Corel Painter - 11 Instruction Manual
Contents
Welcome to Corel Painter 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What’s in This User Guide? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What’s New in Corel Painter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
How to Use the Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About Corel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Workspace Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Brush Selector Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Custom Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Working with Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Working with Composition Tools, Rulers, and Guides . 31
Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using Two Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Wacom Intuos Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Textures, Patterns, and Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using Paper Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Getting Started with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Working with the Mixer Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Working with Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Setting Color Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Working with Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Understanding Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Getting Started with Color Management . . . . . . . . . . .87
Previewing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Changing Color Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Working with Color Profile Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Working with Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Exploring Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Understanding Brush Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Choosing Brush Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Marking the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Exploring Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Working with Fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Hard Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Using Hard Media Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Customizing Hard Media Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
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Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Getting Started with Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Customizing Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
RealBristle Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Getting Started with RealBristle brushes . . . . . . . . . . 138
RealBristle settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Getting Started with Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Working with Digital Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Customizing Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Getting Started with the Brush Creator . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Managing Settings and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Managing Custom Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Photo Painting System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Creating Underpaintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Auto-Painting Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Restoring Detail to Paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Cloning and Tracing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Cloning Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Using Clone Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Turning Other Brushes into Cloners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241
Getting Started with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Managing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Editing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Image Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265
Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Tonal Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Using Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Working with Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .279
Getting Started with Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Placing and Customizing Tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291
Getting Started with Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Creating Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Editing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Transforming Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
Getting Started with Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313
Selections and Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Creating and Saving Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Adjusting Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Transforming Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
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Welcome to Corel Painter 11
Corel® Painter™ 11 is the ultimate digital art studio. Its
inventive drawing tools, realistic brushes, and customizable
features let you expand your creative output in exciting new
ways. When you use the pressure-sensitive brushes of
Corel Painter, they become fluid extensions of your hand, so
the resulting brushstrokes are unrivaled in texture and
precision. What's more, features such as the ability to build
your own Natural-Media® brushes and customize how
brushes interact with the canvas give you countless ways to
develop your artistic ideas. Corel Painter takes you far
beyond what's possible in a traditional art environment.
This section contains the following topics:
• What’s in This User Guide?
• What’s New in Corel Painter?
• How to Use the Documentation
• Registration
• About Corel Corporation
What’s in This User Guide?
This user guide provides step-by-step instructions to help
you learn to use Corel Painter 11. The content describes the
most common tasks performed with Corel Painter 11. Please
note that this guide is not an exhaustive reference for every
tool. If you require additional information, please refer to the
application’s Help system.
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To demonstrate what can be achieved with Corel Painter 11,
a gallery of artwork by renowned digital artists is featured at
the beginning of this user guide.
• Pen s — You can create fine pen strokes, or thick strokes
and ink deposits, by changing the stroke velocity. The
faster you go, the thinner the line; the slower you go, the
thicker the line.
What’s New in Corel Painter?
In this section, you will find information about the new and
enhanced features of Corel Painter 11.
New Features
Color management includes individual color profiles per
document and improved color recognition for imported files,
which result in better color matches. Having fewer color
corrections to make streamlines your workflow. In addition,
the fresh, simplified interface for color-management
operations makes it easier to control color profiles when you
create or open files.
Hard Media variants include pencils, chalk, markers, and
pens that mimic the behavior of their traditional
counterparts more accurately than the tools of any other
software!
• Pencils and Chalks — You can control shading by
changing the angle of your pen on the drawing tablet. As
with conventional pencils and chalk, you can use the tip
for drawing and the side of the nib for shading.
• Markers — You can intensify color with each marker
stroke. This feature lets you use one continuous shade or
a buildup of color.
Transformation capabilities are combined in a centralized
tool, improving the ease and efficiency of transforming
images. The new Transform tool offers convenient property
bar buttons that let users quickly switch between the Move,
Scale, Rotate, Skew, Distort, and Perspective Distortion
modes.
Enhanced Features
Brushes perform as much as 30% faster than the previous
version, creating a more true-to-life painting speed.
Brush controls let you change the width of your strokes by
adjusting the angle of your pen when you work with a
drawing tablet. Now, shading by hand feels more natural
than ever.
Selection tools include a new Polygonal mode for the Lasso
tool, plus overall improvements to marquee tools and the
Magic Wand, which lets you make more nimble selections
on your first try.
The Colors palette lets you adjust colors manually with
sliders and enlarge the palette up to 800 pixels for a clearer
view of colors. You can now also fine-tune the Hue Ring
with the keyboard arrow keys, so it takes less time to find the
perfect color.
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The Mixer palette and swatches give you more color
options. Extra mixer swatches appear when you enlarge the
newly resizable Mixer palette. You can enlarge the palette to
make colors more accessible and provide a clearer view of
your chosen color. When you no longer need to mix colors,
you can reduce the size of the palette so that it uses less
screen space.
How to Use the Documentation
The Help gives you access to a full range of topics in a
searchable format. You can access the Help from within the
application by choosing Help menu
(Mac OS®) or Help Topics (Windows®). In addition, you
can refer to the Corel Painter 11 Getting Started Guide,
which provides general over views about Corel Painter
features and presents the most commonly used procedures.
You can learn about Corel Painter by accessing online
resources for the Corel Painter community, including Tips
and Tricks and tutorials.
Corel Painter 11 Help
To use the Help
1 Choose Help menu Corel Painter 11 Help (Mac OS)
or Help Topics (Windows).
2 Perform a task from the following table.
To Do the following
Browse through Help topics Click Contents (Mac) or the
Contents tab (Windows).
Use the index Click Index (Mac).
Click the Index tab, and scroll
through the entries, or type a
word or phrase in the box
(Windows).
Search the full text of the Help (Mac OS) Type a word or phrase
in the Search box in the upperright corner of the Help
window, and press Return.
(Windows) Click the Search tab,
type a word or phrase in the
box, and click List Topics.
Using the Corel Painter Help
The Help is a fully searchable source of information about
Corel Painter.
If you are using Windows, you can perform a search
by typing a phrase and enclosing it in quotation
marks (for example, “Divine Proportion” or “Match
Palette”).
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Registration
Registering Corel products is important. Registration
provides you with timely access to the latest product updates,
valuable information about product releases, and access to
free downloads, articles, tips and tricks, and special offers.
About Corel Corporation
Corel Corporation is one of the world’s top software
companies, with more than 100 million active users in over
75 countries. We develop software that helps people express
their ideas and share their stories in more exciting, creative,
and persuasive ways. Through the years, we’ve built a
reputation for delivering innovative, trusted products that
are easy to learn and use, helping people achieve new levels
of productivity. The industry has responded with hundreds
of awards for software innovation, design, and value.
Our award-winning product portfolio includes some of the
world's most widely recognized and popular software
brands, including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite,
Corel® Paint Shop Pro™ Photo, Corel® Painter™,
VideoStudio®, WinDVD®, Corel® WordPerfect® Office,
and WinZip®. Our global headquarters are in Ottawa,
Canada, and our major offices are in the United States, the
United Kingdom, Germany, China, Taiwan, and Japan.
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Workspace Tour
The Corel Painter workspace has been designed to give you
easy access to tools, effects, commands, and features. The
workspace is organized across a series of menus, selectors,
and interactive palettes. Some features are also available in
the frame of the document window.
This section contains the following topics:
• The Menu Bar
• The Toolbox
• The Property Bar
• The Brush Selector Bar
• The Palettes
• Customizing the Workspace
• Custom Palettes
The Menu Bar
Using the commands on the Corel Painter menu bar, you
can
• work with files and editing commands
• apply and adjust effects
• perform selection operations, work with shapes, and
create animations
• control the document window or the Corel Painter
workspace
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1. Menu bar 6. Navigation icon 11. Brush Selector bar
2. Tracing Paper icon 7. Drawing Mode icon 12. Document title bar
3. Colors palette 8. Selectors 13. Toolbox
4. Layers palette 9. Color Selection box 14. Property bar
5. Scale slider 10. Canvas Artwork by Weiye Yin
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The document window lets you access the following features
with the click of a button:
• Tracing Paper — Lets you trace a clone source. When
Tracing Paper is in use, you see a faded-out version of the
clone source, as if it were displayed under real tracing
paper on top of a light box.
• Grid — Helps you position brushstrokes and shapes.
You can set the types, size, line thickness, and color of the
grid.
• Color Correction — Lets you apply the current color
management style to an image. When the icon shows
colors, the color management style is applied to the
image; when the icon shows black, the color
management style is not applied to the image.
• Impasto Effect — Lets you view the depth effect of
the Impasto layer.
• Drawing Mode — Lets you choose where you can
apply brushstrokes to your image when you have an
active selection. Position the pointer over the icon, and
hold down the stylus button to choose between drawing
anywhere, drawing outside the selection only, or drawing
inside the selection only.
• Navigation — Lets you view a pop-up window of the
entire image and choose which area is displayed in the
document window. For example, when you are working
at a high zoom level or with a large image, you can find a
different image area without having to adjust the zoom
level.
The Toolbox
You can use the tools in the toolbox to paint, draw lines and
shapes, fill shapes with color, view and navigate documents,
and make selections. Under the toolbox is a color selector,
plus six content selectors that let you choose papers,
gradients, patterns, weaves, looks, and nozzles.
The toolbox contains flyout menus, in which tools of similar
function share a space. The button for only one of these tools
is displayed at a given time. A flyout menu is indicated by a
triangle in the lower-right corner of the button.
Some tools are located in flyout menus on the
toolbox. To open a flyout menu, click and hold down
a tool button that has a triangle in the lower-right
corner.
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Exploring the Toolbox
Tool Description
Navigation and Utility Tools
Magnifier tool The Magnifier tool lets you
magnify areas of an image
when you are performing
detailed work, or reduce areas
to get an overall view of an
image. For more information,
see “Zooming” on page 23.
Grabber tool The Grabber tool gives you a
quick way to scroll an image.
For more information, see
Repositioning Documents in
the Help.
Rotate Page tool The Rotate Page tool lets you
rotate an image window to
accommodate the way you
naturally draw. For more
information, see “Rotating and
Flipping the Canvas” on
page 27.
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Perspective Grid tool The Perspective Grid tool lets
you select and move the
location of the perspective grid
lines, the vanishing point, the
horizon line, the ground line,
and the picture plane. See
“Using the Perspective Grid” in
the Help for more information.
Divine Proportion tool The Divine Proportion tool lets
you plan compositions by using
guides based on a classical
composition method. For more
information, see “Using the
Divine Proportion tool” on
page 34.
Layout Grid tool The Layout Grid tool lets you
divide your canvas so that you
can plan your composition. For
example, you can divide your
canvas into thirds vertically and
horizontally to use the
compositional rule of thirds.
Crop tool The Crop tool lets you remove
unwanted edges from the
image. For more information,
see “Cropping Images” on
page 25.
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Tool Description
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Tools that Apply Color or Adjust
Tone
Brush tool The Brush tool lets you paint
and draw on the canvas or a
layer. Brush categories include
pencils, pens, chalk, an
airbrush, oil paints,
watercolors, and more.
When the Brush tool is
selected, you can choose
specific brushes from the
Brush Selector bar.
Paint Bucket tool The Paint Bucket tool lets you
fill an area. The property bar
shows choices for what area to
fill and what to fill it with. For
more information, see “Filling
an Area with Media” in the
Help.
Dropper tool The Dropper tool lets you pick
up a color from an existing
image. The property bar shows
you values for the color. When
you select a color with the
Dropper tool, that color
becomes the current color on
the Colors palette.
Dodge tool The Dodge tool lets you lighten
the highlights, midtones, and
shadows in an image.
Burn tool The Burn tool lets you darken
the highlights, midtones, and
shadows in an image.
Cloner tool The Cloner tool gives you quick
access to the last Cloner brush
variant you used.
Rubber Stamp tool The Rubber Stamp tool gives
you quick access to the
Straight Cloner brush variant,
allowing you to clone point to
point in an image or between
images. For more information,
see “Using Point-to-Point
Cloning” on page 214.
Eraser tool The Eraser tool lets you remove
unwanted areas from the
image.
Selection Tools
Rectangular Selection tool The Rectangular Selection tool
lets you create rectangular
selections.
Oval Selection tool The Oval Selection tool lets you
create oval selections.
Lasso tool The Lasso tool lets you draw a
freehand selection.
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Tool Description
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Polygonal Selection tool The Polygonal Selection tool
lets you select an area by
clicking at different points on
the image to anchor straight
line segments. For more
information, see “Creating
Path-Based Selections” on
page 224.
Magic Wand tool The Magic Wand tool lets you
click or drag in the image to
select an area of similar color.
For more information, see
“Creating Pixel-Based
Selections” on page 226.
Adjuster Tools
Layer Adjuster tool The Layer Adjuster tool is used
to select, move, and
manipulate layers. For more
information, see “The Layer
Adjuster Tool” on page 244.
Selection Adjuster tool The Selection Adjuster tool lets
you select, move, and
manipulate selections created
with the Rectangular, Oval, and
Lasso selection tools and those
converted from Shapes.
Shape Tools
Shape Selection tool The Shape Selection tool is for
editing Bézier curves (shape
paths). You use the Shape
Selection tool to select and
move anchor points and to
adjust their control handles.
Text tool The Text tool creates text
shapes. Use the Text palette to
set the font, point size, and
tracking.
Shape Design Tools
Pen tool The Pen tool lets you create
straight lines and curves in
shape objects.
Quick Curve tool The Quick Curve tool lets you
create shape paths by drawing
freehand curves. For more
information, see “Using the
Quick Curve Tool” on page 297.
Shape Objects Tools
Rectangular Shape tool The Rectangular Shape tool lets
you create rectangular shape
objects. For more information,
see “Using Shape Object Tools”
in the Help.
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