User Guide

Corel Painter 189
To trace an image:
1 Choose File menu > Clone to
create a clone of the original
document you wish to trace.
2 With the clone selected, choose
Select menu > Select All.
3 Press Delete (Mac OS) or
Backspace (Windows) to clear the
entire canvas.
4 Do one of the following:
• Click the Tracing Paper icon in
the vertical scroll bar.
•Choose Canvas menu >
Tracing Paper.
• Press Command + T (Mac
OS) or Ctrl + T (Windows).
A 50% ghost of the source image
shows through the tracing paper.
5 Trace over the image using any
Corel Painter brush variant.
Brush strokes appear at 50%
opacity when Tracing Paper is
turned on.
Click the Tracing Paper icon to toggle tracing
paper on and off.
Use the Tracing Paper feature to view the clone
source for tracing.
To turn tracing paper off:
• Do one of the following:
• Click the Tracing Paper icon
again.
•Choose Canvas menu >
Tracing Paper.
•Press Command + T (Mac
OS) or Ctrl + T (Windows).
The faint source image disappears
and brush strokes appear at 100%
opacity.
When you turn Tracing Paper off, you can see
what you’ve traced.
To resume tracing:
• To resume tracing, turn Tracing
Paper back on.