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Converting shapes
• Converting shapes to image layers
• Converting selections to shapes
Transforming shapes
• Resizing, rotating, skewing, and flipping shapes
• Duplicating shapes
• Combining shapes
•Blending shapes
• Saving a shape outline as a selection
Sharing shapes
• Acquiring and exporting Adobe Illustrator shapes
Getting started with shapes
In Corel Painter, you work mainly with bitmaps, also known as raster images. Shapes,
however, are vector objects. You can work with them in Corel Painter in much the same
way you work with vector objects in drawing programs like CorelDRAW® and Adobe
Illustrator. For more information, see “Acquiring and exporting Adobe Illustrator
shapes” on page 778. Vector graphics are made up of lines, curves, objects, and fills that
are all calculated mathematically.
Corel Painter draws shapes in an anti-aliased fashion. This anti-aliasing gives objects a
smooth edge, as opposed to the jagged edges apparent in some drawing programs.
Some clipart objects actually look like photographic elements when they are imported
into Corel Painter and displayed with anti-aliasing.
Anti-aliased shapes are typically slower to appear on the screen in Corel Painter than are
aliased objects in drawing programs, so you may want to use your drawing program for
most of your object creation. You can then import the vector artwork into Corel Painter,
tweak it with the drawing tools, and add some Natural-Media effects.
When you create a shape in Corel Painter, the shape appears on a special shape layer. To
maintain all of the editing properties of a shape, the shape must remain on the shape
layer. However, you convert the shape to a pixel-based default image layer, so you can
apply effects, transformations, or use painting tools. For more information, see
“Converting shapes to image layers” on page 768.
- 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
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