User Guide

Contents
Welcome to Corel Painter 8
What’s New in Corel Painter 8? . . . . . . . 1
Redesigned User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About Your User Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Corel Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Workspace
Using the Menus and Document
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Workspace Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using Selectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Using the Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using the Brush Selector Bar . . . . . . . . 15
The Brush Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Working with Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Exploring the Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Setting Palette Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Libraries and Movers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Modifying a Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Customizing Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Creating Custom Palettes . . . . . . . . . .28
Basics
Opening Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Working with Documents . . . . . . . . . . 37
Saving Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Closing Documents and Quitting
the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Wacom Intuos Support . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Using Textures, Patterns, and
Weaves
Using Paper Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Using Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Using Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Color
Working with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Changing Paper Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Mixer Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Using Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Color Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Color Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Color Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Annotating Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Using Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Painting
Exploring Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Understanding Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . 100