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

392 Index
movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .376
moving source points . . . . . . . . . . . .287
multipoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282
offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .279
painting in a clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278
point-to-point . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280, 281
reproducing source selection . . . . . .240
setting clone source . . . . . . . . . . . . .277
setting reference points . . . . . . . . . .285
setting up clone source . . . . . . . . . . .82
tiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240
turning brushes into Cloners . . . . . .288
with Clone Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288
with crosshair cursor . . . . . . . . . . . .282
with Quick Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . .277
with Tracing Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . .275
Closing documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Collapsing
layer groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
adding in gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
adding swatches to a color set . . . . . . .92
annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
bleed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231
choosing for color sets . . . . . . . . . . . .93
choosing from Colors palette . . . . . . .79
cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
creating color sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
finding in color set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
getting started with . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152
main and additional . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .358
of paper. See Paper color
painting with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
replacing in color set . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
sampling from images . . . . . . . .81, 150
sampling from Mixer Pad . . . . . . . . . .89
sampling multiple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
sets. See Color sets
swapping main and additional . . . . . .81
variability . . . . . . . . . . . . 100, 101, 102
viewing information . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Color Expression palette . . . . . . . . . .103
Color Hue
changing in gradients . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Color Info palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Color sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
adding color swatches to . . . . . . . . . . .92
adding colors to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
choosing colors for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
creating from the Mixer Pad . . . . . . . .92
creating with the Colors palette . . . . .95
customizing layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
deleting colors from . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
displaying for weaves . . . . . . . . . . . .133
editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
finding color in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
loading in Mixer palette . . . . . . . . . . .88
multiuser support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
renaming colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
replacing colors in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
setting color variability . . . . . . . . . . .102
Color space prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Color Variability palette . . . . . . . . . .100
Colors palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
choosing color from . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
displaying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78, 79










