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
282 Corel Painter User Guide
To change to a crosshair cursor
1 Do one of the following:
• (Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter IX menu > Preferences> General.
• (Windows) Choose Edit menu > Preferences > General.
2 In the Preferences dialog box, enable the Indicate Clone Source with Crosshairs
While Cloning option.
The crosshairs indicate which area of the original image you’re cloning as you paint.
Using Multipoint Cloning
Some variants of the Cloners brush category use multipoint cloning to apply a
transformation to the source image when you clone it. To take advantage of the cool
effects you can get with these cloning brush variants, you need to set multiple source
and destination reference points.
Selecting a Clone Type for Multipoint Cloning
Corel Painter lets you establish different kinds of relationships between the clone
source and destination based on the number of reference points you use. The number
of reference points determines which clone type you can select and, therefore, which
transformations you can apply. All clone types are valid for brushes that use the
cloning method and for brushes that use either the Clone Color option or a clone
source. You must set source and destination reference points before using a multipoint
cloning brush.
The number of source and destination reference points required for each of the
following clone types is shown in parentheses:
• Normal (0), or zero-point, cloning references the upper-left corners of the source
and destination documents and patterns. This means that the pixels of the
destination document correspond directly with the pixels of the source document.
This type of cloning, in which no transformations occur, is valid only between
documents. This type of cloning is the basic type of cloning between documents.
Refer to “Cloning a Document” on page 274 for more information about basic
cloning.
• Offset (1) cloning offsets the image from the source. The source and destination
areas can be separate places in the same or different documents. Offset cloning is
basic point-to-point cloning and is useful for retouching photographs. Refer to