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

38 Corel Painter User Guide
Key set files created on the Mac OS cannot be imported into Corel Painter on
Windows. Likewise, key set files created on Windows cannot be imported into
Corel Painter on the Mac OS.
Undo Preferences
Multiple Undo allows you to undo and redo up to 32 levels of changes. Corel Painter
sets 32 levels as the default.
The number of Undo levels applies across open documents. If you have set the number
of Undo levels to 5, and you have two documents open and have “undone” three
operations on the first document, you can undo only two operations on the second
document.
Multiple Undo can use a significant amount of disk space. If you perform multiple
operations on the entire image, the whole image must be saved for each Undo step.
To set Undo levels
1 Do one of the following:
• (Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter IX menu > Preferences > Undo.
• (Windows) Choose Edit menu > Preferences > Undo.
2 Enter a number between 1 and 32 in the box.
Create a new key set from the existing key
set
Click the New from Existing button . In
the Save New Key Set dialog box, type a
name for the key set in the Filename box,
and click Save.
Save the active key set Click the Save Active Set button . In the
Save Key Set dialog box, type a name for the
key set in the Filename box, and click Save.
Create an HTML summary of the active key
set
Click the Create HTML Summary button
. In the Save Summary dialog box, type a
name in the Filename box, and click Save.
Delete the active key set Click the Delete button .
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