Painter 2022 Professional digital art software for WindowsMac

World-class blank canvas painting and photo-art tools
Acclaimed Natural-Media™ emulation & digital art brushes
Infinite customization of brushes, textures, and other media
Mac & PC support, Additional FREE content (subscription only)
Designed to make the most of Apple M1 machines and the latest macOS

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Painter 2022. Anything but ordinary.

Create next-level results with 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.

Anselm Yew

Create

Paint from a blank canvas and create amazing photo art.

Customize

Create your own brushes, textures, patterns, palettes and so much more.

Extend

Enhance your paintings with creative additional brush packs.

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.

Add depth, texture, or movement to your art that is virtually indistinguishable from traditional media.

Experiment with paint that will flow, mix, absorb and evaporate just like the real thing.

Choose from hard variants that reveal texture to soft media that glides on to cover just when you need it.

Physics-inspired brushes spring, flow and glow as they dynamically embellish your canvas.

Some of the most beloved brushes in Painter result in luscious strokes in the spirit of John Singer Sargent.

Artfully apply the brush effects of your choice to create fantastical elements in your art.

Paint with brushes that respond to angle, bearing, and flow data from a stylus, allowing for a truly realistic brushstroke.

Looking for even more brushes for particular workflows? Check out our additional brush packs.

Show and tell

Take a closer look at what artists are saying about Painter.

"I love the painterly feel I can create with the brushes."
- Isabelle Staub, Renowned Illustrator

"Single handedly the most realistic stock brushes any program can offer!"
- Collin Chan, Painter Master Elite

"Painter has excellent imitation of natural textures and brushes similar to traditional painting."
- Dmitry Marin, Renowned Digital Art Instructor

"Painter has endless options that support every art style imaginable."
- Jeremiah Trammell, Painter Platinum Prize Winner

"Best software for traditional painting."
- Ad van Bokhoven, Gallery Owner

Compatibility

Photoshop

Preserve file content with ease when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter.

Drawing tablet

Support for stylus tilt, rotation, bearing & pressure control creates the most natural painting experience.

Mac or PC

Whether you’re a Mac or PC person, we support both platforms with licensing and subscription options to suit you.

Your art. Your way.

Professional painting software built by artists for artists to create and develop their signature style.

Jerome Ressot

Illustration

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

Make your own illustration

Hal Fisher

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.

Master your skills

Gary Leonard

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.

Bring your photos to life

Gabriela Bacila

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.

Create better concepts to get paid

Georg Ireland

Andrea Foerster / Michelle Webb

Brenna Williams

Theresa Kattenbach

Caroline Moore

Composition

Brush controls

Modify brush size, shape, angle, flow and so much more with in-depth brush control panels

Canvas control

Pan, zoom, rotate and apply lighting and surface texture with ease

Color mixing

Use the Color Wheel, Mixer, Color Sets and Harmonies to craft the perfect color palette

Composition tools

Establish appealing compositions using Divine Proportion, Layout Grid, Perspective Guides and Mirror Painting tools

Unique content

Enhance your artwork by using Papers, Flow Maps, Patterns, Textures, Gradients, Nozzles, Looks, Weaves, Images and Selections.

Unparalleled Photo Art

Stylize any image or photo using artificial intelligence and easily transform photos into paintings with powerful auto-painting and cloning tools.

Dmitry Marin
Kimber Heineman
MaryJill Lemieur
Rachel Gray
Susanna Mitchell

Adnan Tezerdi

Mark Lawson

Justin Buus

冠宇程

Workflow

Customization

Create custom brushes, palettes and workspace layouts plus import custom content from others

Performance

Run the enhanced Brush Accelerator, which makes the most of your computer’s hardware and graphics card, to deliver the best possible painting experience with one click.

Wacom compatibility

Painter and Wacom are built to work together and take advantage of stylus pressure, tilt, bearing & rotation.

Apple support

Improve your overall Mac workflow in big ways with Touch Bar, Trackpad, Sidecar, Apple Pencil tilt, Core ML and M1 with Rosetta 2 support.

What’s new in Painter 2022?

NEW

Stamp-type brush customization

These popular brushes have received a versatility overhaul. Change shape, edge effects, rotation, squeeze and anti-aliasing plus, create, add, import, export, organize and export dabs in record time!

Ferran Bueno

NEW

Watercolor brushes and workflow

New Watercolor compatible brushes and workflow optimize the painting experience. Paint with dry media types on Watercolor layers to achieve new and exciting mixed-media looks.

石本めぐみ

NEW

Brush library experience

Reap the benefits of a refined brush library. Enjoy new categories, variants and brush previews plus, now you can easily find, filter and favorite beloved brushes for easy access from the Brush Selector.

Stijn Grooten

NEW

Brush size selector

Choosing brush size has never been so speedy and visual. Just open up the Size Library and add, reorder, delete and change size preview to accommodate your workflow.

Ana Razpotnik Donati

NEW

User requested enhancements

After reviewing your valuable feedback, we have made many layer workflow and other enhancements to boost your productivity.

Stefan Ilčešin

FASTEST version yet!

Run the Brush Accelerator and enjoy huge GPU, Multicore & AVX2 speed gains of new and enhanced cover method brushes along with a boost in several other brush engines.

New & Enhanced cover methods

Eraser technology

10 additional brush engines

Impasto brushes

Time Garvanliev

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Feature	2022	2021	2020
What's New
NEW! Brush Library with enhanced brushes
NEW! Captured dab library & workflow
NEW! Dab Effects
NEW! Brush Size Library
NEW! Brush Favorites
NEW! Brush Filters
NEW! Brushes compatible with watercolor layers
NEW! Transform watercolor layers
NEW! Grayscale in Navigator
NEW! Spotlight Layer
NEW! Clear layer content with Delete
NEW! Lock, Move and Convert multiple layers
NEW! Color Dodge composite method
NEW! Color Burn composite method
NEW & ENHANCED! Cover Methods
IMPROVED! Edge Quality (circular and captured dab brushes)
ENHANCED! Brush smoothing
EXTENDED! GPU acceleration for New and Enhanced cover methods	up to 50x faster
ENHANCED! Performance of erasers & other brush engines	up to 2x faster
ENHANCED! Impasto Brushes	up to 2.4x faster
Brushes
Acrylics
Airbrushes
Audio Expression
Blenders
Chalks
Crayons
Cloners
Clone Tinting
Dab Stencils
Dynamic Speckles
Erasers
F-X
Gouache
Glazing
Image Hose
Impasto
Liquid Ink
Markers
Oils
Pastels
Palette Knives
Particles
Pattern Pens
Pens
Pencils
Sargent
Selection brushes
Smart Strokes
Stamps
Sponges
Sumi-e
Texture Brushes
Thick paint
Watercolors
Color Tools
Color harmonies
Color ramps in sliders
Color mixer
Color wheel
Color sets
Color picker
Gradients
Photo Art Tools
Artificial Intelligence Styles
AI Presets
Clone Tinting
Quick Clone
Cloning with image, texture or pattern
Multiple clone sources
Resize clone sources
Transparency Cloning Support
Smart Stroke auto painting
Tracing Paper
Photo Restoration
User Interface
Photo art quick palette
Thick Paint layer controls
Watercolor layer controls
Layer compatibility icons
Full View and Narrow brush selector panels
Inline dab and stroke previews
Advanced brush controls
Dark user interface
650+ redesigned application icons
Brush hints
Customizable palettes
Artist layouts
Context sensitive property bars
Visual tooltips
Command Bar
Customizable Workspaces & Layouts
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Reference Image
Image Navigator
Clone Source Palette
Tools & Effects
Layer Adjuster
Drag to Zoom
Fill Tool
Transform
Selection Tool & Brush
Customizable Papers & Flow Maps
Flip and rotate canvas
Interactive brush editing
Perspective Guides
Divine Proportion
Layout Grid
Paint with Symmetry
Vector Shapes
Text
Rulers
Surface Lighting & Texture
Apply Effects
Texture Synthesis
Interactive Gradient tool & Express Painting
Performance
Brush Accelerator™			(introduced)
GPU acceleration for stamp brushes		up to 20x faster	(introduced)
Improved Drip & Liquid (Sargent) brush technologies		up to 4x faster
Faster brush and tool switching
Texture brush technologies		up to 2x faster
Improved document manipulation			up to 5x faster
Improved pan, zoom and rotate speed
Support & Compatibility
Apple Silicon with Rosetta 2
Apple Sidecar support
Apple Pencil support
Apple Touch Bar support
Apple Trackpad two-finger gesture support
Multi-Core support
Wacom tablet & multi-touch support
Windows touch support
Adobe Photoshop support (PSD)
Color Management support
RTS support
2-in-1 or dual personality
64-bit Mac and Windows
Content
Patterns
Flow Maps
Gradients
Images
Looks
Nozzles
Papers
Selections
Textures
Weaves
Learning materials and Documentation
Quick Start Guide
User Guide
Welcome Book tutorials
Help Topics
Hints

Note - Painter 2022 has a brand new brush library. All past brush libraries can be accessed for free via the welcome book.

Tech Specs

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 RAM or higher (recommended)
3.0 GB hard disk space for application file**
- 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 Monterey 12, macOS Big Sur 11 or macOS 10.15 with the latest revision
Apple M1 processor or multicore Intel with SSSE3 (or higher)
- 4 physical cores/8 logical cores or higher (recommended)
Modern GPU with OpenCL (1.2 or higher) compatibility (recommended)
8 GB RAM
- 16 GB RAM or higher (recommended)
1.5 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.

* Supported versions: Windows 10, version 20H2 and later, as well as versions that will be released during the life cycle of Painter 2022

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

Painter Art Gallery

Find inspiration in our online gallery, featuring a diverse collection of artwork from Painter artists of different disciplines from around the world.