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
288 Corel Painter User Guide
Turning Other Brushes into Cloners
Corel Painter offers two ways to use other brushes as Cloners:
• the Clone Color button
• the Cloning method
Using Clone Color
You can turn almost any brush into a cloner with the Clone Color button. The
Clone Color button causes a brush to pick up color from the source image while
staying true to its own stroke nature. The Clone Color button is useful for creating
mosaics and tessellations based on a source image.
To use Clone Color
1 Choose Window menu > Show Colors to display the Colors palette.
If the Colors palette is not expanded, click the palette arrow.
2 Click the Clone Color button .
If you change brushes while cloning images, you must click the Clone Color
button again.
Clicking the Clone Color button in the Colors palette also enables the Clone
Color check box in the Brush Creator.
Using Brush Loading
For greater color accuracy while cloning, you can use the Brush Loading option. This
causes the brush to pick up individual colors in different regions of the brush dab.
Without Brush Loading, the Clone Color option uses a single, averaged color from the
source for each brush dab. This results in an approximation of the original. You can use
the Clone Color button without Brush Loading to create an artistic impression of the
source.
To enable the Brush Loading option
1 Choose Window menu > Brush Creator.
2 On the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator, choose Well.