Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative tool. The current version is Painter 11, released on February 24, 2009.

Natural-Media features simulate the tools and textures of traditional artists' materials. Painter's tool set offers an extensive array of brushes, textures, felt pens, charcoal, watercolours, oils, canvas choices, and art materials to faithfully capture the subtleties of an artist's style for high-quality output for print. Painter was originally named 'Fractal Design Painter' but since those days, the software company Corel have bought the product.

The application offers a wide range of traditional artists' materials and tools. With the aid of a graphics tablet the user is able to reproduce the effect of physical painting and drawing media such as watercolor, oil, chalk, charcoal and color pencil. There are also a few non-traditional items such as the Image Hose, pattern pens, F/X, Distortion and Artist tools to allow artists to apply less conventional elements to an image.

Painter emulates the visual characteristics of traditional media such as oil paint, pastel sticks, air brush, charcoal, felt pens, and other traditional artists' materials on various textured surfaces. Many of these emulated media types work with the advanced features of Wacom tablets, for instance, the airbrush tool in Painter responds to pressure as well as tilt, velocity and rotation.
Painter and Photoshop have many similarities such as layered editing. The two products have developed as contemporaries, introducing innovations that are now considered standard in bitmap image editing software. For example, "Floaters" were released with Painter 2.5, around that time Photoshop released "composite elements".

These are a selection of the painting I have done using my Wacom Bamboo tablet and Painter X, I hope you like them!