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
92 Corel Painter User Guide
Mixer swatches that you create on the Mixer palette can be saved.
To add a mixer swatch to the color set
1 On the Mixer palette, click the Sample Color tool , and choose the mixer swatch
that you want to save to a color set.
2 Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Add Swatch to Color Set.
The selected color is added to the current color set.
To create a color set from the Mixer Pad
1 Choose Window menu > Color Palettes > Show Mixer to display the Mixer
palette.
2 Click the palette menu arrow, and choose New Color Set from Mixer Pad.
3 To access the new colors, choose Window menu > Color Palettes > Show Color
Sets.
Working with Color Sets
Corel Painter uses color sets to organize groups of colors. Some color sets are organized
by both name and color relationship.
Using Color Sets
Corel Painter provides several color sets — Corel Painter Colors, Mac OS and
Windows system palettes, and the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® are a few.
The default color set is Artists’ Colors, which is based on the color values of real-world
oil paints. Only one color set can be open at a time, but you can easily load a different
set.
When Corel Painter starts, it references a file (called “Painter Colors”) in the
user folder to determine which color set to load. If Corel Painter cannot
determine which color set to open, it loads the default color set from the
application folder.