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
152 Corel Painter User Guide
Loading Multiple Colors
Imagine the ability to load color at a bristle level, picking up different colors with each
“hair” of a brush — as though filling tiny ink wells. Imagine also the ability to move
multiple colors along with a palette knife, dragging them across your canvas or paper.
The Brush Loading feature affects how paint comes off a brush and what happens to
the pixels underneath.
When Brush Loading is not active, brushes interact with previously applied colors by
sampling underlying pixels and then loading the brush with one new color — the
average of those that were sampled. With Brush Loading active, brushes can literally
“pick up” existing colors, hair by hair. This capability offers truer color interaction,
astounding color variations, and better cloning results.
To paint with multiple colors
1 Choose a brush.
2 On the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator, click General.
3 Choose Static Bristle from the Dab Type pop-up menu.
4 Choose Multi from the Stroke Type pop-up menu.
5 On the Stroke Designer page, click Well, and enable the Brush Loading check box.
This step activates the brush’s ability to pick up underlying colors.
6 Adjust the Resaturation and Bleed sliders.
The Bleed setting determines how much underlying paint is affected by the brush
stroke. A higher Bleed setting, combined with a low Resaturation setting, can
enhance the Brush Loading feature. A resaturation value of 0, combined with
different levels of bleed, will cause your brush to smear image color, rather than
deposit it. In this case, the lower the bleed, the longer the smear.
7 On the Stroke Designer page, click Spacing, and adjust the Spacing and
Min Spacing sliders to create fewer “echo” artifacts in your smeared stroke.
8 Drag a brush stroke through existing paint to see how the paint is “picked up”
from the underlying pixels and moved across the canvas.
It is easier to see the Brush Loading feature if the canvas is not white. To fill
the canvas with another color, refer to “Filling an Area with Media” on
page 163.