User Guide

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Welcome to Corel Painter 8
Corel® Painter™ 8 is the leading
Natural-Media® painting
application. Corel Painter lets you
simulate a wide range of art tools,
from felt pens, charcoal, and colored
pencils to water color and oils.
What’s New in Corel
Painter 8?
Corel Painter lets you experiment with
the widest range of Natural-Media
tools. You can expand your digital
drawing and painting techniques with
a portfolio of new features.
Corel Painter features a redesigned
user interface, including a new
toolbox, Brush selector bar, property
bar, Info palette, and new palette
design and behavior.
Corel Painter also includes a Mixer
palette that realistically mimics the
traditional paint mixing experience.
Digital water color, a new Sketch
effect, and more than 400 new brushes
all expand your creative potential.
You can create custom brush variants
using the new Brush Creator, which
includes the Randomizer, Transposer,
and Stroke Designer. Corel Painter
also includes redesigned layer masks
and channels that provide a smoother
workflow and greater compatibility
with Adobe® Photoshop®.
Redesigned User Interface
Corel Painter features a redesigned
user interface, which is based on the
following new elements.
Tool bo x
The toolbox has been redesigned
vertically and, by default, is docked to
the top-left corner of the document
window. The toolbox lets you access
the tools in Corel Painter, as well as