Corel Painter Help :
Web : Choosing web-friendly brushes
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Web artists are pulled between the desire for beautiful images and the need for small image file sizes, with faster download times. Corel Painter includes brushes that are designed for creating images for the web, making it easier to create smaller files without compromising image quality.
Bitmapped images can be roughly divided into two general types — images with areas of flat color and continuous-tone images. Continuous-tone images (which most of the normal features in Corel Painter produce) are best saved as JPEG images. Images with flat areas of color are best saved as GIF images. The more regions of flat color there are in an image, the more compressed (smaller) the resulting GIF file is.
The strength of Corel Painter is its Natural-Media brushes; however, Corel Painter is also versatile in the creation of flat color suitable for GIF images on the web.
One-color brushes
You can set the brush controls to create areas of flat color, while keeping all the feeling and nuance of a Natural-Media brush. These brush edges are aliased, meaning they have jagged edges. For example, if a brush color is black, there are no intermediate gray pixels at the brush’s edge. There is either black or the background color. In addition to a flat color, this brush type responds to paper texture.
Magnified detail of the stroke is shown to the left of each W-stroke. In this image, the same brushstroke is applied using a different paper texture.
To make a brush with a flat-edged appearance, change the method to Cover and the subcategory to Grainy Edge Flat Cover. If you have created some of your own brush variants in Corel Painter, you can convert them to web-friendly brushes, too.
Web brushes are also included with the extra content in Corel Painter, which is available online.
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Choose Window  Brush Control Panels General. |
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From the Method list box, choose Cover. |
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From the Subcategory list box, choose Grainy Edge Flat Cover. |
Brushes that require a particular method, such as Wet, Eraser, or Plug-in, will not work as well with the Cover method. If you use another brush method, you will not be working with a one-color brush.
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In the Import Brush Library dialog box, locate a web brushes library that you have downloaded or created. |
, and choose Import 