Palette drawers float in the workspace. Docking attaches the palettes in a palette drawer to the vertical edge of the application window. You can dock palettes to the left or right edge of the application window.
To perform docking, you […]
You can interleave shapes with layers in the Layers panel, which can affect how your document is printed. Shapes are vector objects, as opposed to pixel-based objects, which makes them resolution-independent.
An image created with shapes
Corel Painter attempts to preserve […]
Soft proofing provides an on-screen preview of a document as it will appear when it is reproduced by a specific printer. Unlike the “hard-proofing” technique that is used in a traditional printing workflow, soft proofing lets you look at […]
Printing a composite image that contains many layers and shapes can be time-consuming.
You can print a single-layer version of the image much more quickly.
Instead of flattening a composite image by dropping each layer to the canvas, you can clone […]
Grain lets you control the amount of paper texture that brushstrokes reveal. Normally, when you make a brushstroke, the paper grain is fixed, which means that the texture is in the same position. To get organic, non-repetitive looking marks, […]
The size and resolution of an image affects both its appearance on your computer screen and its print quality.
Resolution
Resolution refers to the amount of visual detail contained in an image. The resolution of output devices (printers) is measured in […]
Overall, a stylus provides more control and interactivity than a mouse because it gives you the most responsive digital painting experience by allowing your hand and brush to work fluidly as one. While a mouse is a great pointing […]
The Perspective Guide presets include one, two, or three vanishing points that help set the direction of the perspective. When you reposition a vanishing point, you can reposition both the horizon and the primary lines, or you can reposition […]
If you have a flat-tip Intuous Art Pen that supports 360-degree barrel rotation, you can adjust your brushstrokes based on the rotation of the stylus.
As you rotate the barrel of the Intuous Art Pen, the flat brush follows […]
The Intuos Airbrush — the first true computer airbrush — provides fingertip media flow control. Corel Painter airbrushes take advantage of the Intuos Airbrush stylus wheel control. Like the needle control on a real airbrush, the Intuos wheel control […]
You can create brushstrokes of more than one color. Color variability can be used to enhance the Natural-Media appearance of your work. Color variability can be set for HSV or RGB mode, and it can be based on the […]
You can use the Clone Color button to turn brushes into cloners. The Clone Color button toggles between the current color (or the Main color) and the current clone source.
The Clone Color control directs a brush to pick […]
The placement of objects in a painting can dramatically affect the overall appearance of the finished work. Corel Painter includes many tools and features to help you compose, size, and position images and image elements. You can display the […]
You can create custom palettes to speed up your work and quickly access the brushes, papers, flow maps, media, menu commands, and tools that you use most often.
To quickly create a custom palette
Press Shift and do any of the […]
The additional color is used when applying more than one color in two-color brushstrokes, two-point gradients, and Image hose effects. It is not the background color. In Corel Painter, the background color is the paper color.
A two-color brushstroke
The Main […]
Color sets are collections of colors that help you organize and store colors. You can create a custom color set from any image that you like.
Create a custom color set to store all the colors that you need in […]
When painting with a selection brush, you can align brushstrokes to perspective guides.
To align selection brushstrokes to perspective guides
Open or create a document.
Click on the Perspective Guides tool in the toolbox.
If you prefer, you can access the […]
You can synthesize a texture from an image or from brushstrokes in a Corel Painter document.
An example of a texture (right) created from brushstrokes in a Corel Painter document (left). Artwork by Michelle Webb
When choosing a source image, […]
Texture synthesis works by picking up small square ’tiles’ from a source image and placing them into a new image (like a jigsaw puzzle) with some adjustment so that neighboring tiles match. The tiles tend to give a seamless […]
When painting with a selection brush, you can automatically align brushstrokes to a path.
An example of a selection aligned to a curve.
To align selection brushstrokes to a curve
Open or create a document.
Click the Quick Curve tool […]
