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 403
brush size in Scratch Pad . . . . . . . . 201
brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216, 218
canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
drawing area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
preview grid in Brush Creator . . . . . 200
shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
print quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
screen appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Restoring
brush variant default settings . . . . . 264
RGB values
setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
setting color variability . . . . . . . . . . 101
RIF files
saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
saving layers as . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Rotate Page tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Rotating
canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 26
documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
in 90° increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Rotoscoping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .357, 369
S
Sample Color tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Sample Multiple Colors tool . . . . . . . 86
Sampling
color from images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
color from Mixer Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
multiple colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Saving
Adobe Photoshop files . . . . . . . . . . . 29
brush Looks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
brush variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
color sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
EPS files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 31
GIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Iterative Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 31
JPEG files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Looks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Mixer Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Mixer palette colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
RIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
setting preferences for . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
TIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Scratch disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Scratch Pad
adjusting brush size . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
clearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
making selection in . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
zooming in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
zooming out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Screen appearance
resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Scripts
applying to movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
automatically selecting . . . . . . . . . . 373
Auto-Save Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
creating for movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
for compositing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Segments
cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343