User Guide

Corel Painter 59
Explorer. Choose Create Short-
cut (or New > Shortcut) from
the File menu.
4 Move the alias/shortcut into the
Corel Painter > Plug-ins folder.
5 If Corel Painter is running, restart
it to activate the new plug-in.
Note
•
To access all Photoshop plug-ins, make
an alias (Mac OS) or shortcut (Windows)
to the Photoshop Plug-ins folder.
Wacom Intuos Support
Corel Painter supports the Wacom®
Intuos™ tablet, pen, and airbrush
technology.
Painting with an Intuos
Tablet and Pen
The Intuos tablet provides 1,024 levels
of pressure sensitivity to help you
create smooth curves, gradual
transitions, and precise brush strokes.
Corel Painter allows you to take
advantage of tilt and bearing input
from an Intuos pen in new and
exciting ways.
Note
•
The mouse mode option in the Wacom
controls panel—which causes a stylus to
behave like a mouse—is not compatible
with Corel Painter. Always use pen mode
when painting with an Intuos tablet and
pen.
Brush Tracking
Every artist uses a different pressure
when drawing on an Intuos tablet.
The Corel Painter Brush Tracking
preference helps you customize your
Intuos tablet to meet your pressure
sensitivity needs. Refer to “Brush
Tracking Preferences” on page 53 for
more information.
Expressions Settings
Settings you make in the Expressions
area of the Brush Creator allow you to
tie brush features like Opacity, Grain,
Angle, Size, Jitter, Resaturation,
Bleed, Flow, and Depth to stylus data,
such as Velocity, Direction, Pressure,
Wheel, Tilt, and Bearing. For more
information about using the
Expressions section in the Brush
Creator, refer to “Expression Settings”
on page 164.
Minimum Size Settings
In Corel Painter, the Minimum Size
setting lets you take even further
advantage of stylus input data. When
Size is set in the Expressions area of
the Brush Creator to respond to stylus
pressure, and a Min Size setting is set
to a small percentage of the brush
Size, the strokes you make with the
stylus create amazingly realistic
results. Responding to the elegance of
subtle movements, as your stylus
pressure eases, brush strokes taper. As
pressure increases, brush strokes
widen, just as they would with a real
brush.
Using the Intuos Airbrush
Wheel
The Intuos Airbrush—the first true
computer airbrush—provides
fingertip media flow control. Corel
Painter airbrushes respond to angle
(tilt), bearing (direction), and flow
(wheel setting) data from the Intuos