Corel Painter Help | Color Variability controls

Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 2020, and are not included in Painter Essentials 7. For more information about Corel Painter 2020, visit http://www.painterartist.com/. To get started with Painter Essentials 7, see the Painter Essentials 7 Quick Start Guide.

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To display the Color Variability panel

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To set color variability in HSV mode

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To set color variability in RGB mode

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To set color variability based on the current gradient

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To set color variability based on the current color set

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To ignore color set variability

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To link color variability to audio

Color Variability controls

Color variability allows you to create brushstrokes of more than one color. Color variability can be set for HSV or RGB mode, and it can be based on the current gradient or color set. For information about color sets, see Working with color sets and Creating and exporting color sets.

Examples of brushstrokes with color variability: (left) Speckle Crayon Audio Pulse (Audio Expression category), (middle) Greasy Pencil (Pens and pencils category); (right) Gravity Real Wet Oil (Particles category)

You can also use the Smoothness slider to smooth the color variability in a brushstroke for a more organic look.

Color Variability applied to a brushstroke without smoothing (top) and with smoothing (bottom)

Color Variability based on a color set applied without smoothing (top) and with smoothing (bottom)

Audio Expression lets you link color variability to audio input from your microphone, or internal audio such as streaming music. The brushstroke colors vary in synch with the changes of the audio signal.

Color Variability linked to audio (right)

To display the Color Variability panel

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Choose Window

Brush Control Panels

Brush Media

Color Variability.

To set color variability in HSV mode

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In the Color panel, choose a main color.

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Choose Window

Brush Control Panels

Brush Media

Color Variability.

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Choose in HSV from the list box.

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Adjust the Hue Variability, Saturation Variability, and Value Variability sliders to control hue, saturation, and value ranges for color variability:

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Moving the ±H slider to the right increases the number of hues in the resulting brushstroke. These colors are the ones adjacent to the selected color on the color wheel.

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Moving the ±S slider to the right increases variability in the color intensity of the brushstroke.

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Moving the ±V slider to the right increases variability in the brightness of the brushstroke.

You can try different hue, saturation, and variability settings with any of the brushes to produce interesting results.

To smooth the color variability in the brushstroke, move the Smoothness slider.

When you save a brush variant, the current color variability setting is also saved.

When working with brushes like the Van Gogh and Seurat variants of the Artists brush category, you can add a natural, almost 3D appearance to your webpage images by increasing the hue, saturation, and value settings.

To set color variability in RGB mode

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In the Color panel, choose a main color.

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Choose Window

Brush Control Panels

Brush Media

Color Variability.

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Choose in RGB from the list box.

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Move the ±R, ±G, and ±B sliders to control color variability of red, green, and blue values.