mark with visionary Pattern Pens that command attention and Thick Texture brushes that extrude your selected texture and bring that extraordinary look to your art.

3. Intelligent photo painting
Transform favorite photos into breathtaking paintings using the powerful cloning and photo-painting tools in Painter® 2021. Clone your images by dipping your brush directly into the photo or use AI Styles and the Auto-Painting palette to rapidly paint a masterpiece for you. Produce incredible photo art with ease using the powerful SmartStroke™ brush technology that follows lines and contours from within your picture.

4. Incomparable composition tools
Paint in perfect symmetry with Mirror painting and create beautiful mandalas using the Kaleidoscope tool. Set a flawless scene with 1-, 2- and 3-point Perspective Guides, and craft the perfect composition using the rule of thirds. Even if you aspire to paint like Da Vinci, the Divine Proportion tools will ensure your final composition is both stimulating and dynamic.

5. Versatile fill and color
Cover your canvas with beautiful, interactive gradients that can be express painted, or add amazing textures that bring an artistic flair to your compositions. Craft the perfect color palette using the Color wheel, color harmonies, artists’ Mixer pad, and color sets.

6. All-inclusive canvas control
Rotate your canvas on the fly to achieve that perfect painting angle or turn your favorite papers and textures in any direction, at any time. When painting with a drawing tablet, use brush tracking for ultimate pressure-sensitive control. Many of Painter’s brushes allow for tilt, rotation, and bearing. Plus, multi-touch support makes navigating your canvas a breeze.

7. Intuitive workspace to match your workflow
Enjoy a flexible workspace that can be customized for your specific needs. Use the brush search to find the perfect brush or the built-in Layouts that highlight tools for specific workflows. Choose a UI color theme, import additional content from fellow artists, or customize your own and organize them in Custom Palettes and Palette Drawers to eliminate desktop clutter.
 
8. Built-in learning resources
Get all the support you need! The moment you launch the Painter application, the Welcome Screen will greet you with helpful new tutorials, plus guide you to more learning videos and webinars. Open the in-app Visual Tooltips to see how adjusting Painter’s brush controls will visually impact your brush selection and access Brush Hints to help you understand the mechanics behind special media types and brush technology.
 
9. Extensive compatibility
Preserve colors and layers with ease when transferring files between Photoshop® and Painter while working on either a Mac or PC. Painter can easily manage large brushes and memory-intensive operations at top speed. Paint using a pressure sensitive drawing tablet and enjoy using Sidecar with Apple Pencil Tilt on iPad, plus multi-touch trackpad and Touch Bar support on MacBook Pro that will greatly improve the Mac workflow.

10. Performance optimization 
Run the intuitive Brush Accelerator™ in Painter 2021 to analyze your system and have it automatically apply the preferred Painter performance settings. Painter will evaluate your computer’s hardware and graphics card to deliver the best possible painting experience. In addition, Painter can easily manage large brushes and memory-intensive operations at top speed.