User Guide

Corel Painter 81
To set up a clone source
1 Choose File menu > Open, and
choose the file you want to use as a
clone source.
2 Choose File menu > Clone.
3 Choose Select menu > All, and
press Delete (Mac OS) or
Backspace (Windows).
Now you can work in the new file,
taking data from the original
source file.
Tip
•
You can also use this feature when
creating a mosaic. For more information,
see “Mosaics” on page 349.
To use clone colors:
1 Set up a clone source.
If you don’t set a file as the source,
Corel Painter uses the current
Pattern.
2 Choose a brush from the Brush
selector bar.
3 Choose Window menu > Show
Colors
to display the Colors
palette.
4 Do one of the following:
• Click the palette menu arrow,
and choose Use Clone Color.
• Click the Clone Color button
on the Colors palette.
Enabling the Clone Color option
disables the color picker. This is a
reminder that your color
information is coming from the
clone source.
5 When you paint in the clone file,
Corel Painter uses colors from the
clone source image.
Note
•
When you change the brush or
variant, Corel Painter turns Use Clone
Color off. Be sure to turn it back on to
continue working with the clone color.
Using Two Colors at Once
Usually, you’ll work with only the
primary color—the front rectangle of
the two overlapping rectangles on the
Colors palette. Using one color
produces a solid-color brush stroke.
By selecting a secondary color, you
can determine the colors for
multicolored brush strokes. Many
brush variants are able to paint with a
variable range of colors.
The settings on the Color Expression
palette determine when Corel Painter
uses one color or the other. For more
information about using color
expression, see “Color Expression” on
page 91.
You can use two colors at once in a brush
stroke.
To set up a two-color brush
stroke:
1 Choose a brush from the Brush
selector bar.