Painter 12 (Windows/Mac)
Leading Digital Art Software
- FREE Painter 12.2 SP1 Update! (Painter 12 customers only)
- Most realistic digital painting tools
- Breakthrough brush developments
- Customize to your liking
- Supports Adobe® Photoshop® files
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FREE Painter 12.2 SP1 Update!
New Mac performance gains & layer improvements
(Painter 12 customers only)
Corel® Painter™ 12 is the world’s leading digital art software. Designed for artists by artists, it opens up a world of creativity by offering progressive drawing tools, lifelike Natural-Media® brushes and the most realistic digital painting experience. With its impressive array of brushes, paper textures, paints, oils, watercolors and more, there are no limits to what you can create! And 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 helps artists evolve their creative possibilities more than ever! See it for yourself with a free trial—Painter is changing what’s possible in art.
Also available: Corel Painter Lite
Coming soon: Painter® Freestyle™ Beta
The world's first motion-enabled digital art app
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
Painter 12 offers seven different workspaces, designed to make new users, Adobe® Photoshop® users, photographers, concept artists and others feel at home. Choose the workspace that’s right for you, or create your own as you go along.
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.
What's New
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New interface
Welcome to comfort! An interface refresh streamlines brush selection, image navigation, libraries, color controls and image set up to make the workspace more intuitive and quicker to navigate—changes that will especially appeal to people familiar with the Adobe® Photoshop® environment. This streamlined approach will also significantly reduce the learning curve for new users.
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New Workspaces
Painter 12 introduces 7 custom workspaces to help artists from all backgrounds quickly familiarize themselves with Painter. Choose from the following workspaces, created by the Painter team and Masters: What’s New, Photoshop User, Creativity, Concept Sketching, Illustration, Portrait & Collage and Watercolor.
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Enhanced speed—Painter 12 is 5x faster!
Ready, set, go! Brush performance is 3 to 5 times faster, while a range of Painter tasks, such as opening files and flattening, flipping or blurring images is up to 3 times faster than Painter 11.
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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.
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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!
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New Real Watercolor & Real Wet Oil tools
Achieve the most authentic results! New Real Watercolor brushes blend and dry more realistically than any other watercolor brush. New Real Wet Oil brushes offer the perfect solution for blending and painting flowing colors. Add solvents to the canvas for even more control.
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Enhanced brush tracking
Customize Painter to remember your touch. Brush tracking is an amazing feature that lets you instantly program Painter to remember your preferred brush speed and pressure sensitivity for each individual brush!
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New temporal Color Changer palette
A handy addition, the new Color Changer palette pops up on screen for a quick, easy way to change your brush color. The palette only sticks around for as long as you need it, keeping your workspace clean.
New Navigator panel
Navigating your canvas and working with large images just got easier. Use the Preview window to drag and change your focal point on the canvas—perfect for moving to a different area of the image without having to switch tools or adjust the zoom level.
New agile brush control
Change settings, such as brush size, opacity, squeeze and angle, using interactive controls that let you make rapid adjustments from one centralized location. Scalable resizing lets you preserve correct brush proportions. Use shortcuts to access brush settings even faster!
…and much more! Visit the Features page to get the full picture and see Painter 12 in action.
Features
On this page:
- What's included
- Progressive digital art capabilities
- Breakthrough brush developments
- Customize to your liking
- Designed for unlimited experimentation
- Perfect complement to other popular software & hardware
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.
Breakthrough brush developments
New! Agile brush control
Change settings, such as brush size, opacity, squeeze and angle, using interactive controls that let you make rapid adjustments from one centralized location. Scalable resizing lets you preserve correct brush proportions. Use shortcuts to access brush settings even faster!
Streamlined brush categories
Find the right brush quicker and easier than ever! The brush categories have been consolidated into families and sub-families, giving you a clear path to finding the perfect brush.
New! Dynamic brush settings
Blend brushstrokes better than ever with dynamic settings. New controls let you set the merge mode and opacity for each brushstroke, resulting in much smoother blending. This feature, combined with new airbrush variants, will especially appeal to Photoshop users.
New! Digital airbrushes
With six new Digital airbrushes, Painter 12 helps you achieve stunning airbrush effects. These new airbrushes produce effects similar to blend modes in Photoshop and work in concert with the new Computed Circular brush controls. The controls let you determine how brushstrokes interact with each layer of the canvas by adjusting opacity and hardness.
New! Computed Circular brush controls
With the new Computed Circular brush control panel, you can specify the opacity and hardness of your brush.
New! Gel brushes and Merge modes
The new Gel brushes let you tint an image's underlying color with the color of the brushstroke color. Customize Gel brushes by using the new Merge Mode brush controls on the General brush control panel.
New! Multicore support for brushes
Multicore brush support maximizes brush performance when working on a multicore computer.
Customize to your liking
New! Interface
Welcome to comfort! An interface refresh streamlines brush selection, image navigation, libraries, color controls and image set up to make the workspace more intuitive and quicker to navigate—changes that will especially appeal to people familiar with the Adobe® Photoshop® environment. This streamlined approach will significantly reduce the learning curve for new users.
Enhanced! Brush tracking
Customize Painter to remember your touch. Brush tracking is an amazing feature that lets you instantly program Painter to remember your preferred brush speed and pressure sensitivity for each individual brush! Just as one size does not fit all, one speed does not suit all. Be particular with Painter!
New! Workspaces
New to Painter 12, we've introduced some custom workspaces to help artists from all backgrounds quickly familiarize themselves with Painter.
New! Navigator panel
Navigating your canvas and working with large images just got easier. Use the Preview window to drag and change your focal point on the canvas—perfect for moving to a different area of the image without having to switch tools or adjust the zoom level. The Navigator panel also gives you quick access to various tools, such as drawing modes, Impasto layer, Tracing Paper, grids and color management.
Enhanced! New Image dialog box
You can now create custom presets, such as canvases, colors and paper textures, for your artwork. The New Image dialog box lets you give your image a title and choose canvas dimensions, resolution, color and paper texture before you start painting or drawing.
New! Panel and palette behavior
With Painter 12, you can rearrange panels and palettes to suit your workflow. Group task-related panels together on a palette, snap panels and palettes to the edge of the application window, or leave them floating in the workspace for easy access.
New! Color Changer palette
A handy addition, the new Color Changer palette pops up on screen for a quick, easy way to change your brush color. The palette only sticks around for as long as you need it, keeping your workspace clean.
Custom palettes
Tailor Painter to your liking. Create custom palettes for special projects and workflows you use frequently. Once you create a custom palette, it is saved from session to session for convenient and immediate access. There are no limits to the number you can create!
Transformation capabilities
Switch between different Transform modes from one centralized tool, and choose whether to transform the complete contents of a layer, or selected content, for greater speed, flexibility and precision.
Designed for unlimited experimentation
High-value, built-in content
Painter comes with a broad array of pre-installed paper textures and brushes, such as watercolor media, acrylic paint, oil, pastel, chalk, pencil, marker and more. Choose an existing brush or create your own on the spot to produce unique brushstrokes!
New! High-Quality Display
Get the best view! When zoomed in at more than 100%, the High-Quality Display option smoothes the edges of your image, allowing you to view it as it will print for a clear idea of the end result.
Smart composition tools
Divine Proportion and the Rule of Thirds and Fifths guide help you visually arrange your canvas before sketching or painting to create perfect compositions.
World-famous art styles
Create art like your favorite muses! The Underpainting palette includes color schemes based on various artistic styles, such as Impressionist, Classical, Modern, Watercolor, Sketchbook and Chalk Drawing. You can also match your Underpainting palette to that of any open image for consistency.
Match Palette effect
Match the color and intensity between two images. Just open an image that features your desired color scheme and use the Match Palette effect to bring that color to the image you want to change.
Enhanced! Speed—Painter 12 is 5x faster!
Ready, set, go! Brush performance is 3 to 5 times faster, while a range of Painter tasks, such as opening files and flattening, flipping or blurring images is up to 3 times faster than Painter 11.
Perfect complement to other popular software & hardware
Adobe® Photoshop® support
Expand your possibilities! Painter is a powerful addition to your existing digital art software, providing a high-performance brush engine and the most realistic digital painting tools in an environment that so closely reproduces the look, feel and results of traditional art, you may forget you're using software! With Photoshop support, you can correctly preserve colors and layers when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter. Plus, the Painter 12 workspace offers brush blending, layers, libraries, docking panels, shortcuts and image set-up options that will help Photoshop users feel right at home.
Wacom® pen tablet compatibility
Support for the entire Wacom product line, including Cintiq® interactive pen displays and Intuos® pen tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting software and the best digital art experience. Enjoy exceptional freedom of movement and comfort as you paint in the most natural way possible.
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Extensive file support
Painter 12 supports a variety of industry-standard file formats, including Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Adobe® Photoshop® (PSD), TIFF (CMYK & RGB), Windows® Bitmap (BMP), PC Paintbrush (PCX), TARGA® (TGA), GIF, JPEG, QuickTime® (MOV), Video for Windows (AVI) and Corel Painter Frame stacks (FRM). Also save files in Encapsulated PostScript® (EPS) format.
Microsoft® Windows® 7 and Windows Vista® support
Painter 12 supports the latest operating systems from Microsoft.
New! Windows 64-bit support
Painter 12 is compatible with the latest 64-bit Windows operating systems, so you can take full advantage of their extended processing power.
Mac OS® support
Painter 12 supports the latest operating systems from Apple® (10.5 and 10.6).
Multi-platform support
Painter 12 includes both Mac OS® and Windows® versions on the same CD.
UPCOMING WEBINAR!
Digital Quick Paint: Blocking in a Narrative Environment
Join entertainment illustrator Cliff Cramp as he demonstrates how to quickly block in a narrative environment. He will discuss composition, vantage point, shape, value, temperature of light and more as he lays in the quick paint.
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Time: 12:00 – 12:45 p.m. EDT
Painter Masters
The Painter art gallery is home to many incredible works of art by an international collection of Painter Masters and artists. Click on the portraits below to learn their stories or jump to the Painter Art Gallery to view their world-class works of art!
Painter Master Spotlight
Name: Carlyn Beccia
Occupation/Profession: Children's Book Illustrator & Author, Graphic Designer
Website: www.carlynbeccia.com
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 Andrew Jones |
 Bruce Dorn |
Carlyn Beccia |
 Cher Pendarvis |
 Chet Phillips |
 Chris Welch |
 Claudia Salguero |
 Daniel Conway |
 Dennis Orlando |
 Don Seegmiller |
 Douglas Sirois |
 Dudu Torres |
 Dwayne Vance |
 Emiliano Ponzi |
 Fay Sirkis |
 Greg Banning |
 Greg Newman |
 Heather Michelle |
 Helen Yancy |
 Jane Conner-ziser |
 Jean-Luc Touillon |
 Jeremy Sutton |
 Jim Lampi |
 John Derry |
 John Dismukes |
 Joyce Ryan |
 Karen Bonaker |
 Michael Bast |
 Karen Sperling |
 Keith MacLelland |
 Marilyn Sholin |
 Maura Dutra |
 Mike Reed |
 Mike Thompson |
 Miklós Földi |
 Nomi Wagner |
 Pascal Sibertin |
 Pat Thomas |
 Peggy Gyulai |
 Philip Straub |
 Rhoda Draws |
 Ryan Church |
 Skip Allen |
 Stewart McKissick |
 Susan Le Van |
 Todd Lockwood |
 Wonman Kim |
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Gallery
The Painter online art gallery is home to many incredible works of art by an international collection of Painter artists. Browse through original images of some of these world-class Painter artists.
System Requirements
Windows®
- Microsoft® Windows® 8 64-bit, 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 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 (with latest revision)
- 10.6 Snow Leopard
- 10.7 Lion
- 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Intel® Core™ Duo
- 1 GB RAM
- 300 MB of HD space for application files
- 1280 x 800 screen resolution
- Mouse or tablet
Compatibility
Reviews
Customer Reviews
Media Reviews
PC Mag - The Best Products of 2011
"If you really want to turn your PC into a visual artist's tool, you can do no better than Corel Painter, with its unmatched ability to mimic real-world painting and drawing."
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Reprinted from www.pcmag.com, November 14, 2011, with permission. |
PC Mag Editors' Choice
"Corel Painter 12 surpasses all other painting software for just how well it imitates the real life qualities of dozens of artistic mediums."
"At more than $400, Corel Painter 12 isn't for lightweights. But serious creative professionals, concept artists, and semi-professional hobbyists won't find a better program for showing off their creative talent."
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Reprinted from www.pcmag.com, May 11, 2011, with permission. |
CNET Editors' Rating
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"Major updates to high-end illustration and design tools can be hit or miss, but Corel Painter 12 slams this one way out of the park." CNET Downloads 04/26/2011 |
Painter Tutorials
Follow these online tutorials for helpful step-by-step instructions that cover a wide range of topics for both beginners and experts.
Traditional Art
- Plein air painting
- Making a sketch with the Wacom® Inkling® and painting it with Digital Watercolor
- Impressionistic portraits with watercolors
- Painting and effects with the Artists brush category
- Blending, smudging and painting with the Blenders
- Flow Maps
- Creating a quick Oils study
- Wet-into-Wet painting with Real Watercolor
- Painter for artists
Illustrations
- Painter for Illustrators - Getting Started
- Painting "S'mores"
- Cover Redesign
- Painting of the Dungeon Concierge
- Painter’s new mirror axis (.PDF)
- Creating an Illustration (.PDF)
- Painting Chun-Li (.PDF)
- Painting a Comic Book Page
- Creating An Image Hose (.PDF)
- Drawing a Comic Book Page with Finished Pencils (.PDF)
- Inking a Comic Book Page (.PDF)
Photo Art
- Painter for Photo Art - Getting Started
- Painting restoration for Chiesa Della Liberia in Saviano, Italy
- Pet Tutorial with Heather Michelle
- Portrait painting simplified by using the Cloners brush category
- A Useful Alpha Channel
- Turning a photo into a painting using cloning tools
- Wedding tutorial
- Painting Landscapes from Photos
- The power of photo painting - Getting started (.PDF)
- Painting Portraits from Photos
- Painting natural-looking hair
- Photo-Painting Process
- Get creative by using clone color
Painter Interface
View all Painter tutorials below. See Painter Lite tutorials.
All Tutorials
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