Getting Started with Painter Essentials
Getting Started with Painter Essentials
This tutorial will get you started using the simple auto-painting tools in Painter Essentials to turn your photos into paintings.
Understanding the User Interface
Join us for a tour of the enhanced user interface in Painter Essentials. See new features like a dark theme, tool highlights, new icons and more.
Introduction to Painter Media
Painter Master Elite Don Seegmiller demonstrates a variety of unique brushes that glow, jitter, shatter, distort and add decorative brushstrokes.
How to Use the Color Selector
See how to use the Color Selector in Painter Essentials, including new features like circular grabbers and a split color and clone painting preview.
Painting with a Drawing Tablet
Painter Master Elite Cher Pendarvis demonstrates the benefits of using a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet with Painter Essentials.
Sketching with Pencils
Create your first pencil sketch in Painter Essentials! Learn how to find and use various pencil media types and keep them organized in a custom palette.
Sketching with Pen and Ink
Learn how to create a simple pen and ink sketch in Painter Essentials, with tips on using various pen brushes and organizing them in a custom palette.
Digital Watercolor Sketching
Learn how to create a photo painting using pencil sketching and digital watercolors in Painter Essentials.
Applying Light and Texture to a Sketch
Learn how to enhance a simple pencil sketch by using effects in Painter Essentials such as lighting and surface texture to add drama and richness.
How to Paint with Digital Watercolor
Learn about the settings and controls for the Digital Watercolor brushes in Painter Essentials, and how to use them to paint linework.
How to Paint with Glazing Brushes
Learn how to blend colors like a master using Painter Essential’s glazing brushes that allow opacity to build up smoothly along your brushstrokes.
How to Paint with the F-X Image Hose Nozzles
This tutorial will show you how to use the Image Hose Nozzles in Painter Essentials to effectively add this exciting imagery to your artwork.
How to Paint with Dynamic Speckle Brushes
Painter Master Elite Karen Bonaker shares her tips as she demonstrates each of the unique and expressive Dynamic Speckles brushes in Painter Essentials.
How to Paint with Dab Stencils and Flow Maps
Learn how to transform a photo using cloning and the extremely expressive Dab Stencils brushes and Flow map textures in Painter Essentials.
