User Guide

Painting118
To play back strokes randomly:
• On the Brush selector bar, click the
menu arrow and choose Auto
Playback.
Corel Painter repeats the stroke at
random positions until you click.
To save a stroke:
1 On the Brush selector bar, click the
menu arrow and choose Save
Stroke.
2 In the Save Stroke dialog box, type
a name.
Corel Painter adds the stroke to the
list of saved strokes.
To select a saved stroke:
• On the Brush selector bar, click the
menu arrow, choose Strokes, and
choose a saved stroke.
The selected stroke is used when
you play back strokes or use stroke
data.
To use stroke data:
1 Select a saved stroke.
2 On the Brush selector bar, click the
menu arrow and choose Use
Stroke Data.
3 Draw brush strokes.
The resulting strokes will vary
pressure based on the recorded
stroke, but will be shaped like the
stroke you draw.
Filling Techniques
Filling an Area with Media
You can fill an area of an image with a
gradient, pattern, weave, or color.
What about filling with paper? The
paper is a texture; it has no color by
itself. However, you can get texture
into an image with various image
effects. Many surface control effects let
you use paper as the control medium.
For more information about surface
control effects, refer to “Apply Surface
Texture” on page277 and “Other
Surface Control Effects” on page 286.
To fill an area of an image:
1 Do one of the following :
• If you want to fill only part of
an image, make a selection.
• If you want to fill a layer, select
the layer on the Layers palette.
• If you want to fill an alpha
channel, select the channel on
the Channels palette.
• If you want to fill the entire
image, make sure there are no
selections.
2 Choose Effects menu > Fill or
press Command+F (Mac OS) or
Ctrl+F (Windows).
3 In the Fill dialog box, enable one
of the following to fill with:
• Current Color
• Pattern
•Gradient
•Weave
4 Adjust the Opacity slider.
Note
•
Corel Painter uses the current color,
pattern, gradient, or weave. Before filling,
choose the media you want from the
corresponding selector in the toolbox.