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
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How the Image Hose Works
The Image Hose is a brush. To use it, you must first load it with images. The images
are kept in special nozzle files. On a garden hose, you attach a nozzle to control the
flow of water; in Corel Painter, you attach a nozzle to the Image Hose to control its
medium — images.
A nozzle file can contain any number of images. Usually, the images are similar and
form a logical series — that is, the images progress along some order. For example, the
images might increase in size or advance in angle. It is not necessary for images to
progress in a logical series, but the Image Hose is more effective when they do.
“Indexing” refers to the method used to select particular images from the many images
in a nozzle file. Which method (indexing rule) to use for selecting nozzle images is
controlled in the Brush Creator by modifying the Image Hose settings on the Stroke
Designer tab. You can hose images sequentially, at random, or based on pressure,
stroke direction, or several other factors.
The images are indexed so that Corel Painter can locate and paint specific images on
request. As you paint with the Image Hose, you can request specific images from the
nozzle index by varying your input value. Increasing an input value takes images from
later in the series. For example, you can set up the nozzle so that by pressing harder
with a pressure-sensitive stylus, you paint with larger images.
You control the images themselves in the nozzle file. If you want more variety in the
images, create more images in the nozzle file. For more information about designing
and creating nozzle files, see “Creating, Loading, and Saving Nozzles for the Image
Hose” in the Help.
As your Image Hose requirements become more exacting, you can create complex
nozzles that involve two progressions — for example, images getting larger and
changing angle. In this case, you’ll use one input factor to determine image size and
use another factor to determine image angle. This creates a 2-Rank nozzle.