Corel has a community of more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries, and a well-established network of international resellers, retailers, original equipment manufacturers, online providers and Corel's global Web sites.

The Company's headquarters are located in Ottawa, Canada, with major offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan, China and Japan.

Corel is the proud creator of Corel Painter, the world's most realistic paint program. Whether you're a budding artist or a creative professional, Painter gives you the freedom to create digital art without boundaries. The Corel Painter portfolio also includes Painter Essentials™, the complete home art studio, ParticleShop™, a Particle™ brush plugin for Photoshop, CorelDRAW and PaintShop Pro, and mobile apps that let you create digital art on the go.

We recognize that not all companies are alike—and neither are their artistic needs. As a result, we offer an expansive variety of powerful artistic brushes and tools to complete a wide range of creative jobs. Our innovative tools are trusted and used by professional artists worldwide and can complement any artistic workflow.

Painter is a boundless digital art studio for artists of all kinds

Find all the professional tools needed to craft the ultimate artistic masterpiece for any genre or project.

• Concept Artists
  Take advantage of Painter's versatility to quickly develop a concept design for a motion picture, video game art, or professional character concept art.
• Illustrators
  Create a character, package design or promotional piece, or publish a fantasy art illustration using all the tools needed to bring a vision to life.
• Manga & Comic Artists
  Choose from a wide range of sketching, drawing and inking tools, to easily draw manga characters or comics in a spectacular world.
• Photo Artists
  Use powerful Auto-Painting and Cloning tools to paint photos and produce visually stunning sellable works of photo art.
• Fine Artists
  Balance the mixture of realistic natural media and supernatural media types in a way that only this digital art and painting software can deliver.

Enjoy an incredible painting experience with intuitive tools

• World's most realistic Natural-Media®
  Enjoy the largest selection of Natural-Media brushes and canvas textures on the market, with wet, thick and dry media that looks and feels just like the real thing.
• Exclusive digital art brushes
  Ensure one-of-a-kind art using Painter's proprietary media, including Pattern Pens that produce visionary strokes from patterns, Particles that spring, flow and glow, and so much more.
• Streamlined photo-painting tools
  Produce a sellable masterpiece by allowing the Auto- Painting palette to rapidly paint a photo or dip any brush into the photo for a hand-hewn work of art.
• Flexible and productive
  Create custom brushes and palettes, or import custom content from others that exponentially speeds up the artistic workflow and allows for easy collaboration.

Top 10 Reasons to Buy

1. Natural-Media® that replicates reality
   Immerse yourself in the largest selection of professional Natural-Media brushes on the market. Craft your masterpiece with stunning reality using authentic dry media like chalks, pencils and pastels, or realistic wet media tools including thick paint, acrylics, palette knives, pens, watercolors, and so much more.
    
2. Exclusive media types
   Create unforgettable art with Painter’s proprietary media, including Particles that spring, flow and glow along with Image Hoses that spray the object of your imagination. Make an unforgettable mark with Visionary Pattern Pens that command attention and Thick Texture brushes that extrude your selected texture, and bring that extraordinary look to your art.
    
3. Smart photo painting
   Transform favorite photos into breathtaking paintings using the powerful cloning and photo-painting tools in Painter® 2020. Clone your images by dipping your brush directly into the photo or letting the Auto-Painting palette rapidly paint a photo using your choice of brush and media. Produce incredible photo art with ease using the powerful SmartStroke™ brush technology that follows lines and contours from within your picture.
    
4. Incomparable composition tools
   Paint in perfect symmetry with Mirror painting and create beautiful Mandalas using the Kaleidoscope tool. Set a flawless scene with 1-, 2- and 3-point Perspective Guides, and craft the perfect composition using the rule of thirds. Even if you aspire to paint like Da Vinci, the Divine Proportion tools will ensure your final composition is both stimulating and dynamic.
    
5. Versatile fill and color
   Cover your canvas with beautiful, interactive gradients that can be express painted, or add amazing textures that bring an artistic flair to your compositions. Craft the perfect color palette using the Color Wheel, color harmonies, artists’ Mixer Palette and color sets.
    
6. All-inclusive canvas control
   Rotate your canvas on the fly to achieve that perfect painting angle or turn your favorite papers, flow maps and textures in any direction, at any time. When painting with a drawing tablet, many of Painter’s brushes allow for tilt, rotation, bearing, and pressure sensitive control. Plus, multi-touch support makes navigating your canvas a breeze.
    
7. Intuitive workspace to match your workflow
   Enjoy instant access and immediate interaction with the tools you need most. Use the brush search to find the perfect brush or the built-in Workspace Layouts that highlight tools for specific workflows. Choose the perfect UI color, import additional content from fellow artists, or customize your own tools and organize them in Palette Drawers to eliminate desktop clutter.
    
8. Built-in learning resources
   Get all the support you need! The moment you launch the Painter application, the Welcome Book will greet you with helpful new tutorials, plus guide you to more learning videos and webinars. Open the in-app Visual Tooltips to see how adjusting Painter’s brush controls will visually impact your brush selection and access brush hints to help you understand the mechanics behind special media types and brush technology.
    
9. Extensive compatibility
   Preserve colors and layers with ease when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter while working on either a 64-bit Mac or PC. Painter can easily manage large brushes and memory-intensive operations at top speed. The best part? You own our multi-platform software outright—no subscription required.
    
10. Performance optimization
    Get revved up and ready to go with the new Brush Accelerator™ in Painter® 2020! This multi-functional tool scores your system and applies the optimal Painter performance settings automatically, which allows GPU acceleration for Stamp brushes and CPU performance enhancements throughout. Benefit from the bonus functionality that tells you how to strategically upgrade your system to further improve Painter’s performance.

1. NEW! Performance Optimization
   Get revved up and ready to go with the new Brush Accelerator™ in Painter® 2020! This multi-functional tool scores your system and applies the optimal Painter performance settings automatically, which allows GPU acceleration for Stamp brushes and CPU performance enhancements throughout. Benefit from the bonus functionality that tells you how to strategically upgrade your system to further improve Painter’s performance.
    
2. NEW! Interface Advancements
   Put the most important controls at your fingertips, like the revamped Property Bars, flyouts, and palettes for brushes and tools, to improve painting efficiencies. Consolidated Library Panels will save you valuable space, and everything on the desktop is now more intuitive to streamline your workflow and elevate your understanding of Painter.
    
3. NEW! Improved Brush Selector
   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 distinguish between popular dab types. In addition, you will enjoy more painting pixels with a slimmed down Brush Selector.
    
4. NEW! Convenient Color Selection
   See how the universal color selection process throughout Painter is now a breeze. The new Temporal Color Wheel menu includes left-handed mode, clone color, and pin/unpin. Six new Color Harmonies can be saved as color sets, plus there are new color ramps in sliders and a handy slider-only option for the color panel.
    
5. NEW! Advanced Brush and Tool Controls
   Grab your previous brush in a flash with either the click of a button or a shortcut that you can add to a custom palette. Enjoy painting with the eraser, dodge, burn and clone tools without any lag time.
    
6. NEW! Brushes
   Accelerate your painting process with two new Fast brush categories featuring 26 refined brushes that were built to push the boundaries of Painter's new performance optimizations. Plus, you can enjoy five new Expressive brushes in the Real and Digital Watercolor categories.
    
7. ENHANCED! Layer Workflow
   Create without disruption, thanks to exciting user-driven layer advancements. The noticeable improvements to the contextual and high-level menus will save you time, and workflow tweaks to collapsing, locking, selecting, and pasting will improve the quality and responsiveness of layers.

System Requirements

Windows

• Windows 10* (64-Bit) or Windows 7 (64-Bit), with the latest updates
• Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor
  • 4 physical cores/8 logical cores or higher (recommended)
  • AVX2 instruction set support (recommended)
• OpenCL 1.2 capable video card (recommended)
• 2 GB RAM
  • 8 GB RAM or higher (recommended)
• 1.2 GB hard disk space for application files**
  • Solid-state drive (recommended)
• 1280 x 800 @ 100% (or higher) screen resolution
  • 1920 x 1200 @ 150% (or higher) (recommended)
• Mouse or tablet
• DVD drive (required for box installation)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or higher, with the latest updates
• To activate your product, you must connect to the Internet and register it first

Mac

• macOS 10.14 or OS 10.13, with the latest revision
• Intel Core 2 Duo processor
  • 4 physical cores/8 logical cores or higher (recommended)
• OpenCL 1.2 capable video card (recommended)
• 2 GB RAM
  • 8 GB RAM or higher (recommended)
• 850 MB hard disk space for application files
  • Solid-state drive (recommended)
• 1280 x 800 @ 100% (or higher) screen resolution
  • 1920 x 1200 @ 150% (or higher) (recommended)
• Mouse or tablet
• DVD drive (required for box installation)
• To activate your product, you must connect to the Internet and register it first

* Versions 1803 and 1809 of Windows 10 are supported as well as versions that will be released during the life cycle of Painter 2020 **Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7

Upgrade Eligibility

To purchase the upgrade version of this product, you must own a previous licensed version of Painter. Your original serial number will be required. Please note that upgrade eligibility excludes Trial, Academic, OEM and Not for Resale (NFR) versions.