Corel Painter Essentials 8 for Windows & Mac

Painter Essentials 8 for Windows & Mac from Corel is ideal for beginners interested in learning how to create digital art. You can use this versatile software to create on a blank canvas or you can create photo art with AI, auto-painting, or painting by hand. This software has a curated selection of artist-created brushes and brush packs. The interface is designed to be intuitive and easy to use so you can begin creating your art as soon as possible.

Intuitive User Interface

Brushes, adjustment tools, and built-in learning are easily accessible through the UI so you can focus on your art

Blank Canvas

Sketch, draw, render, and paint your dreams or inspirations

Photo Art

Easily produce amazing photo art with ease using AI, Auto-Painting, and cloning tools

New and Enhanced Painting Tools

Launch the new Drawing and Painting Layout from the Welcome Screen to set up the UI with optimal tools for creating from scratch

Begin your painting by experimenting with 23 new brushes and many with enhanced smoothing for buttery strokes that react to stylus tilt and bearing

Color Options

Easily narrow down your ideal painting colors with the new harmonies and color sets

The harmonies include complementary, light monochromatic and dark monochromatic color options that dynamically create balanced color swatches from your chosen color

Convenient Color Selection

Select color your way: Use the Color Wheel, Mixer, Color Sets, and Harmonies

Amazing Brushes

Craft your masterpiece with stunning reality using renowned dry, wet, and blending media

Simple Photo Art and Tracking

Transform any image using powerful AI, Auto-Painting, Cloning, and Tracing Paper

Artificial Intelligence

AI Auto-Painting presets add powerful new algorithms for richer, more natural looking results for portraits, still life, and landscape type paintings from imagery

You can choose from ten new AI styles to auto-paint with incredible results

Document and Layer Control

Create a landscape or portrait-oriented document from the New Image dialog

While working with layers, the improved contextual menus, information dialogs, layer adjuster options, and easy access to commands will improve ease of use

Valuable Symmetry Tools

Paint in perfect symmetry with Mirror Painting and create beautiful Mandalas using the Kaleidoscope tool

Incredible Speed

Essentials can easily manage large canvases, scrubby zooming, rotating, large brushes, and Sargent brushes that are up to four times faster

Compatibility

Photoshop: Preserve colors and layer with ease when transferring your files between Photoshop and Painter Essentials

Drawing Tablet: Support for stylus tilt, rotation, bearing, and pressure control creates the most natural painting experience

Mac/PC: Both Mac/PC platforms are supported with perpetual licensing

Apple Support

New Touch Bar Support: On MacBook Pro and iPad, increase efficiency with new support for the Touch Bar that offers context-sensitive controls that change depending on the selected tool.

Enhanced Multi-touch Trackpad Support: Responsive multi-touch Trackpad support allows you to perform useful actions by swiping, pinching, or spreading your thumb and forefinger on your trackpad

New Sidecar Support: Use Sidecar on macOS to use your iPad as a secondary display that mirrors your Mac desktop; The Painter Essentials UI will auto-adjust based on the resolution of your iPad

Apple Pencil Tilt: You can now tilt the selected brush while you paint to precisely control the shape of the brushstroke while using Sidecar

Apple Artificial Intelligence: Enjoy AI Auto-Painting presets that leverage Core ML and the powerful new Apple Vision Framework technology to determine areas of focus in a photo and intelligently paint details generating natural-looking paintings with a greater sense of depth and focus

By painting with more detail in the areas of interest, and using larger more gestural strokes in the background, the results more closely resemble what a trained artist can achieve

Choose from 10 new AI Styles to experience auto-painting with stunning artistic results on the Mac