User Guide
Corel Painter 3
The Mixer palette also includes an 
Eyedropper tool for sampling specially 
mixed colors from imagery, as well as 
Zoom and Pan tools for easy 
navigation in the palette. You can 
choose to save your Mixer palette 
settings for future use, and you can 
create a custom color set from the 
colors in the Mixer palette.
Digital Water Color
Digital Water Color is a simple, 
transparent medium that is ideal for 
hand painting line drawings, touching 
up photographs, or creating simple 
water color washes.
Sketch Effect
The new Sketch effect in Corel 
Painter lets you convert images or 
photographs to simple pencil 
drawings, while providing controls for 
the amount of paper grain being 
applied, the heaviness of the pencil 
line, and the desired level of detail.
New Brush Variants
Corel Painter includes over 400 new 
Brush variants. New brushes are 
included in the following categories:
•Acrylics
•Airbrushes
•Artists
•Blenders
• Calligraphy Pens
•Chalks
•Charcoals
•Colored Pencils
•Conte
•Crayons
• Digital Water Color
• Distortion
• Erasers
•Felt Pens
•F-X
•Gouache
•Image Hose
•Liquid Ink
•Oil Pastels
•Oils
• Palette Knives
•Pastels
•Pattern Pens
•Pencils
•Pens
•Photo
•Sponges
•Sumi-e
•Tinting
•Water Colors
Brush Creator
Corel Painter features a Brush 
Creator, which is designed to make 
the brush variant creation process easy 
and fun. The Brush Creator includes 
three key features:
• Randomizer — The Randomizer 
lets you choose an existing brush 
variant and randomize its 
properties to create a new variant. 
You can set the amount of 
randomization to determine how 
much of the original brush’s 










