Painter Essentials 7

Painter Essentials 7

Painting software for beginners

The ideal painting software for beginners. Start your creative journey with Painter Essentials 7, the best paint program for beginners to explore and expand artistic curiosity using impressive, easy-to-learn tools

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Distinctive Artificial Intelligence based photo painting

Produce incredible photo art with ease by converting your favorite photos into paintings using neural networking and the strength of Painter's brush engine! Choose from an impressive range of AI styles for photo painting, including Bold Watercolor, Colored Pencil, Colorful Dabs, Impressionist, Smooth Acrylic, Van Gogh, Watercolor Portrait, and Charcoal Drawing.

Flexible photo painting tools

Open your image and the painting choice is yours. Auto-Paint, in one click, with AI, or SmartStroke technology that rapidly produces stunning results. Clone paint by dipping any brush you like directly into the photo, or trace by turning on tracing paper and selecting a brush and color while using the image as your guide.

Experiment with blank canvas painting

Immerse yourself in an intriguing collection of realistic brushes and canvas textures that respond to your every move when using a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet. Dry, wet, springy, speckled, spattered, glowing, gooey, patterned media is at the ready, allowing you to bring your wildest ideas to life.

Industry-acclaimed brushes

Create with artist-trusted brushes. Every brush in Essentials was custom selected for new digital artists from our professional Painter art studio so that you can comfortably ease into your digital art experience.

Painter Essentials 7 Key Features

Brushes

Learn more about the media that makes Essentials stand apart from other painting software.

Dab Stencils
Imagine knocking out areas of a brush so that the chosen texture takes center stage. That is exactly how you can paint with these one-of-a-kind brushes.
Dynamic Speckles
Paint with dynamic brushes whose multicolored speckles generate as you stroke! These brushes are unique to Painter and loved by artists.
Glazing
Blend colors like a master with these subtle brushes that allow opacity to build up smoothly along your brushstrokes.
Digital Watercolor
See how these brush variants produce controllable watercolor effects that are highly reactive with canvas texture. Now set diffusion, adjust wet fringe and dry paint.
Image Hose
Choose from a full library of Image Hose Nozzles so you can spray compelling imagery onto your canvas with the Image Hose variants included in the F-X category.
Artists
Mimic the Masters by adding multicolored Impressionist dabs, Sargent swirly flair , and Van Gogh chunky paint to your masterpiece.
Blenders
Use these standout Painter brushes to perfectly blend painted strokes and artfully finish your work.
F-X
Obtain an array of creative results by either playfully impacting existing canvas content or by adding memorable strokes to a blank canvas.
Particles
Experience an infinite number of creative possibilities with these physics-inspired brushes that spring, flow, glow and gravitate onto the canvas.

Beginner-friendly UI

A painting environment that puts the focus on you

Application icons
Essentials now features redesigned icons to make things easier on the eyes, simple to understand, and more efficient to use.
Dark UI
A meticulously transformed user interface reveals a darker theme with tool highlighting that allows the interface to melt away and painting to take center stage.
Scrubby Zoom
Overall document manipulation is now smoothly exhilarating. Take advantage of the ability to click and drag so you can zoom in and out of your document with ease.
Brush previews
View enhanced dab and stroke previews at-a-glance, saving you tons of time. With improved visuals, we've eliminated the need to hover in order to find the perfect brush.
Color Selector
See how the universal color selection process throughout Essentials is now a breeze. The updated Color Wheel includes new circular grabbers and a split color and clone painting preview.
Layers
Enjoy unlimited layers, blending with composite methods, adjusting opacity and many workflow enhancements that make for an effortless experience.
Property Bar
Streamlined Property bars include modern sliders, simple brush controls, media flyouts, and paper rotation so you can make adjustments in no time.
Performance
Essentials can easily manage memory-intensive operations, such as working on large canvases, scrubby zooming, rotating the canvas, working with layers and brushing, all at top speed.

Tools

Top tools ensure you are empowered to paint

Artificial Intelligence
Choose from an impressive range of AI-based styles that convert your favorite photos into paintings using Neural Networking and the strength of Painter's brush engine.
Flow Map Textures
Now select from a library of Flow Maps and Paper Textures to ensure interesting canvas expression in your paintings.
Brush Tracking
The pressure of your stylus on a tablet determines the density and width of your strokes. Each artist uses a different pressure level and you can adjust Essentials to match with Brush Tracking!
Custom Brush Palette
Shift and drag your favorite brush variants into a custom brush palette for easy access and modify the preview to display as small or large icons.
Effects
Make color and canvas adjustments using this exciting menu of effects including options to apply lighting & texture, warp, woodcut, sketch and more.
Mirror and Kaleidoscope
Paint in perfect symmetry with Mirror painting and create beautiful Mandalas using the Kaleidoscope tool.

Painter Essentials 7 System Requirements

Windows

Mac

*Versions 1803, 1809 and 1903 of Windows 10 are supported as well as versions that will be released during the life cycle of Painter Essentials 7.

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

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The world's most expressive painting software for beginners, on Mac and Windows, featuring industry-acclaimed brushes, illustration tools and photo art

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