Beginner painting program for Windows

• Easy to understand user interface
• Industry-standard painting tools
• Incredibly fast painting speed
• Extensive built-in tutorials
• AI-powered photo painting

Everything you need to get started with digital art
Essentials is designed to be the ideal painting program for beginners to get started
with digital art.
Intuitive User Interface
The painting tools, customization tools, and built-in learning materials are
easily accessible through the user interface so you can focus on your
artwork

Unique painting tools
Achieve stunningly realistic results with authentic dry, wet
and blended painting media

Easily trace and create photo art
Turn any image into great paintings using powerful AI-powered automatic
painting and cloning features and tracing paper

Convenient color selection
Use the color wheel, blender, color tables, and color harmonies,
to select the colors you want

Helpful Symmetry Tools
Paint in perfect symmetry in Mirror mode and create beautiful mandalas with the
Kaleidoscope tool

Incredibly fast
Essentials is a powerful program that effortlessly handles large workspaces,
smooth zooms and rotations, and large-scale painting tools
. Sargent brushes are also executed up to 4 times faster.
Blank Canvas
Draw and paint whatever comes to mind or whatever you feel like doing
.
Photo Art
Create amazing
photo art using AI-powered automatic painting and cloning features.

NEW and IMPROVED
Painting Tools
Right from the Welcome screen, you can access the new Painting and
Drawing arrangement to set up the interface optimally for painting and drawing
your own images. Experiment with 23 new painting tools and
many more painting tools that, thanks to improved smoothing, can be used to apply delicate
brush strokes that respond to the tilt and rotation
of the pen

New
Color Options
With new harmonies and color charts, you can effortlessly make the perfect
color selection. The harmonies include complementary light monochrome and
dark monochrome color options that dynamically create balanced color patches
from your chosen color.

New
Artificial Intelligence
AI presets for automatic painting deliver stronger, more natural-looking results for portraits, still lifes and
landscape paintings based on photos, thanks to powerful new
algorithms. Choose from 10 new AI styles,
to achieve stunning artistic results
when automatically painting images

OPTIMIZED
Document and Layer Controls
You can choose whether to create a document in portrait
or landscape orientation directly in the New Image dialog box. Streamlined context menus, information
dialog boxes, layer tool options, and easy access to commands
enhance the ease of use when working with layers

Apple support
Overall workflow on the Mac has been significantly improved!

New
TouchBar support
New support for the Touch Bar, which provides
context-sensitive controls depending on the tool selected, enables you to work more efficiently on
the MacBook Pro and iPad.

OPTIMIZED
Multi-Touch trackpad support
Support for the Multi-Touch trackpad on the Mac lets you perform many convenient actions on the
trackpad with gestures such as pinching your thumb and index finger together or
spreading them apart.

New
Sidecar Support
On macOS, you can use Sidecar to use your iPad as a secondary monitor
and mirror your Mac desktop. The Painter Essentials user interface
will automatically adjust to the resolution of your iPad.

NEW
Tilt of the Apple Pencil
Now, when using Sidecar, tilt of the Apple Pencil
is also supported. You can precisely control the shape of the painting stroke by tilting the
selected painting tool as you paint.

New
Artificial Intelligence from Apple
AI presets for Auto Painting use CoreML and Apple's powerful
new vision framework technology to
determine focal points in a photo and paint details that give paintings greater naturalness
and more depth and focus. By bringing out the focal areas with
more detailed brush strokes, while using larger and more gestural brush strokes for the background
, the results
more closely resemble what a trained artist can achieve. Choose from 10 new
AI styles to achieve stunning artistic results when painting images automatically on your Mac

System Requirements

• Windows 10* (64-bit) with the latest updates
• Multicore Intel or Apple M1 processor
  4 physical cores/8 logical cores or higher (recommended)
  Support for AVX2 instruction set (recommended)
• 4 GB RAM
  8 GB RAM or higher (recommended)
• 1.9 GB of free hard disk space for application files**
  Solid-state drive (recommended)
• 1280 x 800 or higher at 100%
  1920 x 1200 or higher (recommended) at 150
• Mouse or Wintab-compatible tablet
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or higher with the latest updates
• To activate the product, you must first connect to the Internet and register the product.
  

* Windows 10 versions 1909 and newer are supported, as well as all versions released during the Painter Essentials 8 lifecycle.

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