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Expand your creativity with Painter 12, the most inventive digital painting software on the market. By adding Painter to your workflow, you gain a full art studio that gives you the tools to create unprecedented artwork. Digital art tools let you experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes, without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art. Support for the entire Wacom® product line, including industry-leadingCintiq® interactive pen displays and Intuos® drawing tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting experience so your hand and brush work fluidly as one. Customizable paper textures give your art added artistic undertones, plus a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting or photo-painting tools can produce. Painter is changing what's possible in art. Now it's your turn.

Enhance the Creative Process

• Enhanced Artistic Media reproduce the texture of their real-life counterparts and intensify color with each stroke
• Pen and drawing tablet (recommended), combined with Painter's RealBristle™ brushes, recreate the natural interaction between hand and canvas
• New Hard Media Controls let you create your own hard media variants, or choose from new hard media variants in the Brush Library

Go Beyond the Digital Darkroom

• Improved color recognition for files imported from Adobe® Photoshop®, and individual color profiles per document, make your colors more precise
• Photo-painting tools with SmartStroke™ technology let you creatively transform reality
• Customizable surface texturing gives your art a level of fantasy and detail that other photo and painting software can't deliver

Learn from Unlimited Experimentation

• Digital art tools let you experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art
• New Hard Media controls give you the flexibility to play around to find the exact look you desire
• Smart composition tools, such as Divine Proportion and the Rule of Thirds and Fifths, help you visually arrange your canvas to create perfect compositions
  

Windows

• Windows Vista® or Windows® XP (with latest Service Pack)
• Pentium® IV, 700 MHz or greater
• 1 GB of RAM
• 500 MB of hard disk space for installation
• 24-bit color display
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution
• CD-ROM
• Internet Explorer® 6 or greater
• Mouse or tablet

Mac

• Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 (with latest revision)
• Power Mac® G5, 700 MHz or greater
• 1 GB of RAM
• 500 MB of hard disk space for installation
• 24-bit color display
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution
• CD-ROM
• Safari® Web browser
• Mouse or tablet