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
Index
Index 389
A
Academic courseware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Acquiring
images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Additional color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
choosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Adobe Illustrator files
acquiring shapes from . . . . . . . . . . 336
converting text from . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Adobe Photoshop files
saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
saving layers as . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
support for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Airbrushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
adjusting flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
adjusting spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
conic sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
controlling droplet size . . . . . . . . . . 160
controls for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
pooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
stylus settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
varying edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Aligning
brush strokes to paths . . . . . . . . . . . 147
layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Anchor points
adding and deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
converting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Angles
changing in gradients . . . . . . . . . . . 106
contraining strokes to 45° . . . . . . . . 146
controlling in brush strokes . . . . . . 223
Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
calculating required disk space . . . . 360
color sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
frame rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
creating and deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
hiding and showing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
renaming colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Apply Color tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Apply Surface Texture effect . . . . . . 291
applying lighting . . . . . . . . . . 303, 305
embossing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
using 3D Brush Strokes . . . . . . . . . 294
using a channel or layer mask . 300, 301
using clone source luminance . . . . . 298
using luminance . . . . . . . . . . . 297, 299
using paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Artists’ Oils
Artists’ Oils Painting System . . . . . . . . 5
brush tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
sampling multiple colors . . . . . . . . . . 91
Auto-Save Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
AVI files
exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
B
Bearing
adjusting for mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Bézier lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329