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
Animation and Video 363
The storage type lets you specify the color depth for saving each frame. This
applies to the saved frame stack, not to your work in the current frame. For
example, choosing 256 colors as the storage type still allows you to work with
a selection and 24-bit tools in the document window for the current frame. As
soon as you change frames, however, the image is saved in the 256-color
format, and the selection is lost. If you want to maintain selections in saved
frames, you’ll need to choose the 15-bit or 24-bit storage type. These storage
types allow you to take advantage of compositing options that require a
selection layer.
Opening a Movie
Quite often, you’ll start by opening a movie created in another program — like a
captured video segment. You’ll also open an existing movie if you worked on a frame
stack earlier and now want to return to it.
For efficiency, don’t bring in more video frames than you’re going to work on. For
example, if you have a two-minute video clip and you want to paint on the first 10
seconds, don’t open the entire clip in Corel Painter. You’re better off separating the
first 10 seconds in your editing application and bringing in just those frames. After
finishing that clip in Corel Painter, you can join it to the other part in your editing
application.
You can also import a movie that has been saved as a series of numbered files. For more
information, refer to “Working with Numbered Files” on page 381.
To open a Corel Painter frame stack
1 Choose File menu > Open.
2 In the Open (Mac OS) or Select Image (Windows) dialog box, locate the frame
stack, and click Open.
When a file is selected, the dialog box shows the frame size, file size, and number of
frames. If a preview is available, it shows a thumbnail of the first frame.
3 In the Open Frame Stack dialog box, choose the number of onion skin layers you
want to appear in the Frame Stacks palette.
The number you choose also determines the number of thumbnails visible in the
Frame Stacks palette.
4 Click OK.