User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Featured artists
- Table of contents
- Welcome to Corel Painter IX
- The Basics
- Working with Documents
- Creating and Opening Documents
- Creating and Opening Templates
- Placing Files
- Understanding Resolution
- Zooming
- Repositioning Documents
- Rotating Documents
- Cropping Images
- Using Full Screen Mode
- Image Size Information
- Resizing the Canvas
- Rotating and Flipping the Canvas
- Saving Files
- Closing Documents and Quitting the Application
- Setting Preferences
- Working with Documents
- Layers
- Getting Started with Layers
- Managing Layers
- Editing Layers
- Painting on Layers
- Brush Methods and Painting on Layers
- Preserving Layer Transparency
- Working with Floating Objects
- Adding Drop Shadows
- Creating Patterns on Layers
- Working with Reference Layers
- Setting Layer Opacity
- Blending Layers by Using Composite Methods
- Adding Notes to a Layer
- Storing Images with the Image Portfolio
- Organizing Layers with Image Portfolio Libraries
- Color
- Getting Started with Color
- Working with the Mixer Palette
- Working with Color Sets
- Setting Color Variability
- Viewing Color Information
- Setting Color Expression
- Working with Gradients
- Textures, Patterns, and Weaves
- Using Paper Texture
- Using Patterns
- Using Weaves
- Painting
- Exploring Brushes
- Marking the Canvas
- Exploring Painting
- Working with Fill
- Watercolor
- Liquid Ink
- Impasto
- Image Hose
- Customizing Brushes
- Getting Started with the Brush Creator
- Managing Settings and Controls
- General Controls
- Size Controls
- Spacing Controls
- Angle Controls
- Bristle Controls
- Well Controls
- Rake Controls
- Random Controls
- Mouse Controls
- Cloning Controls
- Impasto Controls
- Image Hose Controls
- Airbrush Controls
- Water Controls
- Liquid Ink Controls
- Digital Watercolor Controls
- Artists’ Oil Controls
- Color Variability Controls
- Color Expression Controls
- Expression Settings
- Managing Custom Brushes
- Cloning and Tracing
- Image Effects
- Working with Surface Texture
- Setting Appearance of Depth Properties
- Using Paper to Create Texture
- Using 3D Brush Strokes to Create Texture
- Creating 3D Oils
- Using Image Luminance to Create Texture
- Using Clone Source Luminance to Create Texture
- Creating Embossing Effects
- Using Channels and Layer Masks to Create Texture
- Working with Reflection Maps
- Applying Lighting to a Texture
- Working with Surface Texture
- Mosaics
- Getting Started with Mosaics
- Placing and Customizing Tiles
- Using Shapes
- Animation and Video
- Creating Animations and Video
- Getting Started with Movies
- Modifying a Movie
- Rotoscoping
- Saving and Exporting Movies
- Printing
- Index
90 Corel Painter User Guide
When painting with an Artists’ Oils brush, you can sample multiple colors
from the Mixer pad. You can also mix Artists’ Oils paint on the canvas with an
Artists’ Oils palette knife variant. Unlike palette knives in other brush
categories, Artists’ Oil palette knives do not apply color. For more
information, see “To sample multiple colors” on page 91.
To clear the Mixer Pad
1 Choose Window menu > Color Palettes > Show Mixer to display the Mixer
palette.
2 Do one of the following:
• Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Clear Mixer Pad.
• On the Mixer palette, click the Clear and Reset Canvas button .
To save a Mixer Pad
1 Choose Window menu > Color Palettes > Show Mixer to display the Mixer
palette.
2 Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Save Mixer Pad.
3 In the Save Mixer Pad dialog box, type a name for the mixer colors, and choose
where you want to save the Mixer Pads (MXS) file.
4 Click Save.
To load a Mixer Pad
1 Choose Window menu > Color Palettes > Show Mixer to display the Mixer
palette.
2 Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Open Mixer Pad.
3 In the Open Mixer Pad dialog box, choose the Mixer Pads (MXS) file you want to
open.
4 Click Open.