User Guide

Corel Painter 413
color is black, there are no
intermediate gray pixels at the brush’s
edge. There is either black or the
background color. In addition to a flat
color, this brush type responds to
paper texture. Different paper textures
cause the same type of brush stroke to
look different.
Magnified detail of the stroke is shown to the left
of each W-stroke. In this image, the identical
brush and stroke is applied using a different
paper texture.
To make a brush with a flat-edged
appearance, change the method to
Cover and the subcategory to Grainy
Edge Flat Cover in the Brush Creator.
For more information about the Brush
Creator, refer to “The Brush Creator”
on page 143. If you have created some
of your own brush variations in Corel
Painter, you can convert them to Web-
friendly brushes, too.
To change the brush method and
subcategory:
1 On the Stroke Designer page of
the Brush Creator, click General.
2 From the Method pop-up menu,
choose Cover.
3 From the Subcategory pop-up
menu, choose Grainy Edge Flat
Cover.
The result is the current brush
with a Web-friendly hard edge.
4 Save your creation as a variant.
Note
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Brushes that require a particular
method, such as Wet, Eraser, or Plug-in,
will not work as well with the Cover
method. If you use another brush method,
you will not be working with a one-color
brush.
Web-Friendly Brushes
Included with Corel Painter are
brushes that have been converted from
the default Corel Painter brushes to
Web-friendly, low-bandwidth brushes.
To load Corel Painter Web-friendly
brushes into a library:
1 In the Brush Creator, choose
Brush menu > Import Brush
Library.
2 In the Select Brush Library dialog
box, locate the Web brushes library
on the CD-ROM.
3 Click Open.
A set of one-color Web brushes, along
with some one-color Calligraphy
brushes, is included with Corel
Painter.
Experiment with these brushes, using
different papers for Web-friendly
Natural-Media effects.
Install the brushes, then use the file
browsing feature (accessed from the
Open dialog box) to review all the
Web-friendly variations on standard
Corel Painter brushes. Here are some
samples of what you’ll find: