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USER MANUAL Corel® Painter™ Essentials User Manual The contents of this user manual and the associated Corel Painter Essentials software are the property of Corel Corporation and its respective licensors, and are protected by copyright. For more complete copyright information about Corel Painter Essentials, please refer to the About Corel Painter Essentials section in the Corel Painter Essentials menu of the software. Copyright 1991–2003 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, the Corel logo, Corel Painter, and Natural-Media are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in Canada, the U.S. and/or other countries. Adobe, Photoshop, and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Canon is a registered trademark of Canon Inc. EPSON Stylus is a registered trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation. Hewlett-Packard and DeskJet are registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard. 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Contents Welcome to Corel Painter Essentials What’s Included in Corel Painter Essentials? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Streamlined User Interface . . . . . . . . . . 1 Why Upgrade to Corel Painter 8? . . . . . 2 About Your User Manual . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Corel Customer Support Services . . . . . . 6 The Workspace Using Menus and Document Window . . 9 Workspace Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Using the Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Using Selectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Using the Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Using the Brush Selector Bar . . . . . . . . 15 Working with Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Exploring the Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Basics Opening Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Working with Documents . . . . . . . . . . 22 Saving Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Closing Documents and Quitting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Wacom Intuos Support . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using Textures and Patterns Using Paper Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Using Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Color Working with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Changing Paper Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Using Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Painting Exploring Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Understanding Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Using a Stylus or Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Selecting a Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Brush Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Where You Can Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Marking the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Painting with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Painting with Airbrushes . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Filling Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Cloning and Tracing Cloning Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Cloning a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Using Tracing Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Changing Clone Source . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Painting in the Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Using Auto Van Gogh . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Turning Other Brushes into Cloners . . 57 Using Layers The Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Applying Effects to Text . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Printing Layer Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Working with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving Files Containing Layers . . . . . . Deleting Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changing Layer Characteristics . . . . . . 60 60 60 62 62 62 65 67 Using Selections Working with Selections . . . . . . . . . . 69 Creating Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Editing Path-Based Selections . . . . . . . 72 Using Image Effects Basics of Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . Orientation Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apply Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apply Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . Other Surface Control Effects . . . . . . . Esoterica Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 77 80 82 84 86 The Image Hose How it Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Using the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Controlling the Image Hose . . . . . . . . 88 ii Working with Text Table of contents Understanding Printing . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Setting Up Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Printing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 1 Welcome to Corel Painter Essentials Corel Painter Essentials is the leading Natural-Media painting application. Corel Painter Essentials lets you simulate a wide range of art tools, from acrylics and airbrushes to crayons and oils. What’s Included in Corel Painter Essentials? Corel Painter Essentials lets you experiment with a wide range of Natural-Media tools. A portfolio of features will help you expand your digital drawing and painting techniques. Streamlined User Interface Corel Painter Essentials features a streamlined user interface based on the following new elements: Toolbox The toolbox appears vertically and, by default, is docked to the top-left corner of the document window. The toolbox lets you access the tools in Corel Painter Essentials, as well as the primary and secondary colors, and provides easy access to the Paper, Pattern, Gradient and Nozzle libraries. The toolbox can be undocked and moved anywhere inside the application window, or it can be turned off. Property Bar The property bar is context-sensitive depending on which tool is selected, providing commonly used controls for each tool. clicking the palette arrow in the top corner of the palette. When the triangle points down, the palette is expanded. When it points to the right, the palette is collapsed. The property bar is docked below the menu bar by default, but it can be undocked and moved to any location in the document window, or turned off. Brush Selector Brush Variants The Brush Selector lets you choose a brush category, using the Brush Category picker, and a brush variant, using the Brush Variant picker. The name of the selected brush category is displayed on the right side of the Brush Selector. Corel Painter Essentials includes an array of Brush variants. Brushes are included in the following 15 categories: The Brush Selector is docked, by default, to the top-right corner of the document window, beside the property bar. It can be undocked and moved to any location in the document window, or it can be turned off. Palettes The palettes include the following feature: • Expand/Collapse — You can expand or collapse palettes by 2 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Acrylics Airbrushes Artists Blenders Chalks Cloners Crayons Erasers Image Hose Oils Palette Knives Pastels Pattern Pens Pencils Welcome to Corel Painter Essentials • Tinting Why Upgrade to Corel Painter 8? Corel Painter 8 lets you experiment with the industry’s widest range of Natural-Media tools and includes all the features and behaviors of Corel Painter Essentials. Corel Painter 8 includes a new Mixer palette that realistically mimics the traditional paint mixing experience. Digital water color, a new Sketch effect, and more than 400 new brushes all expand your creative potential. You can create custom brush variants using the new Brush Creator, which includes the Randomizer, Transposer, and Stroke Designer. Corel Painter 8 also includes redesigned layer masks and channels that provide a smoother workflow and greater compatibility with Adobe Photoshop. Info Palette The new Info palette provides access to the following information: • Image size preview • Document information, such as width and height • X and Y coordinates and the cursor position • Context-sensitive information based on the selected tool. For example, if the Eyedropper tool is selected, the HSV and RGB information is displayed. • Unit information, such as pixels, inches, and resolution Mixer Palette The new Mixer palette lets you mix colors interactively. The Mixer palette contains a Brush tool and a Palette Knife tool for applying and mixing colors, mimicking the traditional experience of mixing two or more colors on a palette. The Mixer palette also includes an Eyedropper tool for sampling specially mixed colors from imagery, as well as Zoom and Pan tools for easy navigation in the palette. You can choose to save your Mixer palette settings for future use, and you can create a custom color set from the colors in the Mixer palette. Digital Water Color Digital Water Color is a simple, transparent medium that is ideal for hand painting line drawings, touching up photographs, or creating simple water color washes. Sketch Effect The new Sketch effect in Corel Painter 8 lets you convert images or photographs to simple pencil drawings, while providing controls for the amount of paper grain being applied, the heaviness of the pencil line, and the desired level of detail. New Brush Variants Corel Painter 8 includes over 400 new Brush variants. New brushes are included in the following categories: • Acrylics • Airbrushes • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Artists Blenders Calligraphy Pens Chalks Charcoals Colored Pencils Conte Crayons Digital Water Color Distortion Erasers Felt Pens F-X Gouache Image Hose Liquid Ink Oil Pastels Oils Palette Knives Pastels Pattern Pens Pencils Pens Corel Painter Essentials 3 • • • • • Photo Sponges Sumi-e Tinting Water Colors Brush Creator Corel Painter 8 features a Brush Creator, which is designed to make the brush variant creation process easy and fun. The Brush Creator includes three key features: • Randomizer — The Randomizer lets you choose an existing brush variant and randomize its properties to create a new variant. You can set the amount of randomization to determine how much of the original brush’s properties remain—a low amount will result in variants that are very similar to the original, while a high amount will result in variants that are radically different. To help you visualize how the new brush variants will look, the Randomizer 4 provides a brush stroke preview of each new variant. • Transposer — The Transposer lets you change the properties of one brush variant using the properties of another. For example, you can choose the 2B Pencil and create brush variants that are mutated toward another variant, such as Charcoal. To help you visualize how the new brush variants will look, the Transposer provides a brush stroke preview of each new variant. • Stroke Designer — The Stroke Designer lets you modify the properties of brush variants using advanced controls. The Stroke Designer has 16 different sets of controls: General, Size, Spacing, Angle, Bristle, Well, Rake, Random, Mouse, Cloning, Impasto, Image Hose, Airbrush, Water, Digital Water, and Liquid Ink. To make the brush creation process more visual and interactive, the Stroke Designer includes a live preview that Welcome to Corel Painter Essentials updates each time you make changes to the brush variant. Industry-Standard Masks, Layer Masks, and Channels Layer Masks: The redesigned layer masks let you hide and reveal areas of layers without making permanent changes to an image. Channels: The Channels palette lets you use alpha channels to create and store masks to modify, separate, and preserve specific areas of an image. And So Much More... • Thumbnail previews for Layers, Layer Masks, and Channels • Brush cursor preview that lets you see the size of the brush you’re painting with • Enhanced keyboard shortcuts to make it easier to transition between Corel Painter 8 and other applications • Enhanced file compatibility with Adobe Photoshop • New paper textures, patterns, Image Hose nozzles, brush looks, gradients, and more! • Extra content CD, including 100 pictures from http://www.brandxpictures.com, hundreds of brushes, paper textures, and more! About Your User Manual You can find answers to most of your questions in the Corel Painter Essentials User Manual. Available as PDF, it provides information you need to get the most out of Corel Painter Essentials. The Corel Painter Essentials User Manual is for both the Mac OS and Windows platforms. As a convention, Mac OS commands precede Windows commands in the text. When a modifier key differs between the Mac OS and Windows, the Mac OS modifier is listed first, followed by the Windows modifier. For example, Command + I (Mac OS) or Ctrl + I (Windows) means that Mac OS users would press Command + I and Windows users would press Ctrl + I. Choosing a menu item from a menu follows the convention “Choose menu name > menu item.” For simplicity, the term “folder” refers to directories as well as folders. The Corel Painter Essentials interface for Mac OS and Windows platforms is identical, unless otherwise specified. Registering Products Registering products is important. Registration provides you with timely access to the latest product updates, valuable information about product releases, and access to free downloads, articles, tips and tricks, and special offers. You can register a Corel product • online—follow the instructions provided on the Corel Web site • by mail—send the product registration card to the Corel Customer Service Center nearest you • during installation—follow the instructions provided by the product setup Before Calling Corel Technical Support Before you call Corel Technical Support, please check out some of Corel's complimentary online support options. Please have the following information available to assist the Technical Support representative in helping you: • a brief description of the problem, including the exact text of any error messages received and the steps required to re-create the problem • the type of computer, monitor, pointing device (for example, mouse or stylus), printer, and video adapter (display adapter) you are using • the type and version number of the operating system you are using • the product information (version number, serial number from the Corel Painter Essentials 5 product authenticity card, and PIN) of the Corel application you are using. To find the product information, choose Help menu > About Corel Painter Essentials in the application. • a list of any applications loaded into RAM. Click the Start menu on the Windows taskbar, and click Programs > Startup to determine whether there are any other applications running. Corel Customer Support Services Corel Knowledge Base kb.corel.com The Corel Knowledge Base allows you to read, print and download documents that contain answers to many technical questions. www.corel.com/downloads North America • For pricing, purchasing, or general inquiries about Corel products, you can call Customer Service tollfree at 1-800-772-6735. • To speak directly to a technician on a Pay-As-You-Go line please dial 1900-733-8780. To speak directly to a technician on a Pay-Per-Incident line please dial 1-877-662-6735. The hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, Eastern Standard Time (EST). You can download product patches, updates and trial versions. Outside North America Newsgroups www.corel.com/newsgroups The newsgroups (peer-to-peer forums) llow you to exchange information, tips and techniques with other users of Corel products. Corel Support Services can provide you with prompt and accurate information about product features, specifications, pricing, availability, services and technical support. Downloads Online Support Telephone Support For information about online support services, visit www.corel.com/support. Please note, some of the services are available only in English. For detailed information regarding telephone support services please visit www.corel.com/support. Live 6 telephone support for this Corel product is available as a fee-based service only. Welcome to Corel Painter Essentials For pricing, purchasing, or general inquiries about Corel products, call Customer Service toll-free at the corresponding in-country number listed below. Please note that these numbers may change as we adapt our services to fit user needs. Check the international support numbers page at www.corel.com/support for the most up to date contact details. 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The workspace is organized across a series of menus, selectors, and interactive palettes. Some features are also available in the frame of the document window. Using Menus and Document Window Using the commands on the Corel Painter Essentials menu bar, you can: • work with files and editing commands • adjust and apply effects • perform selection operations • control the document window or the Corel Painter Essentials workspace The document window lets you access the following features with the click of a button: • tracing paper • drawing mode • navigation Workspace Tour Menu bar Brush selector Property bar Colors palette Toolbox Canvas Layers palette Document window Drawing mode icon Navigation icon 10 The Workspace Zoom slider Using the Toolbox In the toolbox, there are tools to make marks, draw shapes, fill shapes with color, view and navigate, and make selections. There are also four selectors that let you choose papers, gradients, patterns, and nozzles. time. Any tool that has a triangle in the bottom-right corner has one or more tools underneath it in a flyout menu. The toolbox is open by default; however, it can be closed. You can move the toolbox around the document window, and you can dock the toolbox to the document window or to other palettes. The current tool can be modified by options on the property bar, which change as you change tools. For more information, see “Using the Property Bar” on page 14. To access tools grouped in flyout menus: 1 In the toolbox, hold down the tool icon whose flyout menu you want to open. 2 Choose the tool you want to use. The toolbox. Some tools of similar function share a space in the toolbox. The button for only one of these tools is displayed at a Some tools share a space in the toolbox. Hold down the tool button that’s displayed to open the flyout menu. To close the toolbox • Do one of the following: • Click the Close button in the top corner of the toolbox. • Choose Window menu > Hide Toolbox. To open the toolbox, choose Window menu > Show Toolbox. To move the toolbox 1 Place the cursor over the title bar of the toolbox. Corel Painter Essentials 11 2 Drag the toolbox to a new location in the document window. To dock the toolbox 1 Place the cursor over the title bar of the toolbox. 2 Drag the toolbox to the edge of the document window or a palette. 3 When the toolbox lines up with the edge of the document window or palette, release the mouse button. The toolbox will snap into place. Navigation and Utility Tools The Grabber Tool The Brush Tool The Grabber tool gives you a quick way to scroll an image. For more information, see “Repositioning Documents” on page 24. The Rotate Page Tool You use the Brush tool to make marks on the Canvas or a layer. The Brush tool represents a category of marking tools. Within the Brush category are pencils, pens, chalk, an airbrush, oil paints, and more. The Rotate Page tool lets you rotate an image window to accommodate the way you draw naturally. Refer to “Rotating Documents” on page 24 for more information. When the Brush tool is selected, you can choose specific brushes from the Brush selector bar. For more information about selecting brushes and tools, refer to “Selecting a Brush” on page 45. The Crop Tool On the property bar, you can set size, opacity and, depending on the brush variant selected, sometimes grain. The Magnifier Tool You can use the Magnifier tool to magnify areas of an image when you are performing detailed work, or to reduce areas to get an overall view of an image. For more information, see “Zooming” on page 22. 12 The Workspace Tools that Apply Color The Crop tool lets you remove unwanted edges from the image. For more information, see “Cropping Images” on page 25. The Paint Bucket Tool The Paint Bucket tool lets you fill an area. The property bar shows fill choices and fill color selections. Double-click the Paint Bucket tool to specify what color in the image to lock out of your fill. For more information on the Paint Bucket tool, refer to “Filling Techniques” on page 50. The Dropper Tool The Oval Selection Tool The Selection Adjuster Tool You use the Oval Selection tool to create oval selections. Refer to “Using Selection Tools” on page 70 for more information. The Selection Adjuster tool lets you select, move, and manipulate selections created with the Rectangular, Oval, and Lasso selection tools. The Lasso Tool The Text Tool The Dropper tool lets you pick up a color from an existing image. When you select a color with the Dropper tool, that color becomes the current color on the Colors palette. For more information, see “Sampling Colors from Imagery” on page 41. The Lasso tool lets you draw a freehand selection. Refer to “Using Selection Tools” on page 70 for more information. The Selection Tools The Adjuster Tools The Rectangular Selection Tool The Layer Adjuster Tool The Color Selection Box The Layer Adjuster tool is used to select, move and manipulate layers. Refer to “Using Layers” on page 59 for more information. The Color Selection box lets you choose primary and secondary colors. The front rectangle displays the primary color, and the back rectangle displays the secondary color. For more information, refer to “Understanding Primary and Secondary Colors” on page 40. You use the Rectangular Selection tool to create rectangular selections. Refer to “Using Selection Tools” on page 70 for more information. The Text tool creates text shapes. Use the property bar to set the font, point size, alignment and text color. For more information, see “Working with Text” on page 91. Corel Painter Essentials 13 Using the Property Bar The Color Selection box. To change the primary or secondary color: 1 Double-click the primary or secondary color rectangle. 2 Choose a color from the Color dialog box. Using Selectors The selectors in the toolbox give you quick access to the libraries for the following Corel Painter Essentials elements: papers, gradients, patterns, and nozzles. The property bar in Corel Painter Essentials is context-sensitive — it changes according to the tool you are using. You can access settings and options for each tool, and you can change them according to your preferences using the boxes or pop-up sliders. Tool settings are retained when you switch from one tool to another. You can also use the property bar to restore the default settings of the selected tool. The property bar is docked horizontally to the menu bar by default. You can move the property bar anywhere in the document window, dock it under the menu bar again, or close it. You can display items in selectors in a list with thumbnails. To open a selector: 1 Click the flyout menu arrow on the bottom-right corner of the selector you want to open. 2 Choose an item from the list. 14 The Workspace Tool settings are displayed on the property bar. To change tool settings on the property bar: 1 Choose a tool from the toolbox. 2 Do any of the following: • Type a value in the box next to the control, or click the arrow next to the control and adjust the pop-up slider. • Click a box to make a selection. • Enable or disable the check box next to the option you want to use. Note • Not all of these options are available for every tool. The settings change depending on the tool selected. To reset the default tool settings: The property bar for the Rectangular Selection tool. • Click the Reset Tool button on the property bar. To access tool settings on the property bar: Note • The Reset Tool button on the property bar has the same icon as the selected tool in the toolbox. • Choose a tool from the toolbox. To move the property bar: • Point to the bar on the right side of the property bar, and drag it to its new location. To dock the property bar: • Point to the title bar of the property bar, and drag it under the menu bar. The property bar snaps into place. To close the property bar: • Do one of the following: • Choose Window menu > Hide Property Bar. • If the property bar is undocked, click the close button on the title bar. Tip • To show the property bar, choose Window menu > Show Property Bar. Using the Brush Selector Bar The Brush selector bar lets you choose from a variety of brush categories and variants. Brush categories are groups of similar brushes and media. Brush variants are specific brushes and brush settings within a brush category. The name of the selected brush category appears at the top of the Brush selector bar. The name of the selected brush variant appears under the brush category name. 2 Click the Brush Variant arrow, and choose a variant. Previewing Brushes The Brush Category selector shows you a preview of the currently selected brush category and lets you choose a new brush category. The Brush Variant selector does the same for brush variants. You can preview brush categories and variants in lists with thumbnails. To display brush categories and variant lists: The Brush selector bar. To display the Brush selector bar: • On the Brush selector bar, click the Brush Category or Brush Variant arrow. • Choose Window menu > Show Brush Selector Bar. To choose a brush from the Brush selector bar: 1 On the Brush selector bar, click the Brush Category arrow and choose a brush category. Corel Painter Essentials 15 To move the Brush selector bar • Point to the title bar of the Brush selector bar, and drag it to its new location. To dock the Brush selector bar Items in the Brush selector bar can be displayed as lists with thumbnails. Brush Selector Bar Menu Commands The Brush selector bar menu restores either one or all brush variant defaults. Moving and Docking the Brush Selector Bar The Brush selector bar is displayed at the top-right of the property bar by default. It can be moved to a new location in the document window, or it can be docked to the edge of the document window or other palettes. 16 The Workspace 1 Point to the title bar of the Brush selector bar, and drag it to the edge of the document window or a palette. 2 When the Brush selector bar is lined up with the edge of the document window or palette, release the mouse button. The Brush selector bar snaps into place. • If the Brush selector bar is undocked, click the close button on the title bar. Working with Palettes The interactive palettes in Corel Painter Essentials let you access the commands, controls, and settings available when creating documents. Showing and Hiding Palettes You can show or hide a palette by choosing its name from the Window menu. To show or hide a palette: Closing the Brush Selector Bar You can close the Brush selector bar to hide it from view. To close the Brush selector bar • Do one of the following: • Choose Window menu > Hide Brush Selector Bar. • Choose Window menu, and choose the palette you want to show or hide. Tip • You can hide a palette by clicking the close box on the palette title bar. To show or hide all palettes: • Choose Window menu > Show/ Hide Palettes. Exploring the Palettes Navigating Palettes Docking Palettes As you work with Corel Painter Essentials, you’ll use the following palettes: When a palette is displayed, it must be expanded for you to access its settings. You can collapse palettes to save screen real estate, while keeping them displayed in the application. You can save valuable room on your screen by docking palettes. The Colors Palette • The Colors palette lets you choose primary and secondary colors for painting in Corel Painter Essentials documents. You can also use the Clone Color option on the Colors palette . For more information, see “Working with Color” on page 39. The Layers Palette • The Layers palette contains thumbnail previews of all the layers in a Corel Painter Essentials document. You can use the buttons on the Layers palette to add, arrange and delete layers. You can use the slider to adjust the opacity. To expand or collapse a palette: • Click the palette arrow in the top corner of the palette. When the triangle points down, the palette is expanded. When it points to the right, the palette is collapsed. To scroll through the Layers palette: • Do one of the following: • Use the scrollbar on the right side of the palette to scroll through the palette. • Press Option + click (Mac OS) or Alt + click (Windows), and drag vertically inside the palette. The cursor changes to a hand and the palette scrolls as you drag. This handy feature of Corel Painter Essentials lets them be docked into place when they get close to the top or bottom edge of another palette. In addition to tidying up your workspace, this feature can help keep a palette from being covered up by another palette. To dock palettes: 1 Place the cursor over the title bar of the palette you want to dock. 2 Drag the palette to the top or bottom of a second palette. 3 When the first palette lines up with the second palette, release the mouse button. The palette will snap into place. To undock palettes: 1 Place the cursor over the title bar of the palette you want to undock. 2 Drag the palette to another location in the workspace. Corel Painter Essentials 17 3 Basics The Corel Painter Essentials application provides a digital workspace in which you can create new imagery or alter existing imagery using the Corel Painter Essentials Natural-Media tools and effects. Your working image is known as a document and is displayed in a document window—this document window includes navigation and productivity features to help you work efficiently. As you create an image, you can save your document in a number of different file formats: RIFF (Corel Painter Essentials native format), JPEG, and TIFF, to name a few. Corel Painter Essentials also lets you open/ import images in many file formats. Every artist works in a unique way, and every computer system has its own configuration of memory, disks, printers, and accessories. Corel Painter Essentials preferences let you customize the program for your own work style and optimum performance on your particular system. You can also optimize the features of your tablet and pens in Corel Painter Essentials. Opening Documents The first step to creating an image in Corel Painter Essentials is opening a document. You can open a blank Canvas by creating a new document, work with an existing image by opening a file, place a file into a document, or acquire an image from a scanner or digital camera to place directly into a document. Creating New Documents The New command creates a blank, untitled document based on the specifications you set in the New dialog box. • Canvas Size shows the RAM requirement for creating the document at the specified width, height, and resolution. This number does not reflect the file size for the saved document. A saved Corel Painter Essentials file is usually 25% to 50% of the size of the working document, depending on the number of colors it contains. • Width and Height determine the dimensions of the Canvas. You can change the unit of measurement using the menu. Choose from pixels (the default), inches, centimeters, points, picas, and columns (2" wide). • Resolution is the number of pixels per inch (ppi) or centimeter that make up an image. In the New dialog, setting the document’s pixels per inch is the same as setting its dpi. Refer to “Understanding Resolution” on page 21 for detailed information about document, screen, and print resolutions. 20 Basics • Paper Color lets you select a background paper color—or Canvas color—when you create a new document. The default is white. To create a new document: 1 Choose File menu > New. 2 In the New dialog box, enter values for the width, height, and resolution of the document. Change the unit of measurement by choosing an option from the menu. 3 Click in the Paper Color box to set the document’s background to a color other than white. Choose a color from the system color picker that appears. 4 Click OK. A new document appears in the workspace. Opening Existing Documents You can open documents from other graphics applications and use Corel Painter Essentials to add brush strokes, tints, or paper textures. Or, you can clone a document to re-create it in a different medium. Corel Painter Essentials lets you open the following file formats: • RIFF—Corel Painter Essentials native format (RIF) • TIFF (TIF) • Mac PICT (PCT) • Windows Bitmap (BMP) • GIF—Corel Painter Essentials does not convert GIF animations to frame stacks. • JPEG (JPG). Note • Corel Painter Essentials does not support LZW compressed TIFF file format. Only uncompressed TIFF files open into Corel Painter Essentials. To open an existing document: 1 Choose File menu > Open. 2 In the Select Image dialog box, use the dialog controls to locate the file you want to open. Corel Painter Essentials lists every image’s file size, file format, and dimensions in pixels. In addition, files saved in Corel Painter Essentials include a thumbnail image for browsing purposes. 3 Click Browse. The Browse dialog box shows thumbnails for all the RIFF files in a folder. 4 Double-click the file name, or select a file and click Open. Tip • The File menu also offers you a shortcut to previously opened documents. Before choosing Open in the File menu, check the recently opened files list at the bottom of the File menu. Acquiring Images You can acquire images for Corel Painter Essentials directly from an external device—such as a scanner or digital camera—if the device provides a TWAIN driver (Windows) Before acquiring images: • Make sure your TWAIN driver is properly installed. Understanding Resolution When working with images in a digital workspace, it is helpful to understand the concept and applications of resolution. Resolution refers to how Corel Painter Essentials measures, displays, saves, and prints images—either as small squares of color known as pixels or as mathematical objects known as vectors. A document’s resolution affects both its appearance on your computer screen and its print quality. You can specify a document’s resolution when you create a new document, acquire an image, and save/export a file. Resolution and Screen Appearance Most monitors have a resolution of 72 dpi (dots per inch). Because of this, the Corel Painter Essentials display default is 72 ppi (pixels per inch). This means that each pixel in the Corel Painter Essentials image occupies one pixel on your monitor. The display resolution does not affect the document’s actual ppi—only how the image is displayed on the monitor. For example, a 300 ppi document displays at approximately four times its actual size. This happens because each pixel in the Corel Painter Essentials image occupies one pixel on your monitor, and the monitor’s pixels are four times the size of the image’s pixels. Put another way, at 300 pixels per inch, your document will be approximately a quarter of its on-screen size when printed. In this example, if you want to view the image at actual size, set the zoom level to 25%. Keep in mind that if you leave the dimensions in pixels and then change the pixels per inch (resolution), the actual printed size will be affected by the change. If you set your document size in inches, centimeters, points, or picas and change resolution, the dimensions will not be affected by the change. Corel Painter Essentials 21 Resolution and Print Quality The resolution of output devices (printers) is measured in dpi and, in the case of halftones, lines per inch (lpi). Output device resolutions vary depending on the type of press and paper you’re printing on. Generally, a photograph will be output at a crisp 150 lpi if printed on glossy magazine stock and at 85 lpi for more porous, and therefore more forgiving, newspaper stock. If you are using a personal laser printer or inkjet printer, set your document size in inches, centimeters, points, or picas at the dpi specific to your printer. Most printers will produce excellent output from images set to 300 ppi. Your file will be output correctly, at the best resolution for your laser printer and at the proper size. Increasing the file’s ppi setting does not necessarily improve the output, and can make for a larger and sometime unwieldy file. If you are using a commercial printer or a more sophisticated output device, the dimensions of the image should always be set to the actual size it will 22 Basics appear in the printed piece. For the resolution, a good rule of thumb is to set your document’s pixels per inch to twice the desired lpi. So, when lpi is 150, the pixels per inch should be twice that, or 300; if the lpi is 85, the pixels per inch should be 170. It’s a good idea to check with your service bureau if you have questions about output device resolution. Zooming By default, Corel Painter Essentials opens a document at 100% magnification, but you can change the level of magnification by zooming. You can zoom in and out using the Magnifier tool, reset magnification and zoom to fit the screen. You can even zoom in and out while working with other tools. Working with Documents Viewing Documents You can change your view of an image by changing its level of magnification (zooming in or out), repositioning the document in the Corel Painter Essentials workspace, or rotating the document. You can also change the characteristics of the document window by changing the screen mode, and by selecting options from the Canvas menu. The Magnifier tool lets you zoom in and out by clicking in the document window. To zoom in: 1 Do one of the following: • Choose the Magnifier tool in the toolbox. • Hold down Command + Spacebar (Mac OS) or Ctrl + Spacebar (Windows). The Magnifier cursor shows a plus sign (+) — indicating you are increasing magnification (zooming in). 2 Click or drag in the document window. • Clicking magnifies the image to the next level, as defined in the Zoom Level menu on the property bar. • When you drag, Corel Painter Essentials chooses the magnification level that most closely conforms to the selected area and centers the screen view on that area. The percentage the document is magnified appears in the document window’s title bar. To zoom out: 1 Do one of the following: • Choose the Magnifier tool and hold down Option (Mac OS) or Alt + Ctrl (Windows). • Hold down Option +Command +Spacebar (Mac OS) or Alt + Ctrl + Spacebar (Windows). The Magnifier cursor shows a minus sign (-) — indicating you are decreasing magnification (zooming out). 2 Click in the document window. Each click reduces the magnification to the next level, as defined in the Zoom Level menu on the property bar. Tip • You can also zoom in or out by moving the Scale slider, typing a value in the bottom left corner of the image window, or choosing an option from the Zoom Level pop-up menu on the property bar. To zoom using the Magnifier tool 1 In the toolbox, click the Magnifier tool. 2 Choose a zoom level from the Zoom Level pop-up menu on the property bar. To reset magnification to 100%: • Double-click the Magnifier tool. To zoom to fit the screen: • Do one of the following: • Choose Window menu > Zoom to Fit Screen. • Double-click the Grabber tool in the toolbox . Corel Painter Essentials generates a view of the entire document to fit the size of your screen. To access the Magnifier tool while any other tool is selected: • Press Command + Spacebar (Mac OS) or Ctrl + Spacebar (Windows) and click to zoom in; press Command + Option + Spacebar (Mac OS) or Ctrl + Alt + Spacebar (Windows) and click to zoom out. Corel Painter Essentials 23 Repositioning Documents The Grabber tool allows you to reposition a document in the Corel Painter Essentials workspace and view different areas of an image. To use the Grabber tool: 1 Activate the Grabber tool by doing one of the following: • Choosing the Grabber tool . • Holding down the Spacebar. The cursor changes to the Grabber tool and the property bar shows the zoom level. You can change the zoom level from the property bar. 2 Do one of the following: • Drag in the document window to scroll through your image. • Click once in the document window to center the image. To access the Grabber tool from any tool: • Hold down the Spacebar. To size your image window to fit the screen area: • Do one of the following: • Double-click the Grabber tool. • Choose Window menu > Zoom to Fit. • Click Fit on Screen on the property bar. Tip • To return the image window to center, click once with the Grabber tool or click Center Image on the property bar. Rotating Documents The Rotate Page tool lets you rotate an image on the screen to accommodate the way you draw naturally. You can access the Rotate tool by clicking on the small arrow at the lower right corner of the Grabber tool. Select the Rotate tool from the flyout menu that opens. It will then appear in the toolbox. To rotate the page: 1 Activate the Rotate Page tool by doing one of the following: 24 Basics • Clicking it in the toolbox . • Holding down Option + Spacebar (Mac OS) or Alt + Spacebar (Windows). The cursor changes to a hand with a pointing finger. 2 Drag in the document window to rotate the image. Move the cursor clockwise to rotate the image clockwise. Move the cursor counter-clockwise to rotate the image counter-clockwise. The new rotation angle appears on the property bar. Tip • You can also rotate an image by specifying a rotation angle on the property bar. 2 Do one of the following: • Click once in the document window. • Double-click the Rotate Page tool. • Click the Reset Tool button on the property bar. To constrain rotation to 90° increments: • Hold down the Shift key while rotating. Cropping Images You can remove unwanted edges from the image with the Crop tool. You can adjust the ratio of the cropped image, and choose to maintain the aspect ratio. To crop an image: Rotate a document to accommodate the way you naturally draw. To return an image to its original orientation: 1 Activate the Rotate Page tool . 1 Click the Crop tool in the toolbox. 2 Drag inside the image to define the rectangular area you want to keep. You can adjust the rectangle by dragging a corner or any of its edges. 3 When you’re ready to execute the crop, click inside the rectangle. To constrain cropping to a square: • Press Shift + drag while defining the rectangular area with the Crop tool. To adjust the ratio of the cropped image: 1 Click the Crop tool in the toolbox. 2 On the property bar, type ratio values in the boxes. 3 If necessary, enable the Ratio check box to maintain aspect ratio when cropping the image. Using Full Screen Mode Full screen mode allows you to hide your computer’s desktop and view the document window without scroll bars. When full screen mode is on, the document window is centered over a solid background. All Corel Painter Corel Painter Essentials 25 Essentials features—except the buttons on the document window— work when using full screen mode. To toggle the full screen mode on and off: • Press Command + M (Mac OS) or Ctrl + M (Windows), or choose Window menu > Screen Mode Toggle. Tip • You can position the image window anywhere on the screen by holding down the Spacebar and dragging with your mouse or stylus. Resizing the Canvas If you want the same image at a different scale, you can resize the canvas. You can also change the size of the drawing area, and you can crop the canvas. To resize the canvas: 1 Choose Canvas menu > Resize. Corel Painter Essentials displays the Resize dialog box, which shows 26 Basics the current and new size by width, height, and resolution. 2 Enter a new value for width, height or resolution. For more information on these values, refer to “Creating New Documents” on page 19. 3 The Constrain File Size option lets you choose how to deal with dimensions relative to resolution. When Constrain File Size is enabled, you can change the height and width of the image together. The resolution will change accordingly. When Constrain File Size is disabled, you can change the height and width independently of the resolution, and vice versa. If you choose Pixels or Percent as the unit and enter a value, Corel Painter Essentials automatically disables the Constrain option. 4 Click OK. To resize the drawing area: 1 Choose Canvas menu > Canvas Size. 2 In the Canvas Size dialog box, specify the number of pixels you want to add to any side of the canvas. Enter negative values to reduce the canvas size. To crop the canvas: 1 Display the image at a scale where you can see all of it. 2 In the toolbox, choose the Crop tool . 3 Drag in the image to describe the rectangular area you want to keep. 4 Adjust the rectangle by dragging a corner or any of its edges. To constrain the cropping rectangle to a certain aspect ratio, enter values for the width and height aspect, and enable the Ratio option on the property bar. 5 Click inside the rectangle to perform the cropping operation. Drag-and-Drop Features Dragging Between Documents You can copy selections and layers between Corel Painter Essentials documents by dragging from one window to the other. When you drag a selection to a new document window, Corel Painter Essentials automatically turns the selection into a layer. When you drag a layer to a new document, the layer keeps its original properties. Dragging Between Programs (Mac OS) Corel Painter Essentials supports drag-and-drop functionality between applications on Mac OS. This can be a quick, convenient way to acquire or export imagery. Raster imagery that you drag into a Corel Painter Essentials document window becomes a layer. You can drag a PICT file from the Finder to a Corel Painter Essentials document. The PICT image becomes a layer. You can also drag layers out of Corel Painter Essentials to another application or to the Finder; the exported imagery is in PICT format, supported by most applications. When you drag out one of these objects, it will automatically rasterize a shape or dynamic layer (at its current settings) to become a PICT. Note • Though dragging and dropping between programs is not supported on the Windows platform, computers running on either Mac OS or Windows platforms support copying and pasting between Corel Painter Essentials and other programs. Saving Files Corel Painter Essentials provides several options for saving files. To save a file in its current format: • Choose File menu > Save. 2 In the Save Image As dialog box, use the controls to specify a file name, location, and format. Saving RIF Files RIF is the Corel Painter Essentials native format, which retains special information about your document. For example, a RIF file maintains layers so you can return to the file to re-access them. It’s a good idea to always save files in RIF format first. Think of RIF files as “work in progress” files. When a file is ready for production, then save it to GIF, JPEG, TIF, or another file format. Corel Painter Essentials lets you compress files and save disk space with a lossless compression method. When saving in RIF format, leave the Uncompressed option disabled to minimize file size on your hard disk. To save a file with a different name or format: 1 Choose File menu > Save As. Corel Painter Essentials 27 Saving JPEG Files Corel Painter Essentials supports the JPEG file format. Because of its small file size and high quality, JPEG is commonly used to transmit files through a modem. Unlike GIF, JPEG displays a full range of colors. JPEG allows you to compress your file on a scale of Fair to Excellent, where quality is directly proportional to file size. These quality settings will let you achieve compression ratios of less than 10:1 to greater than 100:1. JPEG is a “lossy” file format, meaning that a decompressed JPEG file will not be identical pixel-for-pixel to the original. However, because the JPEG algorithm takes into account the sensitivity of the eye to different colors, the higher quality settings should achieve visually satisfying results. You can assign a URL to layers and placed images and then save the file in GIF or JPEG format to produce an image map. 28 Basics When you save a file in JPEG format, Corel Painter Essentials displays the JPEG dialog box, with the following options: • The JPEG Encoding Quality options—Excellent, High, Good, and Fair—let you set file compression on a scale of Excellent to Fair. The Excellent option compresses the least, but retains the most data. Fair compresses the most, but loses the most data. • The Quality slider adjusts the quality. • The Smoothness slider applies smoothing to the entire image. This is useful when using the Fair option, to blur the edges of JPEG artifacts. The default is 0. Keep in mind that using a high smoothness setting can cause blurring. • The JPEG preview window displays any changes you make to the image as you work. • The Progressive JPEG option creates a progressive JPEG file. Progressive format is useful when using a file on the Web. As the name implies, progressive format displays an image in stages—as a series of scans—while the file downloads. The first scan is a low quality image; the following scans improve in quality. This allows the user to see the whole image very quickly. It is best not to decompress and recompress a file multiple times. Although JPEG can compress and discard data not visible or obvious, the degradation of the data can affect the condition of your file. When a file has lost a significant amount of data, block patterns can appear in areas of the image. If you try to use the Apply Surface Texture feature on a JPEG file, you may find it will accent the block patterns. Saving GIF Files Corel Painter Essentials allows you to save documents in GIF file format. GIF is an 8-bit (or less) file format commonly used to display graphics on the Web. When you save a file as a GIF, you can choose from 4 up to 256 colors. You can choose how your colors will be displayed and what part of your image will be transparent. An Imaging Method determines how your 24-bit Corel Painter Essentials document will be converted to the limited number of colors that GIF uses. If you choose Quantize to Nearest Color, Corel Painter Essentials picks the color nearest to that of each pixel. If you choose Dither Colors, Corel Painter Essentials will apply a pattern to the colors chosen to generate a more accurate, less banded result. Closing Documents and Quitting the Application To close a document: • Do one of the following: • Click the current window’s close box. • Choose File menu > Close. • Press Command + W (Mac OS) or Ctrl + W (Windows). To quit Corel Painter Essentials: • Do one of the following: • (Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter Essentials menu > Quit Corel Painter Essentials . • (Windows) Choose File menu > Quit. Tip • You can also quit Corel Painter Essentials by pressing Command + Q (Mac OS) or Ctrl + Q (Windows). Setting Preferences Corel Painter Essentials has two preference dialog boxes: General and Brush Tracking. Use the General Preferences dialog box to customize your application. General Preferences To access General preferences: • Do one of the following: • (Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter Essentials menu > Preferences > General. • (Windows) Choose Edit menu > Preferences > General. Corel Painter Essentials 29 Cloning Preference Tip • To make changes to other preferences before closing the Preferences dialog box, choose the other preference type from the pop-up menu. When you clone an image, Corel Painter Essentials uses the color information from the original as you fill in your clone. If you would like Corel Painter Essentials to display what part of the original you’re cloning, check the box next to Indicate Clone Source With Crosshairs While Cloning. Cursor Setup Corel Painter Essentials gives you several choices for the appearance of your cursor. • To choose whether the cursor will be a brush or a single pixel, check an option in the Drawing Cursor area. • To determine the direction the cursor will point (depending on your design and your preferences), click the appropriate option in the Orientation area. This option is only available with the Brush cursor type. • To set the cursor to show the brush size and shape, enable the Brush Ghosting option. Brush Ghosting gives you immediate visual feedback on the cursor, showing you the shape and size of the selected brush. 30 Basics When you use a brush with “Enable Brush Ghosting” enabled, the cursor shows the shape of the brush. Temp File Volume Choosing the temp file volume selects the disk volume that Corel Painter Essentials will put its temporary file on and use to access virtual memory. Choose the volume name (Mac OS) or letter (Windows) from the Temp File Volume pop-up menu. Units The Units preference lets you choose units of measurement used by the application’s various sliders and other measurement options. Draw Zoomed-out Views Using Area-Averaging When looking at an image at under 100% magnification, screen draw is faster if you leave this option unchecked, and slower but more accurate if checked. Display Warning When Drawing Outside Selection Checking this box enables the warning that appears when you draw outside a selection. Show Commit Dialog When Converting to a Layer Enable this checkbox if you want to reinstate the Commit dialog after you have selected the Don’t Ask Again button in the Commit dialog. Brush Tracking Preferences When you draw with traditional media, the amount of pressure you use with a tool determines how dense and how wide your strokes are. Using a pressure-sensitive stylus with Corel Painter Essentials gives you this same kind of control. Each artist has a different strength or pressure level in a stroke. The Brush Tracking preference lets you adjust Corel Painter Essentials to match your stroke strength. This is particularly useful for artists with a light touch. If a light stroke leaves no color on the Canvas, you should use Brush Tracking to increase sensitivity. You might also change brush tracking between phases of a project. You could use a light touch when sketching with a pencil brush variant, then set tracking for more pressure when you switch to an oil paint variant. Corel Painter Essentials saves Brush Tracking between sessions, so whatever tracking sensitivity you set will be the default next time you open the application. To set Brush Tracking: 1 Do one of the following: • (Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter Essentials menu > Preferences > Brush Tracking. • (Windows) Choose Edit menu > Preferences > Brush Tracking. 2 Drag in the scratch pad in a “normal” stroke. Use the pressure and speed you prefer when drawing or painting. For specific adjustments, you can move the sliders. Use the Brush Tracking dialog to customize how Corel Painter Essentials responds to your stylus pressure and speed. 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. Using Two Monitors The Corel Painter Essentials user interface can be displayed across two or more monitors. You can drag the Corel Painter Essentials palettes, the property bar, and the toolbox to any Corel Painter Essentials 31 monitor; however, each palette must be displayed entirely on one monitor at a time. If a palette straddles two monitors, it will automatically snap to the nearest vertical edge of the monitor with the largest portion of the palette. If the palette is displayed equally on both monitors, it will snap to the vertical edge of the left monitor. For best performance, make sure both monitors are set to the same resolution. In Windows, you must stretch the application window to straddle both monitors, then redesign your workspace. For information on configuring your system to display across two or more monitors, refer to your operating system documentation. Wacom Intuos Support Corel Painter Essentials supports the Wacom Intuos tablet, pen, and airbrush technology. 32 Basics Painting with an Intuos Tablet and Pen Using the Intuos Airbrush Wheel The Intuos tablet provides 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity to help you create smooth curves, gradual transitions, and precise brush strokes. Corel Painter Essentials allows you to take advantage of tilt and bearing input from an Intuos pen in new and exciting ways. The Intuos Airbrush—the first true computer airbrush—provides fingertip media flow control. Corel Painter Essentials airbrushes respond to angle (tilt), bearing (direction), and flow (wheel setting) data from the Intuos stylus, allowing for a truly realistic brush stroke. For example, as you tilt your stylus, specks of media land on the paper in a way that reflects that tilt. Corel Painter Essentials airbrushes create conic-sections that mirror your stylus movements. Corel Painter Essentials airbrushes take advantage of the Intuos airbrush stylus wheel control. Like the needle control on a real airbrush, the Intuos wheel control adjusts airbrush flow, or how much medium is applied. For more information about using the new airbrushes, refer to “Painting with Airbrushes” on page 49. Note • The mouse mode option in the Wacom controls panel—which causes a stylus to behave like a mouse—is not compatible with Corel Painter Essentials. Always use pen mode when painting with an Intuos tablet and pen. Brush Tracking Every artist uses a different pressure when drawing on an Intuos tablet. The Corel Painter Essentials Brush Tracking preference helps you customize your Intuos tablet to meet your pressure sensitivity needs. Refer to “Brush Tracking Preferences” on page 31 for more information. Using Multiple Intuos Pens All Intuos pens—both standard and airbrush—feature ToolID, which allows you to configure and work with multiple pens during a Corel Painter Essentials session. For example, let’s assume you have two Intuos pens: Pen 1 and Pen 2. Pen 1 is set to an Oil brush variant; Pen 2 is set to an Artists variant. Every time you bring Pen 1 into the tablet’s proximity, Corel Painter Essentials automatically changes the active brush to the Oil brush. Every time you bring Pen 2 into the tablet’s proximity, Corel Painter Essentials switches to the Artists brush. If you’ve adjusted the tool assigned to a pen’s size or other settings, Corel Painter Essentials remembers those changes for the next time you use that pen. Corel Painter Essentials 33 4 Using Textures and Patterns In Corel Painter Essentials, paper textures, gradients and patterns can all be applied to your image. You can brush some of them on, get them to interact with each other, spray them and smear them. Best of all, you never have to run to the store in the middle of creating to get a new tube of paint or the right kind of paper. Using Paper Texture You’ll use these items in several ways: Of course, some brushes, like the Airbrush, don’t reveal paper texture in their strokes. This follows the behavior of the natural tool. • to load a Brush tool with media for painting • to fill selections with the Effects menu > Fill command or the Paint Bucket tool • to control certain image effects, like Apply Surface Texture This chapter explains how to select textures and patterns. In the real world, a marking tool has different results when applied to surfaces with different textures. Corel Painter Essentials allows you to control the texture of the canvas to achieve the results you’d expect from Natural-Media on a given surface. Note • The terms “paper grain” and “paper texture” are used here synonymously. Choosing Paper Textures The Toolbox includes the Paper Selector, which is a drop-down window where the five Corel Painter Essentials paper textures are stored. In Corel Painter Essentials, brushes that react with paper texture have a “grainy method.” 36 Using Patterns A pattern is a repeating design. The smallest unit of a pattern is known as a “tile.” When you fill an area with a pattern, the tile is repeated across the selected area. The Toolbox includes the Pattern Selector, which is a drop-down window where the five Corel Painter Essentials patterns are stored. With patterns, you can: Most of the brushes interact with the current paper texture. Paper textures are useful in many ways. The brushes interact with paper “grain,” just as natural tools react with the texture of the surfaces beneath them. Paper grains are useful in applying Surface Texture and other Effects. You can select different paper textures and modify them. Tip • Corel Painter Essentials uses the currently selected texture, so you can make a few strokes, then change the paper and make a few more strokes with different results. The Paper Selector. To choose a paper texture: 1 Click the Paper Selector to display the drop-down window. 2 Choose a paper texture from the Paper Selector. Using Textures and Patterns • fill selections with imagery • paint patterns directly onto your image • paint using a cloning brush • control image effects The Pattern Selector. To choose a pattern: 1 From the toolbox, click the Pattern selector. 2 Choose a pattern from the Pattern selector. Corel Painter Essentials 37 5 Color Corel Painter Essentials offers many ways to apply color to your image, from changing the paper color, to choosing colors for your brush strokes, to applying gradients to an entire image or selection. Working with Color You can select colors in several ways. You can use: • the Color picker on the Colors palette • the Dropper tool, which samples color from the image • the Use Clone Color button on the Colors palette, which pulls color from a source The Colors palette is one place you can select a color to add to your image. To display the Colors palette: • Choose Window menu > Show Colors. Changing Paper Color Using the Color Picker You can change a document’s paper color—the color of the background Canvas—at any time. This color appears when you delete a filled area or use the eraser to remove color. Corel Painter Essentials provides a standard Color picker that has a hue ring and a color triangle. Within the triangle, colors are organized by value and saturation. 1 Choose a primary color from the Colors palette. 2 Choose Canvas menu > Set Paper Color. 3 To expose the new paper color, do one of the following: • Make a selection, and cut or delete it. • Use the eraser brush to erase part of your image. • Values span the triangle from top to bottom, with the top of the triangle being the highest value (white), the bottom the lowest value (black). • Saturation levels go from left to right. Dragging or clicking to the right produces the purest color within the predominant hue. Dragging or clicking to the left reduces the level of color saturation, giving “muddier” or grayer colors. For more information about choosing colors, see “Using the Color Picker” on page 40. To choose a hue and color from the standard Color picker: To change the existing paper color: 1 Choose Window menu > Show Colors to display the Colors palette. If the Colors palette is not expanded, click the palette arrow. 40 Color 2 Drag the circle on the color ring to select the predominant hue. You can also select a hue by clicking once anywhere on the ring. The triangle displays all the available colors within that selected hue. 3 Select a color on the triangle by dragging the circle or click the color you want. Understanding Primary and Secondary Colors The color you select appears in one of two overlapping rectangles displayed on the Colors palette. The front rectangle represents the selected primary color. The back rectangle shows the selected secondary color. By default, black is the primary color and white is the secondary color. Most of the time you’ll work with the primary color. Overlapping rectangles display the current primary and secondary colors. Don’t confuse the secondary color with what other graphics programs call “the background color.” In Corel Painter Essentials, the “background color” is the paper color. The secondary color is for multicolor brush strokes, two-point gradients, and Image Hose effects. It’s used when more than one color is applied. To choose the primary color: 1 Choose Window menu > Show Colors to display the Colors palette. 2 Click the front rectangle. 3 Choose a color using the Color picker. Click the front rectangle to set the primary color. To choose the secondary color: To use the Dropper tool: 1 On the Colors palette, click the back rectangle. 2 Choose a color using the Color picker. If you usually work with the Primary color, you might want to re-click the front rectangle so that it will be selected the next time you go to the color picker. 1 Click the front or back rectangle to select a primary or secondary color. 2 Click the Dropper tool in the toolbox. 3 Move the cursor to the color you want to pick up, and click it. The color picker updates to display the color you’ve selected. Click the back rectangle to set the secondary color. To swap primary and secondary colors: • Click the swap icon . Note • The Dropper tool picks up visible color only. You can’t select a hidden color with the Dropper tool. Tip • You can quickly get the Dropper tool by pressing D on the keyboard. To access the Dropper tool from other tools: Sampling Colors from Imagery • Press Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows). In addition to choosing colors on the Colors palette, you can use the Dropper tool to select, or “pick up,” a color from an existing image. Note • The Dropper tool doesn’t work with all tools. Corel Painter Essentials 41 Cloning Color To use clone colors: The Clone Color option is another way to choose color. This feature lets the brush pick up color from an original (source) image. Brushes using dab-based Dab Types take an average based on samples of color from the clone source, resulting in an approximation of the original color. Brushes using rendered Dab Types sample several colors, loading each into individual bristles of the brush, allowing for startlingly realistic results. For more information about cloning, refer to “Cloning Imagery” on page 53. To set up a clone source 1 Choose File menu > Open, and choose the file you want to use as a clone source. 2 Choose File menu > Clone. 3 Choose Select menu > All, and press Delete (Mac OS) or Backspace (Windows). Now you can work in the new file, taking data from the original source file. 42 Color 1 Set up a clone source. If you don’t set a file as the source, Corel Painter Essentials uses the current Pattern. 2 Choose a brush from the Brush selector bar. 3 Choose Window menu > Show Colors to display the Colors palette. 4 Click the Clone Color button on the Colors palette. Enabling the Clone Color option disables the color picker. This is a reminder that your color information is coming from the clone source. 5 When you paint in the clone file, Corel Painter Essentials uses colors from the clone source image. Using Gradients A gradient is a gradual transformation from one color into another. Sometimes they are called blends or fountains. Corel Painter Essentials provides two types of gradients: linear, and conical. To select a gradient 1 Choose the Gradient selector from the toolbox. 2 Select a gradient from the dropdown list. 6 Painting Corel Painter Essentials lets you draw and paint, as you might in the real world. In your studio, you use brushes, pencils, chalk, airbrushes, and palette knives to make marks on a canvas or piece of paper. With Corel Painter Essentials, an infinite variety of marks are possible. Like a fully stocked art store, Corel Painter Essentials supplies you with many different brushes and drawing tools. • • Exploring Painting Many of the Corel Painter Essentials pre-built brushes (known as brush variants) are digital equivalents of real-life brushes you might already use. The result of any single mark or stroke you make with a Corel Painter Essentials drawing tool depends on: • the brush category (or drawing tool) you choose. Refer to “Brush • • Categories” on page 44 for more information. which brush variant is selected within the brush category. Refer to “Selecting a Brush” on page 45 for more information about selecting a specific brush variant. controls such as brush size, opacity, and how much color penetrates paper texture. Refer to “Brush Settings” on page 45 for more information. the current paper texture. Refer to “Choosing Paper Textures” on page 36 for more information about selecting paper. the color, gradient, or pattern you select to use as media. Refer to “Painting with Color” on page 48 for more information about choosing media to apply. Understanding Brushes Brush Categories The Brush tool represents a wide variety of tools you can use to mark on your document, including oils, pencils, and chalk. Brush strokes are created when you use the tools to drag on the canvas. On the Brush selector bar, you can choose from a list of brush categories. Brush categories are designed with real media in mind, so you can select a tool with an expectation of how it will behave. On the Brush selector bar, pre-built brushes (brush variants) are arranged into recognizable categories. Corel Painter Essentials brushes are built to emulate Natural-Media tools. This lets you select a tool with a reasonable expectation of how it will behave. In an art store, if the tools in one aisle don’t produce the results you want, you can try a different aisle. Similarly, with Corel Painter Essentials, you can try different brush categories to find the tool you want. Using a Stylus or Mouse When you reach for a wide, flat brush, you expect the stroke you make with it to be dependent on how you hold the brush. A stroke using the face of the brush comes out wide. A mark using the edge is narrow. Most Corel Painter Essentials brushes apply media (a color, gradient, or pattern) to an image. Some brushes, however, do not apply media. Instead, they make changes to pixels already in the image. Paint with the face of a flat brush for a wide stroke; use the edge for a narrow stroke. 44 Painting Corel Painter Essentials produces realistic brush strokes that fade in and out; change width, tilt and angle; or penetrate based on the stylus input. Brush variants that use computed brushes, such as the Smeary Flat variant in the Oils category, also react to stylus tilt (how vertical the stylus is held) and bearing (the compass direction in which the stylus is pointing). Tilt can significantly affect brush strokes. If you get unexpected results, especially with bristle-type brushes or airbrushes, try reducing the tilt of your stylus. Extreme tilt angles are usually undesirable. Many Corel Painter Essentials brushes also respond to stylus pressure (how hard you press with the stylus). Depending on variant settings, greater stylus pressure can increase the width of a brush stroke, the penetration of color, or the degree of other effects. The Corel Painter Essentials airbrushes also respond to the fingerwheel on the Wacom Intuos airbrush, simulating a needle control that adjusts how much ink is sprayed. In theory, a mouse has no pressure information. A mouse button is either “on” (button down), or “off ” (button up). Corel Painter Essentials introduces mouse controls that let you simulate stylus pressure, tilt, bearing, and wheel settings. To choose a brush: 1 On the Brush selector bar, choose a brush category from the Brush selector. 2 Choose a variant from the Variant selector. If you are using a mouse with Corel Painter Essentials, you can compensate for the lack of pressure information by adjusting size, opacity and grain on the property bar. For example, reducing opacity or grain can produce the same results as pressing more lightly with a stylus. Selecting a Brush To show the Brush selector bar: • Do one of the following: • In the toolbox, double-click the Brush tool . • Choose Window menu > Show Brush Selector Bar. the brush—mirroring size and shape—so you can see the area that you’re about to paint. This is a handy way to see if a change in size is required. Setting Brush Size The size slider on the property bar determines the size of a single brush dab. The text field next to this slider lets you enter a specific size (in pixels). To set brush size: The Brush selector lists the brush categories. Brush Settings Basic brush controls for size, opacity, and grain are located on the property bar. The property bar may also contain additional controls for the selected brush category. 1 Choose the Brush tool from the toolbox. 2 Choose a brush. 3 On the property bar, type a value in the Size box, or adjust the popup slider. Corel Painter Essentials may need to rebuild the brush after you resize it. Automatic building of modified brushes is the default in Corel Painter Essentials. Expect a short delay while this happens. When a brush is selected and positioned over the canvas, the cursor changes, by default, into a “ghost” of Corel Painter Essentials 45 To use the resize shortcut: 1 Hold down Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) or Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows). 2 With the Brush tool, drag in the image window. A circle representing the brush size is displayed beside the pointer. When the circle is the size you want, release the mouse button. 3 Click the image to reactivate the Brush tool. Adjusting Opacity The Opacity slider controls the degree to which a stroke “covers” or “builds up” on the underlying pixels. applied covers underlying pixels more completely. Setting Grain The Grain slider controls how much color penetrates into the paper texture. Lower settings show more of the grain. 80% opacity (top), and 20% opacity (bottom). To set opacity: A handy way to set brush size is to use the keyboard shortcut. 46 Painting 1 Choose the Brush tool from the toolbox. 2 Choose a brush. 3 On the property bar, type a percentage in the Opacity box, or adjust the pop-up slider. When Opacity is set low, the applied color is thin, allowing you to see through to the underlying colors. When set high, color being 89% grain (top), and 12% grain (bottom). To set grain: • On the Brush property bar, type a percentage in the Grain box, or adjust the pop-up slider. Move the slider to the left to reduce penetration and reveal more texture. Move it to the right to increase penetration and reveal less grain. Where You Can Paint You can paint on the Canvas or on a layer above the Canvas. When a layer is selected (highlighted on the Layers palette), it is the target for your brush strokes. When you have an active selection, painting is confined to the selection by default. Refer to “Working with Selections” on page 69 for more information about selections. Freehand vs. Straight Line Drawing You can draw unconstrained lines, called freehand, or you can draw straight lines. Options on the property bar let you choose the drawing style. With the Freehand drawing style, you can drag with any motion or in any direction. The stroke follows your drag path. To draw freehand lines: 1 On the Brush property bar, click the Freehand Strokes button . 2 Drag on the canvas. In all cases, your brush strokes go to the selected target, so make sure of the destination before starting to paint. Tip • You can use shortcut keys to toggle between freehand and straight line drawing styles. Press B to choose freehand style, or press V to choose straight line style. Marking the Canvas You mark the canvas by dragging in the document window with a Brush tool that applies media. Each time you drag, you create a brush stroke. Click to create the first point. Click or drag to create a stroke using the Straight Lines drawing style. Drag to create strokes using the Freehand drawing style. With the Straight Lines drawing style, Corel Painter Essentials connects points with a straight line. To draw straight lines: 1 On the Brush property bar, click the Straight Line Strokes button . 2 Click the canvas at the point where you want to start your line. Corel Painter Essentials 47 3 Do one of the following: • Click at the point where you want to end the line. • Drag to place the end point exactly where you want it. Corel Painter Essentials connects the first and second points with a straight line. 4 To continue drawing from the second point, click or drag to create additional points on the canvas. Corel Painter Essentials connects each point with a straight line. 5 To end a line, do one of the following: • Press Return (Mac OS) or Enter (Windows) to close the polygon. The final point is connected to the origin with a straight line. • Click the Freehand Strokes button to return to the freehand drawing style without closing the polygon. • Press V to end the current polygon, so you can begin a new one. 48 Painting Undoing Strokes Painting with Color If you make a stroke you don’t like, you can use the Undo command to remove it. Repeat the command to remove previous strokes. You can undo five strokes. Before actually painting, you must choose what media to apply. Most often, you’ll probably choose to apply a color, but selecting a color is just the beginning. For more detailed information about using color, refer to “Working with Color” on page 39. To undo a stroke: • Choose Edit menu > Undo. Tip • You can also undo a stroke by pressing Command+Z (Mac OS) or Ctrl+Z (Windows). To paint with color: 1 Select a brush that applies media to a document. If the Colors palette is not displayed, choose Window menu > Show Colors. Fading Strokes Sometimes you apply a stroke, but want it to be less opaque, or faded. To fade a stroke: 1 Choose Edit menu > Fade. 2 Set the undo amount for the opacity you want. The preview shows the results of your selection. Use the Colors palette to choose a color for painting. 2 Drag or click in the ring to select a hue. 3 Drag or click in the triangle to pick the saturation. The color you select is displayed in the front rectangle below the color ring. This is the primary color. The back rectangle shows the secondary color. The secondary color is not the canvas color; it is used to create two-color brush strokes and two-point gradients. Refer to “Understanding Primary and Secondary Colors” on page 40 for more information. To paint with a color already in the image: 1 Select a brush that applies media to a document. 2 Hold down Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows), and click a color in the image. The Brush tool toggles to the Dropper tool . The color is “picked up” by the Dropper tool and becomes the primary color. Refer to “Sampling Colors from Imagery” on page 41 for more information about using the Dropper tool. Troubleshooting Why doesn’t your brush stroke appear? What to check: Drag in the ring to select a hue. Drag in the triangle to pick the saturation. • Primary color—on the Colors palette, what color is the Primary Color (front) rectangle? Is it a color that will show up when applied to your image? Click the Primary Color rectangle to be sure it’s selected, and then set the correct color. • Opacity—check the Opacity setting on the property bar and, if necessary, adjust the pop-up slider to increase opacity. • Drawing mode—if you have made a selection, the drawing mode determines what part of the selection is protected. Refer to “Selecting a Drawing Mode” on page 69 for more information. • Layers—are you drawing on the canvas with a layer blocking your view of the brush stroke? On the Layers palette, close the visibility eye of each layer to see only the canvas. Painting with Airbrushes The Corel Painter Essentials computed airbrushes are so realistic, you feel as though you’re using the real thing. The best way to get used to the Corel Painter Essentials airbrushes is to play with them. Select each variant and spray paint onto the Canvas, without worrying about running out of Corel Painter Essentials 49 compressed air. Computed airbrushes can paint with color, patterns, or variants. There’s a variant that blows hair-like strokes, as well as a variant that just blows existing paint around on the Canvas, like using the hose without an airbrush attached. Conic Sections Previously, digital airbrushes projected a thin mist of dots (or paint dabs) onto the Canvas. The Digital Airbrush variant is included in the default brush library. With a digital airbrush, dots are laid down, or sprayed, within a circular area, like the circle thrown by a flashlight that is perfectly perpendicular to a piece of paper. The area of application remains circular, regardless of tilt, bearing, or stylus pressure. Density, or flow, adjustments can be mimicked with adjustments to the Opacity setting. 50 Painting Previous airbrushes sprayed a thin layer of dots within an area that was always circular, like a circle of light from a flashlight that’s perpendicular to a piece of paper. Now, airbrushes respond to angle (tilt), bearing (direction), and flow (wheel setting) data from a stylus, allowing for a truly realistic brush stroke. For example, as you tilt your stylus, specks of media land on the paper in a way that reflects that tilt. Imagine, again, the circle of light thrown by a flashlight. The moment the flashlight is no longer perpendicular to the paper, the shape of the cone of light changes, creating a “conic-section.” In the same manner, Corel Painter Essentials airbrushes create conic-sections that mirror your stylus movements. Angle and tilt determine the shape and size of the conic-section created by Corel Painter Essentials airbrushes, like a circle of light from a flashlight that is no longer perpendicular to the paper. Extreme tilt angles affect large areas of the canvas. This can slow the brush down, as it tries to squirt paint too far from the stylus. Filling Techniques Filling an Area with Media You can fill an area of an image with a gradient, pattern, or color. What about filling with paper? The paper is a texture; it has no color by itself. However, you can get texture into an image with various image effects. Many surface control effects let you use paper as the control medium. For more information about surface control effects, refer to “Apply Surface Texture” on page 82 and “Other Surface Control Effects” on page 84. Note • Corel Painter Essentials uses the current color, pattern, or gradient. Before filling, choose the media you want from the corresponding selector in the toolbox. To fill an area of an image: You can use the Paint Bucket tool to fill image areas based on pixel color. This method can be used on the canvas. Corel Painter Essentials fills areas based on color boundaries. 1 Do one of the following : • If you want to fill only part of an image, make a selection. • If you want to fill a layer, select the layer on the Layers palette. • If you want to fill the entire image, make sure there are no selections. 2 Choose Effects menu > Fill or press Command+F (Mac OS) or Ctrl+F (Windows). 3 In the Fill dialog box, enable one of the following to fill with: • Current Color • Pattern • Gradient 4 Adjust the Opacity slider. Filling Images Based on Color To fill an image based on color: 1 Choose the Paint Bucket tool from the toolbox. 2 Click the Fill Image button on the property bar. Corel Painter Essentials 51 7 Cloning and Tracing Cloning is a feature that can help you create art, quickly and easily. Cloning is the process of taking imagery from one area or document (the source) and re-creating it in another area or document (the destination). Cloning is a two-step process: First, you set a clone source, then you work in a destination area. The source and destination can be in separate documents or in different areas of the same document. Cloning Imagery Cloning-method brush variants are the most common way to develop imagery in a clone destination. These variants re-create the source imagery while they effectively “filter” it, reproducing it in an “artistic style,” such as oils or pastels. Cloning allows you to “filter” source imagery to create Natural-Media renderings. Corel Painter Essentials offers interesting ways to take advantage of clone source/destination relationships, like the Corel Painter Essentials imaginary “light box” method, Tracing Paper. This chapter begins with basics, introducing you to simple cloning techniques. Cloning a Document One way to use the Corel Painter Essentials cloning feature is to clone an entire file, creating a clone source/ destination relationship between two documents. The clone of the file is more than a copy. It maintains a pixel-for-pixel correspondence with its source document. For this reason, the source must remain open while you work in the clone. Here are some ways you can take advantage of a clone source/ destination relationship: • Trace the source imagery using Tracing Paper (like using a “light box”). Refer to “Using Tracing Paper” on page 54 for more information. • Paint source imagery into a destination area using Cloner brushes. Refer to “Painting in the Clone” on page 56 for more information about painting with Cloner brushes. 54 Cloning and Tracing • Load a brush with color taken from a clone source. Refer to “Cloning Color” on page 42 for more information. • Add three-dimensional effects after setting up a clone source/ destination relationship. • Control brush features for painting using variant settings from the source image. • Develop a selection. Refer to “Using Selections” on page 69. To clone a document: 1 Open an image file. This will be the clone source. A good clone source document contains well defined imagery. 2 Choose File menu > Clone. Corel Painter Essentials creates a duplicate of the original document. This is the clone. It appears in its own document window, with the words “Clone of ” preceding the original document’s name in the title bar. Using Tracing Paper You can use cloning to help you trace the source image by using Tracing Paper, the on-screen “light box” in Corel Painter Essentials. When Tracing Paper is in use, you see a faded out version of the clone source, as if it were displayed on top of a light box, underneath real tracing paper. As you trace, brush strokes appear at 50% opacity. When you finish tracing and turn Tracing Paper off, the faint source image disappears and your brush strokes appear at 100% opacity. Note • To use Tracing Paper, the source and clone documents must be the same size. To trace an image: 1 Choose File menu > Clone to create a clone of the original document you wish to trace. 2 With the clone selected, choose Select menu > Select All. 3 Press Delete (Mac OS) or Backspace (Windows) to clear the entire canvas. 4 Do one of the following: • Click the Tracing Paper icon in the vertical scroll bar. • Choose Canvas menu > Tracing Paper. • Press Command + T (Mac OS) or Ctrl + T (Windows). A 50% ghost of the source image shows through the tracing paper. 5 Trace over the image using any Corel Painter Essentials brush variant. Brush strokes appear at 50% opacity when Tracing Paper is turned on. Click the Tracing Paper icon to toggle tracing paper on and off. Use the Tracing Paper feature to view the clone source for tracing. When you turn Tracing Paper off, you can see what you’ve traced. To turn tracing paper off: To resume tracing: • Do one of the following: • Click the Tracing Paper icon again. • Choose Canvas menu > Tracing Paper. • Press Command + T (Mac OS) or Ctrl + T (Windows). The faint source image disappears and brush strokes appear at 100% opacity. • To resume tracing, turn Tracing Paper back on. The faint source image returns and you can continue tracing. Changing Clone Source For more flexibility in setting up cloning relationships, Corel Painter Essentials lets you set any open document as a clone source. You can Corel Painter Essentials 55 do this to re-establish a source/ destination relationship between two files. You might also do this to choose special source imagery for controlling an image effect. To set an open document as the clone source: • Choose File menu > Clone Source and select which of the open documents is the clone source. Note • If you lose track of which document is the clone source, choose File menu > Clone Source. The file with a check beside its name is the clone source. To make an open file the clone source for the next file you open: 1 Hold down the Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows) key. 2 Choose File menu > Clone. 3 In the Open dialog box, choose a file to use as the clone source. Painting in the Clone Painting with a Cloner brush is similar to painting with any Corel Painter Essentials tool, except that Cloner variants take their color information from a clone source, instead of from the Colors palette When you paint with a Cloner brush, it picks up color from the clone source, while you control the size and direction of brush strokes. It’s a great way to get Natural-Media renderings from photographic source material. The Corel Painter Essentials brushes that have buildup methods, like pencils, build toward black. If you clone with one of these brushes in a dark area of your image, you may not achieve the desired results. Use the Opacity slider or text box to control how rapidly these brushes build up to black. You can also choose chalk or one of the other tools that cover underlying colors. To paint with Cloner brushes: 1 Create a clone of the document you wish to paint. 56 Cloning and Tracing 2 With the clone selected, choose Select menu > Select All. 3 Press Delete (Mac OS) or Backspace (Windows) to clear the entire canvas. 4 Choose a Cloner brush from the Brush selector bar. On the property bar, adjust size, opacity, and grain penetration, if available. 5 Paint in the image. Note • If you don’t set a clone source, Cloner brushes paint with imagery from the current Pattern. Tip • Some artists use Edit menu > Fade after clearing the Canvas to bring back some of the imagery. Using Auto Van Gogh You can have Corel Painter Essentials place directional brush strokes to produce a Van Gogh–like rendition of cloned imagery. For more information about using Auto Van Gogh, see “Auto Van Gogh” on page 300. Using Clone Color You can turn almost any brush into a Cloner with the Clone Color option. Clone Color causes a brush to pick up color from the source image, while staying true to its own stroke nature. The Clone Color option is useful for creating mosaics and tessellations based on source imagery. To use Clone Color Auto Van Gogh is an effect that places directional strokes based on clone source. Turning Other Brushes into Cloners Corel Painter Essentials offers a way to get other brushes to act like Cloners by using the Clone Color button on the Colors palette. 1 Choose Window menu > Show Colors to display the Colors palette. If the Colors palette is not expanded, click the palette arrow. 2 Click the Clone Color button . Note • Be sure you reselect Clone Color if you change brushes while cloning imagery. Corel Painter Essentials 57 8 Using Layers When you open a new document and create an image, your work appears on a background layer known as the canvas. You can add additional layers to a document, which allows you to manipulate the visual elements in the image independently of the canvas. Layers provide one of the great advantages of creating images in a digital workspace—the freedom to experiment with different compositions and effects without risking an unwanted, permanent edit. The Corel Painter Essentials RIF file format preserves layers when you save a document, so you can easily make changes at a later time. There’s no need to re-create the entire composition—just modify one or more layers. The result is a dynamic and flexible design environment. Think of layers as sheets of clear material, such as acetate. Painting on a layer obscures the image below it. Areas of a layer that don’t contain imagery remain transparent. Layer Basics In Corel Painter Essentials, layers are objects that contain image data. Because each layer is a distinct object, you can move it around and edit it without interfering with the image data on the canvas or other layers. Likewise, you can work on the canvas without interfering with any of the other layers. Layers contain pixel-based images. Layers in a document have the following characteristics in common: • They are listed on the Layers palette. The Layers palette manages the hierarchy of layers and includes controls for selecting, hiding, deleting, naming, and grouping layers. • You can cut, copy, paste, move, and align them using the Layer Adjuster tool. You can also create pixel-based images on a layer by pasting or placing an image. Working with Layers When you work with layers, you use the Layers palette and the Layer Adjuster tool. The Layers Palette The Layers palette lists all the layers in a document and provides options for managing them. You can access layer functions and commands using the buttons at the bottom of the palette. The Layers palette displays icons next to each layer to indicate the layer’s type and characteristics. Pixel-based layer Grouped layer Pixel-based Layers Expanded group You can create pixel-based images on a layer using any brush variant. Visible layer 60 Using Layers Hidden layer On the Layers palette, you can set layer opacity. For information about layer opacity, refer to “Setting Layer Opacity” on page 67. To display the Layers palette: • Choose Window menu > Show Layers. If the palette is not expanded, click the palette arrow. The Layer Adjuster Tool With the Layer Adjuster tool, you can select and work with layers. Creating Layers You can create new pixel-based layers directly from the Layers palette. You can duplicate layers and copy layers between documents. You can also create a layer based on a selection. This copies or converts the contents of a selection to a new layer. For information about creating selections, refer to “Creating Selections” on page 70. To create a new layer: • Click the following button at the bottom of the Layers palette: • New Layer To duplicate a layer: 1 Choose the Layer Adjuster tool from the toolbox. 2 On the Layers palette, select a layer. 3 In the document window, hold down Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows), and click the layer. Corel Painter Essentials duplicates the layer in place. Select and move the new layer to reveal the original layer in the document window. Note • For more information about selecting layers, refer to “Selecting Layers” on page 62. To copy a layer between documents: 1 With the Layer Adjuster tool, select a layer on the Layers palette. 2 Do one of the following: • In the document window, drag the layer to another document. • Choose Edit menu > Copy, display the other document, and then choose Edit menu > Paste. Tip • You can also paste a copied layer from the Clipboard to a new document by choosing Edit menu > Paste Into New Image. To create a layer based on a selection: 1 Make a selection. 2 Do one of the following: • To convert the selection, choose Select menu > Float or click the selection with the Layer Adjuster tool. • To convert and move the selection, drag it with the Layer Adjuster tool. • To copy the selection, hold down Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows) and click the selection with the Layer Adjuster tool. • To copy and move the selection, hold down Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows) and drag the selection with the Layer Adjuster tool. Tips • You can also convert a selection to a layer by rotating, scaling, or flipping a selection. Refer to “Orientation Effects” on page 77 for more information. • You can also create a new layer by copying or cutting, and pasting, a selection. Naming Layers Corel Painter Essentials assigns each layer (or group) a default name when you create it. This name references the object’s type and creation order. For example, pixel-based layers are titled Layer 1, Layer 2, and so on. As you add more layers and groups to a document, it can become difficult to remember what image data each layer contains. By assigning layers and groups descriptive names, you can easily keep track of the separate pieces of an image. Corel Painter Essentials 61 To name a layer or group: 1 On the Layers palette, select a layer or group. 2 Do the following: • Double-click the item on the Layers palette, or select an item and press Return (Mac OS) or Enter (Windows). 3 In the Layer Attributes dialog box, type a new name in the Name box. Note • You cannot change the name of the canvas layer. Saving Files Containing Layers You can save your Corel Painter Essentials document in the RIFF format with “live” layers—the layers continue to function when you reopen the file. RIFF is the only format that preserves layers in their original state. For information about grouping layers in Corel Painter Essentials, refer to “Grouping Layers” on page 64. If you save a file to a file format other than RIFF, the layers drop (or merge) into a single background image. Deleting Layers Tip • You can also press the F key to activate the Layer Adjuster tool. To delete a layer: To select multiple layers: 1 On the Layers palette, select the layer. 2 Do the following: • Click the Delete button at the bottom of the Layers palette. Note • You cannot delete the canvas. Managing Layers Selecting Layers Selecting a layer lets you make changes to it. If no layers are selected, any changes you make apply to the canvas. To select a layer: • Do the following: 62 Using Layers • Click a layer on the Layers palette. • Do one of the following: • On the Layers palette, Shift+click each layer you want to select. To deselect layers: • Do the following: • On the Layers palette, click Canvas (the last item in the list). Deselecting all layers automatically selects the Canvas layer. Viewing Layers You can control your view of an image in the document window by changing layer visibility settings. This is helpful both in compositing an image and applying effects. You can hide one layer to gain better visibility of the layer below it. document. Refer to “Saving Files Containing Layers” on page 62 for more information about how layers are saved in different file formats. appears on top of the existing layers (when the canvas is selected) or on top of the selected layer. Depending on its transparency, the layer will obscure or otherwise affect the underlying layers. To show or hide a layer: A document’s layer hierarchy is reflected on the Layers palette. The bottom layer is always the Canvas. • Click the eye icon next to the layer name on the Layers palette. When the eye is shut , the layer is hidden in the document window. When the eye is open , the layer is visible in the document window. To show or hide the canvas: Use layer visibility settings to create different states of an image. In the top example, the layers containing the background are hidden; in the bottom example, the layers containing the background are showing. Layer visibility settings stay active when printing or saving to some file formats. In other words, the content of hidden layers does not print and is not saved. However, RIF file formats preserve hidden layers as part of the • Click the eye icon next to Canvas on the Layers palette. When the eye is shut, the canvas is represented by a checkerboard. When the eye is open, the canvas is visible in the document window. If the palette is not expanded, click the palette arrow. Change the hierarchy of layers to create different effects. Changing Layer Hierarchy The hierarchy of layers determines how the layers in a document interact. When you create a new layer, it Corel Painter Essentials 63 To change a layer’s position in the hierarchy: • Drag the layer to a new position in the Layers palette. Grouping Layers Grouping layers enables you to control them as a unit. A group can contain any combination of layers. You can move, rename, hide, and show a group just as you do a single layer. However, you cannot paint across layers in a group. To work with individual layers in a group, you must open the group. Close the group to regain control of the group as a unit. Collapsing a group reduces its contents to a single layer. To create a group: 1 On the Layers palette, select the layers you want to group. Refer to “Selecting Layers” on page 62 for more information about selecting multiple layers. 2 Do the following: 64 Using Layers • Click the Layer Commands button , and choose Group. The layers are collected under a group item on the Layers palette. Tip • You can create a nested group by dragging a closed group to the open destination group. Note • If you select non-sequential layers (layers not next to each other in the list), Corel Painter Essentials creates the group at the position of the top-most layer. To remove a layer from a group: To open and close a group: 1 On the Layers palette, select the group. If the group is open, click the triangle icon to close it. 2 Do the following: • Click the Layer Commands button , and choose Ungroup. • On the Layers palette, click the triangle icon to the left of the group. When the arrow points down and you can see the group items, the group is open. When the arrow points to the right and the names of the group members are hidden, the group is closed. To add a layer to a group: 1 On the Layers palette, open the destination group. 2 Drag a layer to the group. 1 Open the group. 2 Drag the layer out of the group. To ungroup layers: To collapse a group: 1 On the Layers palette, select the group. 2 Do the following: • Click the Layer Commands button , and choose Collapse. Merging Layers with the Canvas Dropping a layer (or group) merges its contents with the canvas. Once you drop a layer, you can no longer access the layer’s content separately from the canvas. When you drop a layer, you can choose to create a selection based on the layer contents. For more information about selections, refer to “Working with Selections” on page 69. To drop specific layers: 1 On the Layers palette, select the layers (or groups) you want to drop. 2 Do the following: • Click the Layer Commands button , and choose Drop. Editing Layers You can edit a layer’s content by applying effects to it, transforming its dimensions, or painting on it. You can also move layer content to change the overall image layout. Painting on Layers When a layer is selected, you can use the brushes to paint, draw, erase, or clone in a layer. When painting on layers, keep the following points in mind: • You can’t paint across grouped layers—you must collapse the group first. • You can protect areas of a layer from painting by creating a selection. For more information, refer to “Creating Selections” on page 70. This is because the canvas has edges, but layers do not—they are unlimited in size. If you shift a pattern on a layer, the pattern does not wrap around. Refer to “Using Patterns” on page 36 for more information. Moving Layer Content When a layer is selected, you can move its content anywhere in the document to create a new image layout. To paint on a layer: 1 Select a layer. 2 On the Brush selector bar, choose a brush category and variant. 3 Paint on the layer in the document window. Creating Patterns on Layers You can use the same pattern-making techniques on layers as you do on the canvas. However, a pattern’s wraparound features do not apply to layers. Corel Painter Essentials 65 To move a layer to a specific location: This layer contains a brush stroke. The content area is defined by an invisible bounding box. To move a layer: Repositioning layer content helps you achieve the optimal image composition quickly and easily. Think of a layer’s content as being contained by an invisible bounding box. This bounding box is a rectangle that marks the left, right, top, and bottom edges of the layer’s content. When you move or align a layer, you work with the dimensions and position of this bounding box, not the entire area of the layer. This allows you to easily position the contents of a layer in relation to the canvas. 66 Using Layers 1 On the Layers palette, select the layer (or group) you want to move. 2 Choose the Layer Adjuster tool from the toolbox. 3 In the document window, drag the selected layer. To nudge a layer: 1 On the Layers palette, select the layer (or group) you want to move. 2 Press the arrow keys to move the selected layer one pixel at a time. 1 On the Layers palette, select a layer or group. 2 Do the following: • Double-click the item on the Layers palette, or select an item and press Return (Mac OS) or Enter (Windows). 3 In the Layer Attributes dialog box, type values in the following boxes: • Top—distance in pixels from the top edge of the canvas to the top edge of the layer’s content. Increase to move the layer down, or decrease to move the layer up. • Left—distance in pixels from the left edge of the canvas to the left edge of the layer’s content. Increase to move the layer to the right, or decrease to move the layer to the left. Note • If you use negative values, or values larger than the canvas dimensions, the layer is placed partially or wholly outside the canvas. Changing Layer Characteristics Setting Layer Opacity You can adjust a layer’s opacity to create different levels of transparency. The opacity slider covers a range of 0% (completely transparent) to 100% (completely opaque). To change a layer’s opacity: 1 Select the layer you want to change. 2 On the Layers palette, do one of the following: • Move the Opacity slider. • Type a percentage in the Opacity box and press Return (Mac OS) or Enter (Windows). The top example shows the background layers at 100% opacity. The bottom example shows them at 50% opacity. Corel Painter Essentials 67 9 Using Selections A selection marks off areas of the canvas for “special treatment.” It can either protect an area from change or designate the area that you want to change. Working with Selections Corel Painter Essentials provides a variety of tools and commands for creating selections in a document. Each time you create a new selection, Corel Painter Essentials deactivates the old one. You can use selections in several ways: • To constrain brush strokes. You can protect the area inside or outside the selection. • To isolate an area of the canvas for applying an image effect. Corel Painter Essentials applies the effect only to the selection. You can also set different levels of protection within a selection to create partial intensity of the effect. • To choose the area of the canvas you want to cut or copy. • To choose the area of the canvas that you want to move or copy to a new layer. • To apply a brush stroke along a selection border. Selecting a Drawing Mode The drawing mode determines whether the inside or outside of a selection is protected when you paint on an image. To select a drawing mode: 1 Point to the Drawing Mode icon in the bottom-left corner of the document window, and hold down the mouse button. 2 Choose one of the following buttons: Draw Anywhere disables protection based on the selection—brush strokes are allowed anywhere on the canvas. The selection is still active for applying effects and using the Cut or Copy command. Draw Outside protects the area inside the selection. Draw Inside protects the area outside the selection, similar to using a stencil. Only the selected region accepts brush strokes. Note • This command is available only if you have turned off a selection. Inverting the Selection Inverting a selection switches the selection area. For example, if you have an image of a boat on the water and you’ve created a precise selection of the boat, you can select everything but the boat by inverting the selection. Turning Selections On and Off To turn off a selection: To re-activate a selection: • Choose Select menu > Reselect. 70 Using Selections A pixel-based selection can have 256 values in it, like a grayscale image. Inverting a pixel-based selection is equivalent to the negative of a grayscale image. For example, a pixel that has 80% luminance will have 20% luminance when inverted. To invert a selection: • Choose Select menu > None. Tip • You can also turn off a selection, or “deselect” it, by clicking outside the selection with the Oval Selection, Rectangular Selection, or Lasso tool. After inverting the selection, everything but the flower is selected. • Choose Select menu > Invert. In this image, the flower is selected. Creating Selections Using Selection Tools The Rectangular Selection, Oval Selection, and Lasso tools create pathbased selections. With these tools, you can create a new selection, add to the current selection, or subtract from the current selection. 3 Draw a freehand border around the area you want to select in the document window. You can also select the entire canvas. Note • If you draw an open path, Corel Painter Essentials connects the endpoints with a straight line before creating the selection. To select an oval or rectangular area: 1 Choose the Rectangular Selection tool or the Oval Selection tool from the toolbox . 2 On the property bar, click the New Selection button. 3 Drag in the document window to select an area. Tip • To constrain your selection to a square or a circle, hold down Control+Shift (Mac OS) or Ctrl+Shift (Windows) while making your selection. To select a freehand area: 1 Choose the Lasso tool from the toolbox . 2 On the property bar, click the New Selection button. To add to a selection: 1 Choose a selection tool from the toolbox. 2 Do one of the following: • Click the Add to Selection button on the property bar, and select the area you want to add. • Hold down Shift, and select the area you want to add. Adding to a path-based selection. To subtract from a selection: 1 Choose a selection tool from the toolbox. 2 Do one of the following: • Click the Subtract from Selection button on the property bar, and select the area you want to subtract. • Hold down Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows), and select the area you want to subtract. Corel Painter Essentials 71 The selection is “cut out” from the current selection. Unless otherwise noted, the procedures in this section are possible only with path-based selections. Using the Selection Adjuster Tool The Selection Adjuster tool lets you move selections. You can also scale, rotate, and skew path-based selections. Drag a selection with the Selection Adjuster tool to move it. To scale a selection: To move a selection: 1 Choose the Selection Adjuster tool from the toolbox. 2 Drag the selection. Subtracting from a path-based selection. To select the entire canvas: • Choose Select menu > All. Editing Path-Based Selections You can use the Selection Adjuster tool to make changes to your selection. The Select menu also has several options for editing selections. 72 Using Selections Note • You can move a pixel-based selection with the Selection Adjuster tool; however, if a portion moves off the canvas, it is subtracted from the selection. Tip • You can also move a path-based selection by nudging it with the arrow keys. With the Selection Adjuster tool, click the selection, and then press an arrow key a few times. 1 Choose the Selection Adjuster tool from the toolbox. 2 Click the selection. 3 Do one of the following: • Drag a corner handle to scale in two dimensions. If you want to constrain the aspect ratio, hold down Shift while you drag. • Drag a side, top, or bottom handle to scale in one dimension. Drag a side handle to scale horizontally. To rotate a selection: 1 Choose the Selection Adjuster tool from the toolbox. 2 Click the selection. 3 Hold down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows), and drag a corner handle. Skewing a selection. Feathering Selections Rotating a selection. To skew a selection: 1 Choose the Selection Adjuster tool from the toolbox. 2 Click the selection. 3 Hold down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows), and drag a side handle. You can feather both path-based and pixel-based selections to soften the transitions between selected and un-selected areas. If you feather a path-based selection, it is converted to a pixel-based selection to allow varying levels of protection at the edges. To feather a selection: 1 Choose Select menu > Feather. 2 In the Feather Selection dialog box, enter the number of pixels you want to feather. 3 Click OK. Corel Painter Essentials 73 10 Using Image Effects The Corel Painter Essentials image effects let you do everything from applying lighting and surface texture to creating a woodcut effect. The effects range from practical tools, like the orientation and focus effects, to artistic expressions like Auto Van Gogh. Traditional artistic methods inspire many of the Corel Painter Essentials effects. Basics of Applying Effects You apply most of the Corel Painter Essentials effects in the same manner: • Select where to apply the effect. • Choose a specific effect. • Set effect options and click OK to apply it to your image. Each effect can have several options and parameters that might require you to use other features such as selections, layers, colors, paper textures, and gradients. You can get the most out of the effects if you understand more about application methods and the Fade feature. Selecting Where to Apply Effects You can apply special effects to a selection, a layer, or the entire image. • If there is no selection, the effect is applied to the entire image. • If you want to apply an effect to a region of the Canvas, select that area before choosing an effect command. You can use any of the selection tools, including the Rectangular Selection tool, the Oval Selection tool and the Lasso. 6 When you are satisfied with the settings, click OK to apply the effect. If you change your mind, choose Edit menu > Undo. For more information about these tools, refer to “Creating Selections” on page 70. • If you want to apply an effect to a layer, select that layer before choosing an effect. Corel Painter Essentials applies the effect to the entire layer. For more information about selecting a layer, refer to “Selecting Layers” on page 62. Using Fade with Effects The Fade command lets you undo a percentage of the last effect applied to the image. You can use this feature to control the intensity of an effect. 76 Using Image Effects Recently Used Effects Commands Use the Fade dialog to undo a percentage of your last effect. To experiment with Fade: 1 Open a new document. 2 Paint a colorful image or fill it with a pattern. 3 Choose an effect, adjust the settings, and click OK to apply the effect. 4 Choose Edit menu > Fade. 5 In the Fade dialog box, drag the slider. The image in the preview window changes. At the top of the Effects menu, Corel Painter Essentials displays the last two effects you applied. This lets you quickly re-apply frequently used effects. About the Using Menu Many of the Corel Painter Essentials effects dialog boxes have a Using popup menu that lets you specify a source, or method. The source determines how an effect is applied to different areas of an image; a larger degree of change is applied to light areas of the source, and a smaller degree of change is applied to dark areas. For example, when you use the Paper method, the effect is applied based on the light and dark areas of the selected paper texture. The choices in the Using pop-up menu vary between effects. In Corel Painter Essentials they include: canvas. For more information, refer to “Merging Layers with the Canvas” on page 65. • Paper • Image Luminance Rotating Images The sections explaining the different effects describe these options. The Rotate effect lets you rotate all or part of an image. In most cases, you can see the results of choosing different options in the Preview window of an effect’s dialog. The best way to see how these options affect your images is to try them. Sometimes the rotated layer does not fit within the canvas area. You can change the canvas size so you can see the entire rotated image. For more information, refer to “Resizing the Canvas” on page 26. Orientation Effects You can change the orientation of part or all of your image by rotating, scaling to a larger or smaller size, or flipping horizontally or vertically. Corel Painter Essentials applies orientation effects to layers only. Therefore, when you rotate, scale, or flip an image or selection, Corel Painter Essentials first converts it to a layer. The image or selection remains a layer until you merge it with the To rotate an image: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to rotate the entire image, select nothing. 2 Choose Effects menu > Orientation > Rotate. 3 Do one of the following: • In the document window, drag a corner handle of the selection. The Rotate Selection dialog box displays the rotated angle in degrees. • In the Rotate Selection dialog box, specify the rotation angle in degrees. A positive number rotates counterclockwise; a negative number rotates clockwise. 4 Click OK to apply the effect. Scaling Images The Scale command lets you change the dimensions of part or all of an image. You can rotate part of an image. To scale an image: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. Corel Painter Essentials 77 2 3 4 5 If you want to scale the entire image, select nothing. Choose Effects menu > Orientation > Scale. Do one of the following: • In the document window, drag a handle of the selection. The Scale Selection dialog box displays the horizontal and vertical scale percentages. • In the Scale Selection dialog box, specify the horizontal and vertical scale percentages. Enable any of the following options: • Constrain Aspect Ratio— maintains the selection’s proportions. Disabling this option lets you change horizontal and vertical measurements independently. • Preserve Center—enable this option to keep the image or selection anchored in its location, based on the center of the image. Click OK to apply the effect. 78 Using Image Effects Flipping Images You can flip all or part of an image horizontally (from left to right) or vertically (from top to bottom). To flip an image horizontally: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to flip the entire image, select nothing. 2 Choose Effects menu > Orientation > Flip Horizontal. Image flipped horizontally To flip an image vertically: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to flip the entire image, select nothing. 2 Choose Effects menu > Orientation > Flip Vertical. Original image The image is adjusted when you release the mouse or stylus. If you want to reset the sliders to the default settings, click Reset. 4 Click Apply. Equalize The Equalize effect improves contrast, adjusting black and white points and distributing the brightness levels throughout the entire range of available levels. Image flipped vertically Brightness/Contrast The Brightness/Contrast dialog adjusts the brightness and contrast of the overall image in RGB. Before and after Brightness/Contrast. To adjust RGB brightness and contrast: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to apply the effect to the entire image, make sure there are no selections. 2 Choose Effects menu > Tonal Control > Brightness/Contrast. The Brightness/Contrast dialog appears. 3 Drag the upper slider to adjust image contrast. Drag the lower slider to adjust image brightness. Before and after Equalize. Corel Painter Essentials lets you equalize an image by creating a histogram showing the number of Corel Painter Essentials 79 pixels for each brightness level value and then allowing you to adjust those values. Equalize also allows gamma adjustment, which lightens or darkens an image without changing highlights or shadows. The histogram is represented by the silhouette. Each peak shows the number of pixels for a brightness level. You can adjust white and black points by dragging the triangles. To equalize colors: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to apply the effect to the entire image, make sure there are no selections. 2 Choose Effects menu > Tonal Control > Equalize. 80 Using Image Effects Corel Painter Essentials automatically adjusts the image or selection so that the lightest color is white and the darkest color is black. 3 In the Equalize dialog box, adjust contrast by dragging the black and white markers under the histogram. Any values in the image located to the right of the white marker become white; any values to the left of the black marker become black. 4 Adjust the gamma by doing one of the following: • Move the Brightness slider to the right to increase gamma, making the image darker. • Move the Brightness slider to the left to decrease gamma, making the image lighter. Changing the gamma adjusts only the midtones of an image and leaves the black and white areas untouched. 5 Click OK to apply changes. A preview of the changes is applied to the original image, but is not final until you click OK. If you want to revert to the original image, click Cancel. Tip • If you made a selection and you want to equalize the entire image, enable Apply to Entire Image in the Equalize dialog box. Apply Lighting The Apply Lighting effect lets you shine one or more light sources on an image. Apply Lighting is like hanging your artwork in a gallery and adjusting colored spotlights to illuminate it. Before and after Apply Lighting. Applying Preset Lighting Effects The Lighting library contains three preset lighting environments. To apply preset lighting effects: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to apply the effect to the entire image, make sure there are no selections. 2 Choose Effects menu > Surface Control > Apply Lighting. 3 In the Apply Lighting dialog box, click a preset thumbnail. The lighting effect is displayed in the preview window. 4 When you are satisfied with the settings, click OK to apply the effect. Creating Custom Lighting You can use the controls in the Apply Lighting dialog to add, delete, and position light sources. You can also set light properties to create unique lighting effects. The Preview window shows the current position of each light source and the angle of its projection. The three steps to create custom lighting are: • Adding or deleting light sources • Positioning lights • Setting light properties Adding and Deleting Light Sources The lighting effect is created by applying light from different sources to the image. You can add or delete as many light sources as you wish. Your only limit is your system’s memory. When you add a light source, a new indicator appears in the preview window. The small part of the light indicator is the origin (the point from which the light is shining). The large part of the indicator is the point the light shines toward. Light source indicator To add a light source: • Click anywhere in the preview window. To delete a light source: 1 Click an indicator. 2 Press Delete. Positioning Lights The type of lighting effect you create is determined by the position of light on the image. You can use the light indicators to move and direct light sources. Corel Painter Essentials 81 • Drag the large end of the indicator to the point where you want the light to originate. To change the direction of a light: • Drag the small end of the light indicator until the light is pointing in the desired direction. Setting Light Properties You can set light properties such as brightness and color. Light properties have a cumulative effect. To change a light’s brightness : 1 Click an indicator to select it. 2 Adjust the Brightness slider: • Brightness is like a dimmer knob. Moving it to the left turns down the light source; moving it to the right increases brightness. To change light color: 1 Click an indicator. 82 Using Image Effects 2 Click the Light Color icon, and choose a color from the color picker. 3 Click the Ambient Light Color icon, and choose a color for the surrounding light from the color picker. Apply Surface Texture The Apply Surface Texture effect lets you add a three-dimensional surface texture to your image. You can use this feature to apply a paper texture across the image or to give depth to the brush strokes of an oil painting. There are two methods for creating texture: • Using a paper texture • Using image luminance ©1999, Jack Davis To move a light source: Examples of effects created with Apply Surface Texture. Setting Appearance of Depth Properties 5 Adjust the Appearance of Depth slider. Refer to “Setting Appearance of Depth Properties” on page 83 for more information. 6 Adjust the Light Controls slider. 7 Click OK to apply the effect. The surface texture you apply is made up of a material. That material can be subtle and blend with the original image, or it can be highly reflective or shiny, distorting the original image. The Appearance of Depth slider on the Apply Surface Texture dialog lets you control material properties. • The Amount slider controls how much surface texture is applied to the image. Moving the slider all the way to the right applies the maximum amount. Creating Texture Using Paper When you create a texture using Paper, the current paper texture is applied to your image. If the Papers selector is open, you can choose different papers and change their scale to try different textures. The Preview window is updated automatically to reflect paper changes. Texture created using Paper grain. To create surface texture using paper: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to apply the effect to the entire image, make sure there are no selections. 2 Choose Effects menu > Surface Control > Apply Surface Texture. 3 In the Apply Surface Texture dialog box, choose Paper from the Using pop-up menu. 4 Adjust the Softness slider to control the amount of distortion created by the texture. Increasing softness creates more intermediate steps, which produces a smoother distortion. Creating Texture Using Image Luminance When you create a texture using the Image Luminance method, the current image’s luminance, or lightness, determines where surface texture is added. Light parts of the image create dents; darker parts create raised areas. The overall effect gives an embossed look to the edges of the imagery. Corel Painter Essentials 83 Texture based on Image Luminance. To create surface texture using image luminance: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to apply the effect to the entire image, make sure there are no selections. 2 Choose Effects menu > Surface Control > Apply Surface Texture. 3 In the Apply Surface Texture dialog box, choose Image Luminance from the Using popup menu. 4 Adjust the Softness slider to control the amount of distortion created by the texture. 84 Using Image Effects Increasing softness creates more intermediate steps, which produces a smoother distortion. 5 Adjust the Appearance of Depth sliders. Refer to “Setting Appearance of Depth Properties” on page 83 for more information. 6 Adjust the Light Controls sliders. 7 Click OK to apply the texture. Other Surface Control Effects The Surface Control effects let you manipulate paper, color, and light to produce a variety of interesting visual effects. Many of these effects also let you add texture to an image, producing the illusion of paint on a canvas or paper. Express Texture The Express Texture effect generates a high contrast version of an image in grayscale. With this feature, you can create a visual effect similar to a custom halftone screen, like a mezzotint or line screen. The Express Texture effect. To apply express texture: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to apply the effect to the entire image, make sure there are no selections. 2 Choose Effects menu > Surface Control > Express Texture. 3 In the Express Texture dialog box, choose a method from the Using pop-up menu. You can base the effect on the current paper texture or image luminance. 4 Use the following guideline to adjust the slider: • Gray Threshold determines where the threshold is, between pure black and pure white. 5 Click OK to apply the effect. • Output Color—output the color part of the effect. Disable this option if you want to output in black and white only. 3 Adjust the N Colors (number of colors). 4 When you are satisfied with the settings, click OK to apply the effect. Tip • If you want to restore some of the original color to the image after applying this effect, choose Edit menu > Fade. Fade restores some or all of the original colors. Woodcut The Woodcut effect is useful for creating woodcut or linoleum block prints of photographs. Sharpen This effect heightens contrast by intensifying highlights and shadows. The Woodcut effect. To apply woodcut effects 1 Choose Effects menu > Surface Control > Woodcut. 2 In the Woodcut dialog box, enable any of the following check boxes: • Output Black—output the black part of the effect. Disable this option if you want to output in color only. Using the Sharpen dialog to sharpen the focus. To sharpen focus: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to apply the effect to the entire image, make sure there are no selections. Corel Painter Essentials 85 2 Choose Effects menu > Focus > Sharpen. 3 Use the following guidelines to adjust the sliders: • Amount determines how much of the edge of an element is affected. • Highlight determines the intensity of the bright areas. Move the slider to the right to brighten the highlights. • Shadow determines the depth of the shadows. The higher the percentage, the darker the shadows. 4 Click OK to apply the effect. 2 Choose Effects menu > Focus > Soften. 3 Adjust the Amount slider. The farther the slider is to the right, the more steps there are between image elements, which creates more blurring. 4 When you are satisfied with the settings, click OK to apply the effect. Using Auto Van Gogh. Esoterica Effects The Esoterica Effects menu holds an interesting and specialized effect called Auto Van Gogh. Soften Auto Van Gogh This effect increases the transition from one part of your image to another, enhancing the anti-aliasing of strokes. The Auto Van Gogh effect works with the Auto Van Gogh variant of the Artists brush. This algorithmic approach to placing directional brush strokes results in a Van Gogh-like rendition of an image. To soften focus: 1 Select a layer or area of the canvas. If you want to apply the effect to the entire image, make sure there are no selections. 86 Using Image Effects The effect requires two passes. The first pass determines the angles of the brush dabs. The second pass applies the dabs. The image is then rendered in a set of directional brush strokes. To apply Auto Van Gogh to an image: 1 Select the image you want to use. 2 Choose File menu > Clone to create a clone. 3 On the Brush selector bar, choose Artists from the Brush selector. 4 Choose Auto Van Gogh from the Variant selector. 5 Choose Effects menu > Esoterica > Auto Van Gogh. 11 The Image Hose The Image Hose is a milestone in the evolution of art tools. Instead of painting with color, the Image Hose paints with images—and not just one or two images at a stroke, but a variety of changing images. The images flowing from the hose change as you make a brush stroke. By changing the direction of the stroke, you can change the angle of the images. The Image Hose deposits 24-bit images with an 8-bit mask. The mask enables you to layer the images gently, without aliased edges or artifacts. You can load the Image Hose with flowers, butterflies, stones, fish— images of any description. When you paint with these image elements, you can build them into coherent shapes—a garden, a cobblestone street, an underwater world. How it Works The Image Hose is a brush. To use it, you must first load it with images. The images are kept in special nozzle files. On a garden hose, you attach a nozzle to control the flow of water; in Corel Painter Essentials, you attach a nozzle to the Image Hose to control its medium—images. The Image Hose feature allows you to paint with images. 2 On the Brush selector bar, choose the Image Hose from the Brush selector. 3 Click the Variant selector and choose a variant. Each variant delivers the images differently. 4 In the toolbox, click the Nozzle Selector and choose a nozzle. 5 Make a brush stroke on the canvas. A nozzle file can contain any number of images. Usually, the images are similar and form a logical series—that is, the images progress along some order. For example, the images might increase in size, or advance in angle. It is not necessary for images to progress in a logical series, but the Image Hose is more effective when they do. The Nozzle selector in the toolbox. Using the Image Hose The Image Hose is easy to use. As with other Corel Painter Essentials brushes, the Image Hose has several variants. These built-in variants combine nozzle control factors with brush settings to create different hose effects. Linear refers to the placement of images in relation to the stroke. Linear variants place images directly on the stroke path. For more information, refer to “Controlling the Image Hose” on page 88. You can use these variants as a starting point and then adjust the brush and nozzle controls to hose the images just as you want them. To select a nozzle and use the Image Hose: 1 Choose the Brush tool toolbox. 88 The Image Hose from the Controlling the Image Hose Boxes on the property bar give you three components of control. Click on the arrows to display sliders to adjust Size, Opacity and Grain. Adjusting Opacity and Color You can use the property bar to adjust the opacity of nozzle images or to mix them with a secondary color. The Opacity slider allows you to make nozzle images semi-transparent. If you move the slider all the way to the left, the images become invisible. For information on selecting a secondary color, refer to “Understanding Primary and Secondary Colors” on page 40. You can change the opacity of Image Hose strokes. Top=100% opacity, bottom=20% opacity. The Grain slider allows you to mix the secondary color with the nozzle images. If the slider is set to 100%, the nozzle images remain pure. As you move the slider to the left, more of the secondary color appears in the images. If the slider is set to 90%, Corel Painter Essentials mixes 10% of the secondary color to 90% of the image. This is a handy way to adjust the shading of image elements. To adjust the scale Do one of the following: 1 Click on the arrow to open the Size slider and adjust the scale. 2 Type a value in the Size box. You can turn down the Grain to mix in the secondary color. Top=100% grain, bottom=39% grain. Scale You can control the size of the nozzle images using the Size slider on the property bar. Corel Painter Essentials 89 12 Working with Text Corel Painter Essentials lets you position and manipulate editable text on your image. The Text Layer A text layer holds a single text block. When you create a new text layer with the text tool, that layer becomes visible on the Layers palette, and is represented by a T icon. With the text on a separate layer, you can work with your image without changing any text attributes. You can select the text layer and edit it at any time. Your text remains fully editable until you drop it onto the canvas. To create text: 1 Choose the Text tool from the toolbox. 2 Click anywhere in the document window, and type. Dropping Text While you are working with text, it resides on a layer and is not yet a part of the image. When a text layer is dropped, it integrates with the canvas and can no longer be edited. To drop a text layer onto the canvas: 1 On the Layers palette, select a text layer. If you want to select more than one text layer, highlight several layers and group them. 2 Click the Layer Commands button at the bottom of the Layers palette, and choose Drop. Applying Effects to Text Before you drop a layer, with the Text tool selected, you can apply any of the effects available on the Property bar. The Property bar contains all the tools and controls you’ll need to set text appearance and flow. You can change the text color, font, size, and position. Font You can select a font on the Text palette. To select a font: 1 Choose the Text tool from the toolbox. 2 On the Property bar, choose a font from the Font drop-down menu. Tip • To display a list of all available fonts, choose Other Fonts from the Font dropdown menu. To fill text with color: To align text: 1 Choose the Text tool from the toolbox. 2 Click anywhere in the document window, and type. 3 Choose Window menu > Show Colors to display the Colors palette. 4 Choose a color on the Colors palette. 1 Choose the Text tool from the toolbox. 2 On the Property bar, enable one of the following buttons: • Align Left • Align Center • Align Right Tip • You can also choose a color before you type any text. Note • If the Text layer is not selected, the color will not be applied to the text. For more information about the Text layer, see “The Text Layer” on page 91. To change point size: • On the Property bar, choose a point size from the drop-down menu. Color You can fill your text with color from the Colors palette. 92 Working with Text Alignment A text block can be left, right, or center justified. The text baseline origin is used as the reference point for the text alignment. Stretching, Rotating, and Skewing Text Stretching text affects both the horizontal and vertical size. As you stretch vertically, the text appears thinner and taller. As you stretch horizontally, the text appears flatter and shorter. Rotating text pivots the text from the end point of the text block. Depending on the alignment of the text, it pivots from the bottom-left corner, bottomright corner, or center. You can also skew the text by slanting the text to the right or left. To stretch text: 1 Select text using the Layer Adjuster tool . 2 Drag the corner handles in the direction you want to stretch the text. 2 Hold down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows), and drag one of the center handles on either side of the text. To rotate text: 1 Select text using the Layer Adjuster tool. 2 Hold down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows), and drag one of the corner handles. Rotated text. To skew text: 1 Select text using the Layer Adjuster tool. Corel Painter Essentials 93 13 Printing You can print Corel Painter Essentials images on a wide variety of printers, including PostScript, Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI), and Quick Draw printers, and highresolution imagesetters. Understanding Printing Even if your final goal is to print highquality color prints, it’s a good idea to first print proofs on any printer you have available. You can use a black and white printer to check page size and placement of images on the page. If you have a color printer, you can print proofs to get a general impression of what your image will look like. Keep in mind that the proof is not an accurate representation of a final print produced by an offset printing process. The print process, inks, and paper types combined will affect the final output. Printing Composited Images Having many layers in a document increases printing time. Printing a fully composited version of the image is much faster. Instead of creating a composited version by dropping all the layers in the image, you can clone the file, and then print the clone. Keep layers in the saved RIF file so you can return and make changes. For more information about cloning documents, see “Cloning a Document” on page 54. Setting Up Printing Options for setting up your file for printing depend on several factors— the output device, color versus black and white printing, and whether you are printing separations. Mac OS options are located in the Page Setup dialog box. Windows options are contained in the Print Setup dialog box. To access print settings: • Choose File menu > Page Setup. Printing an Image Once you have chosen options in the Page/Print Setup dialog box, you are ready to print. To print an image: Image Size and Printing If you want to print an image that is larger than a selected page size, you can size the image to fit the page. For example, when this option is enabled, a 12” x 12” image would be resized to fit on an 8 1/2” x 11” page. To size an image to fit your page: 1 Do one of the following: • (Mac OS) Choose File menu > Page Setup. • (Windows) Choose File menu > Print. 2 Enable the Size to Fit Page check box. Note • If an image is larger than the page size and you haven’t enabled Size to Fit Page, your image will not print. 96 Printing 1 Choose File menu > Print to open the Print dialog box. The top half of the dialog box contains the standard print commands. 2 Select one of the four printing methods that Corel Painter Essentials supports. • Check Color Quick Draw/GDI Printing if your printer is not a PostScript printer. Some common examples are the HewlettPackard DeskJet, the Canon Bubble Jet, and the EPSON Stylus. You cannot print separations to non-PostScript printers. • Check Color PostScript if you plan to print to a color PostScript device. The Minolta QMS ColorScript and Tek- tronix color thermal printers are examples of color PostScript printers. • Check Separations to print separations. The output consists of four pages, one each for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. You can print separations from Corel Painter Essentials with any PostScript device, including high-resolution imagesetters. • Check the B & W PostScript option if you are printing on a black and white PostScript laser printer. Corel Painter Essentials places a color bar, registration marks, and color name on each of the four separated plates. Index A undoing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Airbrushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 circular spray area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 stylus settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 choosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 painting with a stylus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 previewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Apply Lighting effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 customizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Apply Surface Texture effect using luminance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 using paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Auto Van Gogh effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 B Brightness adjusting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Brightness/Contrast effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Brush Selector Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 displaying items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 docking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Brush strokes fading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 C Canvas cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 hiding and showing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 resizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Clone Color using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Cloning changing clone source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 clone source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Cloner brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . turning brushes into Cloner brushes . . Using Auto Van Gogh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . using Clone Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . using tracing paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Crop Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 42 Cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 54 57 56 57 54 Color changing primary and secondary . . . . . choosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . painting with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . penetration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . primary and secondary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sampling from imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 42 50 48 46 40 49 layers with the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Compositing printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Constraining lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Contrast adjusting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Copying layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Corel Customer Support Services . . . . . . . 6 Index Drawing area resizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Dropper Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D accessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 sampling color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Depth creating appearance of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 14 Combining ii canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 constrain to square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 53 modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 straight lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Dropping Docking Brush Selector Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . property bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 16 17 layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 15 12 Documents cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . repositioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rotating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duplicating 54 19 19 24 24 22 Dragging between documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 between programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Drawing freehand lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 inside and outside selections . . . . . . . . . 69 E Editing layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Effects applying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auto Van Gogh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Esoterica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . recently used commands . . . . . . . . . . . . sources for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Surface Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 86 86 76 77 76 76 84 Equalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Equalize effect adjusting gamma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Express Texture effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 G Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 GIF file format saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 F Grabber Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 repositioning documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Fading effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 filling with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Feathering selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Grouping layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Filling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 based on color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 text with color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 using the Paint Bucket tool . . . . . . . . . . 50 with gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 with patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 I Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 controlling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Images flipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 tracing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Flipping images horizontally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 images vertically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Focus effects Sharpen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Soften . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Font changing point size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 J JPEG file format saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 L Lasso Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Layer Adjuster Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 adding to groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . changing hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . collapsing groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . copying between documents . . . . . . . . . creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . creating from selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . creating groups from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . creating patterns on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . duplicating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . grouping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hiding and showing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Layer Adjuster Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . managing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . merging with the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nudging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . opening and closing groups . . . . . . . . . painting on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pixel-based layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . removing from groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corel Painter iii 64 64 64 61 60 61 64 65 62 65 61 65 64 63 63 60 62 65 66 61 66 67 64 65 60 60 64 62 62 text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ungrouping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . working with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 91 60 64 62 O 60 Opacity brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 reducing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Lighting adding and deleting sources . . . . . . . . . applying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . customizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . positioning sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 81 82 81 81 Lines Opening documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Orientation effects flipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Rotate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 M Magnifier Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 accessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 zooming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Merging layers with the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 simulating a stylus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 N Nozzles color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 iv Index Oval Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 P Page setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 image size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Paint Bucket Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 collapsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . displaying from selectors . . . . . . . . . . . . docking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . expanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . navigating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . scrolling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . showing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 48 17 17 17 16 applying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 choosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 revealing when painting . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 choosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 creating on layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 filling with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Previewing 49 16 Paper texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Preferences 32 17 17 changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 in a clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . with a tablet and pen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . with airbrushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . with Cloner brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . with color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 17 14 Paper color Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 56 17 Brush Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Primary color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 composited images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 page setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 docking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 tool settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 R Rectangular Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Repositioning documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Resizing canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 drawing area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 print quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 screen appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 RIF file format layers and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Rotate Page Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 rotating documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Rotating documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 S Sampling color from imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Saving files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GIF file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JPEG file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RIF file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 28 28 62 27 Scaling oval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . protecting inside and outside . . . . . . . . rectangular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rotating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . selecting entire canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selection Adjuster Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . skewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . subtracting from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 69 71 73 72 72 72 73 71 70 Selectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 displaying palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Image Hose images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Sharpen effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Secondary color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Sizing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Selecting Skewing selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Soften effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Selection Adjuster Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 applying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 adding to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . creating layers from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . deselecting and reselecting . . . . . . . . . . drawing modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . feathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inverting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lasso Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 61 70 69 73 70 71 72 Special effects Straight lines drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Stylus holding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 simulating with a mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 using with airbrushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Surface Control effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Apply Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Corel Painter v Express Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Woodcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Tracing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 resuming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Surface texture applying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Tracing paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 turning off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 turning on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 T Text applying effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . filling with color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rotating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . skewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . stretching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 U 91 Undoing strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 91 Ungrouping 92 layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 92 93 92 W Wacom Intuos Text layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 pen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Text Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Texture creating from image luminance . . . . . . 83 expressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Tonal Control effects Brightness/Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 docking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Tools accessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 vi Index Woodcut effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Z Zooming in and out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magnifier Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . reset magnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to fit screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 23 23 23
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