User Guide

Corel Painter 389
of text characters. Directional blurs
lets you specify the direction in which
the blur occurs.
To add a blur:
1 Choose Window menu > Show
Text.
2 Choose Window menu > Show
Layers.
3 On the Layers palette, select the
Text layer or the Shadow layer.
4 On the Text palette, adjust the
Blur slider.
If you want to apply directional
blur, enable the Directional Blur
option, and adjust the Direction
slider.
The first half of the slider adds a
left-to-right blur on the text; the
second half adds an up-and-down
blur.
Composite Method
You can change the composite method
for body text or shadow of a selected
text layer by making a choice from the
pop-up menu on the Text palette. You
can specify whether you're modifying
the composite method for the text
body or the drop shadow. Refer to
“Blending Layers Using Composite
Methods” on page 248 for more
information about changing the
composite method.
Curving Text
You can define a curve style and path
(baseline) along which your text will
flow. The baseline that a curve style
creates is a Bézier curve, meaning that
the shape can be controlled using
control handles and anchor points.
Refer to “Working with Bézier Lines”
on page 367 for more information on
working with anchor points and
control handles.
There are four curve styles to choose
from:
• The Curve Flat style flows along a
straight line.
Curve Flat style applied to text.
• The Curve Ribbon style flows the
text along a curve and keeps the
letters in an upright position.
When you apply the Curve Ribbon
style, you can use Shift and the
Rotate tool to control how the text
moves around the baseline.
Curve Ribbon style applied to text.
• The Curve Perpendicular style
places the text along the curve,
where each letter is perpendicular
to the curve.
Curve Perpendicular style applied to text.