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
Customizing Brushes 199
There are seven palettes used with the Brush Creator: Colors, Tracker, Color
Variability, Color Expression, Papers, Patterns, and Gradients. Color Variability and
Color Expression controls appear in the Brush Creator window (on the Stroke Designer
page); the others are available through the Window menu. The Colors and Tracker
palettes are open by default. You can choose the main and additional colors on the
Colors palette, or you can choose to clone color. For more information, see “Getting
Started with Color” on page 77.
The Tracker palette keeps a visual record of all brush strokes made in the Scratch Pad.
You can choose a brush variant from the Tracker palette to use in Corel Painter. Colors
and brush strokes selected in the Brush Creator apply to Corel Painter as a whole. For
more information, see “Using the Tracker Palette” in the Help.
The preview grid is located on the left side of the main window on the Randomizer and
Transposer pages. It contains a Brush Selector bar, and it displays several variations of
brush strokes for the selected brush. You can use these brush strokes as variants to be
randomized or transposed. The preview window displays the variant you select.
By increasing the size of the main window, you also make more brush strokes available
in the preview grid.
The preview grid.
To open the Brush Creator
• Press Command + B (Mac OS) or Ctrl + B (Windows).
You can also open the Brush Creator by choosing Window menu > Show
Brush Creator.
To access the Randomizer, Transposer, or Stroke Designer page
1 Choose Window menu > Show Brush Creator.
2 Click one of the following tabs:
•Randomizer
•Transposer
• Stroke Designer