User Guide

iii Corel Painter
Changing Layer Characteristics . . . . . 248
Using the Image Portfolio . . . . . . . . . 254
Working with Layer Masks . . . . . . . . 255
Using Image Effects
Basics of Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . 259
Third-party Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Orientation Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Correct Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Other Tonal Control Effects . . . . . . . 268
Apply Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Apply Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Other Surface Control Effects . . . . . . 286
Focus Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Esoterica Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Objects Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Using Dynamic Plug-ins
Dynamic Plug-in Basics . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Brightness/Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Tear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Bevel World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Equalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Glass Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Kaleidoscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Liquid Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Liquid Metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Posterize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
The Image Hose
How it Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Using the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Controlling the Image Hose . . . . . . . 336
Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Creating Nozzles for the Image Hose 340
Nozzle Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Creating a Nozzle from a Movie . . . . 347
Mosaics
Getting Started with Mosaics . . . . . . 351
Tile Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Working with Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Mosaic Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Working with Tessellation Mosaics . . 360
Using Shapes
About Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Creating Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Setting Shape Attributes . . . . . . . . . . 372
Editing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Working with Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Working with Text
The Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Applying Effects to Text . . . . . . . . . . 386
Exporting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
The Web
Features for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Creating Web Page Backgrounds . . . 393
Creating Web Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Using the Image Slicer . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Creating Rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Image Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Creating GIF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Using Web-Safe Colors . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Brushes for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Scripting
Understanding Scripting . . . . . . . . . . 415
How Scripts Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
The Scripts Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Recording Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Playing Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Editing Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Scripts and Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Animation and Video
Creating Animations and Video . . . . 423
The Frame Stacks Palette . . . . . . . . . 424
Creating a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Modifying a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Animation Considerations . . . . . . . . . 430
Combining Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Rotoscoping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
Saving and Exporting Movies . . . . . . 438
Animations for the World Wide Web 442
Printing
Understanding Printing . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Setting Up Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Printing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
The Color Management Dialog Box . . 448
Options for Files Saved as Encapsulated