But for someone looking to do digital art for fun, you require a lot of money. But That could mean premium brushes or a premium option that isnt required. I realize the app falls under the 'in-app purchases' category.

Access Help topics, Hints and Visual Tooltips to learn on the fly.

Helpful tutorials, webinars, videos right in the Welcome Screen.

Library of included canvas Papers, Flow Maps and Textures that interact with brushes.

Support for stylus tilt, rotation, bearing & pressure control while using a drawing tablet.Save or export to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, EPS.Save files in PSD and preserve colors and layers when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter.Paint with clone color and Clone Tinting.Adjust lighting, colors, depth of field or motion blur.Perfect composition with Perspective Guides, Layout Grids and Divine Proportion.Symmetry tools include Mirror and Kaleidoscope.Non-destructive layers and composite methods.Organize media content in Custom Palettes and Palette Drawers.Customize the workspace UI, papers, patterns and textures.Adjust how brushes interact with canvas for optimal control.Create your own brushes & dabs, import libraries and share with other artists.Artificial Intelligence Styles to quickly transform images to paintings.Two-finger gesture support on Apple Trackpad for pan / zoom / rotate.Tilt and pressure sensitivity with Apple Pencil.Manage large brushes and memory-intensive operations at top speed.

Most popular brush engines are supported by GPU for faster performance.Now experience brushes up to 4.7X faster when running on the Apple M1 chip! Painter is optimized to run natively on Macs with M1 chip and Intel processors.Painter’s Brush Accelerator™ applies optimal performance settings based on your CPU and GPU.

Brush controls at your finger-tips for customization on the fly.

Selection, blending, cloning and F-X brushes.

Image Hoses, Pattern pens and 2.5D Texture brushes add interesting elements.

Authentic wet media such as Thick Paint, palette knives, watercolors.

Realistic dry media like chalks, pencils and pastels.

Hundreds of included brushes to experiment with.

Natural-Media® brushes & exclusive media types

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