Corel Painter Help | Importing and exporting layers

Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 2018, and are not included in Painter Essentials 6. For more information about Corel Painter 2018, visit http://www.painterartist.com/. To get started with Painter Essentials 6, see the Painter Essentials 6 Quick Start Guide.

Importing and exporting layers

You can save your Corel Painter 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.

If you export a Corel Painter document in PSD (Photoshop) format, all layers convert to standard Photoshop transparent layers. Photoshop does not preserve groups; each layer in a group becomes its own Photoshop layer. For more information, see Grouping layers.

The following table describes how Corel Painter layer composite methods are converted to blend modes in Photoshop:

Corel Painter Composite Method	Photoshop Blend Mode	Corel Painter Composite Method	Photoshop Blend Mode
Gel	Darken	Overlay	Overlay
GelCover	not converted	Soft Light	Soft Light
Colorize	Color	Hard Light	Hard Light
Reverse-Out	Normal	Darken	Darken
Shadow Map	Multiply	Lighten	Lighten
Magic Combine	Lighten	Difference	Difference
Pseudocolor	Normal	Hue	Hue
Normal	Normal	Saturation	Saturation
Dissolve	Dissolve	Color	Color
Multiply	Multiply	Luminosity	Luminosity
Screen	Screen

For more information, see Blending layers by using composite methods.

If you save a file to a file format other than RIFF or PSD, the layers drop (or merge) into a single background image.

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