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
Painting 153
You can tie brush controls like Bleed to the Controller setting on the
Color Expression palette. For example, if you choose Pressure, each stroke
bleeds more or less, depending on how hard you press the stylus. For more
information, refer to “Expression Settings” on page 262.
Troubleshooting
Why doesn’t your brush stroke appear? What to check:
• Main color — On the Colors palette, what color is the Main Color (front) square? Is
it a color that will show up when applied to your image? If not, click the Main
Color square to be sure it’s selected, and then set a different color.
• Opacity — Check the Opacity setting on the property bar and, if necessary, adjust
the pop-up slider to increase opacity.
•Brush method — The brush method determines the basic nature of a brush. To
check the brush method, click General on the Stroke Designer page of the Brush
Creator. If you’re drawing with a light color on a dark background, the method
must be set to Cover, in order to show the lighter color.
• Drawing mode — If you have made a selection, the drawing mode determines
what part of the selection is protected. Refer to “Selecting a Drawing Mode” in the
Help for more information.
• Layers — Are you drawing on the canvas with a layer blocking your view of the
brush stroke? On the Layers palette, close the visibility eye of each layer to view
only the canvas.
Painting with Gradients and Patterns
With the Corel Painter computed brushes, you can brush on gradients, which are
gradual transformations of one color into another. Refer to “Working with Gradients”
on page 104 for more information. You can also use the Corel Painter computed
brushes to brush on patterns (repeating designs). Refer to “Using Patterns” on
page 120 for more information.
When you paint with a pattern, you can adjust the pattern’s scale. Scale affects a
pattern brush stroke in a special way by determining the resolution of the painted
patterns.
Small scale causes blurry computed brush strokes; large scale causes sharper strokes.
Here’s why: The brush stroke is always drawn as the entire pattern, sized to fit in the
current dab size. Scaling the pattern down very small (for example, to 20%) makes the