Corel Painter - 2015 Getting Started Guide

Corel® Painter® 2015 Getting Started Guide

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Welcome to Corel Painter..................................................................................................................... 1

What’s in this user guide?................................................................................................................... 1

Additional resources............................................................................................................................. 2

Registration.......................................................................................................................................... 2

Corel Cinco for Painter......................................................................................................................... 2

About Corel Corporation...................................................................................................................... 4

What’s new in Corel Painter 2015........................................................................................................5

Revolutionary digital brushes................................................................................................................ 5

Enhanced speed and performance....................................................................................................... 7

A fully responsive experience................................................................................................................ 8

Mobile art that moves you................................................................................................................... 9

Workspace tour...................................................................................................................................11

Corel Painter terms.............................................................................................................................11

Exploring the Document window....................................................................................................... 14

Choosing a workspace layout.............................................................................................................17

Exploring the toolbox......................................................................................................................... 18

Displaying the toolbox........................................................................................................................23

Displaying the Media Selector bar...................................................................................................... 24

Displaying the property bar................................................................................................................ 24

Exploring the Navigator panel............................................................................................................ 25

Displaying the Brush Selector bar and the Brush library panel.............................................................26

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Displaying the command bar............................................................................................................. 27

Exploring panels and palettes.............................................................................................................27

Working with libraries........................................................................................................................ 32

Restoring the default Corel Painter settings........................................................................................ 32

A short tour of Corel Painter for users of Adobe Photoshop..............................................................35

Creating, navigating, and manipulating documents...........................................................................41

Creating documents........................................................................................................................... 41

Understanding resolution................................................................................................................... 43

Opening files...................................................................................................................................... 44

Navigating images and viewing image information............................................................................ 45

Resizing images and the canvas......................................................................................................... 46

Saving files......................................................................................................................................... 49

Support for tablets and other devices................................................................................................ 49

Multi-touch support........................................................................................................................... 49

Painting............................................................................................................................................... 51

Choosing a painting workflow........................................................................................................... 51

Brush tracking and calibration............................................................................................................54

Exploring painting media....................................................................................................................58

Working with the canvas and layers................................................................................................... 59

Displaying reference images............................................................................................................... 59

Clearing the canvas............................................................................................................................ 61

Applying freehand and straight brushstrokes......................................................................................61

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Color................................................................................................................................................... 65

Choosing colors from the Color panel................................................................................................ 65

Using the temporal colors palette...................................................................................................... 68

Exploring the Mixer panel and mixing controls...................................................................................69

Mixing, sampling, and applying colors from the Mixer pad................................................................ 71

Opening images in the Mixer panel................................................................................................... 73

Working with color sets..................................................................................................................... 74

Selecting, managing, and creating brushes........................................................................................ 77

Understanding brushes.......................................................................................................................77

Exploring brush categories................................................................................................................. 78

Searching and selecting brushes.........................................................................................................93

Setting basic brush attributes............................................................................................................. 95

Displaying advanced brush controls dynamically.................................................................................99

Importing and exporting brush libraries, categories, and variants....................................................... 99

Cloning images................................................................................................................................. 103

Cloning images................................................................................................................................ 103

Using Quick Clone............................................................................................................................107

Editing, updating, saving, and exporting clone source images.......................................................... 108

Painting in the clone........................................................................................................................ 110

Particle brushes................................................................................................................................. 113

The New Brushes workspace layout..................................................................................................114

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Gravity Particle brushes.....................................................................................................................114

Flow Particle brushes........................................................................................................................ 117

Spring Particle brushes..................................................................................................................... 119

General Particle brush controls......................................................................................................... 124

Info palettes..................................................................................................................................... 130

Jitter brushes.....................................................................................................................................131

Choosing a Jitter brush variant.........................................................................................................131

Controlling the behavior of Jitter variants......................................................................................... 134

Working with perspective guides......................................................................................................135

Using Perspective Guides.................................................................................................................. 135

Index................................................................................................................................................. 141

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Welcome to Corel Painter

Corel® Painter® 2015 is the ultimate digital art studio. Its inventive drawing tools, realistic brushes, cloning capabilities, 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?” (page 1)

• “Additional resources” (page 2)

• “Registration” (page 2)

• “Corel Cinco for Painter” (page 2)

• “About Corel Corporation” (page 4)

What’s in this user guide?

This user guide provides step-by-step instructions to help you get started with Corel Painter 2015. The content describes the most common tasks performed with Corel Painter 2015. Please note that this guide is not an exhaustive reference for every tool. If you require additional information, refer to the application’s Help system.

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Additional resources

You can access additional Corel Painter resources online to learn more about the product and connect with the Corel Painter community.

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Resources To access

Corel Painter website http://www.painterartist.com

Corel Painter Tutorials http://www.youtube.com/user/PainterTutorials

Corel Painter on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/corelpainter

Corel Painter on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/corelpainter

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.

If you skipped the registration process when installing Corel Painter 2015, you can register at

www.corel.com/support/register.

Corel Cinco for Painter

Corel® Cinco™ for Painter® is a companion app that lets you control Painter remotely from your iPad by opening and using any custom palettes that you created in Corel Painter. You can download Corel Cinco for Painter from the Apple App Store.

Corel Cinco for Painter lets you display only one custom palette at a time, but you can quickly switch between palettes. Corel Cinco for Painter displays five palette controls per screen. If your custom palette includes more than five controls, you can swipe the screen to display the additional controls.

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The icons of the controls are conveniently positioned to match the

shape of your hand so that each finger can quickly tap a control.

Working with Corel Cinco for Painter allows you to extend your workspace and reduce onscreen clutter. It can also replace traditional shortcut keys.

To allow Corel Cinco for Painter to connect with Corel Painter, you need to enable the option in the Painter Preferences dialog box.

To allow Corel Cinco for Painter to connect with Corel Painter

1 Do one of the following:

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(Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter 2015 menu Preferences Connections.

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(Windows) Choose Edit Preferences Connections .

2 Enable the Allow companion application to connect to Painter check box.

3 Type a name in the Service Name box to give your copy of Corel Painter a unique name.

We recommended that you do not enable the Allow companion applications to connect to Painter check box before the companion application is available.

To use Corel Cinco for Painter with Corel Painter, you must have iTunes or Bonjour (Windows only) installed.

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You can also specify an Authentication Code to ensure that only a legitimate user can access your copy of Corel Painter from a remote application.

About Corel Corporation

Corel is one of the world’s top software companies, boasting some of the industry's best-known graphics, productivity and digital media products. We've built a reputation for giving customers more choice, and delivering solutions that are easy to learn and use. Our mission is simple: help people achieve new levels of creativity and productivity.

Corel’s product lines include CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, Corel® Painter®, Corel® PaintShop® Pro, Corel® VideoStudio® and Corel® WordPerfect® Office. For more information on Corel, please visit

www.corel.com.

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What’s new in Corel Painter 2015

Corel Painter takes you far beyond what’s possible in a traditional art environment. This section contains the following topics about what’s new in Corel Painter 2015:

• “Revolutionary digital brushes” (page 5)

• “Enhanced speed and performance” (page 7)

• “A fully responsive experience” (page 8)

• “Mobile art that moves you” (page 9)

Revolutionary digital brushes

With the addition of Particle brushes and Jitter Smoothing, Corel Painter 2015 continues to push the envelope of digital art.

Particle Brushes

These new physics-inspired brushes produce rich, chaotic strokes by emitting particles from a central point that create lines and patterns as they move across the canvas. This revolutionary brush category allows a wide variety of artists to push their creative visions further, whether in photo art, illustration, concept art, traditional art, and more.

There are three types of Particle brushes — Gravity, Flow and Springs — and each have their own set of behaviors. You can control a Particle brush variant by linking its behavior to a variety of real-time input factors, such as pressure, bearing, tilt or velocity. Or you can let them run free, with beautiful, unpredictable results.

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You can quickly get to work with Particle brushes by choosing the New Brushes user interface arrangement, which displays all palettes and controls related to the Particle brushes.

For more information, see “Particle brushes” on page 113.

Particle brushes were used to create the sparks and wisps of smoke in this image. Artwork by Don Seegmiller

Jitter Smoothing

Corel Painter X3 saw the introduction of Universal Jitter, which allows you to add randomness to your brushstrokes by integrating the Jitter expression in a range of brush controls. The addition of Jitter Smoothing in Corel Painter 2015 helps you give your brushstrokes an even more natural, organic look.

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Angle Jitter applied to a brushstroke without Jitter

Smoothing (top) and with Jitter Smoothing (bottom).

Opacity Jitter applied to a brushstroke without Jitter Smoothing (top) and with Jitter Smoothing (bottom)

Enhanced speed and performance

Speed and performance enhancements let you focus on your art and forget about technology.

Native 64-bit application for Mac

Users on the Mac OS will notice extended processing power right away, especially during operations that require big data transfers, such as opening files, switching clone sources, working with multiple layers, using large documents and more.

Enhanced cross-platform performance

Whether you're working on a Mac or a PC, you'll notice increased speed in Painter 2015. With the latest round of CPU performance optimizations, brushes perform faster, so you can concentrate on your art and forget about technology.

Enhanced real-time effect preview

Corel Painter 2015 takes the guesswork out of applying effects. You can now preview effects in real-time on the canvas so you instantly get an idea how the whole painting will look.

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Enhanced brush tracking

Because each artist uses a different strength or pressure level in a stroke, the enhanced Brush Tracking utility helps calculate the appropriate settings for pressure and velocity. The new visual power curve helps you control universal application pressure-sensitive memory and instantly apply the settings to the current brush variant. There are default pressure curves to choose from, or you can tweak the curve and save it as a preset. You can also make practice strokes with a variant on the canvas while you’re calibrating the brush tracking so you can draw from with the most realistic, accurate brushstroke information possible. For more information, see “Brush tracking and calibration” on page 54.

A fully responsive experience

Based on user feedback, Corel Painter 2015 offers you new streamlined ways to work as well as updated content.

Custom user-interface palette arrangements

Inspired by Painter artists, this collection of new pre-defined user-interface arrangements is designed to kick-start a variety of digital-art workflows by displaying only the relevant palettes and tools. There’s one for illustrating, creating photo art, and getting started with the revolutionary new Particle brushes. There’s even one that displays only minimal UI, freeing up space for tablet users. For more information, see “Choosing a

workspace layout” on page 17.

The New Brushes arrangement displays everything you need to use the Particle Brushes.

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Artwork by Mike Thompson

Fresh new content

You can add an extra special touch to your artwork with new, freshly inspirational papers, nozzles, images, patterns, weaves, gradients and more. Some of the updates are designed specifically for different types of digital artists, so whether you're an illustrator or photo artist, you can be sure to find compelling content to work with.

Mobile art that moves you

Corel Painter 2015 lets you paint on the go, so you can create anytime, anywhere.

Real-Time Stylus and Windows Tablet PC support

You can combine your Tablet PC with Windows Real-Time Stylus support to capture whatever inspires you on the fly. Support for the Windows Real-Time Stylus delivers truly responsive pressure-sensitivity, and depending on the device, tilt. What’s more, there’s no stylus driver to install, so you can use Corel Painter 2015 right away. For more information, see “Support for tablets and other devices” on page 49.

Real-Time Stylus and Windows Tablet PC support let you create art on the go.

Painter Mobile for Android

The Painter Mobile for Android app gives you the ability to paint anywhere, anytime. When it's time to finalize your work, you can import it directly into Painter 2015 to add professional finishing touches.

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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 by using a series of menus, selectors, panels, and interactive palettes.

This section contains the following topics:

• “Corel Painter terms” (page 11)

• “Exploring the Document window” (page 14)

• “Choosing a workspace layout” (page 17)

• “Exploring the toolbox” (page 18)

• “Displaying the toolbox” (page 23)

• “Displaying the Media Selector bar” (page 24)

• “Displaying the property bar” (page 24)

• “Exploring the Navigator panel” (page 25)

• “Displaying the Brush Selector bar and the Brush library panel” (page 26)

• “Displaying the command bar” (page 27)

• “Exploring panels and palettes” (page 27)

• “Working with libraries” (page 32)

• “Restoring the default Corel Painter settings” (page 32)

Corel Painter terms

Before you get started with Corel Painter, you should be familiar with the following terms.

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Term Description

Canvas The canvas is the rectangular work area inside the

document window. In addition, the canvas serves as the background layer of the image. However, unlike other layers, it is always locked. The size of the canvas also determines the size of the image that you create.

Pixels-per-inch (ppi) The default unit of measurement for resolution in

Corel Painter. Pixels-per-inch (ppi) is equivalent to dots per inch (dpi).

Layer Layers are independent image elements that

stack on top of the canvas. You can manipulate the content of a layer without altering the canvas. Layers let you experiment with different compositions and effects without risking an unwanted, permanent edit.

Brush category Brush categories are groups of similar brushes and

media.

Brush variant Brush variants are specific brushes and brush

settings within a brush category.

Dab types The dab type controls the way a brush applies

color to the painting surface. In Corel Painter, there are numerous dab types that fall under two dab type groups: rendered and dab-based, also known as pixel-based.

Rendered dab type The rendered dab type produces continuous,

smooth-edged strokes. For example, Camel Hair and Airbrush use the rendered dab type.

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Term Description

Dab-based dab type The dab-based dab types produce brushstrokes

that are made up of tiny dabs of color that are closely spaced together so they appear smooth.

Panel A panel is a single tabbed container that displays

commands, controls, and settings for a specific feature. Panels reside in a palette. For example, the Color panel contains controls that allow you to choose colors.

Palette A palette is a container for one or multiple panels.

Paper Paper allows you to control both the color and

texture of the canvas.

Clone source The clone source determines the image, or image

area, that you want to reproduce through cloning. A document can include multiple clone sources.

Clone document The clone document is created by copying the

original clone source image which allows you to reproduce a painterly version of the source image. A copy of the clone source is embedded in the clone document. In addition, you can add multiple clone sources to a clone document.

Image sampling Image sampling lets you copy part of one image

and reuse it elsewhere in the image or in another image. You can sample an image by using the Rubber Stamp tool, a Cloner brush that supports offset sampling, or a Cloner brush that supports multi-point sampling. Sampling is similar to cloning, but, unlike cloning, it does not create a separate document that stores clone sources.

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Term Description

Composite method A composite method, which is similar to blend

modes in Adobe Photoshop, lets you change how a layer blends with an underlying image.

Exploring the Document window

The document window is the area outside the canvas that is bordered by scroll bars and application controls.

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Circled numbers correspond to the numbers in the following table, which describes

the main components of the application window. (Artwork by Android Jones)

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Part Description

1. Menu bar Lets you access tools and features using pull-down menu options

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Part Description

2. Brush Selector bar Lets you open the Brush library panel to choose a brush category and variant. It also allows you to open and manage brush libraries.

3. Property bar Displays commands that relate to the active tool or object. For example, when the Fill tool is active, the fill property bar displays commands for filling selected areas.

4. Brush Search bar Lets you quickly search the content of the currently selected brush library to find brushes that match a specific description.

5. Navigator panel Lets you navigate in the document window, change the magnification level, and access various document viewing options, such as Tracing Paper and Drawing Modes

6. Color panel Lets you choose main and additional colors for painting in Corel Painter documents.

7. Mixer panel Lets you blend colors together to create new colors. You can also open inspirational mixer pads designed by expert Corel Painter artists. (The inspirational mixer pad in the image was created by artist John Malcolm.)

8. Color Set Libraries panel Displays the colors in the current color set so you can organize groups of colors.

9. Advanced Brush Controls Lets you quickly access the advanced brush controls for any default brush variant. It also displays an enhanced stroke preview of the currently selected brush variant. The image shows the Color Variability panel, which includes the new Jitter Smoothness control.

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Part Description

10. Layers panel Lets you manage the hierarchy of layers and includes controls for creating, selecting, hiding, locking, deleting, naming, and grouping layers

11. A custom brush button This custom brush button shows the brush as a stroke instead of a brush category, helping you recognize the brush variant.

12. A custom palette Custom palettes give you easy access to controls that you use often. This custom palette includes a control (Quick Switch) that lets you switch between your favorite workspace layouts.

13. Info palette Explains key features of the new Particle brushes.

14. Toolbox Lets you access tools for creating, filling, and modifying an image

15. Canvas The canvas is the rectangular work area inside the document window whose size determines the size of the image you create. The canvas acts as the image background and, unlike a layer, it is always locked.

Choosing a workspace layout

Corel Painter 2015 offers preset workspace layouts that you can choose from. A workspace layout (also known as “palette arrangement”) displays, hides, and positions workspace elements such as palettes and panels to suit a specific workflow. The following table describes the available workspace layouts.

Workspace layout Description

New Brushes Displays the palettes of the new Particle brushes for

quick and easy access

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Workspace layout Description

Simple Displays minimal user interface that includes the

toolbox, the menu bar, and a command bar that contains shortcuts to commonly used commands. This layout is ideal for small screens.

Photo Art Displays palettes commonly used by photo artists,

providing optimal setup for cloning photos, textures, and paintings

Illustration Displays palettes commonly used for creating

illustrations

Default The default workspace layout that works well

for most computers. For more information, see

“Exploring the Document window” on page

14.

To choose a workspace layout

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Choose Window Arrange Palettes, and choose a layout.

You can also choose a layout from the Welcome screen by clicking the Create tab and selecting a layout in the Arrange Your Workspace area.

Exploring 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, looks, and nozzles.

The following table provides descriptions of the tools in the Corel Painter toolbox.

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Tool Description

Color tools 

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Tool Description

The Brush tool lets you paint and draw on the canvas or a layer. Brush categories include pencils, pens, chalk, airbrushes, oil paints, watercolors, and more. When the Brush tool is selected, you can choose specific brushes from the Brushlibrarypanel.

The Dropper tool lets you pick up a color from an existing image. The property bar shows the values of the color. When you select a color with the Dropper tool, that color becomes the current color in the Color panel.

The Paint Bucket tool lets you fill an area with media, such as a color, gradient, pattern, weave, or clone. The property bar shows options for the areas that you can fill and the media that you can use.

The Eraser tool lets you remove unwanted areas from an image.

Selection tools 

The Layer Adjuster tool is used to select, move, and manipulate layers.

The Transform tool lets you modify selected areas of an image by using different transformation modes.

The Rectangular Selection tool lets you create rectangular selections.

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Tool Description

The Oval Selection tool lets you create oval selections.

The Lasso tool lets you draw a freehand selection.

The Polygonal Selection tool lets you select an area by clicking different points on the image to anchor straight line segments.

The Magic Wand tool lets you select an area of similar color by clicking or dragging in an image.

The Selection Adjuster tool lets you select, move, and manipulate selections created with the Rectangular, Oval, and Lasso selection tools and selections converted from shapes.

The Crop tool lets you remove unwanted edges from an image.

Shape tools 

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The Pen tool lets you create straight lines and curves in objects.

The Quick Curve tool lets you create shape paths by drawing freehand curves.

The Rectangular Shape tool lets you create rectangles and squares.

Tool Description

The Oval Shape tool lets you create circles and ovals.

The Text tool creates text shapes. Use the Text panel to set the font, point size, and tracking.

The Shape Selection tool is for editing Bézier curves. You use the Shape Selection tool to select and move anchor points and adjust their control handles.

The Scissors tool lets you cut an open or closed segment. If the segment is closed, after you click on a line or point, the shape path becomes open.

The Add Point tool lets you create a new anchor point on a shape path.

The Remove Point tool lets you remove an anchor point from a shape path.

Photo tools 

The Convert Point tool is used to convert between smooth and corner anchor points.

The Cloner tool gives you quick access to the last Cloner brush variant you used.

The Rubber Stamp tool gives you quick access to the Straight Cloner brush variant, and lets you to sample areas within an image or between images.

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Tool Description

The Dodge tool lets you lighten the highlights, midtones, and shadows in an image.

The Burn tool lets you darken the highlights, midtones, and shadows in an image.

Symmetry tools 

The Mirror Painting mode lets you create a perfectly symmetrical painting.

The Kaleidoscope mode lets you transform basic brushstrokes into colorful and symmetrical kaleidoscope images.

Composition tools 

The Divine Proportion tool lets you plan compositions by using guides based on a classical composition method.

Navigation tools 

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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.

The Perspective Guides tool lets you display guides using one, two or three-point perspective. For more information, see “Using Perspective

Guides” on page 135.

Tool Description

The Grabber tool lets you scroll through an image quickly.

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.

The Rotate Page tool lets you rotate an image window to accommodate the way you naturally draw.

Selectors 

The Color selector lets you choose main and additional colors. The front swatch displays the main color, and the back swatch displays the additional color.

The Paper Selector opens the Papers panel. From the Papers panel, you can choose a paper texture to alter the canvas surface and achieve more realistic results when applying brushstrokes.

The View Mode selector allows you to switch between Full Screen and Windowed .

Displaying the toolbox

The toolbox is open by default, but you can close it. In addition, to minimize the space required to display the toolbox, tools of similar function are grouped together and they are accessible from flyout menus. The button for only one of these tools is displayed at a given time on the toolbox. A flyout menu is indicated by a triangle in the lower-right corner of the button. You can open a flyout to access all of its tools.

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To open or close the toolbox

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Choose Window Toolbox.

You can also close the toolbox by clicking the close button on the toolbox header bar.

To access tools grouped in flyouts

1 In the toolbox, click and hold the tool icon whose flyout you want to open.

A flyout menu of the entire group of related tools appears.

2 Click the tool that you want to use.

The tool you’ve chosen appears in the toolbox.

Displaying the Media Selector bar

The Media Selector bar gives you quick access to the libraries for the following Corel Painter media: patterns, gradients, nozzles, weaves, and looks. The Media Selector bar is open by default, but you can close it at any time.

The Media Selector bar (displayed horizontally). From left to right:

PatternSelector, GradientSelector, NozzleSelector, WeaveSelector, LookSelector.

To open or close the Media Selector bar

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Choose Window Media Selector.

You can also close the Media Selector bar by clicking the close button on the header bar.

Displaying the property bar

In Corel Painter, the property bar displays options for the currently selected tool. By default, the property bar displays in the application window docked below the menu bar, but you can close it.

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