Corel Painter - 8 Visual Guide

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Liquid Ink Visual Guide

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Contents

Welcome to Corel Painter 8...........3

Liquid Ink in Corel Painter 8 ..........4

Liquid Ink Controls in Corel Painter 8 ......7

GeneralSection:LiquidInkDabTypes.........7

Size Section: Continuous Stroke Feature Control . . . 8

Liquid Ink Section: Primary Liquid Ink Controls ....9

Ink Types .....................10

Expression Settings ................25

Layers Palette ...................26

Layers Palette: Liquid Ink Layer Attributes Dialog Box. 26

Canvas Menu: Surface Lighting Dialog Box .....29

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Welcome to Corel Painter 8

Corel® Painter™ 8 is the leading Natural-Media® painting application.

Corel Painter lets you simulate a wide range of art tools, from felt pens,

charcoal, and colored pencils to water color and oils.

Corel Painter lets you experiment with the widest range of Natural-Media

tools. You can expand your digital drawing and painting techniques with a

portfolio of new features.

The application features a redesigned user interface, including a new

toolbox, Brush selector bar, property bar, Info palette, and new palette

design and behavior. Corel Painter also includes a Mixer palette that

realistically mimics the traditional paint mixing experience. Digital water

color, a new Sketch effect, and more than 400 new brushes all expand

your creative potential.

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You can create custom brush variants using the new Brush Creator, which

includes the Randomizer, Transposer, and Stroke Designer. Corel Painter

also includes redesigned layer masks and channels that provide a

smoother workflow and greater compatibility with Adobe® Photoshop®.

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Liquid Ink in Corel Painter 8

Liquid Ink is a layer type in Corel Painter 8 that extends the capabilities of

existing ink media. Liquid Ink lets artists simulate graphics technologies that

use ink as a primary medium and are intended for some form of print

production. Whether ink is transferred from an image carrier, such as a

woodblock or linoleum, or applied directly with a stylus-based instrument,

such as a pen or brush, the unique properties of ink and the methods used

to apply it imbue artwork with a distinct visual character.

Liquid Ink technology in Corel Painter simulates a number of the properties

associated with traditional ink-based media. Some of these properties

include:

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Adhesion — Viscous media like ink and enamel tend to self-adhere, which

means that they merge when they come into proximity with each other. For

example, two drops of ink placed side-by-side will generally congeal

together until they form one large drop. This quality of adhesion lets artists

give images a rounded, slightly melted appearance.

Self-adhering Liquid Ink drops

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Surface depth — Thick, viscous media often have a three-dimensional

appearance. In some media, like enamel, this 3D appearance is desirable.

Other media, like pen and ink, look better with a flat, 2D appearance. By

default, Liquid Ink layers appear flat, but they can be adjusted to look

three-dimensional.

Liquid Ink strokes with surface depth (right)

Resistive media — Liquid Ink lets artists simulate the effect produced by

using ink- or oil-based media with a medium that repels ink or oil, such as

water or wax. This resistive property of Liquid Ink can add visual interest to

artists’ images.

Liquid Ink strokes with resist applied (right)

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Softening — Liquid Ink includes a Softening tool, which lets artists treat

their Liquid Ink images to soften and blend them. Applying the Softening

tool to Liquid Ink strokes results in an effect similar to applying heat to

wax or ice.

Liquid Ink strokes with Softening tool applied (right)

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Liquid Ink Controls in Corel Painter 8

Like the Water Color technology in Corel Painter, Liquid Ink effects occur

on their own media layer, which means that only brushes specific to the

layer can act upon it.

The following controls on the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator

can be adjusted for Liquid Ink brush strokes:

General

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• Size

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• Spacing

• Angle

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Well

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Random

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Mouse

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Cloning

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Impasto

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Expression controls are available in most of these sections. You can also

adjust Liquid Ink attributes on the Layers palette and through the Surface

Lighting dialog box (accessed through Canvas menu).

General Section: Liquid Ink Dab Types

Liquid Ink dab types are found on the Stroke Designer page of the Brush

Creator. The dab is responsible for the shape and behavior of the tool

used to create a stroke on the canvas or layer. Taking advantage of the

Continuous Stroke feature introduced in earlier versions of the application,

which provides a faithful simulation of a traditional brush stroke, Corel

Painter includes a set of dab types specific to Liquid Ink:

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Liquid Ink Camel Hair

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Liquid Ink Flat

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Liquid Ink Palette Knife

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Liquid Ink Bristle Spray

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Liquid Ink Airbrush

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Liquid Ink Camel Hair, Flat, Palette Knife, Bristle Spray, and Airbrush dabs

Size Section: Continuous Stroke
Feature Control

The density of the bundle of hairs that compose a continuous stroke is

controlled using the Feature slider on the property bar or on the Stroke

Designer page of the Brush Creator. Moving the Feature slider to the left

or right increases or decreases the number of hairs.

Increasing the brush hair density tends to decrease how quickly the brush

applies strokes. Artists can offset this tendency by decreasing the brush

hair density. The optimal setting that will balance brush hair density and

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stroke speed will vary according to the processor speed of artists’

computers.

The following example illustrates how different brush hair densities affect

Liquid Ink strokes:

Different brush hair densities for Liquid Ink strokes

Liquid Ink Section: Primary Liquid Ink
Controls

The Liquid Ink section on the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator

contains the primary controls for adjusting the specific features of the

Liquid Ink brushes.

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Liquid Ink section on the Stroke Designer page

Ink Types

The Ink Type pop-up menu controls how ink is deposited on a layer by

separating Liquid Ink into two basic components that can be manipulated:

ink and color. The ink component is responsible for the plastic quality of

Liquid Ink and its tendency toward simplified, rounded forms. The color

component applies color to a Liquid Ink form.

The ink and color components can be used in conjunction with each other

or separately. They can also be modified using the Softening tool. A

special form of Liquid Ink, called Resist, repels normal Liquid Ink strokes.

Erase is used to delete ink and color.

There are a number of Liquid Ink effects, including

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