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
The Basics 29
If you want your image to have transparency, enable the check box for Output
Transparency. Most programs that display GIF files support transparency, but for those
that don’t, you should specify the color of the “transparent” area. If your image will be
displayed on the Web, enable the Background is WWW Gray option. You can also
choose to use the background color of your Web page by enabling the Background is
BG Color option.
For programs that support transparency, your selection will determine which areas are
transparent. The Threshold slider determines which selection (loaded mask) value
becomes transparent. You can see how the Threshold slider is affecting the
transparency of your image in the Preview window in the dialog box. Transparency is
displayed in the Preview window by a rectangular lattice. You can toggle between the
Preview window and your Save As GIF options to get exactly what you want. Enable
the Interlaced check box if your image will be displayed on a Web page.
For information on creating masks, refer to “Selections” in the Help.
Saving RGB TIF and CMYK TIF Files
The TIF format facilitates exchange between applications and computer platforms. It
is a widely supported bitmap image format that lets you save with either CMYK or
RGB color space information. When you save a file in CMYK TIF format,
Corel Painter creates a color separation, which can then be used for four-color process
printing.
Saving Adobe Photoshop (PSD) Files
Corel Painter can save files in Adobe Photoshop (PSD) format. For optimum
compatibility, shapes are rasterized, and masks are placed in channels.
When you save a file in PSD format, you have RGB and CMYK options, as you do
when saving in TIF format.
Saving Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) Files
The encapsulated PostScript® (EPS) files in Corel Painter conform to the Desktop
Color Separation (DCS) 2.0 format (EPS-DCS 5 file format). Although Corel Painter
saves files in EPS-DCS, it can’t read EPS-DCS. If you plan to save an image in
EPS-DCS, it’s a good idea to save it in another format first, so that you’ll have a copy
of it that you can reopen in Corel Painter.