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 395
Exporting
an image from a movie . . . . . . . . . . 378
AVI files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
movies as numbered files . . . . . . . . 382
QuickTime movies . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Expression
color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Expression settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
choosing for Ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
varying brush strokes with . . . . . . . 262
F
Fading
strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Files
importing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
numbered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
placing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
recovering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26, 31
Filling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
aborting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
based on color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
constraining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
limiting and preventing leakage . . . 166
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
with pattern tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Flipping
canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 26
shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Floating objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45, 66
creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
dropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
repositioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Flow
adjusting for airbrushes . . . . . . . . . . 159
4-Point Tiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Fractal patterns
converting to paper texture . . . . . . . 128
creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Frame Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Frame Stacks palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Frames
adding and deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
repeating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Frames-per-Second Control . . . . . . . . . 4
Freehand drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Full screen mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
G
General controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
General preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
GIF files
saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Grabber tool
repositioning documents . . . . . . . . . . 22
Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
adding color control points . . . . . . . 108
angles in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
changing color hue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
color variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
deleting control points . . . . . . . . . . 109
editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107, 108
expressing in an image . . . . . . . . . . 112
linear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109