Corel Painter 12

The world’s leading digital art software

Corel Painter 12 is the world's leading digital art software. Its combination of inventive drawing tools, Natural-Media® brushes, image cloning capabilities and virtually unlimited customization options give you total freedom for creative expression. Internationally recognized for its RealBristle™ brushes, Painter offers the most realistic form of digital painting available in the digital art realm. And with the introduction of new Real Watercolor and Real Wet Oil brushes, plus exciting creative features exclusive to this version, Painter continues to change what's possible in art!
Digital art tools let you experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes, without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art. Support for the entire Wacom® product line, including industry-leading Cintiq® interactive pen displays and Intuos® drawing tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting experience so your hand and brush work fluidly as one. Customizable paper textures give your art added artistic undertones, plus a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting or photo-painting tools can produce. Painter is changing what's possible in art. Now it's your turn.

Enhance the Creative Process
- Enhanced Artistic Media reproduce the texture of their real-life counterparts and intensify color with each stroke
- Pen and drawing tablet (recommended), combined with Painter's RealBristle™ brushes, recreate the natural interaction between hand and canvas
- New Hard Media Controls let you create your own hard media variants, or choose from new hard media variants in the Brush Library

Go Beyond the Digital Darkroom
- Improved color recognition for files imported from Adobe® Photoshop®, and individual color profiles per document, make your colors more precise
- Photo-painting tools with SmartStroke™ technology let you creatively transform reality
- Customizable surface texturing gives your art a level of fantasy and detail that other photo and painting software can't deliver

Learn from Unlimited Experimentation
- Digital art tools let you experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art
- New Hard Media controls give you the flexibility to play around to find the exact look you desire
- Smart composition tools, such as Divine Proportion and the Rule of Thirds and Fifths, help you visually arrange your canvas to create perfect compositions

Windows
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*
1280 x 800 screen resolution
Mouse or tablet
DVD drive
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or higher 

*Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0