User Guide

Corel Painter 183
Diffusion
The Diffusion slider is used to create
soft, feathery edges on the brush
strokes.
For more information about
Diffusion, see “Digital Water Color
Diffusion” on page 128.
Wet Fringe
The Wet Fringe slider controls the
amount of pooling of water and paint
at the edges of Digital Water Color
brush strokes.
For more information about Wet
Fringe, see “Wet Fringe” on page 128.
Managing Brushes
Saving Brush Variants
After you’ve customized a variant to
act exactly how you want it to act, you
can use it immediately. In fact,
adjusting brushes as you paint is
something you’ll probably do often.
Changes you make to brush variants
are saved until the Restore Default
Variant command is selected.
If you want to keep a customized
version of a brush variant, Corel
Painter lets you do it as a new variant
or as a Look.
Variant settings are included when
you save a Look, but Looks also
include paper texture, pattern,
gradient and nozzle data. Refer to
“Saving a Brush Look” on page 185
for more about saving the combined
look of a variant.
It’s easier to find a variant when the
variant list is short. You can manage
the number of variants in a Brush
category by creating new categories,
then saving variants you create there.
To save current settings as a
custom variant:
1 Do one of the following:
• On the Tracker palette in the
Brush Creator or Corel
Painter, choose the variant you
want to save, click the Tracker
palette menu arrow, and choose
Save Variant.
• In Corel Painter, click the
selector menu arrow on the
Brush selector bar and choose
Save Variant.
• In the Brush Creator, choose
Variant menu > Save.
2 In the Save Variant dialog box, type
a name for the new variant.
3 Enable the Save Current Colors
check box if you want the current
primary and secondary colors
saved with the variant.
If a variant uses the Clone Color
option, it is not necessary to enable
Save Current Colors.
Your new variant appears on the
variant menu, in the current brush
category. A new XML file is
created in the Brush category
folder.
To return the current variant to
default settings:
1 Choose the variant from the Brush
selector bar.
2 Click the selector menu arrow and
choose Restore Default Variant.
Choose Restore All Default
Variants to reset all of the settings