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 393
Combining
layers with canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Commit dialog box
reinstating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Committing
reference layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Composite methods
changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
converting to blend modes . . . . . . . . 51
for blending layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Compositing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Compound shapes
creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
releasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Constraining
fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Continuous Time Deposition . .222, 223
Contrast
paper texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Copying
layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
lines to selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Corel Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Courseware
academic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Creativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
adjusting ratio values . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
constraining to square . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Crosshair cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Cubic Interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Cursor
choosing icon for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
crosshair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Curves
adjusting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Customizing
brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
color set layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 36
Quick Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Cutting
shape segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
D
Dab types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
choosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Damping
of brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Default settings
restoring brush variant . . . . . . . . . . 264
Depth
creating appearance of . . . . . . . . . . 292
in Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Depth method
controlling medium interaction . . . . 183
for Impasto brushes . . . . . . . . 182, 241
inverting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
varying input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Deselecting
layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Designing
brush variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204