User Guide

Corel Painter 435
When creating selections in the
foreground movie, if the background
is uniform—all white, for example—
you can take advantage of the
automatic selection and script
features. For more information, refer
to “Automatic Selecting and Scripting
for Efficiency in Compositing” on
page 436.
The drawing mode determines
whether Corel Painter draws inside or
outside of a selection, so you can
create selections that either include or
exclude the foreground image—
whichever is easiest—then set the
drawing mode accordingly. For more
information about drawing modes,
refer to “Selecting a Drawing Mode”
on page 204.
To composite one movie with
another:
1 Open the foreground movie.
2 In each frame, create a selection
that defines the foreground image.
Because the foreground image
continues to move, the selection in
each frame must be different.
3 When each frame of the
foreground is properly protected by
a selection, rewind the movie to
frame 1.
4 Open the background movie or
image.
If the background is a movie,
rewind it to frame 1.
5 Do one of the following:
• Select the background movie
and choose Movie menu > Set
Movie Clone Source.
• Select the background image
and choose File menu > Clone
Source > [Image Title].
6 Select the foreground movie.
7 Click the Drawing Mode button in
the bottom-left corner of the
document window and choose one
of the following:
• Draw Outside—choose this
mode if you selected the por-
tion of the image that you want
to keep.
• Draw Inside—choose this
mode if you selected the por-
tion of the image that you want
to replace.
You can also invert the selection
instead of changing the drawing
mode.
8 On the Brush selector bar, choose
Cloners from the Brush selector,
and choose a variant from the
Variant selector.
If you want to bring the
background across perfectly, select
the Straight Cloner variant.
9 Paint in the foreground movie to
replace the background using the
clone source.
10 Click the Step Forward button
and paint the background of the
next frame.
If your clone source is a movie,
Corel Painter automatically
advances the foreground and clone
source movies by one frame. The
movies stay synchronized as you
proceed.
11 Repeat step 10 for each frame in
the movie.
Tip
•
If you want to automate the painting
process, you can record the complete
painting of one frame as a script, then
apply that script to the entire movie. Of