User Guide

138 Corel Painter User Guide
brush category) smudges and dilutes existing colors in the image with smooth,
anti-aliased strokes. Using one of these brushes on a blank area of the canvas has no
effect.
Corel Painter includes a batch of Natural-Media brushes that use a media application
method called “rendered dab types” to produce “computed” brush strokes. These
brushes create wonderfully realistic, continuous, smooth-edged strokes. They are fast
and more consistent because the strokes are computed as you draw, not created by
applying dabs of color. In fact, you can’t draw fast enough to leave dabs or dots of color
in a stroke. These brushes allow for rich features that are not possible with dab-based
media application. You can take better advantage of tilt and angle, and you can paint
with patterns or gradients. For information about using rendered dab types when
customizing brushes, refer to “Dab Types” on page 205.
If you’re looking for a brush from a previous version of Corel Painter, you can reload
the old version’s brush library.
Selecting a Brush
On the Brush Selector bar, you can choose from brush variants that are arranged in
recognizable categories. Corel Painter brushes are built to emulate Natural-Media
tools, which lets you select a tool with a reasonable expectation of how it will behave.
In an art store, if the tools in one aisle don’t produce the results you want, you can try
a different aisle. Similarly, with Corel Painter, you can try different brush categories to
find the tool you want.
To show the Brush Selector bar
• In the toolbox, double-click the Brush tool .
You can also show the Brush Selector bar by choosing Window menu > Show
Brush Selector Bar.
To choose a brush
1 On the Brush Selector bar, choose a brush category from the Brush Category
selector.
2 Choose a variant from the Brush Variant selector.