Painter 7 is a digital painting application that simulates the realistic subtleties of an artist's style using natural media, such as water colours, inks, oil paints, coloured pencils, felt pens, chalks, pastels, and more.

It also allows you to control how the medium will react with the paper, canvas etc, whether textured or plain.

It opens a whole new world to the digitally-minded artist no matter which of the above media they are interested in. No mess, no fuss, no cleaning up and the ability to create the look of natural media on screen and then print it out or transfer it to the Web – or wherever else you like. The only thing missing is the smell of the paper and ink.

The flexibility of Painter is almost unbelievable when it comes to creating your masterpiece, and you will spend many hours exploring its capabilities; and then probably only experience a fraction of them. The world is your oyster with this one.
Painter 7 includes powerful new water colour and liquid ink technology and perspective grids, along with many other features. Together, they can give that special something that catches attention and satisfies the needs of the professional, yet
also manages to encourage the enthusiastic amateur.

Painter provides the user with a wide range of traditional and customisable palettes and art-making tools, including water colour and air brushes, plus dry media such as Pastel, Chalk and Charcoal. It also includes a range of pencil types, calligraphy pens and much more. In fact if artists use it, it's bound to be here. These tools will respond to pressure-sensitive digitiser pads allowing tremendous scope in any project, simulating the realistic subtleties of an artist's style as though using natural materials.

With its increased compatibility with Adobe Photoshop, this is a package that any committed digital artist must take a serious look at.