Black Ink

Bleank / Feb 8, 2016 / Animation & Modeling, Design & Illustration, Photo Editing, Utilities, Game Development

windows
Steam Deck Unsupported

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Explore Black Ink, a GPU-based painting app redefining creativity. Move beyond traditional tools, customize brushes, and let your imagination soar. Node-based system offers limitless control. Create in high-definition without performance loss.

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What's new

Black Ink 2023.6

2024-07-25

Summer update including Symmetry Radial operator. What's New Watch the update video here: The major highlight of this update is the Symmetry Radial operator, which has been one of the most requested features since the inception of Black Ink. It's a pretty cool operator that produces impressive results even with simple images. I highly recommend you give it a try. As usual, this update comes with numerous improvements and bug fixes. For a comprehensive list of bugs fixed, improvements, or new features, I invite you to check out our ChangeLog.

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What players say

Very Positive

80% positive, 335 reviews

Recommended15 hrs played

This app is wicked fast, you can edit, you can change colors, you can use nodes for your layers. It's kind of like an a cracked out compositor for your images. One of the downsides is that it requires a beefy graphics card to really use it to it's fullest. My problem is, there are tutorials on using certain tools, but nothing deep enough to really learn what the app can even do in it's full potential. The main...

3 found this helpful, 2026-01-11

Recommended15 hrs played

Very cool. Shader programmable brushes. Slick interface.

0 found this helpful, 2026-06-22

Recommended258 hrs played

Love the program ,I hope the developers would keep develop this software , even it's not much popular but I am really love the program.

0 found this helpful, 2026-03-22

Recommended49 hrs played

A very solid drawing program only requiring a one time, relatively cheap purchase. I've been using it as my Photoshop alternative for a while now and while it absolutely has some limitations and lacks MANY features in Photoshop, for purely illustration purposes it feels great to use and it handles large files well if you have a good PC; my last project ended up being over 3gb in size and I didn't notice any...