Corel Painter Help | Applying the Serigraphy effect

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Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To apply Serigraphy effects

Applying the Serigraphy effect

With the Serigraphy effect, you can use photographs to generate images that appear silk-screened or look like woodblock cuts. When applying the effect, Corel Painter saves each color reduction as a separate layer, so you can edit each layer individually.

Serigraphy

Before (left) and after (right) applying the Serigraphy effect

To apply Serigraphy effects

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To apply the effect to:

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The canvas — Click the Canvas in the Layers panel.

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A selection — Click a selection tool from the toolbox, and drag in the document window to select an area.

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A layer — Click a layer in the Layers panel.

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Choose Effects

Surface Control

Serigraphy.

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Click the Match to color chip, and choose a color from the Color dialog box.

This is the center color — the color on which the effect will be based.

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Click the Fill with color chip, and choose a color from the Color dialog box.

This color is used on the new layer.

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In the Serigraphy color dialog box, adjust any of the following sliders:

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Smoothing — determines the smoothness of the black edge

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Threshold — determines the total amount of color difference from the center color

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Distance Weighting — determines the amount of color distance from the center color

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Hue Weighting — determines how much hue contributes to the effect

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Sat Weighting — determines how much saturation contributes to the effect

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Lum Weighting — determines how much luminance contributes to the effect

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Click Create Serigraphy Layer.

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You can also specify Match and Fill colors by clicking a color in the image.

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