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 399
composite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
for painting on layers . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
subcategories . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211, 214
Mix Color tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Mixer Pad
changing background . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
clearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
creating color sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
mixing Artists’ Oils paint . . . . . . . . . 91
sampling color from . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Mixer palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
adding color swatches to . . . . . . . . . . 91
changing colors on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
displaying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
loading colors to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
mixing colors in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
resetting colors on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
saving colors from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85, 87
Mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Monitors
using two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307, 308
adding depth to tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
creating from cloned images . . . . . . 310
creating from scratch . . . . . . . . . . . 309
creating in a selection . . . . . . . . . . . 321
deselecting tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
filling a V-shaped space . . . . . . . . . 318
filling selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
grout color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
removing tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
rendering tiles into mask . . . . . . . . 319
re-rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
respecting edge of image . . . . . . . . . 318
saving as RIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
selecting strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
selecting tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
tile color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
tile dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
tile size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
tile spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
using layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322, 323
Mouse
controlling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
simulating a stylus . . . . . . . . . 142, 143
Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
adding frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
applying effects to a frame . . . . . . . . 370
cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
color sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
compositing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
creating new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
creating scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
deleting frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
estimating required disk space . . . . . 360
exporting a single image . . . . . . . . . 378
exporting as AVI files . . . . . . . . . . . 380
exporting as numbered files . . . . . . . 382
file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
frame rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Frame Stacks palette . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
importing numbered files . . . . . . . . 382
inserting movies within . . . . . . . . . . 368
modifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
navigating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
onion skinning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
opening QuickTime or AVI files . . . 364
painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
repeated actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
rotoscoping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369










