Corel Painter Corel Painter, the ultimate Natural-Media painting tool, delivers hundreds of brushes and creative materials, opening new horizons in high-quality output for print and the Web.

Macrosystem CBPaint
CBPaint is a software created with professional productions in mind, offering a wealth of functionality for graphics, video effects and design. The software requires a VGA monitor, a Casablanca Prestige, Kron or Solitaire and last but not least, a portion of creativity!

TVPaint Animation Pro
TVP Animation Professional Edition is a complete package for 2D drawing, painting and animation and for video.  This package is dedicated to the professional who wants to do all their stuff with only one software. This Edition embed all of TVPaint Developpement's know-how dedicated to both animation and video markets! TVP Animation Professional Edition is our professional software that embed the latest version of the TVPaint Technology. It contains all the features that are in the Standard Edition plus a XSheet system, allowing you to do Lip sync, and a panel of video functionalities such as Keyers, titlers, etc... TVP Animation Professional Edition is also compatible with the leading market video boards.

Dan Ritchie PD Particles
PD Particles is a software program for sketching, doodling, painting and drawing with particles. It is loaded with features made for professionals, yet priced low enough for artists, students and hobbyists at all levels. If you like to draw, this is for you! PD Particles is perfect for PC users with a passion for creativity. It is based on a standalone version of the award-winning particle painting system called OptiPustics, found also in Project Dogwaffle. PD Particles also contains a number of fascinating natural fx brushes and can be used as a complete, self-contained painting program. However, it is primarily intended as a companion to your existing favorite photo editing, imaging and painting tools and it is focused on the use of a particular category of brushes: the Particle Brushes.

Logotron Revelation Natural Art
Revelation Natural Art allows you to work with images from a wide variety of sources. Use digital photographs, image scans, web graphics and many other sources as your starting point. Any images you produce with Revelation Natural Art can easily be saved for use on the web (including animations), used in DTP, presentation or word processing software or incorporated directly into your Imagine Logo projects.

Pixarra TwistedBrush Pro Studio
Simplicity without sacrifice, powerful enough for the professional artist yet simple enough for the novice. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence, yet it was designed from day one to be easy to use.  Twisted Brush Pro Studio has more than 3,000 brushes, along with all the features that artists love to use: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic palettes and a whole lot more.

Mindscope Software FingerPaint
Unlike other paint programs, FingerPaint doesn't just let you design, it let's you play! Thanks to our PaintRay technology, FingerPaint allows you to manipulate a realistic paint medium right on your virtual canvas!

Dan Ritchie PD Pro
PD Pro is the successor to the acclaimed and award-winning PD Pro Digital Painter 3.x, also known as Project Dogwaffle Professional. It is a paint and animation(!) program for the PC running the Microsoft Windows operating system. You can paint with animations over animations, such as video. We developed PD Pro to enable artists to express free-thinking creativity in a different way, inspired by old-school traditional painting and animation techniques.

TVPaint Animation
TVP Animation Standard Edition is a unique package for the creation of drawing and 2D animation and is intended for all the digital painting and animation lovers. This package offers a complete toolset to create a simple blue-lined sketch to digital hand-drawn paperless animation. TVP Animation Standard Edition is our basic software that embed the latest version of the TVPaint Technology. It contains all drawing and animating features and many Custom Panels that increase its possibilities.

Eusoftware Photopainter
Welcome to Photopainter, both natural-media painting software and image processing system at the same time. You can not only use it to retouch your photo, but also turn your photos into natural style painting. You are able to explore many possibilities with its natural-media painting technology, multi-layer features and a lot of rendering abilities. With its support to pressure-sensitive tablet and digital camera, Photopainter delivers a comprehensive environment for photographer and painter to create sophisticated images.

Synthetik Studio Artist
Smart Intuitive Painting, Drawing, Image and Video Processing Software. Studio Artist opens up a whole new world for visual artists, designers and video professionals. Based on music synthesis, cognitive neuroscience and visual perception, Studio Artist is changing the way digital art, digital video and design is created.

Ambient Design ArtRage
ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. You can run ArtRage on a normal Windows machine with a mouse, but it works particularly well if you have a graphics tablet. Even better, running ArtRage on a TabletPC takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel. ArtRage is all about playing with paint without the mess, and having fun in the process. You can paint your own image from a blank canvas to completed work, or load in a picture to trace and have the tools pick their colours for you as you paint over it.

portalgraphics.net openCanvas
openCanvas3 is the great painting and illustration software for not only experienced artists but also novices. openCanvas3 users can reproduce a range of effects on their image from its extensive tools of Pen and Brush, Layer, Filter, Selection and more.

Digital Video The TAB
The TAB is not made just for drawing, but for ANIMATING. You can start from a single drawing, and bring it to life by making subsequent modifications, or you can interpolate two drawings using the inbetweener...

DELETER CGillust
As the name implies, it is designed to help draw computer graphic illustrations. This is a very intuitive software, and includes all the basic functions that you need for producing your own illustrations.

AMI e-Paint
E-Paint is a Windows paint application – unlike numerous Windows paint "programs." It's easy to use, quick to learn and less difficult to master than many brands of soap. If you are able to work the web browser that's displaying this document, you have all the necessary skills to successfully operate e-Paint.

Streetwise Professor Franklin's Instant Photo artist
Now anyone can paint like a a master with this highly acclaimed software program! You can create your own exciting work of art from any ordinary photograph in minutes – absolutely no experience required! Winner Editor's Choice, PC Photo, "Addictive", TIME Digital.

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop software introduces the next generation of image editing with powerful new features that offer something for every user. Delivering the broadest and most productive toolset available, Photoshop helps you explore your creativity, work at peak efficiency, and achieve the highest quality results across all media.

Autodesk SketchBook Pro
Autodesk SketchBook Pro is a business and personal productivity tool that transforms your Tablet PC into a digital sketchbook, available anywhere, any time. You don't have to be an artist to use Alias Sketchbook Pro. Think of it as your personal, portable, whiteboard!

Angus BPaint
BPaint is a free bitmap graphics program written in Blitz Basic. It’s non-system friendly (as a result of being written in BB) so bear that in mind when downloading!

Pixologic ZBrush
With ZBrush, you can take a classic, painterly approach, or really dig in and sculpt. Either way, the images you create –- from the very first day -- are simply amaZing! ZBrush's allows you to paint with a variety of materials -- from plastic to chrome, wood to reptilian skin -- and includes many adjustable attributes: ambient, specular, diffuse, transparency, metallicity and more.

Boris RED
Boris RED combines the effects and compositing features of Boris FX with the titling and graphics capabilities of Boris GRAFFITI - in one user interface. RED also adds advanced features, including: * Vector Paint and Rotoscoping * Motion Tracking and Image Stabilization * Import, Extrude, and Animate EPS files * Time Manipulation Filters * Particle System Filter * Intersecting 3D Shapes * Import and Animate Photoshop files with layers * Standalone Rendering: Export to Quicktime, AVI, or Flash

Artwerkz TwilightBrush
TwilightBrush 2.0, the all-in-one photo editing paint program. TwilightBrush excels at taking your creativity to a new level. Our wide range of easy to use tools will bring out your creative side, whether you're a professional or just learned how to draw. Just select a brush and paint away on the canvas. The use of each brush is described in detail in the selection window. TwilightBrush makes a great addition to your full set of graphics tools, and has a unique combination of filters and brushes not found in any other photo editing paint program - our Chemical Transfer Tool, Pressurized Airbrush, Fractal Airbrush, and Masking Brush to name a few. See for yourself why Picasso never felt this free.

Painting Web Site Painting
Painting is a simple yet powerful graphics application by Sarwat Khan. It's quick to launch and easy to use. Use it whenever you need to make a quick graphic, or whenever you feel artistic.

Staz Software FuturePaint
Move over, Photoshop! There’s a new kid in town and he’s got pixel power to spare. If you liked DeskPaint, you’ll love FuturePaint 2. In fact, there are so many great features that we can’t possibly document them all on our web site. But here are a few things that will make you salivate like one of Pavlov’s dogs.

Strichzeichner
This is a small painting Program especially for generating metallic surfaces. It will help you to draw a front view of the desired surface. Drawing a surface means to draw many lines at different colours in the same direction. You can choose between two methods of painting the surface. The first method draws continuously three Lines in different colours. The second method draws continuously only one gradient Line. The colour of the Lines can be adjusted through the whole greyscale. The direction, the colour and the length of the Lines can be changed during the drawing process.

Dan Silva 4P
This is a paint program... or at least it will be. It will be a clone of the Amiga version of the Electronic Arts' product, "Deluxe Paint", written by Daniel Silva. It will contain the functionality of Deluxe Paint 2, and some of the functionality of Deluxe Paint 3. There will be more documentation for this as soon as it actually does something.

Fo2PiX PhotoArtMaster
PhotoArtMaster is a fun, creative, and educative standalone PC-based software, that lets anyone to turn a digital image (be it from a digital camera or scanned-in) into a picture - in minutes! And it's artwork that's good enough to frame and hang on the wall and give to friends and family.

Georges Halvadjian Perfect Paint
PerfectPaint is a freeware graphics paint program for Amiga . It supports 256 colors. plug-ins, and ARexx scripts which can be used with various different drawing effects.

Sunset-Design GrafX2
It's a bitmap paint program for DOS (but you can run it from Windows) that allows you to draw in 60 video resolutions (from 320x200 to 1024x768, including most of the standard Amiga resolutions : 320x256, 320x512, 640x256, 640x512, etc...). This program is dedicated to everybody who knows what a single pixel is. Its layout is not very different from the famous Deluxe Paint or Brilliance, so it will be quite easy to handle it if you know at least one of these programs. If you aren't used to the art of drawing with up to 256 colors, it will be a little more difficult for you, but you should give it a try (or more, because most of the power of this program won't show up on the first try). Then, you might eventually like to draw the oldskool way with GrafX2.

imaja Bliss Paint
Bliss Paint is a powerful animation and video light show tool, waiting for you to take charge and express your creative ideas. It is based on a 2D algorithmic paint system with an innovative interactive color synthesizer that can be controlled with user input through the keyboard, MIDI and sound input. Animations can be projected with video projectors, recorded into QuickTime movies or video tape.

Fo2PiX PhotoArtMaster
PhotoArtMaster is a fun, creative, and educative standalone PC-based software, that lets anyone to turn a digital image (be it from a digital camera or scanned-in) into a picture - in minutes! And it's artwork that's good enough to frame and hang on the wall and give to friends and family.

Black Belt WinImage
State of the art F/X, editing and rendering for still or animated images. 77 image layer blend modes form the basis for the most powerful image editing experience ever. These range from the expected to the extraordinary, like "warp layers", which provide geometric changes in a layered, object-oriented fashion. R7 also gives you full-bore morphing; particle systems; ray tracing; tons of unique animated filters like explosions, depth of field recombination, movie effects and much more; the best area selection tools anywhere; CMYK separations and printing; incredible brush-stroking that offers brush sizing, soft shadowing, rotation (which can even follow the stroke), flipping, and displacement; batching; scripting; open developer plug-in API. Is used in major motion pictures, television, advertising and the web. For Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP.

BNDSOFT Bright
Bright supports Alpha-channel, multi-frame, and has various painting tools for editing graphics such as pen, brush, pastel, crayon, spray, saturation, water-brush and so on. It is very easy and simple to use.

Isao Maruoka, Tacmi Pixia
Pixia, one of the famous free painting and retouch softwares born in Japan, has launched its English version to the world!

Idruna Software Photogenics
Idruna Software's Photogenics is an exciting new graphics package for Windows, Linux, and AmigaOS. It allows you to create stunning images, either from scratch or by modifying existing pictures. It can be used for everything from simple file conversion, to advanced photo manipulation and re-touching. It also offers extremely realistic and easy to use media such as pencils, chalk and watercolours, which allow you to create stunning masterpieces in minutes.

ChangTa Pmacs
Pmacs is the full color supported paint tool that have a lot of functions for image processing. With Pmacs,you can create interesting image easily and joyfully. And,It has powerful functions for creating CGs like a professional. All the tools are made up by plug-in tools individually.That is, you can set up Pmacs as you like.

Eusoftware Wizardbrush
Wizardbrush comes with many painting tools, including pencill, Magic Wand, paint brush, Chinese brush, and many other tools.

Corel Painter
Corel Painter, the ultimate Natural-Media painting tool, delivers hundreds of brushes and creative materials, opening new horizons in high-quality output for print and the Web.

interactivefx Amazon Paint
Amazon Paint, the industry standard 2D paint system, has been used on such films as A Bugs Life, Toy Story 1&2, Titanic, Fifth Element and Starship Troopers. With an extensive palette of tools in addition to the flexibility of user customizable scripting and macro editing, Amazon is the final word in digital paint technology.

Mediachance Photo-Brush
Photo-Brush is a brand new image editor, natural and artistic media painting program, picture retouching tool, photo enhancer and Image Browser for Windows 95/98/NT. It has many rich tools and effects for photo adjusting and photo retouching found in much more expensive professional tools. And there are also some effects and tools you can hardly find elsewhere.

Spaceward Satori Paint
Satori paint software for Windows NT (Intel and Alpha) and Windows 95. Satori is able to import and export 64-bit images, and mix and match them with their 32-bit brethren. Running on Windows NT, Satori offers high performance layer and object based 32/64 bit painting, special effects, color correction, animation and batch processing on a platform capable of running the vast amount of software available for the windows platform.

Ron Scott, Inc QFX
QFX™ 7 is the most powerful and exciting version yet! QFX 7 combines the features of both a paint and a draw program in a single integrated graphics environment. QFX 7 makes it easy to build complex layouts with impressive speed by utilizing an object-oriented paradigm, complete with floating layers, transparent and soft edge masking, multiple complex effects and real time photographic compositing. QFX 7 supports industry standard Photoshop® plug-ins, TWAIN scanners and digital cameras and most popular file formats. QFX 7 is powerful, mature and easy to use, yet has not succumbed to becoming "bloat-ware" to maintain its state-of-the-art features. It is equally suited to creating or editing large images for prepress applications or modest size images for the website or other Internet or multimedia applications. QFX 7 supports Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT and 2000.

Xaos Paint Alchemy
Painterly effects within Photoshop? Really! Other products put colors and effects on the screen, but only Paint Alchemy takes the digital edge off your creations with a designer's touch. Transform your images with painterly effects like Colored Pencil, Impressionist, or Pastel. Choose among 75 built-in brushstroke effects and 36 brush styles to get your design underway, and then modify the look or create your own styles or brushes with Paint Alchemy's full complement of controls.

Right Hemisphere Deep Paint
Why skim the surface, when you can probe the depths of your artistic soul with new Deep Paint. More than mere filters, it's a complete set of painting, drawing and image-manipulation tools that gives you the creative power you crave.

Totally hip WebPainter
WebPainter is the premiere tool for creating professional web animation and graphics with ease. WebPainter's ease-of-use and unique cel animation process creates the smallest, high-quality GIF animation, QuickTime(tm) movies, JPEGs and GIF files in the fewest possible steps.

Softimage Matador
Softimage Matador is the most popular open-platform paint application for the television, broadcast and film markets. Matador combines painting, special effects, rotoscoping, tracking and multi-layered 2D animation into one resolution-independent environment, where imagination becomes reality.

Video Design Software Liberty
Liberty is a comprehensive paint, animation and compositing software package for WindowsNT, Windows2000, as well as SGI Workstations. Liberty also runs on Chyron's Duet and Aprisa platforms, and networks to iNFiNiT! and IMAGESTOR!, as well as most other industry standard graphics and NLE systems. Versions are available for video and film applications. Liberty is being used globally in major broadcast and post-production facilities and has been a standard graphics design package for over a decade.

cosmigo pro motion
pro motion is a drawing and animation package for graphics that contain up to 256 colors. You can use it to create comics, logos, still images, presentations, clip-arts or game graphics as well as to spruce up your web-pages. It will help you to bring your ideas down to sketches easily. The wide range of powerful functions and tools will help you to create high quality animations. Even if you are not one of the talented artists this software can help you with rendering various color or graphic effects for you. The built in keyframer allows you to calculate animations in 3d-space without expecting you to draw something on your own. Professional artists will find useful tools like the light table, helping to create smooth animations (also known as onion skinning).

Lake Clear Animato
Animato, by Lake Clear Software, is a powerful paint tool and animation assembler all in one simple program! It is the easiest way to create GIF animations for the web.

Universe Image Creator
Create realistic images of deep space. First, create your star field and then add nebula, stars, vortex, lens flares, planets, and now galaxies. Requires Windows 95/98/2000 or Windows NT.

Secundum Artem Pixel32
Pixel32 is an image editor suitable for photo retouching, painting and web authoring. It supports layers, channels, selections, masks and plugin architecture. Uses own GUI skinnable interface as you can see on screenshots. Application contains features present in other comparable high quality editors plus tons of additions like animation support, pattern painting, FX brushes, animated brushes, web export wizards, web gallery generator, all effects are multitasked ie. more effects can run at same time. Plugin architecture is not used only for image import/export filters and effects but also for new layer types, layer adjustments, FX brushes, live effects and more. Pixel32 uses hardware independent image editing in 32bit quality, screen is dithered in realtime while in HiColor or 256 color resolutions. There's really more and we're not able to list it here, just check Pixel32 Tour or screenshots to learn more.

MEGALUX Light Technique Ultimate Paint
Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. On this page you can download different versions, see what extras UP gives you compared to other paint programs, take a look at its cool plug-in effects, register the shareware version, sign up to our announcement list and visit the UP webring. The latest version is shareware, however an older, freeware release is also available on this page. UP supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, AVI (reading only), TGA, WMF/EMF, ICO (reading only), IFF/LBM and WAP BMP image formats and Twain compatible scanners. You can print your image, setting its size, position and orientation.

Bauhaus Software Mirage
Bauhaus Mirage is a unified environment that simplifies the creation of animated graphics and special effects. Combining real-time video paint, animation, and effects functionality into a single product, Mirage centralizes the workflow for visual effects production in film, video, broadcast, and cartoon/2D animation. Mirage's intuitive interface and common-sense workflow transcend the digital, focusing on the what – rather than the how, and incorporating the artist directly into the production they're creating. Designed for projects of any resolution, ranging from HDTV and Film to web video, Mirage provides a simple, powerful alternative to expensive proprietary solutions and complex software workflows.

Autodesk Combustion
combustion provides the production power to design, animate, composite, and render your creative vision. Work seamlessly in a unified non-destructive, paint and compositing environment to finish complex effects shots. Use the intuitive Discreet "artist" interface and superior technology for motion tracking, keying, and color correction, rotoscope and composite elements interactively-all within a true 3D compositing environment.

Stoik PictureMan PRO
PictureMan 3.0 PRO brings the complete 2D graphics functionality to your PC. Program contains all imaginable image processing, retouching and enhancement tools. Starting from the first version released in 1992 PictureMan is famous for its outstanding and continuosly growing arsenal of special effects and artistic filters.

Sum Becasso
Becasso is a combined paint/image processing application for the BeOS, featuring layers, full alpha channel support, simple and no-nonsense user interface, (in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, and Croatian), an orthogonal toolset and powerful selection handling.

Kozo Obayashi & K. Kuwata Quick Paint
Quick Paint offers powerful brush painting, which are selected as a part of an image and manipulated to do rotation, sizing, outline, shading, spray, and more. Once you get to using it, you will find out how you can easily paint using brushes. Also Quick Paint provides mask, fill, zoom and grid, adding to the basic painting tools like simple line draw, bend line draw, oval/rectangle draw and text drawing.

Interactive MovieWorks
MovieWorks is a suite of applications that work together to create linear multimedia productions, including web movies, personal and corporate videos, dynamic slide shows, and multimedia presentations. It's like having "lite" versions of Macromedia Director™, Adobe Premiere™ (video editor), Flash™ (animation editor), Sound Edit Pro™ (sound editor) and PhotoShop™ (photo/paint editor), all rolled into one for under $100.

Urban Pursuit NaturePainter
NaturePainter Digital Canvas is a painting software program that makes it easy to practice painting whenever inspiration strikes!

SigmaPi Design Pixopedia 24
Pixopedia 24 is shareware image editor and painter. It is designed with a new approach to digital image processing featuring a new "everything under the brush" concept.

NeoSoft Corp. NeoPaint
NeoPaint is a full featured artist's studio for 32-bit Windows that's easy-to-learn, powerful and affordable! It's simple enough for beginners yet packed with powerful features and advanced tools. NeoPaint makes it easy for business and home users to touch up photographs and create great looking graphics for desktop publishing, presentations and the Internet!

TealPoint Software TealPaint
The ultimate paint and sketch program on Palm OS handhelds, TealPaint is unmatched in both performance and usability. All new TealPaint Version 6 sets a new standard in handheld image capabilities, offering features previously only available on a desktop. Features include high-res, 16-bit color and grayscale support, unlimited image size, six zoom levels, 20 drawing tools, 16 patterns, 24 brushes, layers, animation, and multiple levels of undo.

Paint.NET
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP or 2000. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement forthe MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions. Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. This is the second semester that Paint.NET has been a project at Washington State University, and we have the goal of adding as much functionality as expensive commercial applications provide, but of course, for free! In the spirit of all this freedom, we welcome any suggestions, as well as provide the source code free of charge for anyone who wishes to tinker with it. Please explore this website, download the software and try out many of the things you would do on those expensive commercial applications.

MicroFrontier wwwART
The image editing and paint program designed specifically for creating and modifying graphics for the Web. Low memory requirements and an easy-to-use interface make wwwART the ideal solution for aspiring Web artists and professionals alike.