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 391
creating transposed variants . . . . . . 203
deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
designing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
restoring default settings . . . . . . . . . 264
saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
adjusting size in Scratch Pad . . . . . 201
choosing settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Cloner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278, 279
creating new category . . . . . . . . . . . 266
custom Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
customizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
dab types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
dryout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230, 231
grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Looks. See Brush Looks
managing customized . . . . . . . . . . 263
methods. See Methods
multiuser support . . . . . . . . . . .197, 269
opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
painting with stylus . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
pooling media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
setting opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
strokes. See Brush strokes
subcategories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
tips. See Brush tips
using as Cloners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
variants. See Brush variants
Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
C
Canvas
flipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 26
marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
resizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
rotating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 26
Capturing
brush dabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Channels
creating texture with . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Clear and Reset Canvas tool . . . . . . . 87
Clearing
Impasto layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Mixer Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Scratch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Clone Color
brush behavior and . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82, 288
Clone Location controls . . . . . . 236, 238
Clone source luminance
creating texture with . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Clone types
selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Cloners
using other brushes as . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Cloning
Brush Loading option . . . . . . . . . . . 288
clone source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Cloner brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . 278, 279
color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
constraining in destination . . . . . . . 240
controls for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
customizing Quick Clone . . . . . . . . . 33
documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
for embossing effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289