Create Beautiful Artwork From A Photograph
You don't have to be a skilled illustrator to use Painter. One of the most rewarding things about Painter IX is that you can take a normal photo and enhance it using special cloning brushes. These special cloning brushes allow you to create art from photographs by pulling image details and color from the source image through the brushes to the destination layer. You can easily get a simulated painted image.

With a small investment of time on your part you will quickly be creating gorgeous artwork using a photo as the basis for your work. Once you have developed these simple skills, the sky's the limit with what you can do with it. To get you started learning this exciting new tool, The Mystical Painter Bundle includes the popular training CD by Lynda Weinman, Getting Started With Painter IX.

Create Portraits Simulating A Charcoal Sketching
The example to the left shows how effective Painter IX is at creating a simulated charcoal sketch of a portrait. Click on this image to view a larger version and notice the level of detail possible.

Smudging, blending and shading the charcoal sketch is an important part of making it look like a hand drawn creation. Painter IX allows you to do all of this and more with precise control over your actions.

Painter's powerful brush controls allow you to quickly change and adjust brushes to explore the look you get. Using different levels of opacity, blending, flow controls and dozens of other options, Painter IX has the best brush system in any software program, including Photoshop.

The example sketch to the left was created by Michel Truong and was his second portrait attempt using Painter. We think he did great!

Create Whimsical Artwork
Creating with Painter is somewhat addicting. It's fun to let your imagination go and see where it takes you.

Excellent Interface Design
Painter's interface is easy to use and learn. On the surface it works very much like Photoshop in that it has powerful layers and blending modes. As you explore you will quickly see how the interface is designed around an artist's workflow with brushes and tools integrated to reflect the responsiveness needed to change and flow from one tool to another.

Test your brush strokes on the Mixer palette, adjust textures and brush flow to get the precise look you want before you apply it onto the layer that forms your composition.

Amazing Brushes
Painter IX features unique brushes as well as controls that can be applied to the brushes that you just can't get anywhere else, even in Photoshop.

Painter IX includes over 400 different brush variants in the following categories: Acrylics, Airbrushes, Artists' Oils, Blenders, Calligraphy Pens, Chalks, Charcoals, Colored Pencils, Conte, Crayons, Digital Watercolor, Distortion, Erasers, Felt Pens, F-X, Gouache, Image Hose, Impasto, Liquid Ink, Oil Pastels, Oils, Palette Knives, Pastels, Pattern Pens, Pencils, Pens, Photo, Sponges, Sumi-e, Tinting, and Watercolors.

Easy To Use Tools And Palettes
The tools and palettes in Painter IX are well laid out and feature expanding options allowing you to quickly navigate to the tool or setting you need, when you need it.

Girl In Black Movie
Don Seegmiller was kind enough to share with us a movie he created showing how he goes about drawing in Painter. First he takes a sketch and uses it as an onion skin layer that he can draw over. Click the link below to watch this QuickTime movie and see how cool Painter is!

Watch A Movie Showing How This Artwork Is Created

© 2005 Michel Truong