See what’s new in Painter 2020!
Explore what’s possible in art and envision painting perfection with Painter 2020. This series of tutorials will introduce you to new features and enhancements such as the Brush Accelerator™, new brush and tool controls, simplified property bar workflow, new color harmonies and much more. With an award-winning collection of brushes, you can bring your fine art, illustration, or photo art vision to life.
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How to Use the Brush Accelerator
See how Painter’s new Brush Accelerator™ scores your system and applies the optimal Painter performance settings to ensure Painter is lightning fast.
Learn how to use Painter 2020’s revamped property bars, flyouts and palettes for brushes and tools to put the most important controls at your fingertips.
Painter 2020 introduces an updated Brush Selector that allows you to view enhanced dab and stroke previews at-a-glance, saving you tons of time.
Painter 2020 makes color selection a breeze, with 6 new color harmonies and a new Temporal Color Wheel menu with left-handed mode and other options.
Advanced Brush and Tool Controls
Grab your previous brush with just a click or a shortcut from a custom palette, and paint with the eraser, dodge, burn and clone tools without any lag time.
Check out the two new Fast brush categories with 26 refined brushes that were built to push the boundaries of Painter's performance optimizations.
Learn how to use the layer enhancements in Painter 2020 to access commands right from the panel and avoid accidentally painting on hidden layers.
Painting a Landscape with the New Watercolor Brushes
Watch a demonstration of the four exciting new additions to the Watercolor brush category as they are used to craft a beautiful watercolor painting.
How to Use Painter Color Harmonies
Learn how to streamline your color selection process with the 6 new color harmony options in Painter 2020 that can also be saved as color sets.
The Wacom Art Pen allows for full barrel rotation on many Painter brushes, producing stunningly realistic brushstrokes with just a turn of the stylus.
Preparing your Paintings for Professional Printing
Learn the top tips for setting up your Painter canvas, working with texture and finishing paintings for the purpose of professional printing.
Follow Cliff Cramp’s step-by-step tutorial and learn how to achieve professional fine art results when painting a digital seascape in Painter.
