User Guide

Corel Painter 383
• RGB—the color progresses
directly over the course of the
blend.
• Hue CW—the color progresses
clockwise in the color wheel to
reach the destination color.
• Hue CCW—the color
progresses counterclockwise in
the color wheel to reach the
destination color.
9 Specify a Perspective Factor.
Perspective Factor controls the
spacing of intermediate shapes.
Acceptable values are between 0.01
and 100. With a Perspective Factor
of 1.0, the shapes are spaced evenly.
With a Perspective Factor less than
1, shapes are closer at the
beginning of the blend and farther
apart at the end of the blend. With
a Perspective Factor greater than 1,
shapes are farther apart at the
beginning of the blend and closer
at the end of the blend.
10 Enable any of the following
options:
• Arc Length Matching—enable
this option if you are blending
shapes containing a different
number of anchor points.
• Align Shape Start Points—
enable this option to base the
orientation of intermediate
shapes on the orientation of the
start and end shapes. When
disabled, Corel Painter bases
the orientation of intermediate
shapes on the starting point
(first anchor point) of the start
and end shapes. This can create
a “tumbling” appearance in the
intermediate shapes.
Two shapes (top left) are blended using a
perspective factor of 1.0 (top right), 4.0
(bottom left), and 0.1 (bottom right).
Saving Shapes
Corel Painter doesn’t have a shapes
library. However, because of the close
relationship between shape outlines
and selection paths, you can save
shape outlines in the Selection
Portfolio. Refer to “Using the
Selection Portfolio” on page 217 for
complete information.
Exporting Shapes to Adobe
Illustrator
Corel Painter lets you export shape
data to the Adobe Illustrator format.
Exporting to Illustrator format will
save only the Shapes, not the Canvas
or any other layers in the document.
Transparency and compositing
methods are lost when exporting to
Illustrator format.
To export shapes:
1 Choose File menu > Export >
Adobe Illustrator File.
2 In the Export as Illustrator File
dialog box, specify a location and
filename, and click Save.