User Guide

Corel Painter 191
To paint with Cloner brushes:
1 Create a clone of the document
you wish to paint.
2 With the clone selected, choose
Select menu > Select All.
3 Press Delete (Mac OS) or
Backspace (Windows) to clear the
entire canvas.
4 Choose a Cloner brush from the
Brush selector bar.
On the property bar, adjust size,
opacity, and grain penetration.
5 Paint in the image.
Note
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If you don’t set a clone source, Cloner
brushes paint with imagery from the
current Pattern.
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For increased color accuracy, you can
enable the Brush Loading option. For
more information, see “Brush Loading”
on page 198.
Tip
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Some artists use Edit menu > Fade
after clearing the Canvas to bring back
some of the imagery.
Using Auto Clone
Using a Cloner brush can take a long
time if you’re working on a large area.
To save time, you can have Corel
Painter make brush strokes for you,
using the Auto Clone feature.
When you use Auto Clone with the
Felt Pen Cloner and other tools that
turn black as you repeat strokes, areas
darken rapidly. You can slow down the
color buildup and still use Auto Clone
by lowering the Opacity value on the
property bar. You can also change
color values in the clone source.
Another way to automate cloning is to
record and play back individual brush
strokes. Refer to “Recording and
Playing Back Strokes” on page 117.
Auto Clone works particularly well
with the Driving Rain Cloner and the
Seurat variant of the Artist brush.
To fill a cloned area automatically:
1 Select the brush variant you want
to clone with.
If you want only a part of your
image to be affected, make a
selection. Without an active
selection, the effect is applied to
the entire canvas.
2 Do one of the following:
• Enable the Clone Color button
on the Colors palette.
• Click the palette menu arrow
on the Colors palette, and
choose Use Clone Color.
3 Choose Effects menu >
Esoterica> Auto Clone.
Corel Painter automatically
applies dabs of paint to the selected
area, using source imagery as the
media.
4 Click anywhere inside the image to
stop Auto Clone when the right
amount of clone image is
completed to suit your design.
Notes:
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If you apply Auto Clone to a large
area, the paint may fill areas sparsely.
When you click to stop Auto Clone, it
stops at that point. It won’t continue to
fill the selected area. To fill an area
completely, you must let the Auto Clone
finish.