Corel Painter - 2019 Installation Manual

Corel Painter 2019.................................................................................................................................................................................3

What’s new in Corel Painter 2019..........................................................................................................................................................4

Workspace overview............................................................................................................................................................................... 9

Choosing a workspace layout............................................................................................................................................................... 11

Choosing and modifying brushes......................................................................................................................................................... 13

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

Exploring panels and palettes............................................................................................................................................................... 22

Choosing a workflow........................................................................................................................................................................... 26

Additional resources............................................................................................................................................................................. 37

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2 | Quick Start Guide

Corel Painter 2019

Corel® Painter® 2019 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.

Artwork created with Corel Painter. (Artwork by Andrew Jones)

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What’s new in Corel Painter 2019

Enhanced! Performance

Thanks to enhanced support for multi-core processors and CPUs that use AVX2 extensions, as well as extensive code optimizations, this is the fastest version of Painter yet. A huge selection of brushes are noticeably faster — some as much as twice as fast. You can also take advantage of faster document rendering when zooming, panning and rotating — up to 50% faster.

New! Dark user interface theme

You can choose a refreshing, professional interface that makes your artwork the focus. We have meticulously transformed the main user interface elements in Corel Painter 2019 to reveal a darker theme that allows the interface to melt away and painting to take center stage.

The dark theme allows the painting to take center stage. (Artwork by Pavel Goloviy)

To choose a theme

Choose (macOS) Corel Painter 2019 menu  Preferences  Interface or (Windows) Edit  Preferences  Interface.

2 Choose an option from the Color Theme list box.

Some user interface elements, such as the document window border color and the color of the document title bar are controlled by the theme of your operating system. To change the appearance of these user interface elements, explore the personalization options of your operating system.

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New! Application icons and controls

Corel Painter 2019 delivers a crisper, cleaner and more responsive environment with over 650 redesigned icons that make the application easier on the eyes, simpler to understand, and more efficient to use. Try the new slider functionality using modifier keys to precisely select values.

To adjust a value with a slider

• Do one of the following:

• Click anywhere along a slider.

• Drag the control point.

• Click anywhere along a slider and drag.

• Hold down Command (macOS) or Ctrl (Windows) and drag to adjust a value with precision.

• Click anywhere along a slider and use the arrow keys to adjust a value in 1% increments.

New! Brushes and patterns

With 36 remarkable new brushes, it’s easier than ever to gain inspiration for fresh creations. Enjoy the new Stamps brush category along with a host of additional brushes that round out popular categories such as Selections, Airbrushes, Blenders, Dab Stencils, Glazing, Real Watercolor, Real Wet Oil, Sargent, and Thick Paint. In addition, there are five new patterns that are custom designed for concept artists and video game designers, but also open a world of creative possibilities for any artist.

Rekindle your creativity with new brushes and patterns.

Enhanced! Color workflow

Redesigned grabbers in the Color wheel make it easier to see and set colors in the Hue Ring and Saturation/Value Triangle. The new grabbers are also in the Color selector, which is now available both as a temporal palette that disappears after you pick a color and click in the document window and as a palette that can stay open as long as you need it.

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Display the color selector over your image to choose colors based on the colors in your image. (Artwork by Skip Allen)

To display the color selector

• Perform a task from the following table.

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To display Do the following

The color selector Press Command + Option + 2 (macOS) or Ctrl + Alt +2

(Windows).

Tips:

•Press Command + Option + 2 (macOS) or Ctrl + Alt + 2

(Windows) again to hide the color selector at any time.

•You can also display the color selector in the Simple layout

(Window  Layout  Simple ) by clicking the Color Selector

button in the toolbox.

The temporal color selector Position the cursor where you want the temporal color selector to

appear. Press Command + Option + 1 (macOS) or Ctrl + Alt +1 (Windows).

Tip: You can also display the temporal color selector in the Simple layout by clicking the Temporal Color Selector button in the

toolbox.

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Enhanced! Brush ghost

The Enhanced brush ghost displays a representation of a brush variant when the Brush tool is selected, but not actively painting. The instant you start applying media, the Enhanced brush ghost changes to an icon. This delivers a more responsive creative experience, without any lag time, by using strokes that always track directly beneath your stylus.

The Enhanced brush ghost eliminates any lag time when you are painting.

To set drawing cursor options

Choose Corel Painter 2019 menu  Preferences  Brush Cursor (macOS) or Edit  Preferences  Brush Cursor (Windows).

2 In the Cursor Type area, choose a cursor type:

• Enhanced brush ghost — provides visual feedback about the brush shape and size as well as the tilt, bearing, and rotation of the pen. If you want to see the Enhanced brush ghost when painting, disable the Show icon when painting check box.

• Brush ghost — When you paint, the cursor appears as an icon; when you hover over the canvas, it provides visual feedback about the shape and size of the selected brush.

• Icon — displays the drawing cursor as an icon both when you paint and when you hover over the canvas

• Single pixel — displays the drawing cursor as a single pixel both when you paint and when you hover over the canvas

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You can also

Choose a drawing cursor icon Choose an icon from the Shape list box:

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Default

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Brush

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You can also

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Cross

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Small cross

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Torus

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Triangle

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Hollow triangle

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Gray triangle

Change the icon color Click the Color button, and click a color in the Colors dialog box.

Change the icon orientation Drag the Angle slider.

Enhanced! Windows Multi-touch

Multi-touch enhancements provide a natural sketching and painting experience that you will truly enjoy. Take advantage of a more intuitive way to simultaneously pan, zoom and smoothly rotate your canvas using two fingers on a Windows touch device. To reset your painting view, simply double-tap with two fingers.

You can simultaneously perform panning (1), zooming (2), and rotating (3).

To enable multi-touch support (Windows)

Choose Edit  Preferences  Tablet.

2 In the Multi-touch options area, enable the Enable multi-touch check box and choose one of the following options:

• Wacom and Windows touch devices (recommended) — This option provides enhanced support both for Windows touch systems and Wacom Intuos Pro, Cintiq, and other Wacom-compatible devices. Use this option if you have a Wacom tablet connected to a Windows touch-enabled device and you want to manipulate your document both with the Wacom tablet and the touchscreen device.

• Wacom device — This option, available both on macOS and Windows, provides enhanced support only for Wacom Intuos Pro, Cintiq, and other Wacom-compatible devices.

• Windows touch device — This option provides enhanced support only for Windows touch-enabled devices, for example, Surface Pro tablets with a touch screen. With this option, your gestures on the tablet or device behave the same way in Corel Painter as in other applications.

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To restore the canvas position, rotation, and zoom level, double-tap two fingers simultaneously on the tablet.

Enhanced! Drag to zoom functionality

You can zoom in and out of your document quickly by clicking and dragging with your stylus or mouse. Move to the right to zoom in, and move to the left to zoom out. Holding down the Shift key while clicking and dragging zooms into a specific area of interest.

To zoom by dragging

Click the Magnifier tool in the toolbox or press M.

2 Perform a task from the following table.

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To In this mode Do one of the following

Zoom in Drag to Zoom

Zoom out Select Zoom Area

Workspace overview

The workspace is organized by using a series of menus, selectors, panels, and interactive palettes.

•Drag up.

•Drag to the right.

•Hold down Shift and drag down.

•Hold down Shift and drag to the left.

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Circled numbers correspond to the numbers in the following table,

which describes the main components of the application window.

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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 basic 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. Extended property bar Displays commands and provides access to advanced settings that relate to the active tool or brush. For example, when you choose a brush that uses the Texture painting technology, the extended property bar provides access to advanced Texture brush settings.

5. Palette drawer You can turn a palette into a palette drawer, so you can quickly collapse it to save screen space.

6. Color set libraries Color sets are collections of colors that help you organize and store colors. You can choose a color from the color set, and then apply it to a brushstroke.

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

8. Color selector The color selector is a floating color palette that displays in the document window and allows you to view and choose colors in the context of your image.

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

10. 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.

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Choosing a workspace layout

A workspace layout (also known as “palette arrangement”) displays, hides, and positions workspace elements such as palettes and panels to suit a specific workflow. Corel Painter 2019 offers the following workspace layouts:

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Workspace layout Description

New to Painter Displays the most essential controls together with the Hints panel

to help you get started quickly with Corel Painter

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