Corel Painter 2023 is professional digital art software for painting, drawing, illustration, and photo art, offering realistic brushes, natural-media simulation, advanced blending, and extensive customization tools.
Corel Painter 2023 Key Features
- Hundreds of realistic, artist-created brushes for traditional and digital styles
- Fluid Paint technology for smooth strokes, controlled opacity, glazing, and natural blending
- Customizable brushes, papers, textures, patterns, flow maps, and color palettes
- Improved Selection Panel with faster access to essential editing controls
- Color Selection brushes for selecting image areas according to color and brightness
- Selection overlays that improve the visibility of complex or transparent selections
- Composition tools including Perspective Guides, Mirror Painting, Layout Grid, and Divine Proportion
- Photo-art features with cloning, Auto-Painting, and AI-assisted styles
- Layer support for flexible, non-destructive artwork editing
- Compatibility with popular pen and display tablets
Natural Digital Painting Experience
Corel Painter 2023 recreates the appearance and behavior of traditional artistic media in a digital workspace. Artists can work with oils, acrylics, watercolor, pastels, chalk, charcoal, ink, markers, and other brush categories while benefiting from digital editing flexibility.

Smoother Strokes with Fluid Paint
Fluid Paint technology allows colors to build gradually across transparent layers, producing smooth brush marks with precise opacity control. Artists can blend, sculpt, glaze, add texture, and reveal paper grain while reducing visible overlap between individual brush dabs.
Faster and More Accurate Selections
The improved selection workflow makes it easier to isolate, edit, and refine specific parts of an image. Color overlays provide clearer selection visibility, while the dedicated Selection Panel, adjustable feathering, improved shortcuts, and updated selection tools reduce the number of steps required for detailed edits.
Extensive Creative Customization
Brush size, shape, angle, flow, texture, opacity, and blending behavior can be adjusted through detailed control panels. Users can also create custom brushes, palettes, papers, patterns, textures, and workspace layouts suited to their preferred techniques and projects.
Tools for Illustration and Photo Art
In addition to blank-canvas painting, Corel Painter 2023 includes tools for transforming photographs into painted artwork. Cloning, Auto-Painting, tracing, and AI-assisted style tools provide flexible starting points for portraits, keepsakes, commercial artwork, and creative photo compositions.
Who will like Corel Painter 2023
- Professional digital painters and illustrators
- Concept artists working in film, games, and entertainment
- Comic, manga, anime, and storyboard artists
- Fine artists moving from physical media to digital creation
- Photographers creating painted interpretations of their images
- Designers producing environments, characters, creatures, and vehicles
- Art students developing digital painting and illustration skills
- Experienced creators who want detailed brush and media customization