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 397
Info palette
displaying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Iterative Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5, 31
J
Jitter control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235, 238
Joining
shape segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
JPEG files
saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
K
Keyboard shortcuts
customizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
KPT filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
L
Layer Adjuster tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Layer masks
creating texture with . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
adding notes to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
adding to groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
adding to Image Portfolio . . . . . . . . . 73
aligning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
based on selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
blending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
brush methods for painting on . . . . . 64
changing composite method . . . . . . . 72
changing hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
collapsing groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
composite methods . . . . . . . . . . .51, 71
converting shapes to . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
converting to default . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
copying and pasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
creating floating objects on . . . . . 45, 66
creating patterns on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
deselecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
dropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 63
dropping floating objects on . . . . . . . 67
duplicating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
dynamic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
getting started with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
grouping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
hiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179, 180
Liquid Ink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 175
locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 57
managing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
merging with canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54, 69
naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
opening and closing groups . . . . . . . . 61
order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
organizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
painting on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
pixel-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
preserving transparency . . . . . . . . 65, 66
reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 69
removing from groups . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
repositioning floating objects on . . . . 67
resizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
rotating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
setting opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71