User Guide

Painting 137
Painting
The Corel Painter application lets you draw and paint as you might with real artists’
tools and media. In your studio, you use brushes, pens, pencils, chalk, airbrushes, and
palette knives to make marks on a canvas or piece of paper. With Corel Painter, an
infinite variety of marks are possible. Like a fully stocked art store, Corel Painter
supplies you with many different brushes and drawing tools, each with modifiable
characteristics.
Exploring Brushes
The Corel Painter Brush tool offers users a wide range of preset painting and drawing
tools called brush variants. Brush variants are organized into categories, such as
Airbrushes, Artists’ Oils, Calligraphy, Pencils, and Watercolor. They are designed
with real media in mind, so you can select a tool with an expectation of how it will
behave. For example, you’ll find a 2B Pencil brush variant in the Pencils category, and
a Fine Camel brush variant in the Watercolor category. The Brush Selector Bar lets you
choose a category and brush variant quickly and easily.
The Brush Selector Bar lets you choose a brush category
(left) and a brush variant (right) quickly and easily.
You can use the Corel Painter brush variants as they are, or you can adjust them to suit
your purposes. Many artists use Corel Painter brush variants with only minor
adjustments — to size, opacity, or grain (how much color penetrates paper texture).
If you want to make more extensive modifications to a brush or create a totally new
brush variant, you can do just that by using brush controls.
Most Corel Painter brushes apply media (a color, gradient, or pattern) to an image.
Some brushes, however, do not apply media. Instead, they make changes to media
already in the image. For example, the Just Add Water brush variant (in the Blenders