Corel PAINTER ESSENTIALS 3 User Manual

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USER GUIDE

Corel® Painter™ Essentials 3 Getting Started Guide

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Quick Start Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Using the new Artists' Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Using Digital Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Erasing techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Transforming a photo into a painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Cloning within an image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Cloning with an Artistic style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Creating an Underpainting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Auto-Painting your photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Restoring detail to your painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Applying Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Welcome to Corel Painter Essentials 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

What’s New in Corel Painter Essentials 3? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Learn to Draw and Paint Digitally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Turn Photos into Paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Have Fun with Digital Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Enjoy Compatibility with Popular Software and Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

How to Use the Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Documentation Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Using Corel Painter Essentials 3 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Using the Quick Guide palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

How to Sign Up for Free Training from lynda.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

How to Access Corel Support Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

A Workspace Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Corel Painter Essentials 3 Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Menus and the Document Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Toolbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Toolbox Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Accessing Tools in the Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Exploring the Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Using Selectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

The Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Property Bar Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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Using Tool Settings on the Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

The Brush Selector Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Working with the Brush Selector Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

The Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Showing and Hiding Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Navigating Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Exploring the Palette Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Grouping, Repositioning, and Resizing Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Docking Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Restoring Palette Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Restoring the default Corel Painter Essentials settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

The Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Working with Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Creating and Opening Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Creating and Opening Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Placing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Understanding Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Zooming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Repositioning Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Rotating Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Cropping Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Using Full Screen Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Resizing the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Rotating and Flipping the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Saving Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Editing iPhoto Images in Corel Painter Essentials (Mac OS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Sending Images to Corel Photo Album (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Closing Documents and Quitting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Drag-and-Drop Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

General Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Brush Tracking Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Memory and Scratch Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Using Two Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Wacom Intuos Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Textures and Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Using Paper Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Choosing Paper Textures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Using Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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Choosing Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Getting Started with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Changing the Paper Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using the Colors Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Understanding Main and Additional Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Sampling Colors from Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Cloning Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Working with Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Painting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Exploring Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Understanding Brush Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Selecting a Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Choosing Brush Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Adjusting Opacity and Grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using a Stylus or Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Marking the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Freehand vs. Straight-Line Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Constraining, Fading, and Undoing Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Erasing Image Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Exploring Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Painting with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Working with the Impasto Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Painting with Airbrushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Working with Fill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Filling an Area with Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Using the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

How the Image Hose Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Getting Started with the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Controlling the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Cloning and Tracing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Cloning Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Cloning a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Using Tracing Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Changing Clone Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

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

Using Cloner Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Painting in the Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Using Point-to-Point Cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Turning Other Brushes into Cloners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Using Clone Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Cloning with Photo Painting Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Preparing a photo for cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Cloning photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Restoring photo detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Getting Started with Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Selecting a Drawing Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Turning Selections On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Inverting Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Creating Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Editing Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Getting Started with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Layer Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

The Layers Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

The Layer Adjuster Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Creating Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Naming Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Saving Files That Contain Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Deleting Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Managing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Selecting Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Moving Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Viewing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Changing Layer Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Grouping Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Merging Layers with the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Editing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Painting on Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Working with Floating Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Setting Layer Opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Adding Notes to a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

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Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Where to Apply Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Using Fade with Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Applying Recently Used Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Understanding the Using Pop-up Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Using Orientation Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Rotating Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Scaling Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Flipping Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Adjusting Brightness and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Equalizing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using the Equalize Effect to Equalize Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Applying Preset Lighting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Creating Custom Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Adding, Deleting, and Repositioning Light Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Setting Light Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Working with Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Setting Appearance of Depth Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Using Paper to Create Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Using Image Luminance to Create Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Applying Express Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Applying Woodcut Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Applying the Sketch Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Using Focus Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Sharpening Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Softening Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Using Esoterica Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Using Auto Van Gogh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Working with Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Understanding the Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Creating and Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Adding Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Changing the Font, Point Size, and Color of Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Aligning Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Stretching, Rotating, and Skewing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Dropping Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

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Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Understanding Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Printing Composited Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Printing Your Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Setting Up Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Sizing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Printing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Toolbox Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Palette Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Corel Painter Essentials 3 Menu Commands (Mac OS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

File Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Edit Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Canvas Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Select Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Effects Menu Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Window Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Screen Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Palette Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Brush Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Selection Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Adjuster Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Other Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

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Quick Start Tutorials

Quick Start Tutorials guide you through basic tasks in a few easy steps.

Using the new Artists' Oils

The new Artists’ Oils brush category gives users an incredibly realistic oil painting experience. Each dab of an Artists’ Oils brush on the canvas loads a preset, finite amount of paint. As the paint runs out, the bristly brush stroke becomes fainter. Brush strokes interact with any paint already on the canvas as they would with natural media. Corel Painter Essentials 3 includes five Artists’ Oils brush variants: Blender Brush, Grainy Dry Brush, Impasto Palette Knife, Thick Wet Impasto, and Wet Oily Brush.

To paint with Artists’ Oils

1 Choose File menu > New, and select a white paper color.

Artists’ Oils blend with all colors on the canvas, including paper color. This is useful when painting on a photograph or using a color wash as an underpainting. To prevent Artists’ Oils from blending with the canvas color, create a new layer exclusively for the Artists’ Oils (choose Layers menu > New Layer).

2 On the Brush Selector Bar, choose Artists’ Oils from the Brush Category Selector.

3 On the Brush Selector Bar, choose a brush variant from the Brush Variant Selector.

4 Paint on the canvas.

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Using Digital Watercolor

Digital Watercolor brush variants produce watercolor effects that react with the canvas texture. You can apply a Digital Watercolor brush stroke to any layer or the canvas. For example, if you’re applying watercolor effects to a digital photo, Digital Watercolor brush strokes can be applied directly to the image.

To paint with Digital Watercolor

1 Choose File menu > New, choose a paper size and color, and click OK.

2 On the Brush Selector Bar, choose Digital Watercolor from the Brush Category

Selector.

3 On the Brush Selector Bar, choose a brush variant from the Brush Variant Selector.

4 Paint on the canvas.

Erasing techniques

Conveniently located in the toolbox, the new Eraser tool gives you easy access to the Erasers brush category. When you choose the Eraser tool, you activate the last Eraser brush variant you used. Eraser brush variants erase down to the paper color.

Some brush categories, such as Digital Watercolor, have eraser variants that only erase media applied by brushes from that category. These media-specific eraser variants are useful because they only let you erase brush strokes that you applied with certain brush categories, leaving everything else unaffected.

In the following example, you’ll paint on the canvas with brush strokes from the Airbrushes and Digital Watercolor brush categories. Then, you’ll use the Eraser tool and the Digital Watercolor brush category’s media-specific eraser to erase portions of the brush strokes.

To apply brush strokes

1 Choose File menu > New.

2 On the Brush Selector Bar, choose Airbrushes from the Brush Category Selector

and Coarse Spray from the Brush Variant Selector.

3 Paint on the canvas.

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4 On the Brush Selector Bar, choose Digital Watercolor from the Brush Category

Selector and Broad Water Brush from the Brush Variant Selector.

5 Paint on the canvas.

To erase with the Eraser tool

1 Choose the Eraser tool from the toolbox.

2 Drag over parts of both brush strokes.

Both brush strokes are erased.

To erase with a media-specific eraser

1 On the Brush Selector Bar, choose Digital Watercolor from the Brush Category

Selector and Gentle Wet Eraser from the Brush Variant Selector.

2 Drag over parts of both brush strokes.

Only the Digital Watercolor brush stroke is erased.

Transforming a photo into a painting

Quick Clone helps you transform photos into paintings. This is done by creating a clone of your image, and painting in the clone. The clone of the file is more than a copy. It maintains a pixel-for-pixel correspondence with its source document.

This new feature speeds up the manual image-cloning process by reducing five steps to one. You can adjust Quick Clone settings on the General page of the Preferences dialog box.

To clone using Quick Clone

1 Choose File menu > Open.

2 In the Open (Mac OS) or Select Image (Windows) dialog box, choose the image

that you want to clone, and click Open.

3 Choose File menu > Quick Clone.

4 Trace over the image using any Corel Painter Essentials brush variant.

If you have enabled the Switch to Cloner Brushes check box in the Preferences dialog box, the last Cloner brush you used is automatically selected.

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You can customize the Quick Clone effect. You can choose whether to delete the image from the clone or to turn on Tracing Paper. You can also select the last-used Cloner brush or choose to clone color with any brush variant.

Cloning within an image

The new Rubber Stamp Tool is located in the Toolbox to make it easy for you to set up point-to-point cloning. By setting source and destination reference points, you can clone within a document or between different areas of separate documents.

To clone point to point within a document

1 Choose File menu > Open, choose an image from the Open (Mac OS) or Select

Image (Windows) dialog box, and click Open.

2 Choose the Rubber Stamp tool in the toolbox.

3 Choose File menu > Clone Source, and choose the image you want to reference.

4 Hold down Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows).

A crosshair cursor appears.

5 Click inside the source image to set the source reference point.

A green marker appears on the image, indicating the reference point for the source image.

6 Begin painting in the destination area.

Cloning with an Artistic style

Using the Artists brush category and the Clone Color button, you can clone an image in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, or an Impressionist.

You can turn almost any brush into a cloner with the Clone Color button. The Clone Color button causes a brush to pick up color from the source image while staying true to its own stroke nature.

Artist brush variants help you paint in the styles of master artists. For example, you can paint in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, where brush strokes are multishaded, or in the style of Georges Seurat, where multiple dots combine to form an image.

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To clone with an artistic style

1 Choose File menu > Open.

2 In the Open (Mac OS) or Select Image (Windows) dialog box, choose the image

that you want to clone, and click Open.

3 Choose File menu > Quick Clone.

4 On the Brush Selector Bar, choose Artists from the Brush Category Selector and

Seurat from the Brush Variant Selector.

5 On the Colors palette, click the Clone Color button .

6 Choose File menu > Clone Source, and choose the active image.

7 Paint over the image.

To see the results, you can toggle Tracing Paper off or on by pressing Command + T (Mac OS) or Ctrl + T (Windows).

Creating an Underpainting

The new Underpainting palette gives you access to several options for preparing an image for cloning. You can adjust the contrast, lightness, or saturation of an image. In addition, you can add a decorative edge effect to an image, such as rectangular, circular, or jagged vignettes.

You can prepare a photo for cloning by using the Underpainting palette.

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To create an underpainting

1 Choose File menu > Open, choose an image from the Open (Mac OS) or Select

Image (Windows) dialog box, and click Open.

2 On the Underpainting palette, choose an option from Style pop-up menu.

A preview of the change is shown in the photo, but the change is not applied until you click Apply.

3 If you want to add a decorative border to your cloned image, choose an option from

the Edge Effect pop-up menu, and adjust the Amount slider.

The edge effect is previewed in the image, but isn’t set until you click Apply.

4 In the Smart Blur area, adjust the Amount slider.

The range is 0 to 100. Moving the slider to the right increases the amount of blur. More detail is maintained in high contrast areas than in low contrast areas.

5 Click Apply.

6 Click Quick Clone.

A clone of the photo is created.

Auto-Painting your photos

Even if you have no experience with digital art, the new Auto-Painting palette lets you create painted portraits from digital images or scanned photos. You simply choose a brush stroke and adjust several preset options that determine how the brush strokes interact with the canvas. Then, with the click of a button, Corel Painter Essentials auto-paints a portrait based on the original image.

The Auto-Painting palette provides a range of cloning options.

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To auto-paint a photo

1 On the Brush Selector Bar in the upper-right corner of the application window,

choose a Cloner brush variant from the Brush Variant Selector.

2 With the clone of the image open, choose an option from the Stroke pop-up menu

on the Auto-Painting palette.

3 Adjust the Pressure slider to set the amount of pressure with which the brush

strokes are applied.

The range is 0 to 200. This setting represents the percentage of the preset pressure for the Stroke option.

4 Adjust the Length slider to set the length of the brush strokes.

The range is 0 to 200. This setting represents the percentage of the preset length for the Stroke option.

5 Adjust the Rotation slider to set the rotation of the brush strokes.

The value range is 0 to 360 degrees.

6 Adjust the Brush Size slider.

7 Click the Play button .

Brush strokes are automatically applied.

8 When you’re satisfied with the results, click the Stop button .

You can view the progress of the cloning at any time by clicking the Stop button and choosing Canvas menu > Tracing Paper. You can resume cloning by clicking the Play button.

Restoring detail to your painting

After you’ve used the Auto-Painting palette to create the clone, you can use the Restoration palette to recover photo detail. The Restoration Palette is ideal for restoring a subject’s eyes when converting a photo to a portrait.

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You can restore detail using the Restoration palette.

To restore photo detail

1 On the Restoration palette, click one of the following buttons:

• Soft Edge Cloner Brush — activates the Soft Edge Cloner brush variant, which restores detail gradually

• Hard Edge Cloner Brush — activates the Straight Cloner brush variant, which restores detail quickly with a few brush strokes

2 Adjust the Brush Size slider.

3 Paint over the area in which you want to restore detail.

Applying Surface Texture

The Apply Surface Texture effect lets you add a three-dimensional (3D) surface texture to your image. You can use this feature to apply a paper texture across the image or to give depth to the brush strokes of an oil painting.

Surface texture is created either by applying a paper texture or by using information from a clone source to determine depth and height. There are two methods for creating texture:

• Using a paper texture

• Using image luminance

When you create a texture using the Paper method, the current paper texture is applied to your image. The Preview window is updated automatically to reflect paper changes.

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To create surface texture by using paper

1 Choose File menu > Open.

2 In the Open (Mac OS) or Select Image (Windows) dialog box, choose the image to

which you want to apply surface texture, and click Open.

3 Choose Effects menu > Surface Control > Apply Surface Texture.

4 In the Apply Surface Texture dialog box, choose Paper from the Using pop-up

menu.

5 Adjust the Softness slider to control the amount of distortion created by the

texture.

Increasing softness creates more intermediate steps, which produces a smoother distortion.

6 Adjust the Amount slider.

This controls how much surface texture is applied to the image. Moving the slider all the way to the right applies the maximum amount.

7 Adjust the Brightness slider.

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Welcome to Corel Painter Essentials 3

Built on the award-winning power of Corel Painter IX, Corel Painter Essentials 3 is a complete home art studio that includes everything a new user needs to get started with digital art and create stunning paintings from photos.

What’s New in Corel Painter Essentials 3?

Corel Painter Essentials 3 includes a range of new tools and features that help users get started on their next digital art project. The new Photo Painting Palettes magically transform photos into stunning paintings, and the new Artists’ Oils brushes take Painter’s legendary Natural-Media features into a new dimension of realism. In addition, to ensure that digital camera enthusiasts get the most out of their photos, Corel Painter Essentials 3 integrates with Corel Paint Shop Pro X, Corel Photo Album 6, and Apple iPhoto.

Learn to Draw and Paint Digitally

Corel Painter Essentials 3 makes it easier than ever for you to start creating breathtaking digital works of art. The application includes a convenient new Quick Guide palette, free lynda.com training videos, the printed Corel Painter Essentials 3 Getting Started Guide, and 10 Quick Start tutorials that launch from the new Welcome screen.

Quick Guide Palette

Providing context-sensitive information about the options available from workspace items, the Quick Guide palette makes it easy for you to get started. When you click on a palette, the toolbox, the Brush Selector bar, or the property bar, the Quick Guide palette displays relevant information about the options available, as well as a link to the more comprehensive Help.

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New lynda.com Training Videos

Corel Painter Essentials 3 includes 10 new training videos created by lynda.com, one of the world’s most renowned graphics training companies, to guide you through the Corel Painter Essentials workspace, tools, features, and techniques. Ten more training videos can be downloaded for free upon product registration.

Welcome Screen

Getting started with digital art has never been more straightforward, thanks to the new Corel Painter Essentials 3 Welcome screen. The Welcome screen gives you quick access to recently used files, tutorials, and settings. It also showcases original artwork from renowned Corel Painter Masters to inspire you to explore the application and create your own works of art.

Quick Start Tutorials

These short, instructive tutorials guide you through basic tasks, such as transforming a photo into a painting, in a few easy steps.

Turn Photos into Paintings

With Corel Painter Essentials 3, it’s never been easier for you to turn digital photos into stunning paintings.

Photo Painting Palettes

Right out of the box, the new Photo Painting Palettes let you create beautiful paintings from digital photos. The three Photo Painting Palettes are the Underpainting palette, the Auto-Painting palette, and the Restoration palette.

With the Underpainting palette, you can prepare a photo for painting and can add beautiful effects and borders, such as a vignette. The Auto-Painting palette lets you magically transform a photo into a painting by automatically applying random paint strokes that vary in stroke type, direction, and pressure. The Restoration palette allows you to touch up your painting manually with one of two special brushes that “restore” areas of the image — such as facial features — to their original pristine detail.

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Underpainting Palette

Auto-Painting Palette

Even if you have never before experimented with digital art, the new Auto-Painting palette makes it easy to create painted portraits from digital photos. Simply choose a brush stroke, and adjust the preset options to determine how the brush strokes interact with the canvas. Then, with the click of a button, watch Corel Painter Essentials autopaint a portrait based on the original image.

Restoration Palette

When painting a portrait, you can take advantage of the Restoration palette to restore detail from your original image. This palette is particularly beneficial for finishing a subject’s eyes.

Quick Clone

Quick Clone gives you total control when transforming photos into paintings. This new feature speeds up the manual image-cloning process by reducing five steps to one. You can adjust Quick Clone settings on the General page of the Preferences dialog box.

Cloner Tool

The new Cloner tool is conveniently located in the toolbox to give you immediate access to your last-used Cloner brush and brush variant.

Have Fun with Digital Art

Corel Painter Essentials 3 an impressive array of new features that give you unprecedented ability to replicate a real-world painting experience with your computer.

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Artists’ Oils Brush Category

The new Artists’ Oils brush category gives you an incredibly realistic oil-painting experience. Each dab of an Artists’ Oils brush on the canvas loads a preset, finite amount of paint. As the paint runs out, the bristly brush stroke becomes fainter. Brush strokes interact with any paint already on the canvas as they would in the real world. Corel Painter Essentials 3 includes five Artists’ Oils brush variants: Blender Brush, Grainy Dry Brush, Impasto Palette Knife, Thick Wet Impasto, and Wet Oily Brush.

Digital Watercolor Brush Category

Digital Watercolor produces watercolor effects that react with the canvas texture. Significantly enhanced in Corel Painter Essentials 3, the Digital Watercolor paint now stays wet between sessions, enabling you to start one session where the last one ended.

Rotate/Flip Canvas

Corel Painter Essentials 3 now lets you rotate or flip images directly in the application, just as you would do with non-digital images in the real world. You can choose from preset rotation values or specify your own custom rotation value. Image composition is easily verified at the touch of a button.

Rubber Stamp Tool

The new Rubber Stamp tool is located in the toolbox to make it easy for you to set up point-to-point cloning. By setting source and destination reference points, you can clone within a document or between different areas of separate documents.

Enjoy Compatibility with Popular Software and Hardware

Corel Painter Essentials 3 is fully compatible with Corel Paint Shop Pro X and Corel Photo Album 6. As a result, you can enjoy a complete digital photography workflow, ranging from photo editing and digital painting to organizing image collections and creating keepsakes and crafts. For Mac OS X users, Corel Painter Essentials 3 is also compatible with Apple iPhoto. In addition, Corel Painter Essentials offers extensive support for Wacom pen tablet technology. What’s more, the application has been enhanced to run faster and smoother — with some brushes operating 10 times faster than ever before.

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Support for Corel Paint Shop Pro file format

Users of the Windows operating system can now open Corel Paint Shop Pro file formats (versions 9 and X) in Corel Painter Essentials 3, which ensures that you can seamlessly exchange images between the applications.

Integration with Corel Photo Album

For users of the Windows operating system, Corel Painter Essentials 3 is integrated with Corel Photo Album. You can now use Corel Photo Album 6 to organize and showcase the paintings you’ve crafted with Corel Painter Essentials, so that your creative projects can be easily shared with friends and family.

Support for Apple iPhoto

If you use the Mac OS, you can now easily add their Corel Painter Essentials artwork to your digital image collections, thanks to support for Apple iPhoto. You can now set your iPhoto preferences to designate Corel Painter Essentials as your photo-editing software. This means that double-clicking an iPhoto image will open the image for editing in Corel Painter Essentials. When the you save your work, changes are instantly updated in iPhoto.

Support for Microsoft Tablet PC Edition

Corel Painter Essentials 3 supports Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, the latest pen-based mobile operating system from Microsoft.

Support for Wacom Pen Tablets

Corel Painter Essentials 3 supports the most recent advancements in pen tablet technology from Wacom, including the Wacom Intuos 3 pen tablet, the Cintiq 2 UX interactive pen display, and the 6D Art Pen.

Support for Mac OS X.4 (Tiger)

Corel Painter Essentials 3 supports Mac OS X.4 (Tiger), the latest Apple operating system.

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Improved Speed and Performance

This is the fastest version of Corel Painter Essentials yet. Some brushes perform up to 10 times faster than in earlier versions. On average, all brushes work twice as fast. In addition, you can now change the default scratch disk location and memory allocation in the Preferences dialog box.

Enhanced Zoom

With Corel Painter Essentials 3, you can zoom by pressing Command and + (Mac OS) or Ctrl and + (Windows). These shortcuts now use predefined values, so it’s easier to return to common zoom levels.

How to Use the Documentation

You can find answers to many of your questions in the Corel Painter Essentials 3 User Guide and the Help available from within the Corel Painter Essentials workspace.

Corel Painter Essentials 3 Getting Started Guide contains commonly used procedures and information. A Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the entire Corel Painter Essentials Help is available on the Corel Painter Essentials 3 CD.

The Help gives you access to a full range of topics in a searchable format. You can access the Help by clicking Help > Help topics.

Documentation Conventions

The following table describes important conventions used in the Corel Painter Essentials 3 Getting Started Guide and in the Help.

Convention Description Example

Multiple platforms This guide is for both the Mac

OS and Windows platforms. As a convention, Mac OS commands precede Windows commands in the text.

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Hold down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows).

Convention Description Example

Modifier keys When a modifier key differs

between Mac OS and Windows, the Mac OS modifier is listed first, followed by the Windows modifier.

Choose X menu > menu item

Title bar A title bar is located at the top or

Palette title bar The palette title bar appears at

On the menu bar, click the menu name, and choose the menu item from the list.

side of some UI elements, such as the toolbox, property bar, and palettes. It may not display title text.

the top of a palette. When expanded, the palette’s title bar changes to dark gray. When a palette is collapsed, you can still see the palette’s title bar, which is now light gray.

“Command + I (Mac OS) or Ctrl + I (Windows)” means that Mac OS users would press Command + I and Windows users would press Ctrl + I.

“Choose File menu > Quick Clone” means the following:

Examples of the toolbox title bar on the Mac OS (left) and in Windows (right):

Palette title bars for the AutoPainting, Underpainting palettes are collapsed, and the Restoration palette is expanded.

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Convention Description Example

Palette arrow The palette arrow is used to

expand or collapse a palette.

Flyout Some tools share a space in the

toolbox. Hold down the tool button that’s displayed to open the flyout.

A note contains information that is important to the steps that precede it. It can describe conditions under which the procedure can be performed.

A tip contains suggestions for performing the steps that precede it. It can present alternatives to the steps, as well as other benefits and uses of the procedure.

The Auto-Painting palette arrow is collapsed, and the Underpainting palette arrow is expanded.

In the toolbox, by clicking and holding the Grabber tool, you can display a flyout that includes another tool: the Rotate Page tool.

For example: “This command is available only if you have turned off a selection.”

For example: “You can quickly access the Dropper tool by pressing D on the keyboard.”

Using Corel Painter Essentials 3 Help

The Help is the documentation that can be accessed from within the Corel Painter Essentials workspace. It is fully searchable and includes all the information in the Corel Painter Essentials 3 User Guide and more.

To use Help

1 Choose Help menu > Help Topics.

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2 Click one of the following tabs:

• The Contents tab lets you browse through topics in the Help.

• The Index tab lets you use the index to find a topic.

• The Search tab lets you search the full text of the Help for a particular word. For example, if you are looking for information about RGB color mode, you can type “RGB” to display a list of relevant topics.

Using the Quick Guide palette

You can find information about the toolbox, the property bar, Brush Selector bar, or any palette you are using by referring to the Quick Guide palette. By displaying Help topics about the functionality and controls the features you are using, the Quick Guide palette can help you get the most out of each Corel Painter Essentials session.

To display the Quick Guide palette

• Choose Window menu > Show Quick Guide.

The Quick Guide palette is displayed by default.

You can get more information about related to a palette by clicking More Help on the Quick Guide palette.

How to Sign Up for Free Training from lynda.com

When you register Corel Painter Essentials 3, you will receive free access to some of the lynda.com “Getting Started With Corel Painter Essentials 3” training videos. These videos are designed to allow new users to start working quickly and give experienced users a tour of the new features.

How to Access Corel Support Services

Corel Support Services can provide you with prompt and accurate information about product features, specifications, pricing, availability, services, and technical support. For the most current information on support services available for your Corel product, please visit www.corel.com/support.

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