Corel Painter - X Instruction Manual

User Guide

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

What’s New in Corel Painter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

How to Use the Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

About Corel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

A Workspace Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

The Menus and the Document Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

The Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

The Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

The Brush Selector Bar and the Brush Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

The Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Custom Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Libraries and Movers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Brush Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

The Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Working with Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Working with Composition Tools, Rulers, and Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Using Two Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Understanding Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Textures, Patterns, and Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using Paper Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

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

Using Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Getting Started with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Working with the Mixer Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

Working with Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Setting Color Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Viewing Color Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Setting Color Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Working with Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Exploring Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97

Understanding Brush Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

Choosing Brush Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Marking the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Exploring Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Working with Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Working with RealBristle Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Getting Started with RealBristle brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

RealBristle settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Table of contents i

Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Getting Started with Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Working with Digital Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Liquid Ink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Working with the Liquid Ink Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Using Liquid Ink Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Getting Started with Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Adjusting Surface Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Customizing Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Getting Started with the Brush Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Managing Settings and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Managing Custom Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Photo Painting System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Creating Underpaintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Auto-Painting Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Restoring Detail to Paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Cloning and Tracing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Cloning Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Using Clone Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197

Turning Other Brushes into Cloners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Using Selections and Transformations with Cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Getting Started with Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209

Creating Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

Saving, Loading, and Combining Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214

Editing Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217

Alpha Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Creating, Generating, and Importing Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223

Managing and Editing Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Getting Started with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231

Managing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236

Editing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243

Working with Layer Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255

Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259

Working with Third-party Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261

Using Orientation Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261

Correcting and Adjusting Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264

Equalizing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .270

Other Tonal Control Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271

Using Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274

Working with Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .277

Using Other Surface Control Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .286

Using Focus Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293

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Using Esoterica Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297

Dynamic Plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Getting Started with Dynamic Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311

Exploring Dynamic Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313

Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

How the Image Hose Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331

Getting Started with the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332

Controlling the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333

Indexing: Choosing Images from a Nozzle File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335

Creating, Loading, and Saving Nozzles for the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .336

Mosaics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Getting Started with Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347

Placing and Customizing Tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351

Working with Tessellation Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356

Using Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Getting Started with Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .361

Creating Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363

Editing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .368

Transforming Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .372

Combining Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .375

Saving and Exporting Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .378

Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Understanding the Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .379

Creating and Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .379

Applying Effects to Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .380

Converting and Dropping Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .384

The Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Creating Web Page Backgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385

Creating Web Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387

Using the Image Slicer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .388

Working with Rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393

Working with Image Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .395

Creating GIF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397

Using Web-Safe Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .399

Selecting Brushes for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400

Scripting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Getting Started with Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .403

Editing Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406

Working with Scripts and Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407

Animation and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Creating Animations and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .409

Getting Started with Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .411

Modifying a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .415

Rotoscoping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .416

Saving and Exporting Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .421

Creating and Exporting Animations for the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .423

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Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Understanding Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .427

Getting Started with Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .427

Understanding Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429

Managing Files Saved in EPS Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .433

Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Toolbox Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .436

Palette Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .437

Corel Painter Menu Commands (Mac OS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .437

File Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .437

Edit Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .437

Canvas Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .438

Layers Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .438

Select Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .438

Shapes Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .438

Effects Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .438

Window Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439

Screen Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439

Palette Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439

Palette Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439

Brush Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .440

Selection Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .440

Adjuster Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .441

Shape Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .441

Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .442

Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .442

Layer Section Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .442

Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .443

Other Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .443

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Welcome to Corel Painter X

Corel® Painter™ X is the leading digital painting application. The Natural-Media® features in Corel Painter let you simulate the use of a wide range of art tools — from felt pens, charcoal, and colored pencils to watercolor and oils.

What’s New in Corel Painter?

Corel Painter X offers a broad range of tools and features that inspire creativity, increase performance, and further extend compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications.

Creativity

Corel Painter X delivers an array of powerful new features that mimic traditional art media as never before — right down to the individual bristles on a brush.

RealBristle Painting System

The new RealBristle Painting System, which reproduces the natural movement of an artist’s brush, represents a major milestone for digital painting. This new feature heightens the responsiveness of your brush in a totally new way. With Corel Painter X, you can now faithfully replicate the sensation of the interaction between the paint, canvas, and brush. For more information, see “RealBristle settings” on page 127.

Divine Proportion

The new Divine Proportion composition tool helps you visually arrange your canvas before drawing or painting. Widely used throughout history, divine proportion is a ratio of 1:1.61803398874989, or approximately 3:5, which is generally recognized as aesthetically pleasing to the eye. It has been used by many of the world’s most recognized artists, designers, and architects, such as Sargent, Seurat, Michelangelo, and Le Corbusier.

This tool can help you create visually stunning compositions, whether you are painting from a blank canvas or are cropping a photo that you want to transform into a painting. Corel Painter X provides palette controls for the Divine Proportion composition tool, which let you adjust the orientation, size, angle of rotation, display colors, opacity, and grid levels.

For more information, see “Using the Divine Proportion tool” on page 44.

Layout Grid

The new Layout Grid composition tool divides the canvas into equal sections. Similar to the Divine Proportion composition tool, the Layout Grid helps you visually arrange the canvas or a photo before you draw or paint. You can choose from three preset grids: the Rule of Thirds, 3 × 5, or 5 × 5. In addition, you can customize the Layout Grid to virtually any configuration. For more information, see “Using the Layout Grid” on page 43.

Photo Painting System

The enhanced Photo Painting System makes it easier than ever for you to create beautiful paintings from photos. With Corel Painter X, new controls provide you with more options when creating an underpainting. In addition, the new Smart Stroke Painting option uses brush strokes that dynamically adhere to the forms of the original photo. For more information, see “Photo Painting System” on page 189.

The Underpainting Palette

Throughout history, artists have used underpaintings to establish the overall color values for their paintings. Similarly, the Underpainting palette lets you prepare a photo for cloning — the first step in transforming a photo into a painting. You can adjust the photo’s contrast, lightness, or saturation and add an edge effect, such as a rectangular, circular, or jagged vignette.

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With Corel Painter X, the Underpainting palette has been enhanced to include color schemes based on various media styles, such as Impressionist, Classical, Modern, Watercolor, Sketchbook, and Chalk Drawing. In addition, you can choose a color scheme that matches the colors of any opened image.

The Auto-Painting Palette

The Auto-Painting palette lets you transform a photo into a painting by automatically applying random paint strokes that vary in stroke type, direction, and pressure. You choose the type of brush stroke and adjust the preset options to determine how the brush interacts with the canvas.

With Corel Painter X, the Auto-Painting palette has been enhanced to provide the new Smart Stroke Painting option, which uses brush strokes that follow the forms of the original photo. When enabled, the Smart Stroke Painting option dynamically changes brush size, stroke length, and pressure based on the detail and focal areas of the original photo.

The Restoration Palette

The Restoration palette allows you to touch up a painting manually by using one of two special brushes. These brushes use the original photographic detail to “restore” image areas, such as facial features.

Match Palette Effect

The new Match Palette effect lets you match the color and intensity between two images. If you want to change an image’s color scheme, you can open an image that features your desired color scheme and use the Match Palette effect to apply the new color scheme to your image. For more information, see “Matching Color and Brightness across Images” on page 274.

Mixer Palette

Corel Painter X gives you more control over color selection when you use Artists’ Oils brushes, RealBristle brushes, or any other bristle-type brush. For multicolor selection, the enhanced Mixer palette gives you better control over color blending between the Mixer palette and the canvas. For more information, see “Working with the Mixer Palette” on page 79.

Performance and Productivity

Corel Painter X introduces new tools that increase productivity and streamline your workflow. This is the fastest version of Corel Painter ever, as application performance, speed, and stability have improved dramatically.

Depending on your system hardware, Corel Painter X provides up to five times faster startup performance compared with previous versions of the software. Plus, brush engine performance is 35% faster, opening RIFF files is two times faster, rendering effects is two times faster, running scripts is 25% faster, and file saving is now up to 40% faster.

Universal Binary

With support for Universal binary specifications, Corel Painter X is optimized for use on both Intel®- and PowerPC®based Mac® computers.

Workspace Customization

With Corel Painter X it’s easy to share or switch between customized workspaces. For example, to suit specific workflows in a professional environment, workspaces may be customized to offer only tools relevant to sketching, photography, and painting. For more information, see “Customizing the workspace” on page 30.

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Corel Painter X makes it easy to share custom workspaces.

Dodge and Burn Tools

With Corel Painter X, dodge and burn capabilities have been improved with the addition of two new image enhancement tools. The Dodge tool lets artists lighten, or overexpose, specific areas of an image. The Burn tool lets artists darken, or underexpose, specific areas of an image. Dodging and burning are often used to prepare a photo for painting. For more information, see “Dodging and Burning” on page 276.

Color Management

Corel Painter X includes the enhanced Color Management System, which ensures accurate color reproduction between devices and print jobs. In previous versions of Corel Painter, color management controls needed to be reset for each new project. Now, you specify color management options only once, and Corel Painter X retains those settings until you make further adjustments. With support for industry-standard color profiles defined in version 4.0 of the International Color Consortium® specification (ICC 4.0), Corel Painter X lets you focus entirely on your work. For more information, see “Understanding Color Management” on page 431.

Session Memory

With enhanced session memory, Corel Painter X retains many different settings between sessions, including grid settings, tracker settings, and erasers.

Secure Saving and Auto-Backup

Corel Painter X provides the new Secure Saving and Auto-Backup features, which help ensure that you will not lose your work in the case of a power outage or system crash.

Compatibility

Corel Painter X fits into your workflow and is compatible with the industry-standard software and hardware you use every day, including the latest operating systems from Apple and Microsoft.

Windows Vista Support

Corel Painter X is designed to run on Windows Vista™, the latest Microsoft® operating system.

Adobe Photoshop Support

Layers behave in Corel Painter much as they do in Adobe® Photoshop®, which makes it simple to move files between the two applications. When you open files saved to the Photoshop file format (PSD) in Corel Painter, the file’s layer masks, alpha channels, and layer sets (groups) are maintained. The enhancements include improved support for layer merge modes and easier layer grouping and combining. Corel Painter X also supports Photoshop plug-ins for Mac OS® X.

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Wacom Support

Wacom® pen tablets and pens have long been staples in the creative professional’s toolbox. With Corel Painter X, you can use the entire Wacom product line — including the Cintiq® 21 UX interactive pen display, the Intuos®3 pen tablet, and the Wacom 6D Art Pen. The new RealBristle Painting System in Corel Painter X was developed to take full advantage of the Wacom 6D Art Pen. Combined with the pen’s six dimensions of control, Corel Painter X takes realism to new heights. For more information, see “Art Pens” on page 99 and “Working with RealBristle Brushes” on page 127.

Corel Painter X and a Wacom tablet bring true expression from the artist’s hand to the canvas.

Artwork by Chet Phillips.

Learning

With a printed user guide, training videos and tutorials from Corel Painter Masters, online Help, and courseware specifically designed for educators, getting started with Corel Painter has never been easier.

Printed User Guide

With Corel Painter X, you get a printed user guide, which provides information and fast solutions.

Jeremy Sutton Training Videos

For guidance and inspiration, Corel Painter X includes a new collection of step-by-step training videos by Corel Painter Master Jeremy Sutton.

Tutorials by Corel Painter Masters

Corel Painter X provides a new series of tutorials by recognized industry professionals to help you learn to use the application.

“Painter on the ’Net” Tab in the Welcome Book

The new “Painter on the ’Net” tab provides links to online resources for the Corel Painter community, including Tips & Tricks, tutorials, and special offers. Launching on startup, the Welcome book lets you quickly begin working on your current project. The Welcome book also provides quick access to recently used files, brush settings, and color management settings, and it showcases artwork from renowned Corel Painter Masters.

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How to Use the Documentation

You can find answers to many of your questions in the Corel Painter User Guide and in the Help available from within the Corel Painter workspace. The Corel Painter User Guide contains commonly used procedures and information. The Help gives you access to a full range of topics in a searchable format. An Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the Help is installed when you install the application.

If you have any comments or suggestions about the Corel Painter X documentation, please contact Corel Corporation at www.corel.com/painterx/feedback.

Documentation Conventions

The following table describes important conventions used in the Corel Painter User Guide and in the Help.

Convention Description Example

Mac OS® / Windows® commands

Modifier keys (Command, Option, Ctrl, Alt)

Menu commands (Choose X menu ` menu item)

Title bar A title bar is located at the top or side of some UI

Palette title bar The palette title bar appears at the top of a palette.

The Corel Painter User Guide is intended for both the Mac OS and Windows platforms. Throughout the guide, Mac OS commands precede Windows commands.

When a modifier key differs between Mac OS and Windows, the Mac OS modifier is listed first.

You choose a menu name by clicking it, and then you click to choose a menu item from the list.

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

When the palette is expanded, the color of the bar changes to dark gray. When a palette is collapsed, the color of the bar changes to light gray.

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

Command + I (Mac OS) or Ctrl + I (Windows)

(For the Mac OS, you press Command + I; for Windows, you press Ctrl + I.)

Choose File menu ` Quick Clone

Examples of the toolbox title bar on the Mac OS (top) and the Windows platform (bottom):

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

Palette arrow The palette arrow is used to expand or collapse a

Palette menu arrow or selector menu arrow

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palette.

Clicking a palette menu arrow or a selector menu arrow displays a pop-up menu with additional commands.

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

The palette menu arrow for the Mixer palette displays the Mixer palette menu.

Convention Description Example

Flyout Flyouts are spaces shared by certain tools in the

toolbox. You can open a flyout by clicking and holding down the tool on the flyout that is displayed.

A note contains information that is important to the steps that precede it. Often, a note describes conditions under which the procedure can be performed.

A tip contains suggestions related to the procedure. Some tips present alternative methods of performing the steps or information about other benefits and uses of the procedure.

By clicking and holding down the Grabber tool in the toolbox, you can display a flyout that includes the Rotate Page tool.

This command is available only if you have turned off a selection.

You can choose a brush category and variant in the main application or in the Brush Creator.

Using Corel Painter Help

The Help is the documentation that can be accessed from within the Corel Painter workspace. It is fully searchable and includes more comprehensive information than is found in the printed documentation.

To use the Help

1 Choose Help menu ` Corel Painter X Help (Mac) or Help Topics (Windows).

2 Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Browse through Help topics Click the Contents tab.

Use the index Click the Index tab and scroll through the entries,

Search the full text of the Help (Mac) Type a word or phrase in the Search box in

or type a word or phrase in the box.

the top right corner of the Help window, and press Return.

(Windows) Click the Search tab, type a word or phrase in the box, and click List Topics.

(Windows) To search for a phrase, type the phrase, and enclose it within quotation marks (for example, “Divine Proportion” or “Match Palette”).

Registration

Registering Corel products is important. Registration provides you with timely access to the latest product updates, valuable information about product releases, and access to free downloads, articles, tips and tricks, and special offers.

About Corel Corporation

Corel is a leading global packaged software company with more than 40 million users. With hundreds of industry awards for leadership in software innovation, design, and value, Corel’s products have built a loyal following of customers and partners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.corel.com.

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A Workspace Tour

The Corel Painter workspace has been designed to give you easy access to tools, effects, commands, and features. The workspace is organized across a series of menus, selectors, and interactive palettes. Some features are also available in the frame of the document window.

The Menus and the Document Window

Using the commands on the Corel Painter menu bar, you can

• work with files and editing commands

• apply and adjust effects

• perform selection operations, work with shapes, and create animations

• control the document window or the Corel Painter workspace

1. Menu bar 6. Navigation icon 11. Brush Selector bar

2. Tracing Paper icon 7. Drawing Mode icon 12. Document title bar

3. Colors palette 8. Selectors 13. Toolbox

4. Layers palette 9. Color Selection box 14. Property bar

5. Scale slider 10. Canvas

The document window lets you access the following features with the click of a button:

• Tracing Paper — Lets you trace a clone source. When Tracing Paper is in use, you see a faded-out version of the clone source, as if it were displayed under real tracing paper on top of a light box.

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• Grid — Helps you position brush strokes and shapes. You can set the types, size, line thickness, and color of the grid.

• Color Correction — Lets you apply the current color management style to an image. When the icon shows colors, the color management style is applied to the image; when the icon shows black, the color management style is not applied to the image.

• Impasto Effect — Lets you view the depth effect of the Impasto layer.

• Drawing Mode — Lets you choose where you can apply brush strokes to your image when you have an active selection. Click and hold down the icon to choose between drawing anywhere, drawing outside the selection only, or drawing inside the selection only.

• Navigation — Lets you view a pop-up window of the entire image and choose which area is displayed in the document window. For example, when you are working at a high zoom level or with a large image, you can find a different image area without having to adjust the zoom level.

The Toolbox

You can use the tools in the toolbox to paint, draw lines and shapes, fill shapes with color, view and navigate, and make selections. Under the toolbox is a color selector, plus six content selectors that let you choose papers, gradients, patterns, weaves, looks, and nozzles.

Toolbox Basics

The toolbox is open by default; however, it can be closed. You can move the toolbox around the application window, and you can attach the toolbox to the document window or to other palettes.

To open or close the toolbox

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Open the toolbox Choose Window menu ` Show Toolbox.

Close the toolbox Click the close button on the title of the toolbox. You can also

choose Window menu ` Hide Toolbox.

To move or dock the toolbox

1 Place the cursor over the title bar of the toolbox.

2 Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Move the toolbox Drag the toolbox title bar to a new location in the application

Dock the toolbox Drag the toolbox title bar to the edge of the application window

window.

or a palette. When the toolbox lines up with the edge of the application window or palette, it will snap into place.

Accessing Tools in the Toolbox

The toolbox contains flyout menus, in which tools of similar function share a space. The button for only one of these tools is displayed at a given time. A flyout menu is indicated by a triangle in the lower-right corner of the button.

The current tool can be modified by options on the property bar, which change as you change tools. For more information, see “Property Bar Basics” on page 12.

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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 Choose the tool you want to use.

The tool you’ve chosen now appears on the toolbox.

Some tools are located in flyout menus on the toolbox. To open a flyout menu, click and hold down a tool button

that has a triangle in the lower-right corner.

Exploring the Toolbox

Tool Description

Navigation and Utility Tools

Magnifier tool The Magnifier tool lets you magnify areas of an image when you

Grabber tool The Grabber tool gives you a quick way to scroll an image. For

Rotate Page tool The Rotate Page tool lets you rotate an image window to

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

Perspective Grid tool The Perspective Grid tool lets you select and move the location of

are performing detailed work, or reduce areas to get an overall view of an image. For more information, see “Zooming” on page 36.

more information, see “Repositioning Documents” on page 37.

accommodate the way you naturally draw. For more information, see “Rotating and Flipping the Canvas” on page 39.

For more information, see “Cropping Images” on page 38.

the perspective grid lines, the vanishing point, the horizon line, the ground line, and the picture plane. For more information, see “Using the Perspective Grid” on page 49.

Divine Proportion tool The Divine Proportion tool lets you plan compositions by using

Layout Grid tool The Layout Grid tool lets you divide your canvas so that you can

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guides based on a classical composition method. For more information, see “Using the Divine Proportion tool” on page 44.

plan your composition. For example, you can divide your canvas into thirds vertically and horizontally to use the compositional rule of thirds. For more information, see “Using the Layout Grid” on page 43.

Tool Description

Tools that Apply Color or Adjust Tone

Brush tool The Brush tool lets you paint and draw on the canvas or a layer.

Paint Bucket tool The Paint Bucket tool lets you fill an area. The property bar shows

Dropper tool The Dropper tool lets you pick up a color from an existing image.

Dodge tool The Dodge tool lets you lighten the highlights, midtones, and

Burn tool The Burn tool lets you darken the highlights, midtones, and

Cloner tool The Cloner tool gives you quick access to the last Cloner brush

Rubber Stamp tool The Rubber Stamp tool gives you quick access to the Straight

Brush categories include pencils, pens, chalk, an airbrush, oil paints, watercolors, and more.

When the Brush tool is selected, you can choose specific brushes from the Brush Selector bar. For more information, refer to “Selecting a Brush” on page 97.

choices for what area to fill and what to fill it with. For more information on the Paint Bucket tool, refer to “Filling an Area with Media” on page 123.

The property bar shows you values for the color. When you select a color with the Dropper tool, that color becomes the current color on the Colors palette. For more information, see “Sampling Colors from Images” on page 77.

shadows in an image. For more information, see “Dodging and Burning” on page 276.

variant you used. For more information, see “Painting in the Clone” on page 198.

Cloner brush variant, allowing you to clone point to point in an image or between images. For more information, see “Using Point-to-Point Cloning” on page 199.

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

Selection Tools

Rectangular Selection tool The Rectangular Selection tool lets you create rectangular

Oval Selection tool The Oval Selection tool lets you create oval selections. For more

Lasso tool The Lasso tool lets you draw a freehand selection. For more

Magic Wand tool The Magic Wand tool lets you click or drag in the image to select

Adjuster Tools

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

For more information, see “Erasing Image Areas” on page 112.

selections. For more information, see “Creating Selections” on page 211.

information, see “Creating Selections” on page 211.

an area of similar color. For more information, see “Creating Pixelbased Selections” on page 212.

layers. For more information, see “The Layer Adjuster Tool” on page 233.

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Tool Description

Selection Adjuster tool The Selection Adjuster tool lets you select, move, and manipulate

Shape Tools

Shape Selection tool The Shape Selection tool is for editing Bézier curves (shape paths).

Text tool The Text tool creates text shapes. Use the Text palette to set the

Shape Design Tools

Pen tool The Pen tool lets you create straight lines and curves in shape

Quick Curve tool The Quick Curve tool lets you create shape paths by drawing

Shape Objects Tools

Rectangular Shape tool The Rectangular Shape tool lets you create rectangular shape

Oval Shape tool The Oval Shape tool lets you create oval shape objects. For more

selections created with the Rectangular, Oval, and Lasso selection tools and those converted from Shapes.

You use the Shape Selection tool to select and move anchor points and to adjust their control handles. For more information, see “Creating Shapes” on page 365.

font, point size, and tracking. For more information, see “Working with Text” on page 381.

objects. For more information, see “Using the Pen Tool” on page 366.

freehand curves. For more information, see “Using the Quick Curve Tool” on page 367.

objects. For more information, see “Using Shape Object Tools” on page 365.

information, see “Using Shape Object Tools” on page 365.

Shape Edit Tools

Scissors tool The Scissors tool let you cut an open or closed segment. If the

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

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

Convert Point tool The Convert Point tool is used to convert between smooth and

Color Selector The Color Selector lets you choose main and additional colors. The

segment is closed, after you click on a line or point to cut the shape path, the shape path becomes open. For more information, see “Cutting and Joining Shape Segments” on page 373.

path. For more information, see “Adding, Deleting, and Moving Anchor Points” on page 371.

shape path. For more information, see “Adding, Deleting, and Moving Anchor Points” on page 371.

corner anchor points. For more information, see “Adjusting Curvature” on page 372.

front square displays the main color, and the back square displays the additional color. For more information, refer to “Understanding Main and Additional Colors” on page 77.

Using Selectors

The selectors in the toolbox give you quick access to the libraries for the following Corel Painter elements: papers, gradients, patterns, weaves, looks, and nozzles. You can display items in selectors as thumbnails or in a list. You can also access commands from each selector menu. If the command you want is not available, you can display the entire palette that corresponds to the selector.

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Paper Selector

Gradient Selector

Pattern Selector

Look Selector

The selectors give you quick access to the libraries.

We a ve Se le ct o r

Nozzle Selector

To use a selector

1 Click the selector you want to open.

2 Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Display items as thumbnails or in a list Click the selector menu arrow, and choose List or Thumbnails.

Display a selector’s palette Click the selector menu arrow, and choose Launch Palette. The

Look Selector and Nozzle Selector do not have palettes, so this command is not available for them.

Clicking the selector menu arrow lets you access the menu for each selector.

The Property Bar

In Corel Painter, the property bar displays options for the tool that is currently selected in the toolbox. Here, you can access and change tool options and settings. Tool settings are retained when you switch from one tool to another. You can also use the property bar to restore the default settings of the selected tool. By default, the property bar is docked below the menu bar. You can move the property bar or dock it again. You can also hide the property bar.

Property Bar Basics

The property bar is docked horizontally below the menu bar by default. You can move the property bar anywhere in the application window, dock it under the menu bar again, or close it.

The property bar for the Rectangular Selection tool.

To show or hide the property bar

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Show the property bar Choose Window menu ` Show Property Bar.

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To Do the following

Hide the property bar Choose Window menu ` Hide Property Bar.

Note: You can also hide the property bar by clicking the close button on the title bar if the property bar is undocked.

To move or dock the property bar

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Move the property bar Drag the left side of the property bar to its new location.

Dock the property bar Drag the title bar of the property bar, and place it under the menu

bar. The property bar snaps into place.

Using Tool Settings on the Property Bar

You can access the controls on the property bar for each tool, and you can change their settings according to your preferences. When you activate a tool, the settings that were last specified for that tool are applied. You can also use the property bar to restore the default settings of the selected tool.

To access tool settings on the property bar

• Choose a tool from the toolbox. Tool settings are displayed on the property bar.

To change tool settings on the property bar

1 Choose a tool from the toolbox.

2 On the property bar, do any of the following:

•Click a button.

• Type a value in the box next to a control, or click the arrow next to a control and access a pop-up slider or menu.

• Enable or disable the check box next to the option you want to use.

Not all of these options are available for every tool. The settings change depending on the tool selected.

To reset the default tool settings

• Click the Reset Tool button on the property bar. The Reset Tool button on the property bar has the same icon as the selected tool in the toolbox.

The Brush Selector Bar and the Brush Creator

The Brush Selector bar lets you choose from a variety of brush categories and variants. Brush categories are groups of similar brushes and media. Brush variants are specific brushes and brush settings within a brush category. For example, in the Pastels category, there are pencil, chalk, soft, and hard pastel variants.

The name of the selected brush category appears at the top of the Brush Selector bar. The name of the selected brush variant appears under the brush category name.

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The Brush Selector bar.

The Brush Creator lets you design custom brushes. You can use the Randomizer to create random brush variants, the Transposer to blend two brush variants, and the Stroke Designer to adjust the settings of brush variants.

Working with the Brush Selector Bar

You can use the Brush Selector bar to choose brush categories and variants. The Brush Category selector shows you a preview of the currently selected brush category and lets you choose a new brush category. The Brush Variant selector does the same for brush variants.

The Brush Selector bar is displayed to the right of the property bar by default. It can be moved to a new location in the application window, or it can be docked to the edge of the application window or other palettes.

You can preview brush categories and variants as thumbnails or in list format. Brush variants can also be previewed as brush strokes. The Stroke view shows you both the dab type and brush stroke of the selected brush variant.

The Brush Selector bar menu commands are used for creating and loading brushes, working with brush variants, and manipulating brush strokes. For more information, see “Customizing Brushes” on page 145.

To show or hide the Brush Selector bar

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Show the Brush Selector bar Choose Window menu ` Show Brush Selector Bar.

Hide the Brush Selector bar Choose Window menu ` Hide Brush Selector Bar.

Note: You can also hide the Brush Selector bar by clicking the close button on the title bar if the Brush Selector bar is undocked.

To move or dock the Brush Selector bar

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Move the Brush Selector bar Drag the left side of the Brush Selector bar to a new

Dock the Brush Selector bar Drag the title bar on the left side of the Brush Selector bar ,

location.

and move it to the edge of the application window or a palette. The bar snaps into place.

To choose a brush from the Brush Selector bar

1 On the Brush Selector bar, click the Brush Category arrow and choose a brush category.

2 Click the Brush Variant arrow, and choose a variant.

To display brush categories and variants as thumbnails or lists

1 On the Brush Selector bar, click the Brush Category or Brush Variant arrow

2 Click the selector menu arrow , and choose List or Thumbnails.

If you’re displaying brush variants, you can also choose the Stroke view.

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Brush Category items can be displayed as thumbnails, and Brush Variant items can be displayed as strokes.

Using the Brush Creator

The Brush Creator is designed to make the brush variant creation process easy and fun. You can use the Randomizer to create random brush variants, the Transposer to blend two brush variants, and the Stroke Designer to adjust the settings of brush variants. For more information, see “Customizing Brushes” on page 145.

As you become more familiar with the brush controls, you may want to make small adjustments to brush variants while you work on the canvas. The Brush Controls give you this option. For more information, see “Exploring the Palette Groups” on page 17.

To open the Brush Creator

• Choose Window menu ` Brush Creator.

You can also open the Brush Creator by pressing Command + B (Mac OS) or Ctrl + B (Windows).

The Palettes

The interactive palettes in Corel Painter let you access commands, controls, and settings.

You can set up the palette layout in Corel Painter to best suit your working style. Palettes can be arranged in the application window to give you easy access to the tools and controls you use most often, and to maximize screen space. You can also group and reposition palettes according to your preferences, and you can dock them to the edges of the application window or other palettes.

Showing and Hiding Palettes

You can show or hide a palette by accessing controls in the Window menu or on a selector from the toolbox. You can also use the keyboard shortcut that appears on the Window menu.

For example, the following table shows the keyboard shortcuts for some of the main palettes:

Press Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows) + ...

1 = Colors 4 = Layers 7 = Info

2 = Mixer 5 = Channels 8 = Gradients

3 = Color Sets 6 = Text 9 = Patterns

To show or hide a palette

• Choose Window menu, and choose either Show [Palette name] or Hide [Palette name].

You can also show a palette by choosing a selector from the toolbox, clicking the selector menu arrow, and choosing Launch Palette.

You can also show or hide a palette by using the keyboard shortcut that appears on the Window menu.

You can also hide a palette by clicking the close box on the palette title bar.

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To show or hide all palettes

• Choose Window menu, and choose either Show Palettes or Hide Palettes.

When you choose Show Palettes, only the palettes that were open when you chose Hide Palettes are displayed.

Navigating Palettes

When a palette is displayed, it must be expanded for you to access its settings. You can collapse palettes to save screen space, while keeping them displayed in the application.

If you have many palettes displayed and expanded, the view of other palettes can be obscured. You can scroll through palettes to locate the elements you want to work with.

To expand or collapse a palette

• Click the palette arrow in the top left corner of the palette. When the triangle points down , the palette is expanded. When it points to the right , the palette is collapsed.

To scroll through a palette

• Click the scroll arrows, or drag the scroll box, on the right side of the palette.

You can also scroll through a palette by pressing Option + click (Mac OS) or Alt + click (Windows) and dragging vertically inside the palette. The cursor changes to a hand, and the palette scrolls as you drag.

Using Palette Menus

Most palettes in Corel Painter contain menus from which you can access a series of palette-specific commands. For example, you can use the palette menu on the Papers palette to capture, make, and invert paper textures, and to open the Paper Mover and library.

To access the commands on a palette menu

• Click the palette menu arrow.

Palette

bar

Palette

arrow

The Colors palette is open by default and is grouped with the Mixer, Color Sets, and Color Info palettes. Clicking the

palette arrows expands or collapses a palette.

box

Palette menu arrow

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Exploring the Palette Groups

As you work with Corel Painter, you’ll use the following groups of palettes. You’ll also use the Info palette and the Tracker palette. For more information, see “Using the Info Palette” on page 18 and “Using the Tracker Palette” on page 19.

Palette Description

Brush Controls

The Brush Controls include the following palettes for adjusting brushes: General, Size, Spacing, Angle, Bristle, Well, Rake, Random, Mouse, Cloning, Impasto, Image Hose, Airbrush, Water, Liquid Ink, Digital Watercolor, Artists’ Oils, and RealBristle.

Color Variability The Color Variability palette contains sliders to adjust color variability within brush

Color Expression The Color Expression palette lets you determine how a stylus applies the Main Color

Color Palettes

Colors The Colors palette lets you choose main and additional colors for painting in

Mixer The Mixer palette lets you mix and blend colors as you would on an artist’s palette.

Color Sets The Color Sets palette displays the colors in the current color set. You can use color

Color Info The Color Info palette contains color information for the selected color, expressed in

The Brush Controls are a group of palettes that let you customize brush variants. The palettes match the categories on the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator. The Brush Controls are ideal for making small adjustments to a brush variant while you work. For more information about specific settings, see “Managing Settings and Controls” on page 149.

strokes. For more information, see “The Color Variability Palette” on page 89.

and Additional Color in Corel Painter documents. For more information, refer to “The Color Expression Palette” on page 91.

Corel Painter documents. You can also use the Clone Color option on the Colors palette. For more information, see “Using the Colors Palette” on page 76.

It contains its own set of tools. For more information, see “Working with the Mixer Palette” on page 79.

sets to organize groups of colors. Some color sets are organized by both name and color relationship. For more information, refer to “Working with Color Sets” on page 84.

either HSV or RGB values. You can also use the Clone Color option with this palette. For more information, see “The Color Info Palette” on page 90.

Library Palettes

Papers, Gradients, Patterns, and Weaves The Library palettes let you choose and edit resources. You can view resources as

Layers and Channels Palettes

Layers The Layers palette contains thumbnail previews of all the layers in a Corel Painter

Channels The Channels palette contains thumbnail previews of all the channels in a

Text and Scripts Palettes

thumbnails or in a list, and preview the selected resource. For more information, see “Using Paper Texture” on page 61, “Using Gradients” on page 92, “Using Patterns” on page 65, and “Using Weaves” on page 71.

document. You can use the buttons on the Layers palette to arrange layers, use Dynamic Plug-ins, add new layers (including Watercolor and Liquid Ink layers), create layer masks, and delete layers. You can also set the composite method and depth, adjust the opacity, and lock and unlock layers. For more information, see “Layers” on page 231.

Corel Painter document, including RGB composite channels, layer masks, and alpha channels. The buttons on the palette can be used to load, save, and invert existing channels, and to create new channels. For more information, see “Alpha Channels” on page 223.

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Palette Description

Text The Text palette lets you perform all tasks relating to text in a Corel Painter

Scripts The Scripts palette gives you access to all commands and settings related to scripts.

Info and Tracker Palettes

Info The Info palette provides you with an image preview; document information, such

Tracker The Tracker palette temporarily stores brush categories, variants, and dab types

Image Portfolio and Selection Portfolio Palettes

Image Portfolio and Selection Portfolio These palettes contain all of the images or selections in the current library. You can

Photo Painting Palettes

document, such as choosing fonts, adjusting opacity, and applying drop shadows. For more information, refer to “Working with Text” on page 381.

For example, you can open, close, play, and record scripts from the Scripts palette. For more information, see “Scripting” on page 405.

as width and height; X and Y coordinates and the cursor position; context-sensitive information based on the selected tool; and unit information, such as pixels, inches, and resolution. The palette menu lets you choose the preview style and how RGB values are displayed.

when you apply brush strokes to the canvas. Each time you use a new brush, the variant is saved on the Tracker palette. You can return to a brush variant you like by choosing it from the Tracker palette. The Tracker palette can be resized to display more or fewer brush variants; however, it stores only up to 25 variants at a time.

Using the palette menu, you can clear selected brush variants, clear all brush variants, and save brush variants.

view the items as thumbnails or in a list, as well as preview the current item. For more information, see “Storing Images with the Image Portfolio” on page 254 and “Using the Selection Portfolio” on page 215.

Underpainting The Underpainting palette lets you adjust tone, color, and detail in a photo in

Auto-Painting The Auto-Painting palette lets you specify a range of settings that control how

Restoration The Restoration palette lets you fine-tune a painting by providing brushes that help

Composition Palettes

Divine Proportion The Divine Proportion palette lets you customize the Divine Proportion guide — a

Layout Grid The Layout Grid palette lets you customize the Layout Grid — a tool that helps you

preparation for auto-painting. This palette is used in the first step of the photopainting process. For more information, see “Creating Underpaintings” on page 189.

brush strokes are applied. This palette is used in the second step of the photopainting process. For more information, see “Auto-Painting Photos” on page 191.

you restore detail. This palette is used in the third step of the photo-painting process. For more information, see “Restoring Detail to Paintings” on page 193.

tool that helps you plan a layout according to a classic composition method. For more information, see “Using the Divine Proportion tool” on page 44.

divide your canvas so that you can plan your composition. For more information, see “Using the Layout Grid” on page 43.

Using the Info Palette

The Info palette provides you with an image preview; document information, such as width and height; X and Y coordinates and the cursor position; context-sensitive information based on the selected tool; and unit information, such as pixels, inches, and resolution.

You can choose to view a canvas preview, which shows you the contents of the canvas, or a page layout preview, which shows you the entire document. You can also choose how RGB values are displayed on the Info palette — as actual values, as a percentage of the values, or as hexadecimal values.

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To customize the Info palette

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Choose an image preview style on the Info palette On the Info palette, click the palette menu arrow, and choose

Choose how RGB values are displayed on the Info palette On the Info palette, click the palette menu arrow, choose Display

Canvas Preview or Page Layout Preview.

RGB Values As. Choose an option from the list.

Using the Tracker Palette

The Tracker palette temporarily stores brush categories, variants, and dab types when you apply brush strokes to the canvas. Each time you use a new brush, the variant is saved on the Tracker palette. You can return to a brush variant you like by choosing it from the Tracker palette. You can also lock your favorite variants so that they’re always on the Tracker palette.

You can view the brush variants stored on the Tracker palette as thumbnail images, as a list, or as strokes. The Tracker palette can store up to 25 variants at one time, and it can be resized to display more or fewer brush variants.

You can use the Tracker palette to clear selected brush variants, clear all brush variants, and save brush variants. Brush variants are stored after the document you were working on has been closed and even between Corel Painter sessions.

The Tracker palette temporarily stores brush categories, variants, and dab types when you

apply brush strokes to the canvas.

To choose a brush variant from the Tracker palette

• On the Tracker palette, click the brush variant you want to use.

To change the view of brush variants in the Tracker palette

• On the Tracker palette, click the palette menu arrow, and choose List, Thumbnails, or Stroke.

To clear a brush variant from the Tracker palette

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

To clear the selected brush variant On the Tracker palette, click the brush variant you want to remove.

To clear all brush variants On the Tracker palette, click the palette menu arrow, and choose

Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Clear Selected.

Clear All.

To save a brush variant on the Tracker palette

1 On the Tracker palette, click the brush variant you want to save.

2 Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Save Variant.

3 In the Save Variant dialog box, type a name in the Save As box.

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Enable the Save Current Colors check box to retain current color settings.

To lock a brush variant on the Tracker palette

1 On the Tracker palette, click the brush variant you want to lock.

2 Click the Lock Variant button .

Grouping, Repositioning, and Resizing Palettes

In Corel Painter, palettes appear by default in small, intuitive groupings. You can customize these groupings by moving palettes from one group to another. You can include as many palettes as you want in a group. You can also reposition items to a new location within a group.

A customized palette grouping. In this example, the Mixer palette has been grouped with the other color palettes.

To group, ungroup, rearrange, and resize palettes

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Group palettes Drag the palette title bar, and place it on top of the palette with

Ungroup palettes Drag the palette title bar away from the group. The palette is

Reposition items in grouped palettes Drag the palette title bar to a new location in the group.

Resize palettes Drag the resize handle in the bottom-right corner of the open

which you want to create a group. A new group of palettes is formed.

removed from the group.

palette.

Docking Palettes

If you need some room on your screen, but don’t want to collapse or group palettes, you can save valuable screen space by docking palettes. This handy feature of Corel Painter lets them be docked into place when they get close to the top or bottom edge of another palette. In addition to tidying up your workspace, this feature can help keep a palette from being covered up by another palette.

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To dock or undock a palette

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Dock a palette Drag the title bar of the palette you want to dock to the top or

Undock a palette Drag the title bar of the palette you want to undock to another

bottom of a second palette. The palette you drag will snap into place when it lines up with the second palette.

location in the workspace.

Saving and Restoring Palette Layout

You can drag a palette to any location that’s convenient for your work. Corel Painter saves palette arrangements so that the next time you start the program, the workspace appears as you left it.

You can save several different palette layouts for future use, and you can later delete layouts. You can also return the palette layout to the Corel Painter default.

To s a v e a l a y o u t

1 Arrange the palettes as you want to save them.

2 Choose Window menu

3 In the Palette Layout dialog box, type a name in the New Palette Layout box.

To use a saved layout

• Choose Window menu ` Arrange Palettes ` [Name of Layout]. The saved palette layout is restored.

To delete a saved layout

1 Choose Window menu ` Arrange Palettes ` Delete Layout.

The Delete Palette Layout dialog box appears.

2 From the list in the Delete Palette Layout dialog box, select the layout you want to delete.

3 Click Delete.

` Arrange Palettes ` Save Layout.

To return to the default palette layout

• Choose Window menu ` Arrange Palettes ` Default.

Custom Palettes

To give you the freedom to work in your own style, Corel Painter lets you create custom palettes that contain exactly the features you want. Because the features on a custom palette are immediately available, you can choose them with a single click. You can place items from the Brush Selector bar, any of the six content selectors (papers, patterns, looks, weaves, nozzles, or gradients), Library palettes, or the Script palette on a custom palette. You can also add any menu command, such as File menu

You may want to create special palettes for a particular project or workflow that you use frequently. You can create a whole series of palettes and switch between them as you change projects or workflows. There is no limit to the number of custom palettes you can create. Corel Painter saves them from session to session, so you can access the necessary tools immediately whenever you sit down to work.

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` New, to a custom palette.

Items that appear on a custom palette are references (aliases or shortcuts) to the original. This means that if you change the original — for example, by modifying and saving a brush variant — the custom palette button loads the newest version. However, if you delete the original, Corel Painter won’t be able to find the item again to load on the custom palette.

Custom palettes behave like the standard palettes. For more information about working with palettes, see “Grouping, Repositioning, and Resizing Palettes” on page 20.

Creating Custom Palettes

If the item you want is represented on a palette with an icon, you can create a new palette by just dragging the icon out of the palette. This works for brush variants, art materials (gradients, paper textures, patterns, and weaves), nozzles, looks, and scripts.

To create a custom palette

• Drag an icon or button out of its palette or out of the Brush Selector bar. Corel Painter creates a custom palette that contains an icon for the item you dragged.

Creating a custom palette is as simple as dragging a tool out of a palette. Other icons can then be dragged onto the

custom palette.

You can also create a custom palette by choosing a menu command. Choose Window menu ` Custom Palette ` Add Command. Then, in the Add Command dialog box, from the Add To pop-up menu, choose New. With the Add Command dialog box open, choose a menu item, and click OK.

To open or close a custom palette

• Perform a task from the following table.

To Do the following

Open a custom palette Choose Window menu ` Custom Palette ` [Custom Palette

Close a custom palette On the custom palette title bar, click the close button .

Name].

Modifying Custom Palettes

You can add buttons for any of the commands from the main menus or palette menus to your custom palettes.

A custom palette can contain menu items as well as icons.

To add items to a custom palette

1 Locate the next item you want to add.

2 Drag the item’s icon to the custom palette.

To expand a custom palette, drag the lower-right corner.

Tools from the main toolbox cannot be added to custom palettes.

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To keep a custom palette along the edge of your screen, you can arrange icons vertically or horizontally by dragging the lower-right corner of the palette.

To place menu commands on a custom palette

1 Choose Window menu ` Custom Palette ` Add Command.

2 In the Add Command dialog box, from the Add To pop-up menu, choose one of the following:

• New creates a new custom palette.

• [Custom Palette Name] adds a menu item to the selected palette.

3 With the Add Command dialog box open, choose the menu item you want.

4 Click OK.

The custom palette now contains a button for the selected menu command.

Choose Window menu ` Custom Palette ` Add Command to open the Add Command dialog box, and choose the

To rearrange the layout on a custom palette

menu command while the Add Command dialog box is still open.

• Hold down the Shift key, and move the icon or button to where you want it.

To delete an item from a custom palette

• Hold down the Shift key, and drag the icon or button off the palette.

Managing Custom Palettes

You can manage your custom palettes in the Custom Palette Organizer. Corel Painter names custom palettes “Custom 1”, “Custom 2,” and so on. For ease of use, you can rename them.

Corel Painter keeps your custom palettes from one session to the next. You can also save a custom palette to a file. If you save it to a file, you can remove it from Corel Painter, and then load it again later. You can delete obsolete custom palettes or those you don’t use very often.

To rename a custom palette

1 Choose Window menu ` Custom Palette ` Organizer.

2 In the Custom Palette Organizer, select a palette in the Custom Palette list.

3 Click Rename.

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4 Type a new name in the Palette Name dialog box.

To save a custom palette

1 Choose Window menu ` Custom Palette ` Organizer.

2 In the Custom Palette Organizer, select a palette in the Custom Palette list.

3 Click Export.

4 In the New Palette File dialog box, name the file, and choose a location.

It’s a good idea to keep all your saved palettes in the same place.

To load a custom palette

1 Choose Window menu ` Custom Palette ` Organizer.

2 In the Custom Palette Organizer, select a palette in the Custom Palette list.

3 Click Import.

4 In the Open Palette File dialog box, choose the file where the custom palette is saved.

Only custom palette files created with version 8.1 or later are supported by Corel Painter. Custom palettes created with version 7 or earlier cannot be loaded.

To delete a custom palette

1 Choose Window menu ` Custom Palette ` Organizer.

2 In the Custom Palette Organizer, select a palette in the Custom Palette list.

3 Click Delete.

Libraries and Movers

A library is a storage place for a collection of similar items, such as brushes, paper textures, gradients, or nozzles. Movers help you organize the contents of libraries.

What Are Libraries?

A library is a saved collection of similar items that can be loaded into a selector. For example, the built-in brush categories (and their variants) are contained in the default Painter Brushes library, which is loaded when you open Corel Painter. As you customize brushes and other resources, you can save them to your own libraries. Libraries are available for brushes, gradients, layers, lighting, looks, nozzles, paper textures, patterns, selections, scripts, and weaves.

You can have any number of libraries, but only one of each type can be open at one time. When you want other items, you can load alternate libraries. Libraries allow you to extend the Corel Painter resources without overloading a selector. It is a good idea to limit the number of items in each library. This makes it easier to find a particular item and helps Corel Painter manage memory.

You can create new libraries, add items, rename items, move items between libraries, and delete items. The methods for working with all libraries are the same, except for brush libraries. For more information about working with brush libraries, see “Brush Libraries” on page 27.

What Are Movers?

The tools for creating libraries and managing their contents are contained in the movers. A mover is provided on the selector menu or the palette menu for each resource supported by libraries. Selectors and palettes with movers are Papers, Gradients, Patterns, Weaves, Nozzles, Looks, Scripts, Image Portfolio, and Selection Portfolio.

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