User Guide

Painting104
The Brush selector lists the brush categories.
Brush Settings
Basic brush controls for size, opacity,
and grain are located on the property
bar. The property bar may also
contain additional controls for the
selected brush category, such as
resaturation, bleed, and jitter.
When a brush is selected and
positioned over the canvas, the cursor
changes, by default, into a “ghost” of
the brush—mirroring size and
shape—so you can see the area that
you’re about to paint. This is a handy
way to see if a change in size is
required.
The Brush Creator contains other
controls, depending on the selected
variant. You’ll want to eventually learn
about these and other advanced
controls. For example, the Brush
Creator offers more sophisticated
controls for resizing and shaping
brushes, including a Minimum (Min)
size setting. When a brush takes
advantage of the Min size setting,
you’ll see strokes taper and widen as
stylus pressure or direction is varied.
For complete information about using
the Brush Creator, refer to
“Customizing Brushes” on page 143.
For more about saving customized
brushes as custom variants, refer to
“Saving Brush Variants” on page 183.
Setting Brush Size
The Size slider on the property bar
determines the size of a single brush
dab. The text field next to this slider
lets you enter a specific size (in pixels).
To set brush size:
1 Choose the Brush tool from the
toolbox.
2 Choose a brush.
3 On the property bar, type a value
in the Size box, or adjust the pop-
up slider.
Corel Painter may need to rebuild
the brush after you resize it.
Automatic building of modified
brushes is the default in Corel
Painter. Expect a short delay while
this happens.
To use the resize shortcut:
1 Hold down
Command+Option+Shift (Mac
OS) or Ctrl+Alt+Shift
(Windows).
2 With the Brush tool, drag in the
image window.
A circle representing the brush size
is displayed beside the pointer.
When the circle is the size you
want, release the mouse button.
3 Click the image to reactivate the
Brush tool.