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After creating a clone, you can choose which brush you want to use to apply cloned colors to the canvas.
Cloners
Painting with a cloner brush is a great way to obtain an artistic rendering from photographic source material. You can choose the Cloner tool, which automatically enables the brush variants in the Cloners brush category. Some cloner brush variants, such as the Straight Cloner, reproduce a source image directly, but most variants let you reproduce a source image with media effects, such as paper grain and specialized dabs.
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The Oil Brush Cloner is just one of many cloner brush variants.
Cloning method brush variants
You can also expand Corel Painter’s cloning capabilities by turning almost any brush variant into a cloner. Using a cloning-method brush variant is the most common way to develop an image in a clone destination. The variant re-creates the source image while it effectively "filters" it, which allows you to reproduce an artistic rendering of the image in the clone document.
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Cloning allows you to "filter" source images to create an artistic rendering of the image.
You can create new cloner brushes or refine existing cloner brush variants by using the brush controls. For more information, see Adjusting brushes with brush controls.
Brushes that use buildup methods, like pencils and felt pens, 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. You can use the Opacity slider on the property bar 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.
Because the cloning methods use a full set of pixels from the original document for each brush dab, you get a truer copy of the original than you might by using the Clone Color button
. Unlike the Clone Color option, the cloning methods preserve the original image texture in the clone. Cloning methods are good to use when you want to precisely re-create portions of a source image.
Auto cloning
Using a cloner brush can take a long time if you’re working on a large area. To work more quickly, you can have Corel Painter make brushstrokes for you, using the Auto Clone feature. For more information, see Automatically cloning an image. You can also have Corel Painter place directional brushstrokes to produce a Van Gogh–like rendition of a cloned image. For more information, see Applying the Auto Van Gogh effect.
Additional clone painting techniques
The following table describes different techniques for painting a clone:
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The Cloners brush category and a cloners brush variant are automatically selected. |
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For increased color accuracy, you can enable the Brush Loading option. For more information, see Using brush loading.
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Click the Clone Color button in the Color panel. |
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Enabling the Clone Color option disables the Color panel. This is a reminder that the color information is pulled from the clone source. |
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Choose Window Brush Control Panels General. |
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In the General panel, choose Cloning from the Method list box. |
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From the Subcategory list box, choose one of the following options: |
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Hard Cover Cloning — results in partially anti-aliased brushstrokes that hide underlying strokes |
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Drip Cloning — pushes color around as if it were wet, cloning the original with distortions based on your stroke |
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Choose Window Brush Control Panels Cloning. |
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In the Cloning panel, choose Normal from the Clone Type list box. |
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If you change brushes while cloning images, you must click the Clone Color button
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If you change the brush or variant, the clone color is automatically disabled. To continue working with the clone color, re-enable the clone color.
For more information about methods and subcategories, see General controls: Methods and subcategories.
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