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
226 Corel Painter User Guide
To set brush dab angle range
1 On the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator, click Angle.
2 Move the Ang Range slider to the right to increase the range of angles that can
appear in a dab. Move the slider to the left to reduce the range of angles that can
appear in a stroke.
Setting this slider to 360° allows for any angle in your stroke.
To set brush angle increment
1 On the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator, click Angle.
2 Move the Ang Step slider to the right to produce fewer angles between dabs. Move
it to the left to create more angles between dabs.
Bristle Controls
Bristles create the look of a real brush stroke, complete with the striations that hairs on
a real brush make. Use the controls in the Bristle area of the Stroke Designer page to
design the many individual bristles in a single brush dab.
The best place to see the effect of the Bristle sliders is on the Brush Control palettes. If
you open the Bristle and Size sections, you can click in the preview window of the Size
section to show the “soft” view of the dab. The bristled dab changes as you move
bristle control sliders in the Bristle section. For more information about Size controls,
see “Size Controls” on page 216.
If you choose Rake as the stroke type, you can adjust brush scale and contact angle in
the Rake area of the Stroke Designer page. For more information on the Rake controls,
refer to “Rake Controls” on page 231.
The Thickness slider controls the diameter of separate bristles.