User Guide

118 Corel Painter User Guide
Adjusting the Grain
When you choose a brush that interacts with paper grain, you see the results with each
stroke. When you find a brush and paper combination that you really like, you can
save it as a new look in the Look Selector.
If you have a stylus and tablet, you can adjust paper grain by changing the stroke of
the stylus on a pressure-sensitive tablet. In most cases, a light stroke colors only the
peaks and ridges of the grain. A heavy stroke fills color deep into the pockets and
valleys. You can also affect paper grain by using the Grain settings on the Stroke
Designer tab of the Brush Creator.
When you want paper grain to appear uniformly across an image, create your artwork
first, and then apply the grain as a surface texture. If you apply paper texture before
you create an image, the texture is erasable, and you cannot erase brush strokes
without erasing paper texture at the same time. You’ll find that adding paper texture
as the last step in developing your image, not the first step, often works best.
Normally, paper grain is fixed, which means that the texture is in the same position
each time you apply a brush stroke. You can change this when you want grain to be
applied randomly.
You can also have the paper grain interact with stroke direction to affect the look of
brush strokes. This option works best when you use certain papers and brushes and
when you paint with a stylus.
To save a look in the Look Selector
1 On a blank canvas, create an image to use as a new look.
2 In the toolbox, click the Rectangular Selection tool .
3 Drag in the image to select the look you want to save.
4 In the toolbox, open the Look Selector, and click the selector menu arrow.
5 Choose New Look.
6 In the New Look dialog box, type a name in the Save As box.
To randomize paper grain
1 Choose Window menu > Show Brush Creator.
2 Click the Stroke Designer tab, and choose Random.
3 Enable the Random Brush Stroke Grain option.