See what’s new in Painter 2021!
Accelerate your art and turn concepts into your signature style faster than ever with Painter 2021. This series of tutorials will introduce you to new features and enhancements such as new AI styles and clone tinting brushes that streamline the creation of art from source imagery, performance enhancements to deliver the best possible painting experience, and new Thick Paint brushes and layer painting options that give you the ability to mix media in original ways.
Artwork by Chris Freeman
In this tutorial, we’ll review the many performance enhancements in Painter 2021 that are designed to give you the best possible painting experience.
Getting Started with AI Styles
This tutorial will introduce you to the new AI styles in Painter 2021. See how easy it is to transform your images into stylized paintings.
This tutorial provides an overview of the new clone tinting feature in Painter 2021 and shows the basics of mixing colors with a clone source.
Exploring the Thick Paint Workflow
Join us as we explore the new Thick Paint workflow, redesigned property bar, and a new Thick Paint-compatible brush category in Painter 2021.
See how to paint on any layer type right from the New Image dialog plus take advantage of many other user-requested layer improvements in Painter 2021.
Learn how to set up the perfect canvas by choosing the layer type, color profile, and other options in the enhanced New Image dialog in Painter 2021.
Reviewing the Color Selection Tools
See how easy it is to create the ideal color palette with Painter’s color selections tools: the Color Wheel, Mixer Palette and color sets and harmonies.
When using a drawing tablet and stylus, you can use brush tracking to adjust Painter to make the brushes more responsive to your touch.
Creating an AI Stylized Portrait
Learn how to use Painter’s AI styles to transform a portrait into a painted work of art, then blend away photographic details and add painterly accents.
Creating an AI Stylized Illustration
Learn how to apply AI styles, color using selections and work with other unique Painter tools to transform a black and white illustration.
Using AI Styles for Portrait Collaging
Follow along with Painter Master Elite Karen Bonaker and learn how to combine multiple AI styles, imagery and brush work into a portrait collage.
Using AI Styles for Underpaintings
In this tutorial, Painter Master Elite Karen Bonaker will show you how to use AI styles to quickly build a lovely base for your paintings.
Painting Summer Roses with Thick Paint
Follow along with this step-by-step tutorial and learn how to use Painter’s Thick Paint brushes to recreate the still life painting Summer Roses.
Create Textured Landscapes with Thick Paint
Painter Master Elite Skip Allen shows you how you can elevate your watercolor paintings by adding accents with Thick Paint, clone tinting and textures.
Imitating Alla Prima Technique using Thick Paint
Professional artist Magdalena Proszowska demonstrates her process for creating a traditional oil paint still life using Painter’s Thick Paint brushes.
Watch and learn as Painter Master Skip Allen takes one of his existing ink wash paintings and uses Clone Tinting to add exciting color to the landscape.
Collage Artwork Together with Clone Tinting
Learn how to create a brand-new work of art from two existing paintings using Painter’s Clone Tinting to clone elements from one to another.
See What’s New in Painter 2021
In this webinar, artists Scott Payne, Karen Bonaker and Skip Allen show off the exciting new features and enhancements they love in Painter 2021.
How to Create a Water Reflection
Painter Master Don Seegmiller demonstrates how to use a Paper Texture and the Glass Distortion effect to create a realistic water reflection.
Using the Growth Effect to Create Foliage
Here is a quick and easy way to add some interesting foliage to your Painter artwork, using the Growth effect and a custom Image Hose brush.
How to Use Dynamic Plugins in Painter
Painter Master Don Seegmiller shows you a fun way to create intricate metallic jewelry, using the Liquid Metal and Bevel World dynamic plugins.
Creating a Painting from a Cell Phone Image
In this 4-part tutorial series, Painter Master Elite Heather Michelle Chinn will show you step-by-step how to create a painting from a cell phone image.
