Why Painter 2021?

Realistic Natural-Media®

Benefit from an enormous selection of truly realistic painting tools. Use wet, dry or textured painting surfaces that behave like traditional artist materials.

Exclusive digital artist brushes

Create unforgettable art with Painter-specific painting tools: particles that exhibit a springy, fluid and glowing behavior, pattern pens that produce unique strokes, or painting tools that apply thick textures.

Intelligent photo-painting tools

Turn digital photos interactively into artworks with the clone brushes, or use artificial intelligence and the Auto-Paint palette.

Unique image composition

Use the composition features Mirror Painting, Kaleidoscope, Golden Ratio, Rule of Thirds and Perspective Guides to paint with perfect symmetry and perspective.

Intuitive workspace

Create your own painting tools, palettes and workspace layouts or import content from other users to speed up your workflow.

Comprehensive compatibility

Open and save files in PSD format. Use multitouch gestures or a graphics tablet and the tilt, angle, orientation and pressure controls of a pen. Paint on a Mac or Windows system.

- A photorealistic painting and illustration program used by many international artists

- More than 900 digital painting tools enable creative work without limits

- Intelligent photo-painting tools that effortlessly turn photos into masterpieces

- Customizable user interface, painting tools and content, as well as the ability to import and export custom content

- A rich selection of free beginner-friendly learning content as well as webinars: learn.corel.com/painting-tutorials

- Cost-effective and flexible perpetual license available for a one-time payment as well as volume licenses with special terms

? Windows 10* (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)

? Modern GPU; compatibility with OpenCL (1.2 or higher) (recommended)

? 4 GB RAM (8 GB RAM or more recommended)

? 2.4 GB of free disk space for the application files** (a solid-state drive is recommended)

? Screen resolution of 1280 x 800

? (1920 x 1200 recommended)

? Mouse or Wintab-compatible tablet

? DVD drive (for installing the boxed version)

? Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or higher with the latest updates

* Supported are versions 1909 and later of Windows 10 as well as any versions that are released during the lifecycle of Painter 2021.

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

? macOS 10.15 or 10.14 with the latest revision

? Intel Core 2 Duo processor

? (4 physical cores / 8 logical cores or higher recommended)

? Modern GPU; compatibility with OpenCL (1.2 or higher) (recommended)

? 4 GB RAM (8 GB RAM or more recommended)

? 1.8 GB of free disk space for the application files (a solid-state drive is recommended)

? Case-sensitive file systems are not supported

? Screen resolution of 1280 x 800

? (1920 x 1200 recommended)

? Mouse or graphics tablet

To activate your Windows or Mac product you must first connect to the Internet and register the product.