1. World’s most expressive paint program
Gain access to an innovative buffet of brushes, paper textures and media. Mix authentic acrylics, chalks, oils, pencils, Real Watercolor and much more with delicious Dynamic Speckles, Image Hoses and Liquid Ink. Reproduce the movement and feel of traditional media using your tablet and pen, or an Intel 2 in 1 device and Real-Time Stylus. Plus, with the RealBristle™ system and Intuitive Multi-Touch Wacom support, you will have ultimate control over the response of your media.

2. Smart photo painting
Transform photos into paintings using the powerful cloning and photo-painting tools of Painter 2016. Clone images by hand or let the Auto-Painting palette paint a photo for you using your choice of brush and media. Powerful SmartStroke™ brush technology follows lines and contours in your picture, just like a real artist would, and creates incredible photo art that will impress your audience.

3. Friendly with Photoshop
Preserve colors and layers with ease when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter. You can also import your favorite Adobe Photoshop brushes and create exciting new brush variations. Plus, as a Photoshop user, you're also eligible for a discounted upgrade price by simply providing us with your Photoshop proof of purchase. The best part? You instantly own your Painter 2016 software outright—no subscriptions required.

4. Physics-inspired Particle Brushes
Paint with a diverse range of incredible digital brushes that let you experience the ultimate in chaotic creativity or take control with pinpoint precision. With these revolutionary physics-inspired Particle Brushes, you can enhance a photo-clone painting or produce unreal brushstrokes that spring, flow, glow and gravitate onto the blank canvas. You will have an infinite number of creative possibilities at your fingertips.

5. Audio Expression
Feel the beat with your brushes! Painter 2016® now has brushes that react to sound. Jam to your favorite tunes, serenade your strokes, hum, strum, or shout it out because no matter the source of your sound inspiration, your canvas will sing.

6. Killer composition tools
Imagine painting in perfect symmetry with Mirror and Kaleidoscope, and setting the perfect scene with 1, 2 and 3-point Perspective Guides. Paint just like Da Vinci with the help of the Divine Proportion golden ratio tools and ensure your final composition is both interesting and dynamic by using the rule of thirds.

7. Complete canvas control
Rotate your canvas on the fly to achieve that perfect painting angle. Rotate your favorite papers and Flow Maps in any direction, at any time, for maximum artistic impact. Express the rotated texture with hard media or flow watercolor through the rotated grain to achieve looks only possible in the digital world.

8. Blazing speed on any platform
Experience the thrill of speed while painting with our hybrid native 64-bit Mac and PC digital art studio. Painter can handle even the most memory-intensive operations. Create works on large canvases, and then zoom, pan, rotate, transform and work with layers—all without ever slowing down.

9. Learn while you paint
Launch the Painter application and watch the Welcome Book greet you with helpful new tutorials. Understand how adjusting Painter’s brush controls will visually impact your brush by using Visual Tooltips. In addition, you can access brush hints to help you understand the mechanics behind special media types and brush technology, and see how these tools will give you amazing results.

1. NEW Dynamic Speckles
Create luscious Natural-Media® brushstrokes or realistic splatters by combining bristle thickness control with your touch, and Particle system physics across a variety of media types. Plus, you can search for Dynamic Speckles to quickly access a variety of new brushes.

2. NEW Special Media Brushes
Generate more brush variations than ever before! Imagine combining Particle brushes with Real Watercolor, Liquid Ink and Impasto for original mixed media combinations. Best of all, these new timesaving brushes will create singular end results in about half the time.

3. NEW Audio Expression
Feel the beat with your brushes! Painter 2016 now has brushes that react to sound. Jam out to your favorite tunes, serenade your strokes, hum, strum, or shout it out because no matter the source of your sound inspiration, your canvas will sing.

4. NEW Inspirational Brushes
Select the New Brushes Palette Arrangement to easily experiment with all the latest and greatest 2016 brush technology, and preview bonus in-app Brush Packs that will showcase just the right brush for your next painting project.

5. NEW User Interface Options
Learn on the spot as the redesigned Welcome Book instantly greets you with new product tutorials. Start with a blank canvas and achieve your perfect painting environment with a flexible UI color scheme, high DPI and an intuitive presentation mode that will keep your eye focused on your art.

6. NEW Photoshop Brush Import
Import your favorite Adobe Photoshop brushes directly into Painter. Now, you can paint with the image stamp as is or experiment with Painter’s flexible brush controls to create an impressive variation on the original brush. *ABR - Adobe Photoshop Brush File

7. NEW Visual Tooltips and Brush Hints
Use versatile Visual Tooltips to understand how adjusting Painter’s brush controls will visually impact your custom brushes. In addition, you can access brush hints to help you understand the mechanics behind special media types, new brush technology and how to effectively incorporate these tools into your work.

8. Enhanced Custom Toolbox
Share your unique creation tools with other users by instantly exporting a Custom Toolbox. Whether your priority is allowing others to follow along in class, or just wanting to share your favorite custom brushes, papers, flow maps, patterns and palettes, the new export feature will put it all together for you in a perfect package.

9. NEW Paper and Flow Map Rotation
Rotate your favorite papers and Flow Maps in any direction, at any time, to achieve that perfect artistic touch in your work. Direct the rotated texture with hard media or flow watercolor through the rotated grain to achieve looks only previously possible within the digital world.