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Creating, importing, exporting, and deleting workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Restoring the default Corel Painter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
A short tour of Corel Painter for users of Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Creating, navigating, and manipulating documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Creating documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Understanding resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Opening and placing files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Creating and opening templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Switching document views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Navigating images and viewing image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Zooming images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Rotating images and the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Flipping images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Repositioning images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Cropping images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Resizing images and the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Saving and backing up files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Choosing a file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Emailing documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Closing documents and quitting the application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using two monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Wacom Intuos support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Drag-and-drop features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Customizing keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Toolbox commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
- User Guide 2
- Contents 4
- Contents iii 6
- Contents v 8
- Contents vii 10
- Contents ix 12
- Contents xi 14
- Contents xiii 16
- Contents xv 18
- Contents xvii 20
- Contents xix 22
- Welcome to Corel Painter 24
- Documentation conventions 25
- menu item) 25
- Quick Clone 25
- To access the Help 26
- To use the Help 26
- Additional resources 28
- Registration 28
- Corel Cinco for Painter 28
- About Corel Corporation 30
- Workspace tour 42
- Workspace tour 21 44
- Exploring the Document window 45
- Workspace tour 23 46
- Exploring the toolbox 47
- Workspace tour 25 48
- Workspace tour 27 50
- Displaying the toolbox 51
- To open or close the toolbox 52
- To move the toolbox 52
- To change the toolbox display 52
- Displaying the property bar 53
- Exploring the Navigator panel 54
- Brush Selector bar 56
- Exploring panels and palettes 57
- ™ Hard Media, Color 58
- Workspace tour 37 60
- Workspace tour 39 62
- To group panels into palettes 63
- To expand or collapse a panel 64
- To resize a panel or palette 64
- To dock or undock a palette 65
- To create a custom palette 66
- Managing custom palettes 67
- Working with libraries 68
- To create a new workspace 69
- To import a workspace 70
- To export a workspace 70
- To delete a workspace 70
- Photoshop 72
- Creating documents 79
- To create a new document 80
- Understanding resolution 81
- Opening and placing files 82
- To open a document 84
- To place a file 84
- Switching document views 85
- To switch viewing modes 86
- Zooming images 88
- To zoom in 89
- To zoom out 89
- To zoom to fit the screen 90
- To rotate an image 91
- To rotate the canvas 92
- Flipping images 93
- Image flipped horizontally 94
- Image flipped vertically 94
- Repositioning images 95
- Cropping images 96
- Saving and backing up files 99
- Choosing a file format 100
- Emailing documents 103
- Using two monitors 104
- Wacom Intuos support 105
- Drag-and-drop features 108
- Keyboard shortcuts 110
- Customizing keys 112
- To manage key sets 113
- To revert keyboard shortcuts 113
- Toolbox commands 114
- Panel commands 116
- Corel Painter menu commands 117
- File menu commands 117
- Edit menu commands 118
- Canvas menu commands 118
- Layers menu commands 119
- Select menu commands 119
- Shapes menu commands 119
- Effects menu commands 120
- Window menu commands 120
- Screen navigation 121
- Panel navigation 121
- Panel menu commands 122
- Brush tools 123
- Selection tools 124
- Adjuster tools 125
- Shape tools 126
- Animation 127
- Lighting 128
- Layer selection tools 128
- Other commands 129
- Painting 130
- Choosing a painting workflow 131
- Painting 109 132
- Exploring painting media 133
- Painting 111 134
- Displaying reference images 135
- To display a reference image 136
- To move a reference image 136
- Clearing the canvas 137
- Setting up the drawing cursor 137
- To set brush ghost options 138
- To set brush tracking 140
- To set brush calibration 140
- Using a stylus vs. a mouse 141
- Painting 119 142
- To draw freehand lines 144
- To draw straight lines 144
- To constrain freehand strokes 145
- To fade a stroke 145
- To undo a stroke 145
- Erasing image areas 146
- Letting media pool 148
- Making 360° strokes 148
- Painting with airbrushes 149
- Adjusting spread 150
- Painting 129 152
- To record a stroke 153
- To play back a stroke 153
- To play back strokes randomly 153
- To save a stroke 153
- Reference: Troubleshooting 154
- Applying paper texture 157
- To create a paper texture 158
- To capture paper texture 159
- To delete a paper texture 160
- To rename a paper texture 160
- To invert paper grain 161
- To scale paper grain 161
- To randomize paper grain 163
- Auto-painting photos 164
- To create an underpainting 165
- Auto-painting photos 143 166
- Auto-painting photos 145 168
- Restoring detail to paintings 170
- Image cloning and sampling 172
- To clone an image 175
- To enable tracing paper 176
- Using Quick Clone 177
- Setting cloning preferences 177
- To customize cloning behavior 178
- Source panel (4) 179
- To edit a clone source image 180
- Painting in the clone 182
- To choose a cloner brush 184
- Using brush loading 185
- Performing offset sampling 186
- To scale the sample source 192
- To rotate the sample source 193
- To warp the sample source 196
- Using the Layout Grid 202
- To set Layout Grid options 203
- To move a Layout Grid 205
- To create a mirror painting 206
- Using Perspective Guides 209
- To show Perspective Guides 211
- Using rulers 218
- Using guides 219
- Using Snap to Guides 220
- Using the grid 221
- Using Snap to Grid 222
- Color 201 224
- Color panel 225
- To display the Color panel 226
- To choose the Main Color 227
- Resizing the Color panel 228
- Changing the paper color 230
- Sampling colors from images 231
- Cloning color 232
- Mixer panel tools 234
- To display the Mixer panel 236
- To choose a Mixer Pad 236
- To resize the Mixer panel 236
- To mix colors 237
- To paint from the Mixer panel 238
- To sample multiple colors 238
- Color 217 240
- To clear the Mixer pad 241
- Saving the Mixer pad 242
- Working with color sets 243
- To open a color set 244
- To import a color set 244
- To create a color set 246
- Editing color sets 247
- To delete a color 248
- To replace a color 248
- To show or hide a color 248
- Annotating colors 249
- To create annotations 250
- To delete an annotation 250
- To show or hide annotations 250
- Setting color variability 251
- Setting Color Expression 251
- Loading multiple colors 251
- Working with color fills 252
- Applying a color as a fill 253
- Color 231 254
- To undo a fill 255
- To limit leakage 255
- To close a leak 255
- Color 233 256
- Color management 258
- Color management 237 260
- Saturated 262
- Relative 262
- Colorimetric 262
- Perceptual 262
- Color management 241 264
- To preview a color profile 265
- To soft-proof an image 265
- To turn off soft-proofing 265
- Converting color profiles 266
- To convert a color profile 267
- Color management 245 268
- Working with presets 269
- 4 Click Yes 270
- Original Color Values 273
- Corrected 273
- 1/4 tone 280
- Mid tone 280
- 3/4 tone 280
- Highlights 280
- To adjust colors equally 282
- Adjusting selected colors 284
- To adjust a selected color 285
- Equalizing images 287
- To equalize colors 288
- Inverting colors 290
- Posterizing an image 291
- Applying video legal colors 292
- Dodging and burning 293
- Libraries 296
- To export a library 297
- To create a library 298
- To remove a library 298
- Restoring default libraries 300
- To restore a default library 301
- Understanding brushes 302
- Exploring brush categories 303
- Just Add Water Smear Smudge 305
- Bleach Eraser Flat Eraser 308
- (works with 308
- Bulge Confusion Hurricane 309
- Blur Dodge Burn 315
- To search for brush variants 319
- To set brush size 321
- To set opacity 322
- To set grain 322
- To copy a brush variant 326
- To move a brush variant 326
- To save a brush variant 327
- To delete a brush variant 328
- To remove a brush category 330
- To create a brush library 331
- To delete a brush library 331
- To import a brush library 332
- To export a brush library 333
- To import a brush category 334
- To export a brush category 334
- To import a brush variant 334
- Saving a brush look 335
- Creating brush dabs 336
- To create a brush dab shape 337
- Exploring Brush Controls 339
- Expression settings 340
- To preview brushstrokes 343
- To preview brush dabs 343
- Calibrating brush variants 344
- General controls 345
- General controls: Dab types 345
- To choose a dab type 350
- To choose a stroke type 352
- General controls: Source 356
- General controls: Multicore 357
- Opacity controls 357
- To set brush opacity 358
- Grain controls 359
- Stroke Attribute controls 360
- Size controls 363
- Angle controls 365
- To set brush shape 368
- To set brush dab angle range 368
- Spacing controls 369
- To set minimum dab spacing 370
- To boost brushstrokes 370
- Changing dab profiles 371
- Hard Media Profiles 372
- Real Watercolor controls 373
- Resistance setting (right) 375
- Real Wet Oil controls 379
- Computed Circular controls 385
- Hard Media controls 385
- Bristle controls 385
- RealBristle controls 386
- Static Bristle controls 387
- To set bristle thickness 388
- Airbrush controls 389
- Feature Jitter (right) 390
- To set paint spread 391
- To set ink flow 391
- Artists’ Oils controls 392
- To paint in Dirty Mode 395
- Impasto controls 396
- Digital Watercolor controls 396
- Water controls 396
- To adjust watercolor controls 400
- Liquid Ink controls 401
- To choose an ink type 406
- To set smoothness 406
- To set ink volume 406
- To set random volume 407
- To set random size 407
- To set bristle fraction 407
- To set random bristle volume 407
- Stroke Jitter controls 408
- Well controls 409
- To set resaturation 411
- To set color bleed 411
- To set brush dryout 411
- To enable brush loading 411
- Mouse controls 412
- Smoothing controls 413
- Image Hose controls 414
- Rake controls 415
- To set brush contact angle 417
- To set brush scale 417
- To set bristle displacement 417
- Multi controls 418
- Cloning controls 419
- Scale cloning 420
- Rotate cloning 421
- Rotate & Mirror cloning 421
- Rotate, Scale, Shear cloning 422
- Bilinear cloning 422
- Perspective cloning 423
- To set clone color 424
- To set clone type 425
- To tile clone source 425
- Color Variability controls 426
- Color Expression controls 428
- Jitter brushes 430
- To choose a Jitter variant 432
- Brush control panel with 433
- Jitter controls 433
- For more information, see 433
- Watercolor 434
- To wet the Watercolor layer 436
- Watercolor 415 438
- To adjust diffusion 440
- To adjust wet fringe 440
- To choose a flow map 445
- Customizing flow maps 446
- To customize a flow map 448
- Hard Media 450
- Modifying Hard Media profiles 452
- Hard Media 431 454
- Previewing Hard Media dabs 455
- Getting started with markers 456
- Customizing markers 457
- Image hose 458
- Using the Image hose 459
- To use the Image hose 460
- (left) and 20% (right) 462
- Indexing nozzle files 463
- Image hose 441 464
- To change the indexing rule 465
- Image hose 443 466
- Image hose 445 468
- Creating a 1-Rank nozzle 469
- Image hose 447 470
- Creating a 2-Rank nozzle 471
- To build a 2-Rank nozzle 472
- Creating a 3-Rank nozzle 473
- Image hose 451 474
- To load a 1-Rank nozzle file 475
- To retrieve and edit a nozzle 476
- Image hose 455 478
- RealBristle brushes 480
- Brush Tip 481
- Bristle Length 481
- Ferr ule 481
- RealBristle brushes 459 482
- To open the RealBristle panel 484
- Liquid Ink 486
- Using Liquid Ink controls 487
- Liquid Ink 465 488
- Impasto 467 490
- Impasto 469 492
- Impasto 471 494
- Impasto 473 496
- Impasto 475 498
- Impasto 477 500
- Layers 479 502
- Getting started with layers 503
- Layers 481 504
- Displaying the layers panel 506
- Creating and deleting layers 508
- To delete a layer 509
- Layers 487 510
- To name a layer or group 511
- Selecting layers 512
- To select a layer 513
- To deselect layers 514
- To show layer indicators 514
- To copy and paste a layer 515
- To duplicate a layer 515
- Moving layers 516
- To move or nudge a layer 517
- Transforming layers 518
- Aligning layers 520
- Locking layers 521
- Showing or hiding layers 522
- Changing layer order 523
- Viewing layer position 524
- Grouping layers 525
- To create a group 526
- To open or close a group 526
- To ungroup layers 527
- To collapse a group 527
- Painting on layers 528
- To paint on a layer 529
- Preserving layer transparency 530
- Adjusting layer opacity 531
- Adding drop shadows to layers 532
- Layers 511 534
- Layers 513 536
- Layers 515 538
- Layers 517 540
- To create a blank layer mask 542
- Applying layer masks 544
- To select a layer mask 545
- To view a layer mask 545
- Copying layer masks 546
- Inverting layer masks 547
- Editing layer masks 547
- Layers 525 548
- Working with reference layers 549
- To commit a reference layer 550
- Alpha Channels 552
- To create a blank channel 553
- To copy a channel 554
- Alpha Channels 533 556
- To display the channels panel 558
- To select a channel 558
- To view or hide a channel 558
- Setting channel attributes 559
- To delete a channel 560
- To clear a channel 560
- Editing channels 561
- To paint in a channel 562
- To feather a channel 563
- To invert a channel 563
- To fill a channel 563
- Alpha Channels 541 564
- To make a freehand selection 571
- To select the entire canvas 571
- The image 578
- Viewing selections 582
- Inverting selections 583
- Stroking selections 584
- To smooth a selection 586
- To add to a selection 587
- To subtract from a selection 587
- Moving selections 589
- To transform a duplicate 590
- To scale a selection 591
- To rotate a selection 592
- To skew a selection 593
- To distort a selection 594
- Canceling transformations 595
- Common options for effects 596
- To fade an effect 597
- Applying Smart Blur 601
- Applying Camera Motion Blur 601
- Applying Depth of Field 602
- Depth of Field 603
- Depth of Field controls 605
- Applying Glass Distortion 606
- Applying Motion Blur 609
- Sharpening focus 610
- Softening focus 611
- To soften focus 612
- Applying Zoom Blur 613
- Applying Marbling 613
- To create a marbling recipe 614
- The Auto Van Gogh effect 618
- Applying Blobs 619
- Creating custom tiles 620
- To apply custom tiles 621
- Custom tile controls 623
- Applying Grid Paper 624
- Applying Growth effects 625
- Applying Highpass 626
- Applying the Maze effect 627
- Placing elements 628
- To place elements 629
- To apply a Pop Art Fill 631
- Layers panel 635
- Adjusting light properties 637
- Using paper to create texture 638
- (right) settings applied 641
- Creating embossed effects 644
- To create an embossed effect 645
- Creating reflection maps 647
- Adjusting texture lighting 649
- To adjust texture lighting 650
- To apply a screen 651
- Color Overlay controls 654
- Dye Concentration controls 657
- Express Texture controls 659
- Applying a warp effect 660
- Applying the Woodcut effect 662
- Applying the Distress effect 664
- Distress controls 666
- To apply Serigraphy effects 667
- Applying the Sketch effect 668
- Dynamic Plug-ins 670
- To delete a dynamic layer 672
- To burn a layer or selection 674
- Dynamic Plug-ins 653 676
- To apply a bevel effect 678
- Dynamic Plug-ins 657 680
- Dynamic Plug-ins 659 682
- Liquid Lens tool Example 684
- Rain melts the image 688
- Liquid Metal tool Example 690
- Brush tool 690
- Circle tool 691
- Dynamic Plug-ins 669 692
- To create negative metal 694
- To remove metal 695
- To show metal droplet handles 695
- To select metal droplets 695
- To move metal droplets 696
- Dynamic Plug-ins 675 698
- Patterns 700
- To apply a pattern as a fill 701
- Painting with patterns 702
- To paint with a pattern 703
- To paint with pattern opacity 704
- Creating and editing patterns 705
- Patterns 683 706
- To create a masked pattern 707
- Creating seamless patterns 708
- Patterns 687 710
- Creating fractal patterns 711
- To create fractal patterns 712
- Patterns 691 714
- Gradients 716
- To apply a gradient as a fill 717
- To paint a gradient 718
- Adjusting gradients 720
- To gradient direction 721
- To change a gradient angle 721
- Main color 722
- Additional color 722
- Two-point gradient 722
- New color control 722
- To edit a gradient 724
- To add color to a gradient 724
- To change the gradient hue 725
- Saving gradients 726
- Mosaics and tessellations 728
- Creating a mosaic 729
- Mosaics and tessellations 707 730
- Selecting and removing tiles 732
- To select tiles 733
- To deselect tiles 733
- To remove tiles 733
- Mosaics and tessellations 711 734
- To change the grout color 735
- To adjust tile dimensions 735
- Mosaics and tessellations 713 736
- Filling an area with tiles 739
- Creating 3D tiles 740
- Re-rendering mosaic tiles 742
- Creating tessellations 744
- Mosaics and tessellations 723 746
- To create a tessellation 747
- Mosaics and tessellations 725 748
- To color tessellations 749
- Applying weaves 750
- To apply a weave as a fill 751
- Editing and saving weaves 752
- Creating weave patterns 753
- Weaves 731 754
- Weaves 733 756
- Weaves 735 758
- Designing the tie-up 759
- To modify the tie-up 760
- Weaves 739 762
- Weaves 741 764
- Weaves 743 766
- Weaves 745 768
- Weaves 747 770
- An image created with shapes 772
- Getting started with shapes 773
- Drawing shapes 774
- To draw an oval or circle 775
- Drawing lines and curves 776
- Wing handle 777
- Anchor point 777
- To draw a line segment 778
- To add to an open shape path 779
- To draw a freehand shape 779
- Shapes 757 780
- Selecting a shape 782
- To set shape fill attributes 784
- To set shape flatness 785
- To move anchor points 786
- Adjusting curvature 787
- To adjust a curve 788
- To cut a shape 789
- To join endpoints 790
- Shapes 769 792
- Resizing a shape 793
- Rotating a group of shapes 793
- To resize a shape 794
- To rotate a shape 794
- To skew a shape 794
- Duplicating shapes 795
- Combining shapes 796
- To create a compound shape 797
- To release a compound shape 797
- Blending shapes 798
- Shapes 777 800
- Adding text 802
- Formatting text 803
- Aligning text 803
- To align text 804
- To kern text 804
- To adjust leading 804
- Rotated text (right) 805
- Adding drop shadows to text 806
- Applying effects to text 806
- Applying curves to text 807
- Adding text 785 808
- Converting text layers 809
- Dropping text 810
- To create a new movie 815
- You can also 816
- Opening a Corel Painter movie 817
- Selecting movie frames 819
- Editing frame content 819
- Previewing animations 820
- Using onion skinning 820
- Animating with layers 821
- To create motion with layers 822
- Repeating frames 823
- Inserting movies 824
- Rotoscoping 825
- Applying scripts to movies 826
- To apply a script to a movie 827
- Exporting movies as QuickTime 828
- Exporting animated GIFs 832
- Getting started with scripts 836
- Displaying the Scripts panel 837
- Recording and playing scripts 838
- To record a script 839
- To play a script 839
- To enable background scripts 840
- Preferences General 840
- To play a background script 841
- To edit script parameters 842
- Converting scripts to movies 843
- To import a script 845
- To export a script 845
- To import a script library 845
- To export a script library 846
- To create a script library 846
- To delete a script library 847
- Printing images 848
- Printing your work 849
- To print to a file 850
- General notes on printing 851
- Printing images 829 852
- Corel Painter tool 855
- Corel Painter 856
- PSD file format 857
- Setting preferences 860
- Interface preferences 862
- Performance preferences 863
- Setting preferences 841 864
- Shapes preferences 865
- Cloning preferences 866
- Connection preferences 867
- • Do one of the following: 868
- Choosing web-safe colors 870
- Choosing web-friendly brushes 872
- Creating transparent GIFs 873
- Creating animated GIFs 875
- Creating rollovers 876
- Creating image maps 878
- Creating web page backgrounds 881
- Creating web buttons 884
- Numerics 888
- Index 867 890
- Index 869 892
- Index 871 894
- Index 873 896
- Index 875 898
- Index 877 900
- Index 879 902
- Index 881 904
- Index 883 906
- Index 885 908
- Index 887 910
- Index 889 912
- Index 891 914
- Index 893 916
- Index 895 918
- Index 897 920
- Index 899 922
- Index 901 924
- Index 903 926
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