Digital painting software
Corel® Painter™ 11 is the ultimate digital art studio for anyone ready to expand their definition of creativity. Working with the most advanced digital painting and natural media tools available, you can create the art you’ve always envisioned.
Also available: Corel® Painter™ Sketch Pad and Corel® Painter™ Essentials 4
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Overview
Expand your creativity with Painter 11, the most inventive digital painting software on the market. By adding Painter to your workflow, you gain a full art studio that gives you the tools to create unprecedented artwork.
Digital art tools let you experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes, without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art. Support for the entire Wacom® product line, including industry-leading Cintiq® interactive pen displays and Intuos® drawing tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting experience so your hand and brush work fluidly as one. Customizable paper textures give your art added artistic undertones, plus a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting or photo-painting tools can produce. Painter is changing what's possible in art. Now it's your turn.
Testimonials
Andrew Jones
Painter Master
Bruce Dorn
Painter Master
Cliff Nielsen
Painter Master
Dwayne Vance
Painter Master
Fay Sirkis
Painter Master
Jeremy Sutton
Painter Master
Peggy Gyulai
Painter Master
Enhance the Creative Process
- Enhanced Artistic Media reproduce the texture of their real-life counterparts and intensify color with each stroke
- Pen and drawing tablet (recommended), combined with Painter's RealBristle™ brushes, recreate the natural interaction between hand and canvas
- New Hard Media Controls let you create your own hard media variants, or choose from new hard media variants in the Brush Library
Go Beyond the Digital Darkroom
- Improved color recognition for files imported from Adobe® Photoshop®, and individual color profiles per document, make your colors more precise
- Photo-painting tools with SmartStroke™ technology let you creatively transform reality
- Customizable surface texturing gives your art a level of fantasy and detail that other photo and painting software can't deliver
Learn from Unlimited Experimentation
- Digital art tools let you experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art
- New Hard Media controls give you the flexibility to play around to find the exact look you desire
- Smart composition tools, such as Divine Proportion and the Rule of Thirds and Fifths, help you visually arrange your canvas to create perfect compositions
Features
Painter 11 offers a broad range of digital painting, photo-painting and drawing tools that enhance your creativity, expand your digital darkroom, support unlimited experimentation and help you work faster.
On this page:
- What's Included in Painter 11
- Enhance the Creative Process
- Go Beyond the Digital Darkroom
- Learn from Unlimited Experimentation
- Increase Speed and Stability
What's Included
Content
Libraries of unique textures, gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos and brushes, including the new RealBristle™ dry media brush category
Documentation
- Getting Started Guide
- HTML User Guide and Getting Started Guide
- HTML Help files
Training
- Online tutorials and testimonials
Enhance the Creative Process
New! Hard Media Controls
Create your own hard media variants, or choose from new hard media variants in the Brush Library, so you have more creative control over your media. Customizable profiles, dab sizes, transitions and stroke width previews let you play around to create the exact look you want.
New! RealBristle™ Dry Media
Marker, pen, pencil and chalk media reproduce the look and feel of their real-life counterparts in a way that no other software can!
- Marker - intensify color with each new marker stroke so you can color in one continuous shade or create a buildup of color
- Pen - choose to create fine pen strokes, or thick strokes and ink deposits, by changing the velocity of your stroke. The faster you go, the thinner the line; the slower you go, the thicker the line
- Pencil & Chalk - control shading by changing the angle of your stylus on the drawing tablet. Choose whether to draw with the tip or shade with the side of the nib-just like in real life
Enhanced! Selection Tools
A new Polygonal mode for the Lasso tool, plus overall improvements to marquee tools and the Magic Wand, let you make more nimble selections the first time around.
Enhanced! Wacom® Support
Support for the entire Wacom product line, including Cintiq® interactive pen displays and Intuos® pen tablets, gives you most responsive digital painting software and the best digital art experience.
RealBristle™ Painting System
Replicate the sensation and interaction between traditional paint and canvas with your pen and tablet. This represents a major milestone for digital painting by making brushes totally responsive to your hand and canvas, creating the most realistic painting experience.
Customizable Brushes
Create your own brushes in the type, size or pattern of your choice, so you can make custom brush strokes and create artwork that is truly unique.
Go Beyond the Digital Darkroom
New! Color Management
Create better color matches with new individual color profiles for every document and improved color recognition for files imported from Adobe® Photoshop®. This enhances your workflow because you save time by having fewer color corrections to make.
Enhanced! Adobe® Photoshop® Support
Maintain colors and layers when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter. This saves time when importing and exporting artwork between the two programs, because corrections are less necessary.
Photo-painting Tools
Transform photos into paintings by hand, or let SmartStroke™ brush technology in the Auto-Painting Palette paint a photo for you. It follows the lines and contours in the picture just like a real artist would. This lets you take the best of both worlds—photography and painting—to create new forms of art.
Customizable Surface Texturing
Give your art added artistic undertones, plus a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting software and photo-painting tools can produce. You can choose paper textures for your canvas, or create and customize your own textures to produce really unique artwork.
Learn from Unlimited Experimentation
Enhanced! Mixer Palette & Swatches
Extra mixer swatches appear when you enlarge the newly resizable Mixer Palette. Increase the size of the Palette to put more colors at your disposal and have a clearer view of your chosen color. Reduce the size when you no longer need to mix colors so the Palette takes up less space on screen.
Smart Composition Tools
Divine Proportion and the Rule of Thirds and Fifths help you visually arrange your canvas before sketching or painting to create perfect compositions.
Flexible Digital Art Tools
Experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes to your heart's content, and produce exciting results-without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art.
Universal Mixer Palette
For multicolor selection, this palette gives you better control over color blending between the Mixer palette and the canvas, so your colors are more precise.
Underpainting Palette
This palette includes color schemes based on various artistic styles, such as Impressionist, Classical, Modern, Watercolor, Sketchbook and Chalk Drawing, so you can create art like your favorite muses. You can also match your Underpainting Palette to that of any open image for consistency.
Match Palette Effect
Match the color and intensity between 2 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.
Increase Speed & Stability
Enhanced! Performance
Painter 11 is optimized to provide artists with the fastest version of Painter ever. Depending on system hardware, brushes perform up to 30% faster, creating a more true-to-life painting speed.
New! 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.
New! Resizable Color Palette
Adjust colors manually with sliders on the Color Palette. Enlarge the Color Palette up to 800 pixels for a clearer view of your selected color. You can now also fine-tune the color wheel with your arrow keys so it takes less time to find the perfect color.
New! Color Management Interface
The fresh and simplified interface makes it easier to control color profiles when creating new files, or when opening Painter and other file types.
Windows Vista® Support
Painter 11 supports the latest operating system from Microsoft®.
Mac OS® Support
Painter 11 supports the latest operating system 10.5 from Apple.
Multiple Platform Support
Painter 11 includes both Mac OS and Windows® versions on the same CD.
Painter Masters
This Painter 11 online art gallery is home to many incredible works of art by an international collection of Painter Masters and Painter Artists. Click on the images below to view the galleries and read exclusive profiles of some of these world-class Painter artists.
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 Cher Pendarvis |
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 Chet Phillips |
 Chris Welch |
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 Claudia Salguero |
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 Dan Milligan |
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 Daniel Conway |
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 Dennis Orlando |
 Don Seegmiller |
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 Fay Sirkis |
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 Greg Banning |
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 Helen Yancy |
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 Jane Conner-ziser |
 Jean-Luc Touillon |
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 Jeremy Sutton |
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 Jim Lampi |
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 John Derry |
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 John Dismukes |
 Joyce Ryan |
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 Karen Sperling |
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 Marilyn Sholin |
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 Michael Bast |
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 Maura Dutra |
 Mike Reed |
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 Nomi Wagner |
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 Pat Thomas |
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 Pascal Sibertin |
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 Philip Straub |
 Ryan Church |
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 Stewart McKissick |
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 Susan Le Van |
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 Tim Warnock |
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 Todd Lockwood |
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Academic
Expand Students' Creative Futures with Painter
Corel® Painter™ 11 is the ultimate digital art studio for students ready to make a career of their creative passions. As the world's leading digital painting software, Painter helps artists differentiate their work and students prepare themselves to deliver the ingenuity that companies seek. Also, without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art, students have the freedom to experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes to fulfill their artistic potential.
Masterful art takes time. By starting early, students can prepare for fulfilling careers and later make a name in digital art or even change the face of popular culture. Whether traditional or digital art, photography or video animation, Painter is changing what's possible in art.
Introduce Painter to Your Classrooms
Painter delivers a highly realistic digital painting experience that's unmatched by any other software. That's why Painter is a key creative tool in interactive design, game development, industrial design, architecture and more. Learning Painter today will give your students key art and design skills to help them differentiate themselves and build their careers of tomorrow.
How does Painter fit into your curriculum?
Painter provides an environment that nurtures experimentation and creative thinking. Being able to experiment with color, composition theory and different painting styles, without the cost and mess associated with traditional art, makes Painter a popular and effective way for students to develop their fine art skills and push their boundaries of creativity.
Having Painter in the classroom also prepares students to work with the leading digital painting studio that's used in the graphics and entertainment industries.
How does Painter enhance design workflows?
Painter is the perfect complement to industry-standard tools, such as Wacom® drawing tablets, allowing artists to digitally paint while preserving the traditional flow between hand and brush. File and color support for Adobe® Photoshop® also lets Painter users transform photo files into more artistic creations.
Who uses Painter?
Painter is used across a wide range of industries for a variety of tasks. Incorporating Painter into your curriculum will enhance your students' career options in a number of fields, including:
Concept Art
The creation of concept art requires powerful tools. That's why many of the world's foremost illustrators, concept designers, industrial designers, architects and graphic designers use Painter. This leading digital painting software lets designers vividly capture their creative vision and handcraft distinctive designs, illustrations and art.
Illustration
Leading artists in the entertainment industry use Painter to produce some of the world's best-known movies, comic books and video games. Professional entertainment artists can speed their production time by using Painter, leveraging their natural talents and techniques to create astounding scenes, characters, vehicles and textures.
Photography
In recent years, Painter has boosted the professional photography market by giving photographers a new tool for turning digital photographs into paintings. Painter offers photographers new revenue streams by making it easier than ever to create breathtaking, hand-painted works of art from their photographs.
Resources
Corel, together with its partners, is committed to enhancing your skills and experience with Painter. In this section you'll find valuable tutorials, information and resources to help you realize your full potential with this leading digital painting software.
Tutorials – learn special painting techniques from Painter Masters
Training Resources/Books – hone your skills and learn new techniques
Extra Content - download libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, paper textures, stock photos and brushes*
Corel Partners - check out these great offers and services from our partners
*Included on the Painter 11 CD.
System Requirements
Windows® version
- Windows XP (32-bit or 64-bit Editions), or Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit Editions) with latest Service Pack
- Pentium® IV, 700 MHz or greater
- 1 GB of RAM
- 500 MB of hard disk space for installation
- 24-bit color display
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution
- CD-ROM
- Internet Explorer® 6 or greater
- Mouse or tablet
Mac OS® version
- Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 (with latest revision)
- Power Mac® G5, 700 MHz or greater
- 1 GB of RAM
- 500 MB of hard disk space for installation
- 24-bit color display
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution
- CD-ROM
- Safari® Web browser
- Mouse or tablet
Special Offer for
Photoshop Users
Adobe Photoshop users qualify to save $160 on Painter 11
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