User Guide

The Brush Creator156
Click in the Preview window to toggle
between Hard view and Soft view.
In the hard view, concentric circles
show the minimum and maximum
Size of a brush. The inner (black)
circle shows the minimum dab width.
The outer (gray) circle shows the
maximum dab width. Remember that
some brushes vary the line width
based on pressure or stroke speed. The
difference between the diameter of the
two circles shows the range in which
the stroke width will vary.
In the soft view, shading shows the
density distribution of the brush tip.
The density distribution describes
how much of the medium is conveyed
by a given point on the brush dab. For
example, an individual dab made by
an airbrush produces a soft-edged
circular mark with minimum density
at the outer edge of the dab. Density
increases inward to a maximum value
at the exact center of the dab.
Soft view cannot be used for Image
Hose or rendered dab types.
Brush Tips
The brush tip, or “profile,” shows a
cross-section of density distribution
across the diameter of the dab. You can
think of a brush tip profile as a bell
curve graph representing the density
spread across the brush dab.
Different mediums have different
density distributions. Changes in the
density distribution produce different
marking qualities in a brush stroke.
For rendered airbrush dab types, the
tip profile controls the concentration
of the spray.
Corel Painter brushes use one of the
following Brush Tip Profiles:
Pointed Profile
Pointed Profile provides maximum
density at the center, with rapid fall-
off to the edge.
Medium Profile
Medium Profile has a wide area of
greater density at the center, with
rapid fall-off to the edge.
Linear Profile
Linear Profile provides maximum
density at the center with an even fall-
off to the edge.
Dull Profile
Dull Profile provides maximum
density at the center, with a high
density weighting to the edge.
Hard view
Soft view