Corel ships Painter 2017
Digital paint software gets new texture painting tools for overpainting rendered 3D models like ZBrush sculpts; improved UI and workflow.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
natural media
Project Dogwaffle team releases PD Artist 10
$20 paint tool gets new bristle brush controls, option to paint strokes that scale automatically with Z-depth.
Friday, February 26th, 2016
Corel ships Painter 2016
Digital paint tool gets new physics based brush options, updated layer blending, Photoshop brush import.
Thursday, August 13th, 2015
Check out intriguing $19 paint app Paintstorm Studio
Natural media paint package acts like a hybrid of Painter and Manga Studio, with cool new tools on top.
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
Creation Effects releases Creation Art Effects
New After Effects template mimics natural media and print effects, from ink and paint to pencil scribble.
Friday, March 27th, 2015
Corel ships Painter 2015 & new Painter Mobile app
Desktop edition gets interesting new physics-based particle brushes; free Android app lets you paint on the go.
Friday, August 15th, 2014
Adobe releases Photoshop Mix, Sketch and Line apps
New free iOS apps provide basic compositing, drawing and drafting tools on your iPad.
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
Video: the Expresii digital ink simulation system
See ink 'running' under gravity when a Cintiq is tilted in this beautiful demo for the work-in-progress technology.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
Corel ships Painter X3
Digital paint package gets better brush-editing worflow, Photoshop-like jitter options, nice perspective guides.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Buy PD Pro 5 for $5
Pick up the 2010 edition of the digital painting package for the price of a couple of coffees until 31 October.
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
Get NKS5: a free natural media toolkit for Photoshop
Do (some of) the things you used to do in Painter inside Photoshop with Nathaniel Reeves' cool free add-on.
Friday, June 15th, 2012
Ambient Design releases ArtRage for iPhone
Popular natural media painting package gets a new iPhone version to join last year's iPad-only release.
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Download Project Dogwaffle Professional 3.5 for free
Developer releases full old version of the natural media paint package as an Independence Day gift.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011