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Expand your creativity with Painter 12, the inventive digital painting software. By adding Painter to your workflow, you gain a full art studio that gives you the tools to create unprecedented artwork. Digital art tools let you experiment with colour theory, composition and brush strokes, without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art. With support for the entire Wacom product line, including industry-leading Cintiq pens and Intuos drawing tablets, Painter offers the most realistic form of digital painting available in the digital art realm. Plus this version of Corel Painter introduces new Real Watercolor and Real Wet Oil brushes and other creative features exclusive to version 12.

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Please note: if you are purchasing additional licenses for a product you already own, you do not have to buy additional License Media Kits. You also don’t need to purchase media kits for boxed products.

Documents & Downloads

Features

What's included

• Corel Painter 12 – Mac OS and Windows versions
• Libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper textures and brushes
• Getting Started Guide (printed & PDF versions)
• Online videos and tutorials
• HTML Help files (Windows)
• Apple Help files (Mac)
• 7 Downloadable workspaces.

Progressive digital art capabilities

• New! Kaleidoscope painting - create electrifying kaleidoscope effects on canvas
• New! Mirror painting - copies every stroke you make onto the opposite side of your canvas. You choose whether it's mirrored horizontally, vertically or both
• RealBristle Dry Media - designed to work with a Wacom pen tablet, Painter's RealBristle Dry Media tools, such as Chalk, Marker, Pen and Pencil media, let you control opacity, colour intensity, ink and shading simply by adjusting the pressure, angle and speed of your pen on tablet
• New! Real Watercolor - this breakthrough tool blends and dries more realistically than any other watercolour brush. Control wind direction for drying, and watch colours interact with the paper grain and change pigmentation
• New! Real Wet Oil - with 12 new tools, the Real Wet Oil category offers the perfect solution for blending and painting flowing colours
• New! Clone source palette - create and manage numerous images for cloning within a single Painter file, using the new Clone Source palette
• Smart photo-painting tools - transform photos into paintings by hand or let the Auto-Painting palette paint a photo for you, using your choice of brush and media.
• Customisable surface texturing - choose paper textures for your canvas or create and customise your own textures to produce really unique artwork
• Smart Blur effect - quickly apply a painterly effect to an image.

Breakthrough brush developments

• New! Agile brush control - change settings, such as brush size, opacity, squeeze and angle, using interactive controls that let you make rapid adjustments from one centralised location
• Streamlined brush categories - the brush categories have been consolidated into families and sub-families, giving you a clear path to finding the perfect brush
• New! Dynamic brush settings - new controls let you set the merge mode and opacity for each brushstroke, resulting in much smoother blending
• New! Digital airbrushes - with six new Digital airbrushes, Painter 12 helps you achieve stunning airbrush effects
• New! Computed Circular brush controls - new control panel to specify the opacity and hardness of your brush
• New! Gel brushes and Merge modes - the new Gel brushes let you tint an image's underlying colour with the colour of the brushstroke colour
• New! Multicore support for brushes - multicore brush support maximises brush performance when working on a multicore computer.

Customise to your liking

• New! Interface - an interface refresh streamlines brush selection, image navigation, libraries, colour controls and image set up to make the workspace more intuitive and quicker to navigate
• Enhanced! Brush tracking - brush tracking is an amazing feature that lets you instantly program Painter to remember your preferred brush speed and pressure sensitivity for each individual brush
• New! Workspaces - custom workspaces to help artists from all backgrounds quickly familiarise themselves with Painter
• New! Navigator panel - use the Preview window to drag and change your focal point on the canvas—perfect for moving to a different area of the image without having to switch tools or adjust the zoom level
• Enhanced! New Image dialog box - the New Image dialog box lets you give your image a title and choose canvas dimensions, resolution, colour and paper texture before you start painting or drawing
• New! Panel and palette behaviour - you can rearrange panels and palettes to suit your workflow
• New! Colour Changer palette - the new Colour Changer palette pops up on screen for a quick, easy way to change your brush colour
• Custom palettes - create custom palettes for special projects and workflows you use frequently
• Transformation capabilities - switch between different Transform modes from one centralised tool, and choose whether to transform the complete contents of a layer, or selected content, for greater speed, flexibility and precision.

Designed for unlimited experimentation

• High-value, built-in content - Painter comes with a broad array of pre-installed paper textures and brushes, such as watercolour media, acrylic paint, oil, pastel, chalk, pencil, marker and more
• New! High-Quality Display - the High-Quality Display option smoothes the edges of your image, allowing you to view it as it will print
• Smart composition tools - divine Proportion and the Rule of Thirds and Fifths guide help you visually arrange your canvas before sketching or painting to create perfect compositions
• World-famous art styles - the Underpainting palette includes colour schemes based on various artistic styles, such as Impressionist, Classical, Modern, Watercolor, Sketchbook and Chalk Drawing
• Match Palette effect - match the colour and intensity between two images
• Enhanced! Speed - Painter 12 is 5x faster - Brush performance is 3 to 5 times faster, while a range of Painter tasks, such as opening files and flattening, flipping or blurring images is up to 3 times faster than Painter 11

Perfect complement to other popular software & hardware

• Adobe Photoshop support - with Photoshop support, you can correctly preserve colours and layers when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter
• Wacom pen tablet compatibility - support for the entire Wacom product line, including Cintiq interactive pen displays and Intuos pen tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting software and the best digital art experience
• Extensive file support - supports a variety of industry-standard file formats, including Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Adobe Photoshop (PSD), TIFF (CMYK & RGB), Windows Bitmap (BMP), PC Paintbrush (PCX), TARGA (TGA), GIF, JPEG, QuickTime (MOV), Video for Windows (AVI) and Corel Painter Frame stacks (FRM). Also save files in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format
• Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Vista support - Painter 12 supports the latest operating systems from Microsoft
• New! Windows 64-bit support - Painter 12 is compatible with the latest 64-bit Windows operating systems, so you can take full advantage of their extended processing power
• Mac OS support - Painter 12 supports the latest operating systems from Apple (10.5 and 10.6)
• Multi-platform support - Painter 12 includes both Mac OS and Windows versions on the same CD.

System Req.

Windows version

• Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows XP (32-bit edition), with the latest Service Packs installed
• 1 GHz processor or higher
• 1 GB RAM
• 600 MB hard disk space for application files (additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0)
• 1280 x 800 screen resolution
• Mouse or tablet
• DVD drive
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or higher.

Mac OS version

• Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 (with latest revision)
• Intel Core Duo
• 1 GB RAM
• 300 MB of HD space for application files
• 1280 x 800 screen resolution
• Mouse or tablet.