User Guide

Painting 163
• Size/Tilt Modulate varies the size of the brush tip and tilt of the stylus in a brush
stroke.
• Fade In/Out fades the start point and endpoint of a brush stroke.
• Short Stroke decreases the length of a brush stroke.
• Bearing Rotate rotates stylus bearing in a brush stroke.
You can also base stroke data on brush strokes that you’ve already saved.
2 On the Brush Selector bar, click the menu arrow, and choose Use Stroke Data.
3 Draw brush strokes.
Working with Fill
Corel Painter gives you many options for filling images with media. You can use a
gradient, pattern, weave, or color to fill an area of an image. You can apply a fill to
only part of an image, to a layer of an image, to an alpha channel, or to an entire
image. You can also use the Paint Bucket tool to fill image areas based on pixel color.
Filling an Area with Media
You can fill an area of an image with a gradient, pattern, weave, or color.
What about filling with paper? The paper is a texture; it has no color by itself. You can
apply texture to an image, however, with various image effects. Many surface control
effects let you use paper as the control medium. For more information about surface
control effects, refer to “Working with Surface Texture” on page 291 and “Using Other
Surface Control Effects” in the Help.
To fill an area of an image
1 Do one of the following:
• If you want to fill only part of an image, select the area of the image you want
to fill.
• If you want to fill a layer, select the layer on the Layers palette.
• If you want to fill an alpha channel, select the channel on the Channels palette.
• If you want to fill the entire image, make sure there are no selections.
2 Choose Effects menu > Fill, or press Command + F (Mac OS) or Ctrl + F
(Windows).