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Corel Painter Essentials for Mac
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Corel Painter Essentials version 2.1Mac App Store · macOS 10.15.0 or later
- Painter Essentials is optimized to run on your M1 system with Big Sur and provides up to 4X faster brushing.
- Transform photos into art with 10 new natural looking AI presets powered by Apple Vision Framework technology to determine areas of focus and intelligently paint details
- A streamlined Drawing & Painting layout for artists creating from scratch
- 23 new brushes and many with enhanced smoothing for buttery strokes that react to stylus tilt and bearing.
- Color harmonies and 3 new color sets to help pick perfect colors
- Enhanced Image Dialog box to easily select canvas colors, paper texture and document orientation
- Improved contextual menus, information dialogs, layer adjuster options and easy access to commands while working with layers"
- General bug fixes
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Corel Painter Essentials
Sign-up for a subscription and get your FIRST MONTH FREE! Try the full-featured product and cancel at any time before the FREE MONTH is over, at no cost to you.
New to digital art? Try Painter® Essentials™, the fun and uncomplicated painting software for beginners.
Sketch, draw, and paint on a blank canvas using realistic Natural-Media brushes or simply transform photos into impressive works of art with powerful Apple powered AI or cloning tools.
NATURAL MEDIA® & EXCLUSIVE MEDIA TYPES - Over 170 built-in brushes - Authentic dry media like chalks, pencils, pastels - Realistic wet and blending media like oils, pens, watercolors and airbrushes - Particles that spring, flow and glow - Image Hoses and Pattern pens that interesting elements
AI BASED PHOTO PAINTING - Turn photos into art in one click with AI auto-painting that leverages Core ML and the powerful new Apple Vision Framework technology - Use photos as a guide with Tracing Paper - Recreate photos with photo painting brushes and clone colors
CONVENIENT COLOR SELECTION - Color Wheel - Mixer Pad - Color Harmonies - Color Sets - Dropper & Paint Bucket
INTUITIVE USER INTERFACE - Easy-to-use dark UI - Clear application icons - Dab and stroke brush previews - Adjust brushes and tools with property bars - Easily access built-in learning
DESIGN & SYMMETRY TOOLS - Unlimited layers - Perfect symmetry with Mirror painting - Beautiful mandalas using the Kaleidoscope tool - Crop, Select, Transform, Text tools
COMPATIBILITY & FLEXIBILITY - Use Apple Sidecar to use your iPad as a secondary display that mirrors your Mac desktop - Tilt and pressure sensitivity with Apple Pencil - Pressure sensitive control and tilt support with drawing tablets - Access top controls from Apple Touchbar - Two-finger gesture support on Apple Trackpad for pan / zoom / rotate - Save your art in a variety of file formats including .psd, .jpeg, .png, .gif
INCREDIBLE SPEED - Upto 4x faster brushing on M1 machines - Upto 4X faster auto-painting on M1 machines - Easily manage large canvases, scrubby zooming, rotating
SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS With a subscription, Painter Essentials software is always up-to-date and will always be supported and updated for the latest platforms, devices and technologies. You can use the software, and save and output your work as long as your subscription is active.
Choose between a monthly subscription and an annual subscription option that offers additional cost savings.
Subscriptions are charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Subscription plans are automatically renewed unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscriptions in your Account Settings after purchase."
What's New
- Painter Essentials is optimized to run on your M1 system with Big Sur and provides up to 4X faster brushing. - Transform photos into art with 10 new natural looking AI presets powered by Apple Vision Framework technology to determine areas of focus and intelligently paint details - A streamlined Drawing & Painting layout for artists creating from scratch - 23 new brushes and many with enhanced smoothing for buttery strokes that react to stylus tilt and bearing. - Color harmonies and 3 new color sets to help pick perfect colors - Enhanced Image Dialog box to easily select canvas colors, paper texture and document orientation - Improved contextual menus, information dialogs, layer adjuster options and easy access to commands while working with layers" - General bug fixes
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