User Guide

Corel Painter 199
Fine-tuning the Cloning
Methods
You can customize and fine-tune
cloning methods in the Brush Creator.
To adjust a cloning method:
1 On the Stroke Designer page of
the Brush Creator, choose
Random.
2 Modify the sliders and options to
change the character of the variant:
• Move the Jitter slider to the
right to determine the amount
of randomness in the brush
stroke.
• Choose an expression from the
Expression pop-up menu to
vary the brush stroke.
• Move the Direction slider to
adjust the angle value of the
Direction control.
• Move the Variability slider to
the right to soften brush
strokes. This works best with
bristle brushes, creating an
impressionistic effect.
• Move the Variability slider a bit
to the right and the How Often
slider to the left to give drawing
tools a “sketchy” feel.
• Random Clone Source makes
the cloning method randomly
pick up pieces from the source
document. What you get with
your brush is random snippets
of the source image.
•Random Brush Stroke Grain
makes the cloning methods
randomly pick up texture from
the current paper grain.
Using a Selection while
Cloning
The Cloning control in the Brush
Creator has options for using the
active selection from the source
region.
Using a selection requires a Cloning
Method. It does not work for brushes
of other methods that use the Clone
Color option on the Colors palette.
Cloning selection options are:
• Obey Source Selection — causes
brush strokes to respect the active
selection in the source region.
When you paint in the destination,
your strokes are constrained to a
region that corresponds to the
source selection. For cloning types
that apply a transform, the
selection is transformed.
• Copy Source Selection — copies
the active selection in the source
region. When you paint in the
destination, your strokes clone the
selection’s pixels as well as the
RGB pixels. For cloning types that
apply a transform, the copied
selection has the transform. Copy
Source Selection is often used
together with Obey Source
Selection.
With Obey Source Selection enabled,
the brush paints in the area that
corresponds to the source selection.
With Copy Source Selection enabled,
the brush clones the selection along
with the color.