Corel Painter - X3 Instruction Manual

User Guide

Corel Corporation

2013

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

Using the documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Adjusting the Help window text size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Additional resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Corel Cinco for Painter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

About Corel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

What’s new in Corel Painter X3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

What’s New in Corel Painter X3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

What’s new in Corel Painter 12 Updates 1 and 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Changes to the brush control panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Workspace tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Corel Painter terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Exploring the Document window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Exploring the toolbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Displaying the toolbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Displaying the Media Selector bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Displaying the property bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Exploring the Navigator panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Displaying the Brush Selector bar and the Brush library panel . . . . . . . . . 32

Exploring panels and palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Rearranging panels and palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Creating and modifying custom palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Managing custom palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Working with libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Contents i

Creating, importing, exporting, and deleting workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Restoring the default Corel Painter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

A short tour of Corel Painter for users of Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Creating, navigating, and manipulating documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Creating documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Understanding resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Opening and placing files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Creating and opening templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Switching document views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Navigating images and viewing image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Zooming images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Rotating images and the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Flipping images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Repositioning images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Cropping images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Resizing images and the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Saving and backing up files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Choosing a file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Emailing documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Closing documents and quitting the application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Using two monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Wacom Intuos support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Drag-and-drop features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Customizing keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Toolbox commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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Panel commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Corel Painter menu commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

File menu commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Edit menu commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Canvas menu commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Layers menu commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Select menu commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Shapes menu commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Effects menu commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Window menu commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Screen navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Panel navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Panel menu commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Brush tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Selection tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Adjuster tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Shape tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Lighting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Layer selection tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Other commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Painting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Choosing a painting workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Exploring painting media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Working with the canvas and layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Displaying reference images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Clearing the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

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Setting up the drawing cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Brush tracking and calibration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using a stylus vs. a mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Applying freehand and straight brushstrokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Constraining, fading, and undoing strokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Erasing image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Aligning brushstrokes to paths and shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Letting media pool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Making 360° strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Painting with airbrushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Adjusting spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Recording and playing back brushstrokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Reference: Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Working with paper texture and grain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Applying paper texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Creating and deleting paper textures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Opening and managing the Paper Textures library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Inverting and scaling paper grain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Controlling brightness and contrast of paper grain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Adjusting grain direction and behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Auto-painting photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Creating underpaintings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Auto-painting photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Restoring detail to paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Image cloning and sampling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Cloning images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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Using Quick Clone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Setting cloning preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Working with multiple clone sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Editing, updating, saving, and exporting clone source images . . . . . . . . 157

Painting in the clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Using brush loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Performing offset sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Applying transformations when sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Using selections and transformations when sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Filling an area with a sampled image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Working with composition tools, symmetry tools, rulers, and guides . . . . . 179

Using the Layout Grid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Using the Mirror Painting mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the Kaleidoscope Painting mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Using Perspective Guides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Using the Divine Proportion tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Using rulers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Using guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Using Snap to Guides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Using the grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Using Snap to Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Choosing colors from the Color panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Resizing the Color panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Showing or hiding Color panel components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Using the temporal colors palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Changing the paper color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Sampling colors from images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

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Cloning color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Creating two-color brushstrokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Exploring the Mixer panel and mixing controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Displaying and resizing the Mixer panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Mixing, sampling, and applying colors from the Mixer pad . . . . . . . . . . 214

Opening images in the Mixer panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Changing and saving the Mixer color swatches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Saving Mixer panel colors to a color set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Clearing and resetting Mixer panel colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Saving the Mixer pad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Loading color swatches and Mixer pad files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Working with color sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Customizing the layouts of color sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Creating and exporting color sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Editing color sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Annotating colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Setting color variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Setting Color Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Loading multiple colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Working with color fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Applying a color as a fill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Limiting and preventing leakage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Color management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Understanding color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Specifying the default RGB color profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Embedding color profiles when saving files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Specifying the default CMYK color profile for converting CMYK images to RGB 241

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Previewing and soft-proofing color profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Assigning or removing color profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Converting color profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Working with color profile policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Working with presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Correcting and adjusting colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Correcting colors using curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Adjusting brightness and contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Using the curve to correct colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Drawing freehand curves to adjust colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Specifying the curve values to adjust colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Adjusting hue, saturation, and value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Adjusting selected colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Equalizing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Matching color and brightness across images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Inverting colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Posterizing an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Applying video legal colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Dodging and burning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Importing and exporting libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Creating and removing libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Modifying the display of library panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Moving, renaming, and deleting library resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Restoring default libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Selecting, managing, and creating brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Understanding brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Exploring brush categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

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Searching and selecting brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Setting basic brush attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Displaying advanced brush controls dynamically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Organizing and displaying brushes in the Brush library panel . . . . . . . . 301

Copying and moving brush variants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Renaming brush categories and variants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Saving and deleting brush variants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Restoring default brush variants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Creating and deleting brush categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Creating and deleting brush libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Importing and exporting brush libraries, categories, and variants. . . . . . 309

Saving a brush look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Creating brush dabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Adjusting brushes with brush controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Exploring Brush Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Expression settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Previewing brushstrokes and brush dabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Calibrating brush variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

General controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

General controls: Dab types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

General controls: Stroke types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

General controls: Methods and subcategories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

General controls: Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

General controls: Multicore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Opacity controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Grain controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Stroke Attribute controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

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Size controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Angle controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Spacing controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Changing dab profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Real Watercolor controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Real Wet Oil controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Computed Circular controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Hard Media controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Bristle controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

RealBristle controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Static Bristle controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Airbrush controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Artists’ Oils controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Impasto controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Digital Watercolor controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Water controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Liquid Ink controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Stroke Jitter controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Well controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Mouse controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Smoothing controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Image Hose controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Rake controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Multi controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Cloning controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Color Variability controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Color Expression controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Jitter brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

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Choosing a Jitter brush variant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Controlling the behavior of Jitter variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Watercolor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Working with the Watercolor layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Watercolor brushes and paper texture interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Working with Real Watercolor brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Working with Watercolor brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Working with Digital Watercolor brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Applying and adjusting flow maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Getting started with flow maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Choosing flow maps and compatible brush variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Enabling flow maps and controlling flow resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Customizing flow maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Hard Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Choosing a Hard Media variant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Modifying Hard Media profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Controlling the behavior of Hard Media variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Previewing Hard Media dabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Getting started with markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Customizing markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Image hose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Using the Image hose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Adjusting Image hose opacity and grain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Adjusting the size and spacing of image hose elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Indexing nozzle files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

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Understanding nozzles, ranks, and indexing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Creating a 1-Rank nozzle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Creating a 2-Rank nozzle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Creating a 3-Rank nozzle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Loading and managing nozzle files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Creating a nozzle from a movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

RealBristle brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Getting started with RealBristle brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Modifying RealBristle settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Liquid Ink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Working with Liquid Ink brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Adjusting attributes of the Liquid Ink layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Using Liquid Ink controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Applying, displaying, and clearing impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Adjusting and creating Impasto brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Adjusting Impasto lighting and depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Blending impasto with other layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Getting started with layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Displaying the layers panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Creating and deleting layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Converting selections into layers or floating objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Naming and adding notes to layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Selecting layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Copying and duplicating layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Moving layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

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Transforming layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Aligning layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Locking layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Showing or hiding layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Changing layer order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Viewing layer position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Grouping layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Dropping layers with the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Painting on layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Preserving layer transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Adjusting layer opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Adding drop shadows to layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Blending layers by using composite methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Creating and deleting layer masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Applying layer masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Loading layer masks to selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Selecting and viewing layer masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Enabling and disabling layers masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Copying layer masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Inverting layer masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Editing layer masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Importing and exporting layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Working with reference layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Storing layers as images in the Image Portfolio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Alpha Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Creating and copying channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Generating channels automatically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

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Importing and exporting alpha channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Selecting and viewing channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Setting channel attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Deleting and clearing channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Editing channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Selections and Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Getting started with selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Creating path-based selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Creating pixel-based selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Creating selections from layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Choosing the protected area of a selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Saving selections as alpha channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Working with the Selection Portfolio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Viewing selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Inverting selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Softening the edges of selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Stroking selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Modifying the borders of selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Expanding or contracting selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Adding to or subtracting from selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Preparing selections for transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Moving selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Transforming a duplicate selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Scaling and rotating path-based selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Skewing and distorting path-based selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Canceling transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Common options for effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Fading effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

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Applying recently used effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Changing effects with open panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Applying effects using source luminance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Using focus and esoterica effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Applying Smart Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Applying Camera Motion Blur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Applying Depth of Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Applying Glass Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Applying Motion Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Sharpening focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Softening focus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Applying Zoom Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Applying Marbling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Automatically cloning an image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Applying the Auto Van Gogh effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Applying Blobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Creating custom tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Applying Grid Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Applying Growth effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Applying Highpass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Applying the Maze effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Placing elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Applying the Pop Art Fill effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Using lighting and surface texture effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Applying preset lighting effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Adding, deleting, and repositioning light sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Adjusting light properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

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Using paper to create texture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Using 3D brushstrokes to create texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Using image luminance to create texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

Using clone source or pattern luminance to create texture . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Creating embossed effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

Using channels and layer masks to create texture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Creating reflection maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Adjusting texture lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Applying the Apply Screen effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Applying the Color Overlay effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Applying the Dye Concentration effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

Applying the Express Texture effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Applying a warp effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

Applying the Woodcut effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Applying the Distress effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

Applying the Serigraphy effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Applying the Sketch effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Dynamic Plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Getting started with dynamic plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

Modifying and deleting dynamic layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Committing dynamic layers to default layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Applying the Brightness and Contrast dynamic plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Applying the Burn dynamic plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Applying the Tear dynamic plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

Applying the Bevel World dynamic plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Applying the Equalize dynamic plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Applying the Glass Distortion dynamic plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Applying the Kaleidoscope dynamic plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

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Applying the Liquid Lens dynamic plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Applying the Liquid Metal dynamic plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Applying the Posterize dynamic plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Applying pattern fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Painting with patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

Creating and editing patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Creating seamless patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Creating fractal patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Gradients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

Applying gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

Replacing image colors with gradient colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

Adjusting gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Creating and editing gradients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Saving gradients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Mosaics and tessellations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Creating a mosaic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Selecting and removing tiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Specifying tile and grout color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Adjusting mosaic tile dimensions and randomness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712

Filling an area with tiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Creating 3D tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

Re-rendering mosaic tiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Stroking and filling a selection with mosaic tiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Adding mosaic effects to an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

Creating tessellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

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Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

Applying weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

Editing and saving weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

Creating weave patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Using the Edit Weave dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Defining warp and weft expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Defining warp and weft color expressions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

Designing the tie-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736

Reference: Expression operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737

Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

Getting started with shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750

Drawing shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751

Drawing lines and curves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

Setting preferences for drawing shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

Selecting a shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Modifying shape outlines and fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762

Adjusting curvature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

Cutting and joining shape segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

Converting shapes to image layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768

Converting selections to shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Resizing, rotating, skewing, and flipping shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Duplicating shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

Combining shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Blending shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Saving a shape outline as a selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Acquiring and exporting Adobe Illustrator shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

Adding text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

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Adding text to images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

Formatting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Aligning text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Adjusting text kerning and leading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Stretching, rotating, and skewing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782

Adding drop shadows to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

Applying effects to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

Applying curves to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784

Converting text layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786

Dropping text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787

Working with animation and digital videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789

Choosing an animation workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790

Creating frame-by-frame animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792

Opening a Corel Painter movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794

Importing QuickTime and AVI files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794

Selecting movie frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796

Editing frame content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796

Applying effects to a single frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796

Previewing animations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797

Using onion skinning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797

Animating with layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798

Adding, deleting, and erasing frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800

Repeating frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800

Inserting movies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801

Rotoscoping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802

Applying scripts to movies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803

Exporting movies as QuickTime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

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Exporting a movie as an AVI movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806

Importing and exporting numbered files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808

Exporting animated GIFs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809

Using scripts to automate tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813

Getting started with scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813

Displaying the Scripts panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814

Recording and playing scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815

Enabling and playing background scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817

Creating resolution-independent scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818

Editing, renaming, and deleting scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819

Converting scripts to movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820

Importing and exporting scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822

Importing and exporting script libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822

Creating and deleting script libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823

Printing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825

Specifying the page layout and image size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825

Printing your work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826

Saving a file in EPS format for printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827

General notes on printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828

Notes for users of Adobe Photoshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831

Comparing terminology in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop. . . . . . . 831

Comparing tools in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . 832

Frequently asked questions from users of Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . 833

Setting preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837

General preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837

Interface preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839

Performance preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

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Shapes preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842

Cloning preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843

Connection preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844

Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847

Choosing web-safe colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847

Working with posterize using color set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848

Choosing web-friendly brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849

Creating transparent GIFs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850

Creating animated GIFs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852

Creating rollovers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853

Creating image maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855

Creating server-side image maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857

Creating web page backgrounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858

Creating web buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861

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Welcome to Corel Painter

Corel® Painter® X3 is the ultimate digital art studio. Its inventive drawing tools, realistic brushes, cloning capabilities, and customizable features let you expand your creative output in exciting new ways. When you use the pressure-sensitive brushes of Corel Painter, they become fluid extensions of your hand, so the resulting brushstrokes are unrivaled in texture and precision. What’s more, features such as the ability to build your own Natural-Media® brushes and customize how brushes interact with the canvas give you countless ways to develop your artistic ideas. Corel Painter takes you far beyond what’s possible in a traditional art environment.

This section contains the following topics:

• Using the documentation

• Additional resources

•Registration

•Corel Cinco for Painter

• About Corel Corporation

Using the documentation

The server-based Help gives you access to a full range of up-to-date topics in a searchable format. You need to have an active internet connection to access the serverbased help. However, if you are working offline, you can access the local help file that is installed with Corel Painter.

The Help is also provided in PDF format, which is installed on your computer. In addition, you can refer to the Corel Painter X3 Getting Started Guide, which provides general overviews about Corel Painter features, presents the most commonly used procedures, and includes Insights from the Experts.

Welcome to Corel Painter 1

Documentation conventions

The following table describes the conventions used in the Help.

Convention Description Example

Mac OS and Windows commands

Modifier keys (Command, Option, Ctrl, Alt)

Menu commands (Choose X menu

 menu item)

Header bar A header bar is located at the

Commands for Mac OS and Windows sometimes appear within the same procedural step, with the operating systems specified in parentheses.

Names of modifier keys for Mac OS and Windows sometimes appear within the same procedural step, with the operating systems specified in parentheses.

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

top or side of some workspace components, such as the toolbox, property bar , and panels.

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

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

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

Choose File

 Quick Clone.

Panel tab The panel tab appears at the

top of a panel. You can click a panel tab to expand that panel.

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Convention Description Example

Panel options menu Clicking the panel options

menu button displays a popup menu with additional commands.

Flyout Flyouts are containers 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 Layer Adjuster tool in the toolbox, you can display a flyout that includes the Transform 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 library panel.

To access the Help

• Choose Help  Corel Painter X3 Help (Mac OS) or Help Topics (Windows).

To use the Help

1 Choose Help  Corel Painter X3 Help (Mac OS) or Help topics (Windows). 2 Perform a task from the following table.

Welcome to Corel Painter 3

To Do the following

Browse through Help topics Click the Contents tab, and click a topic in

the left pane.

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

entries to find a topic.

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

Search box in the upper-right corner of the Help window, and press Return.

(Windows) Click the Search tab, type a word or phrase in the box, and click Go. Note that the search feature does not support quotation marks. If you enclose the word or expression in quotation marks, the search will not produce any results.

Adjusting the Help window text size

You can adjust the size of the te xt that displays in the Help window by adjusting the zoom level in your browser. Adjusting the zoom level quickly increases the size of all web page elements, including text and images. You can adjust zoom levels in Internet Explorer , Chrome, Firefox, and Apple Help. Some browsers may offer additional controls for customizing the font size of the display text. For more information, see the Help for your browser.

To adjust the size of text in Firefox and Chrome

• In the browser, do one of the following:

• To increase the zoom level, press CTRL and + (Windows) Command and + (Mac).

• To decrease the zoom level, press CTRL and - or Command and - (Mac).

To adjust the size of text in Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer browser, do one of the following:

• To increase the zoom level, press CTRL and +.

• To decrease the zoom level, press CTRL and -.

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To adjust the size of text in Apple Help

• In the Apple Help viewer, do one of the following:

• To increase the zoom level, press Command and +.

• To decrease the zoom level, press Command and -.

Additional resources

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

Resources To access

Corel Painter page on the Corel website http://www.corel.com/painter Corel Painter Factory http://www.painterfactory.com/ Corel Painter on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/corelpainter Corel Painter on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/corelpainter

Registration

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

If you skipped the registration process when installing Corel Painter X3, you can register at www.corel.com/support/register.

Corel Cinco for Painter

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

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

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The icons of the controls are conveniently positioned to match the shape of your hand so that each finger can quickly tap a control.

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

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

To allow Corel Cinco for Painter to connect with Corel Painter

1 Do one of the following:

• (Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter X3 menu  Preferences  Connections.

• (Windows) Choose Edit  Preferences  Connections.

2 Enable the Allow Companion Application to Connect to Painter check box. 3 Type a name in the Service Name box to give your copy of Corel Painter a unique

name.

We recommended that you do not enable the Allow Companion Application to Connect to Painter check box before the companion application is available.

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

About Corel Corporation

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Used by millions of people around the world, our product lines include CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, Corel® Painter®, Corel® PaintShop® Pro, Corel® VideoStudio® and Corel® WordPerfect® Office. For more information on Corel, please visit www.corel.com.

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