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
18 Corel Painter User Guide
Acquiring Images
You can acquire images for Corel Painter directly from an external device — such as a
scanner or digital camera — if the device provides a:
• Adobe Photoshop-compatible plug-in module (Mac OS)
• TWAIN driver (Windows)
Before acquiring images
• Install the device plug-in module on your computer.
This plug-in module is provided by the manufacturer of your scanner or digital
camera. Refer to the device documentation for installation instructions.
Corel Painter can access plug-ins from any single folder on your computer. This
location can be inside the Corel Painter folder, in a generic plug-ins folder on your
hard drive, or in the Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins folder.
• Make sure your TWAIN driver is properly installed.
Creating and Opening Templates
If you regularly create documents that contain similar dimensions, formatting, and
resolution, you can create document templates so that you don’t have to start each
document from scratch.
To open a document template
1 Choose Help menu > Welcome.
2 Choose a template from the Open a Template pop-up menu.
To save a document as a template
1 Set up a file with all the sizing, formatting, and resolution attributes you want in
the template.
2 Choose File menu > Save As.
3 In the Save Image As dialog box, save the file to the Corel Painter IX\Templates
folder.
If you work in a multiuser environment, only Administrators can add to the
Corel Painter IX\Templates folder.