Painter (v. 12) - 1 User License - ESD for Windows - English

Overview: Powerful digital painting and photo-painting tools that deliver highly realistic brush behavior, extensive color control and flexible selection and transformation options. Hard-media & RealBristle control: Build your own hard-media variants or pick from the brush library for precise control over dab sizes, transitions and stroke-width previews. The RealBristle dry media reproduce marker, pen, pencil and chalk textures with lifelike response, while the RealBristle painting system simulates the interaction between paint and canvas so brushes react naturally to your hand and tablet. Brush customization and surface texture: Create entirely custom brushes—adjust type, size and patterns to craft unique strokes. Add depth and character to your work by choosing from built-in paper textures or designing your own surface texturing for details no other digital tool can easily match. Photo-painting & SmartStroke: Turn photos into hand-painted art or use the auto-painting palette with SmartStroke brush technology to have the software follow contours and lines in an image, blending photographic detail with painterly effects. Selection & transformation tools: Faster, more accurate selections include a polygonal mode for the lasso tool and improvements to marquee tools and the magic wand. A centralized transform tool lets you switch modes quickly and choose to transform an entire layer or only selected content for greater precision and workflow speed. Color mixing and palettes: The resizable mixer palette now shows extra mixer swatches when enlarged, letting you mix more colors at once. The universal mixer palette gives improved control over multicolor selection and blending between the mixer and canvas. You can widen the color palette up to 800 pixels and fine-tune colors with sliders or arrow keys for faster color matching. Composition and matching: Use smart composition aids like Divine proportion and the rule of thirds and fifths to lay out your canvas before painting. The Match palette effect copies the color and intensity from one image to another — open a source image with the desired palette and apply it to your target image. Performance and workflow: Enhanced performance in Painter 11 delivers the fastest brush response to date, with some brushes performing up to 30% faster depending on hardware. These refinements, along with flexible digital art tools, let you experiment with composition, color theory and brushwork without the mess or expense of traditional media. Interface & color management: A fresh, simplified color management interface makes it easier to control profiles when creating or opening files. The resizable mixer and color palettes free up screen space when you don’t need them and expand when you do, improving visibility and ease of use.