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
34 Corel Painter User Guide
To set Quick Clone preferences
1 Choose Corel Painter IX menu > Preferences > General (Mac OS), or Edit menu
> Preferences > General (Windows).
2 In the Quick Clone area of the Preferences dialog box, enable or disable the
following check boxes:
• Delete Image From Clone. When enabled, this option automatically deletes the
contents of the clone file.
• Turn on Tracing Paper. When enabled, this option automatically activates the
Tracing Paper feature.
3 Enable one of the following check boxes:
• Switch to Cloner Brushes automatically activates the last Cloner brush variant
used.
• Clone Color uses the current brush variant to clone the underlying color.
By default, the Switch to Cloner Brushes check box is enabled. To enable the
Clone Color check box, you must disable the Switch to Cloner Brushes check box.
Auto-Save Scripts
When you create an image, Corel Painter records all the operations you perform. This
recording is known as a background script and is saved on the Scripts palette. The
Auto-Save Scripts preference governs how long Corel Painter saves background scripts
before deleting them.
To reset the Auto-Save Scripts preference
1 Do one of the following:
• (Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter IX menu > Preferences > General.
• (Windows) Choose Edit menu > Preferences > General.
2 Specify the number of days for which you want Corel Painter to save background
scripts in the Auto-Save Scripts For box.
For more information about creating and using scripts, refer to “Scripting” in the
Help.
Brush Size Increment
The Brush Size Increment preference lets you set the increment value in pixels.