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

260 Corel Painter User Guide
• Move the Blend slider to the right to increase the blending of brush stroke paint
and existing paint.
• Move the Blend slider to the left to decrease the blending of brush stroke paint
and existing paint.
You can also set how Artists’ Oils paint blend on the Blend slider on the
Artists’ Oils property bar.
Brush
The Bristling slider controls the amount of bristling at the tail and tip of a brush
stroke. The farther to the right you move the slider, the more irregular the bristling.
The Clumpiness slider controls brush bristle fineness. The farther to the right you
move the slider, the greater the amount of brush hair variation, or clumpiness.
The Trail-off slider determines the length of a brush stroke tail when the brush is
running out of paint. This doesn’t change the length of the brush stroke, just the look
of the end of the stroke. The farther to the right you move the slider, the longer the
trail-off of the brush stroke tail.
To set Artists’ Oils brush bristling
1 With an Artists’ Oils brush active, click Artists’ Oils on the Stroke Designer page
of the Brush Creator.
2 Do one of the following:
• Move the Bristling slider to the right to increase the length of the bristling and
the tip and tail of the brush stroke.
• Move the Bristling slider to the left to decrease the length of the bristling and
the tip and tail of the brush stroke.
To set Artists’ Oils brush stroke trail-off
1 With an Artists’ Oils brush active, click Artists’ Oils on the Stroke Designer page
of the Brush Creator.
2 Do one of the following:
• Move the Trail-off slider to the right to increase the length of brush stroke
trail-off.
• Move the Trail-off slider to the left to decrease the length of brush stroke
trail-off.










