User Guide

366 Corel Painter User Guide
You can also turn Tracing Paper on and off by pressing Command+T
(Mac OS) or Ctrl+T (Windows) or clicking the Tracing Paper icon on the
vertical scroll bar.
Animating with Layers
One of the simplest ways to create animation in Corel Painter is to move an item from
the Image Portfolio palette across a series of frames. This is the most basic example of
animating with layers. Adding multiple layers allows you to make more complex
animations.
You can also group layers and move them simultaneously, but be careful. When you
leave a frame, Corel Painter drops the layers in that frame. When a layer is dropped, its
contents are merged with the canvas and can no longer be accessed separately. For this
reason, you may want to work from the background forward; start by animating
what’s farthest from your point of view. For more information, refer to “Merging
Layers with the Canvas” on page 62.
You can also rotate a layer. Rotating a layer can degrade its on-screen image quality,
but this does not affect its printed quality.
To create motion with layers
1 Choose File menu > New.
2 Enable the Movie option, and type 1in the Frames box.
3 In the Enter Movie Name dialog box, choose a location, enter a name for the file,
and click Save.
4 In the New Frame Stack dialog box, enable one of the Layers of Onion Skin
options.
5 Choose Window menu > Show Image Portfolio.
6 Drag an item from the Image Portfolio palette to the document window.
A new layer is created.
7 Position the layer to the far left of the document window.
8 Click the Step Forward button on the Frame Stacks palette.
A new frame is added and becomes the current frame. The layer in the previous
frame is merged with the canvas. In the new, current frame, the layer is active.