User Guide

Painting 139
Choosing Brush Settings
Basic brush controls for size, opacity, and grain are located on the property bar. The
property bar may also contain additional controls for the selected brush category, such
as resaturation, bleed, and jitter.
When a brush is selected and positioned over the canvas, the cursor changes, by
default, into a “ghost” of the brush — mirroring size and shape — so you can see the
area that you’re about to paint. This ghost brush provides a handy way to see if a
change in size is required.
The Brush Creator contains other controls, depending on the selected variant.
Eventually, you’ll want to learn about these and other advanced controls. For example,
the Brush Creator offers more sophisticated controls for resizing and shaping brushes,
including a minimum (Min) size setting. When a brush takes advantage of the Min
size setting, you’ll see strokes taper and widen as stylus pressure or direction is varied.
For complete information about using the Brush Creator, refer to “Customizing
Brushes” on page 197. For more information on saving customized brushes as custom
variants, refer to “Saving Brush Variants” on page 263.
Setting Brush Size
The Size slider on the property bar determines the size of a single brush dab. The text
field next to this slider lets you enter a specific size (in pixels).
To set brush size
1 Choose the Brush tool from the toolbox.
2 Choose a brush from the Brush Selector bar.
3 On the property bar, type a value in the Size box, or adjust the pop-up slider.
Corel Painter may need to rebuild the brush after you resize it. Automatic
rebuilding of modified brushes is the default in Corel Painter. Expect a short delay
while Corel Painter is rebuilding the brush.
To use the resize shortcut
1 Hold down Command + Option + Shift (Mac OS) or Ctrl + Alt + Shift
(Windows).
2 With the Brush tool, drag in the image window.