User Guide

Corel Painter 35
• Frame stacks (FRM)—Corel
Painter animation files.
•QuickTime™ (MOV), Video for
Windows (AVI), and numbered
files. For more information, refer
to “Opening a Movie” on page 426
or “Working with Numbered
Files” on page 441.
Note
•
Corel Painter does not support LZW
compressed TIFF file format. Only
uncompressed TIFF files open into Corel
Pa in te r .
To open an existing document:
1 Choose File menu > Open.
2 In the Select Image dialog box, use
the dialog controls to locate the file
you want to open.
Corel Painter lists every image’s
file size, file format, and
dimensions in pixels. In addition,
files saved in Corel Painter include
a thumbnail image for browsing
purposes.
3 Click Browse.
The Browse dialog box shows
thumbnails for all the RIFF files in
a folder.
4 Double-click the file name, or
select a file and click Open.
Tip
•
The File menu also offers you a
shortcut to previously opened documents.
Before choosing Open in the File menu,
check the recently opened files list at the
bottom of the File menu.
The Browse dialog box displays a thumbnail
image of files.
Placing Files
Placing a file lets you import an image
into an existing Corel Painter
document. The placed image becomes
a new reference layer in the
document—you can transform
(resize, rotate, slant) it on screen by
dragging its handles. A placed file
maintains its link to the source file
until you commit it to standard layer
format.
Refer to “Working with Reference
Layers” on page 246 for general
information about working with
reference layers.
To place a file:
1 Choose File menu > Place.
2 Select an image file and click
Open.
3 In the Place dialog box, set the
options:
• Horizontal and Vertical Scal-
ing suggests a scale to fit the
image in the current document.
To change the size, enter a scal-
ing percentage in the Horizon-
tal Scale and Vertical Scale
fields.
• Constrain Aspect Ratio main-
tains the proportions of the
image. Disable this option to
distort the image.
• Retain Alpha retains the file’s
mask. When the image is
placed, the image mask