User Guide

Academic Courseware: Chapter 7

Joyce Ryan

4 Paint your butterflies. Try using and making patterns for filling the

wings. I used a pattern to make textured fills on my wings. I

reproduced the pattern in different colors for different parts of the

wings.

5 Hold down the Shift key and starting with Layer 1, click on each

layer on the Layers palette until all 8 layers of butterflies are selected.

Choose Layers > Group to group the butterflies.

6 In the toolbox, click the Nozzle Selector. Click the selector menu

arrow, and choose Make Nozzle From Group. Corel Painter will

create a file with all the positions of your butterfly. Save the file as

Butterflybrush.rif and close it.

7 In the Nozzle Selector, click the menu arrow, and choose Load

Nozzle. Open Butterflybrush.rif.

8 From the Brush Selector bar, select the Image Hose brush category

and try several variants. I chose the Linear-Size-P Angle-R variant.

Butterflies flit around somewhat erratically. This variant allows me to

change the size and angle of butterflies flight with the pressure I

exert, helping me to draw a more realistic flight pattern.

Try the sample butterfly brush (Buttrflybrush.rif).

Record a stroke

1 Open a new file, 320 x 240 at 72 ppi.

2 On the Brush Selector bar, click the menu arrow, and choose Record

Stroke. The next brush stroke you make is saved in memory.

3 Adjust the brush size and using your butterfly brush, draw a

continuous path across the canvas.

To save time switching fills

and colors, paint with one color or fill

at a time on each layer. Shut off all the

layers but the one you are painting on.

Fill with one color or pattern. Shut off

the layer and click on the next layer to

fill, turn it on and paint. Continue

until you are finished painting each

layer with that one color and fill.

Make a separate file of the

full color painting as a reference to

paint and sample color from. This is

especially useful if more than one

person is doing the coloring.