User Guide

Corel Painter 111
4 Choose Multi from the Stroke
Type pop-up menu.
5 On the Stroke Designer page, click
Well, and enable the Brush
Loading check box.
This enables the brush’s ability to
pick up underlying colors.
6 Adjust the Resaturation and Bleed
sliders.
The Bleed setting determines how
much underlying paint is affected
by the brush stroke. A low
Resaturation setting, combined
with a higher Bleed setting, can
enhance the Brush Loading
feature. A resaturation value of 0,
combined with differing levels of
bleed, will cause your brush to
smear image color, rather than
deposit it. In this case, the lower
the bleed, the longer the smear.
7 On the Stroke Designer page, click
Spacing, and adjust the Spacing
and Min Spacing sliders to create
fewer “echo” artifacts in your
smeared stroke.
8 Drag a brush stroke through
existing paint to see how paint is
“picked up” from the underlying
pixels and moved across the
Canvas.
Tips
•
It is easier to see the Brush Loading
feature if the canvas is not white. To fill
the canvas with another color, refer to
“Filling an Area with Media” on
page 118.
•
You can tie brush controls like Bleed
to the Controller setting on the Color
Expression palette. For example, if you
choose Pressure, each stroke bleeds more or
less, depending on how hard you press the
stylus. For more information, refer to
“Expression Settings” on page 164.
Troubleshooting
Why doesn’t your brush stroke
appear? What to check:
• Primary color—on the Colors
palette, what color is the Primary
Color (front) rectangle? Is it a
color that will show up when
applied to your image? Click the
Primary Color rectangle to be sure
it’s selected, and then set the
correct color.
• Opacity—check the Opacity
setting on the property bar and, if
necessary, adjust the pop-up slider
to increase opacity.
• Brush method—Brush method
describes the basic nature of a
brush. To check the brush method,
click General on the Stroke
Designer page of the Brush
Creator. If you’re drawing with a
light color on a dark background,
the method must be set to Cover,
in order to show the lighter color.
• Drawing mode—if you have made
a selection, the drawing mode
determines what part of the
selection is protected. Refer to
“Selecting a Drawing Mode” on
page 204 for more information.
• Layers—are you drawing on the
canvas with a layer blocking your
view of the brush stroke? On the
Layers palette, close the visibility
eye of each layer to see only the
canvas.