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User Manual: corel Painter - 2015 - Instruction Manual Free User Guide for Corel Painter Software, Manual
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- Contents
- Welcome to Corel Painter
- What’s new in Corel Painter 2015
- Workspace tour
- Corel Painter terms
- Exploring the Document window
- Choosing a workspace layout
- Exploring the toolbox
- Displaying the toolbox
- Displaying the Media Selector bar
- Displaying the property bar
- Exploring the Navigator panel
- Displaying the Brush Selector bar and the Brush library panel
- Displaying the command bar
- Exploring panels and palettes
- Rearranging panels and palettes
- Creating and modifying custom palettes
- Managing custom palettes
- Working with libraries
- Creating, importing, exporting, and deleting workspaces
- Restoring the default Corel Painter settings
- A short tour of Corel Painter for users of Adobe Photoshop
- Creating, navigating, and manipulating documents
- Creating documents
- Understanding resolution
- Opening and placing files
- Creating and opening templates
- Switching document views
- Navigating images and viewing image information
- Zooming images
- Rotating images and the canvas
- Flipping images
- Repositioning images
- Cropping images
- Resizing images and the canvas
- Saving and backing up files
- Choosing a file format
- Emailing documents
- Closing documents and quitting the application
- Using two monitors
- Support for tablets and other devices
- Multi-touch support
- Wacom Intuos support
- Drag-and-drop features
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing keys
- Toolbox commands
- Panel commands
- Corel Painter menu commands
- File menu commands
- Edit menu commands
- Canvas menu commands
- Layers menu commands
- Select menu commands
- Shapes menu commands
- Effects menu commands
- Window menu commands
- Screen navigation
- Panel navigation
- Panel menu commands
- Brush tools
- Selection tools
- Adjuster tools
- Shape tools
- Animation
- Lighting
- Layer selection tools
- Mosaics
- Other commands
- Painting
- Choosing a painting workflow
- Brush tracking and calibration
- Exploring painting media
- Working with the canvas and layers
- Displaying reference images
- Clearing the canvas
- Setting up the drawing cursor
- Using a stylus vs. a mouse
- Applying freehand and straight brushstrokes
- Constraining, fading, and undoing strokes
- Erasing image areas
- Aligning brushstrokes to paths and shapes
- Letting media pool
- Making 360° strokes
- Painting with airbrushes
- Adjusting spread
- Recording and playing back brushstrokes
- Reference: Troubleshooting
- Working with paper texture and grain
- Auto-painting photos
- Image cloning and sampling
- Cloning images
- Using Quick Clone
- Setting cloning preferences
- Working with multiple clone sources
- Editing, updating, saving, and exporting clone source images
- Painting in the clone
- Using brush loading
- Performing offset sampling
- Applying transformations when sampling
- Using selections and transformations when sampling
- Filling an area with a sampled image
- Working with composition tools, symmetry tools, rulers, and guides
- Color
- Choosing colors from the Color panel
- Resizing the Color panel
- Showing or hiding Color panel components
- Using the temporal colors palette
- Changing the paper color
- Sampling colors from images
- Cloning color
- Creating two-color brushstrokes
- Exploring the Mixer panel and mixing controls
- Displaying and resizing the Mixer panel
- Mixing, sampling, and applying colors from the Mixer pad
- Opening images in the Mixer panel
- Changing and saving the Mixer color swatches
- Saving Mixer panel colors to a color set
- Clearing and resetting Mixer panel colors
- Saving the Mixer pad
- Loading color swatches and Mixer pad files
- Working with color sets
- Customizing the layouts of color sets
- Creating and exporting color sets
- Editing color sets
- Setting color variability
- Setting Color Expression
- Loading multiple colors
- Working with color fills
- Applying a color as a fill
- Limiting and preventing leakage
- Color management
- Understanding color management
- Specifying the default RGB color profile
- Embedding color profiles when saving files
- Specifying the default CMYK color profile for converting CMYK images to RGB
- Previewing and soft-proofing color profiles
- Assigning or removing color profiles
- Converting color profiles
- Working with color profile policies
- Working with presets
- Correcting and adjusting colors
- Correcting colors using curves
- Adjusting brightness and contrast
- Using the curve to correct colors
- Drawing freehand curves to adjust colors
- Specifying the curve values to adjust colors
- Adjusting hue, saturation, and value
- Adjusting selected colors
- Equalizing images
- Matching color and brightness across images
- Inverting colors
- Posterizing an image
- Applying video legal colors
- Dodging and burning
- Libraries
- Selecting, managing, and creating brushes
- Understanding brushes
- Exploring brush categories
- Searching and selecting brushes
- Setting basic brush attributes
- Displaying advanced brush controls dynamically
- Organizing and displaying brushes in the Brush library panel
- Copying and moving brush variants
- Renaming brush categories and variants
- Saving and deleting brush variants
- Restoring default brush variants
- Creating and deleting brush categories
- Creating and deleting brush libraries
- Importing and exporting brush libraries, categories, and variants
- Saving a brush look
- Creating brush dabs
- Adjusting brushes with brush controls
- Exploring Brush Controls
- Expression settings
- Previewing brushstrokes and brush dabs
- Calibrating brush variants
- General controls
- General controls: Dab types
- General controls: Stroke types
- General controls: Methods and subcategories
- General controls: Source
- General controls: Multicore
- Opacity controls
- Grain controls
- Stroke Attribute controls
- Size controls
- Angle controls
- Spacing controls
- Changing dab profiles
- Real Watercolor controls
- Real Wet Oil controls
- Computed Circular controls
- Hard Media controls
- Bristle controls
- RealBristle controls
- Static Bristle controls
- Airbrush controls
- Artists’ Oils controls
- Impasto controls
- Digital Watercolor controls
- Water controls
- Liquid Ink controls
- Stroke Jitter controls
- Well controls
- Mouse controls
- Smoothing controls
- Image Hose controls
- Rake controls
- Multi controls
- Cloning controls
- Color Variability controls
- Color Expression controls
- Jitter brushes
- Watercolor
- Particle brushes
- Applying and adjusting flow maps
- Hard Media
- Markers
- Image hose
- Using the Image hose
- Adjusting Image hose opacity and grain
- Adjusting the size and spacing of image hose elements
- Indexing nozzle files
- Understanding nozzles, ranks, and indexing
- Creating a 1-Rank nozzle
- Creating a 2-Rank nozzle
- Creating a 3-Rank nozzle
- Loading and managing nozzle files
- Creating a nozzle from a movie
- RealBristle brushes
- Liquid Ink
- Impasto
- Layers
- Getting started with layers
- Displaying the Layers panel
- Creating and deleting layers
- Converting selections into layers or floating objects
- Naming and adding notes to layers
- Selecting layers
- Copying and duplicating layers
- Moving layers
- Transforming layers
- Aligning layers
- Locking layers
- Showing or hiding layers
- Changing layer order
- Viewing layer position
- Grouping layers
- Dropping layers with the canvas
- Painting on layers
- Preserving layer transparency
- Adjusting layer opacity
- Adding drop shadows to layers
- Blending layers by using composite methods
- Creating and deleting layer masks
- Applying layer masks
- Loading layer masks to selections
- Selecting and viewing layer masks
- Enabling and disabling layers masks
- Copying layer masks
- Inverting layer masks
- Editing layer masks
- Importing and exporting layers
- Working with reference layers
- Storing layers as images in the Image Portfolio
- Alpha Channels
- Selections and transformations
- Getting started with selections
- Creating path-based selections
- Creating pixel-based selections
- Creating selections from layers
- Choosing the protected area of a selection
- Saving selections as alpha channels
- Working with the Selection Portfolio
- Viewing selections
- Inverting selections
- Softening the edges of selections
- Stroking selections
- Modifying the borders of selections
- Expanding or contracting selections
- Adding to or subtracting from selections
- Preparing selections for transformations
- Moving selections
- Transforming a duplicate selection
- Scaling and rotating path-based selections
- Skewing and distorting path-based selections
- Canceling transformations
- Common options for effects
- Using focus and esoterica effects
- Applying Smart Blur
- Applying Camera Motion Blur
- Applying Depth of Field
- Applying Glass Distortion
- Applying Motion Blur
- Sharpening focus
- Softening focus
- Applying Zoom Blur
- Applying Marbling
- Automatically cloning an image
- Applying the Auto Van Gogh effect
- Applying Blobs
- Creating custom tiles
- Applying Grid Paper
- Applying Growth effects
- Applying Highpass
- Applying the Maze effect
- Placing elements
- Applying the Pop Art Fill effect
- Using lighting and surface texture effects
- Applying preset lighting effects
- Adding, deleting, and repositioning lights
- Adjusting light properties
- Using paper to create texture
- Using 3D brushstrokes to create texture
- Using image luminance to create texture
- Using clone source or pattern luminance to create texture
- Creating embossed effects
- Using channels and layer masks to create texture
- Creating reflection maps
- Adjusting texture lighting
- Apply Surface Texture controls
- Applying the Apply Screen effect
- Applying the Color Overlay effect
- Applying the Dye Concentration effect
- Applying the Express Texture effect
- Applying a warp effect
- Applying the Woodcut effect
- Applying the Distress effect
- Applying the Serigraphy effect
- Applying the Sketch effect
- Dynamic Plug-ins
- Getting started with dynamic plug-ins
- Modifying and deleting dynamic layers
- Committing dynamic layers to default layers
- Applying the Brightness and Contrast dynamic plug-in
- Applying the Burn dynamic plug-in
- Applying the Tear dynamic plug-in
- Applying the Bevel World dynamic plug-in
- Applying the Equalize dynamic plug-in
- Applying the Glass Distortion dynamic plug-in
- Applying the Kaleidoscope dynamic plug-in
- Applying the Liquid Lens dynamic plug-in
- Applying the Liquid Metal dynamic plug-in
- Applying the Posterize dynamic plug-in
- Patterns
- Gradients
- Mosaics and tessellations
- Weaves
- Shapes
- Getting started with shapes
- Drawing shapes
- Drawing lines and curves
- Setting preferences for drawing shapes
- Selecting a shape
- Modifying shape outlines and fills
- Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points
- Adjusting curvature
- Cutting and joining shape segments
- Converting shapes to image layers
- Converting selections to shapes
- Resizing, rotating, skewing, and flipping shapes
- Duplicating shapes
- Combining shapes
- Blending shapes
- Saving a shape outline as a selection
- Exporting Adobe Illustrator shapes
- Adding text
- Working with animation and digital videos
- Choosing an animation workflow
- Creating frame-by-frame animation
- Opening a Corel Painter movie
- Importing QuickTime and AVI files
- Selecting movie frames
- Editing frame content
- Applying effects to a single frame
- Previewing animations
- Using onion skinning
- Animating with layers
- Adding, deleting, and erasing frames
- Repeating frames
- Inserting movies
- Rotoscoping
- Applying scripts to movies
- Exporting movies as QuickTime
- Exporting movies as AVI
- Importing and exporting numbered files
- Exporting animated GIFs
- Using scripts to automate tasks
- Getting started with scripts
- Displaying the Scripts panel
- Recording and playing scripts
- Enabling and playing background scripts
- Creating resolution-independent scripts
- Editing, renaming, and deleting scripts
- Converting scripts to movies
- Importing and exporting scripts
- Importing and exporting script libraries
- Creating and deleting script libraries
- Printing images
- Notes for users of Adobe Photoshop
- Setting preferences
- Web
- Index