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 401
Brush Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 197
Color Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Color Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Color Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
displaying Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Frame Stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Image Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Mixer. See Mixer palette
setting preferences for . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tracker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Pan tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Paper color
changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Paper grain
adjusting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
enabling directional grain . . . . . . . . 119
randomizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
setting in movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Paper texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
See also Texture
adjusting brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
adjusting contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
applying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291, 293
capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
choosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
from fractal pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
inverting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
revealing when painting . . . . . . . . . 140
scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
setting grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Paths
adding to shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
aligning brush strokes to . . . . . . . . . 147
Pattern tiles
creating seamless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
filling with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
adding to library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
adjusting appearance . . . . . . . . . . . 121
capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
choosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
creating on layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
fractal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
masked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
painting with . . . . . . . . . .122, 153, 156
uses for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Pen tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
drawing shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Pixed-based layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Placing
files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Point-to-point cloning . . . . . . . . . . . 279
between documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
within a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Pooling
media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Preferences
Brush Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Customize Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Operating System (Windows) . . . . . . 40
palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Quick Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39