Corel Painter X3 Win/Mac, EDU, EN User's Guide Page 530

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Layers 507
The Preserve Transparency button in the Layers panel affects what areas of a
layer you can paint on. For more information, see “Preserving layer transparency
on page 507.
To pick up color from underlying layers
•In the Layers panel, click the Pick Up Underlying Color button .
Preserving layer transparency
Areas of a layer that don’t contain images are transparent. In Corel Painter, you can
preserve these transparent areas of a layer. When you preserve layer transparency, it
affects which areas of a layer you can create images on. It also affects the results of
erasing or deleting images on a layer.
By default, the Preser ve Transparency setting is disabled, which lets you paint
anywhere on the layer. When the setting is enabled, the transparent areas are preserved,
and you are confined to painting on areas of the layer that already contain images.
The results of painting on a layer with Preserve Transparency disabled
(left) and enabled (right).
If you want to paint on a shape, you must first commit the shape to a pixel-based layer.
For more information, see “Converting shapes to image layers” on page 768.
A good way to think about preserving transparency is in terms of a layer mask. As
described in “Creating and deleting layer masks” on page 518, a layer mask defines the
visible areas of a layer.
Preserving transparency provides a powerful selective editing capability to create
interesting effects by altering the strokes you’ve already applied. For example, you can
enable the setting to fill a set of hand-drawn letters with a pattern, a color gradient, or
other brushstrokes.
Preserving transparency also affects the results of cutting or erasing on a layer.
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