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
30 Corel Painter User Guide
When you save an image as EPS-DCS with Preview Options turned on, Corel Painter
uses the loaded International Color Consortium (ICC) profile to prepare the separation
files. If you’re using the Hexachrome® ICC profile, Corel Painter prepares six
separation files — Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Green, Orange, and Black. For more
information on Preview Options and color management, refer to “Printing” on
page 385.
Although you can save your images as CMYK EPS separations, Corel Painter can’t
open or edit CMYK files.
When you save a file in EPS-DCS, Corel Painter opens the EPS Save Options dialog
box, with these options:
• Hex (ASCII) Picture Data provides another way of storing PostScript information.
Some page design programs require that this option be checked. The file sizes will
be approximately twice as large when saved with this option.
• Preview Options — No Preview, Black and White Preview, and Color Preview —
specify whether to save preview data and in what format. The resulting preview file
is a low-resolution (72-ppi) file.
If you have an older laser printer, you have to use the black and white preview to
print these files. Although the preview or display is black and white, the color
information remains intact.
Recovering Lost Work
When you work with computers, sometimes uncontrollable events cause files to
become corrupt. How can you recover work lost in a corrupt image file? No backup?
Do you have to create the whole image again?
Maybe not. Corel Painter records all actions into the Current Script. If Corel Painter is
stopped and restarted within 24 hours, the old current script is still available (saved as
“{date}{time}”), and a new current script is started. By default, the dated scripts are
saved for one day, but you can reset this to a longer time.
The dated scripts can be used to replay actions for recovering lost work or to create
scripts for movies. Also, you can use the Script List to cut and paste portions of the
dated script that are useful. Just open the dated script, and delete the last few
commands; then play the script to re-create the work, and try saving the file again.
For more information, see “Scripting” in the Help.