User Guide

Cloning and Tracing 279
The Corel Painter brushes that use buildup methods, like pencils and felt pens, build
toward black. If you clone with one of these brushes in a dark area of your image, you
may not achieve the desired results. You can use the Opacity pop-up slider on the
property bar to control how rapidly these brushes build up to black. You can also
choose chalk or one of the other tools that cover underlying colors.
To paint with cloner brushes
1 Create a clone of the document you wish to paint.
2 With the clone selected, choose Select menu > All.
3 Press Delete (Mac OS) or Backspace (Windows) to clear the entire canvas.
4 Choose a cloner brush variant from the Brush Selector bar.
On the property bar, adjust size, opacity, and grain penetration.
5 Paint in the image.
If you don’t set a clone source, cloner brushes paint with imagery from the
currently selected pattern.
For increased color accuracy, you can enable the Brush Loading option. For
more information, see “Using Brush Loading” on page 288.
You can use Edit menu > Fade after clearing the canvas to bring back some of
the image.
Using a cloner brush can take a long time if you’re working on a large area. To
work more quickly, you can have Corel Painter make brush strokes for you,
using the Auto Clone feature. For more information, see “Using Auto Clone”
in the Help. You can also have Corel Painter place directional brush strokes to
produce a Van Gogh–like rendition of a cloned image. For more information,
see “Using Auto Van Gogh” in the Help.
Using Point-to-Point Cloning
Point-to-point cloning lets you clone within a document or between different areas of
separate documents. This type of cloning is also known as “offset cloning.” To apply
point-to-point cloning effects, you must set source and destination reference points.
Source reference points specify the area in the source document that you want to clone.