User Guide

3
Basics
The Corel Painter application
provides a digital workspace in which
you can create new imagery or alter
existing imagery using the Corel
Painter Natural-Media tools and
effects. Your working image is known
as a document and is displayed in a
document window—this document
window includes navigation and
productivity features to help you work
efficiently.
As you create an image, you can save
your document in a number of
different file formats: RIFF (Corel
Painter native format), JPEG, TIFF,
and Photoshop (PSD), to name a few.
Corel Painter also lets you open/
import images in many file formats.
Every artist works in a unique way,
and every computer system has its
own configuration of memory, disks,
printers, and accessories. Corel
Painter preferences let you customize
the program for your own work style
and optimum performance on your
particular system. You can also
optimize the features of your tablet
and pens in Corel Painter.
Opening Documents
The first step to creating an image in
Corel Painter is opening a document.
You can open a blank Canvas by
creating a new document, work with
an existing image by opening a file,
place a file into a document, or
acquire an image from a scanner or
digital camera to place directly into a
document.
Creating New Documents
The New command creates a blank,
untitled document based on the
specifications you set in the New
dialog box.
• Canvas Size shows the RAM
requirement for creating the
document at the specified width,