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
360 Corel Painter User Guide
Considering Movie File Sizes
Keep in mind that video and animation can produce huge files. When planning a
project, be careful not to overestimate your available disk space. For an idea of disk
requirements, consider this example: Each 640 by 480-pixel, 24-bit color frame is 1.2
MB. At this size, a 12-fps, 30-second animation would consume more than 400 MB of
disk space.
To calculate the disk space required for a frame stack
1 Using pixels as the unit of measurement for width and height, calculate the
number of bytes required to save the frame stack with the following formula:
(Frame Width)
× (Frame Height) × (Bytes per Pixel) × (Number of Frames)
2 Divide the product of the formula in step 1 by 1,024 to convert to kilobytes.
Bytes per pixel is determined by the storage type. For example, 24-bit color
with an 8-bit alpha channel uses 4 bytes per pixel. For more information
about storage types, refer to “Creating a Movie” on page 362.
When you save a movie as QuickTime or AVI, the file size can be reduced by
compression. For more information on compression, refer to “Saving and
Exporting Movies” on page 378.
Understanding the Frame Stacks Palette
In Corel Painter, digital video and animation files are known as movies or frame stacks.
Whether you’re working with imported video or building a new animation, the tools
are the same. They’re found on the Frame Stacks palette and in the Movie menu.