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Welcome to Corel Painter

Using the documentation

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Additional resources

Registration

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Feedback

About Corel Corporation

What’s new in Corel Painter 2015

Revolutionary digital brushes

Enhanced speed and performance

A fully responsive experience

Mobile art that moves you

What was new in earlier versions of Corel Painter

Workspace tour

Corel Painter terms

Exploring the Document window

Choosing a workspace layout

Exploring the toolbox

Displaying the toolbox

Displaying the Media Selector bar

Displaying the property bar

Exploring the Navigator panel

Displaying the Brush Selector bar and the Brush library panel

Displaying the command bar

Exploring panels and palettes

Rearranging panels and palettes

Creating and modifying custom palettes

Managing custom palettes

Working with libraries

Creating, importing, exporting, and deleting workspaces

Restoring the default Corel Painter settings

A short tour of Corel Painter for users of Adobe Photoshop

Creating, navigating, and manipulating documents

Creating documents

Understanding resolution

Opening and placing files

Creating and opening templates

Switching document views

Navigating images and viewing image information

Zooming images

Rotating images and the canvas

Flipping images

Repositioning images

Cropping images

Resizing images and the canvas

Saving and backing up files

Choosing a file format

Emailing documents

Closing documents and quitting the application

Using two monitors

Support for tablets and other devices

Multi-touch support

Wacom Intuos support

Drag-and-drop features

Corel Painter menu commands

Effects menu commands

Layer selection tools

Mosaics

Other commands

Painting

Choosing a painting workflow

Brush tracking and calibration

Exploring painting media

Working with the canvas and layers

Displaying reference images

Clearing the canvas

Setting up the drawing cursor

Using a stylus vs. a mouse

Applying freehand and straight brushstrokes

Constraining, fading, and undoing strokes

Erasing image areas

Aligning brushstrokes to paths and shapes

Letting media pool

Making 360° strokes

Painting with airbrushes

Adjusting spread

Recording and playing back brushstrokes

Reference: Troubleshooting

Working with paper texture and grain

Applying paper texture

Creating and deleting paper textures

Opening and managing the Paper Textures library

Inverting and scaling paper grain

Controlling brightness and contrast of paper grain

Adjusting grain direction and behavior

Auto-painting photos

Creating underpaintings

Auto-painting photos

Restoring detail to paintings

Image cloning and sampling

Cloning images

Using Quick Clone

Setting cloning preferences

Working with multiple clone sources

Editing, updating, saving, and exporting clone source images

Painting in the clone

Using brush loading

Performing offset sampling

Applying transformations when sampling

Using selections and transformations when sampling

Filling an area with a sampled image

Working with composition tools, symmetry tools, rulers, and guides

Using the Layout Grid

Using the Mirror Painting mode

Using the Kaleidoscope Painting mode

Using Perspective Guides

Using the Divine Proportion tool

Choosing colors from the Color panel

Resizing the Color panel

Showing or hiding Color panel components

Using the temporal colors palette

Changing the paper color

Sampling colors from images

Cloning color

Creating two-color brushstrokes

Exploring the Mixer panel and mixing controls

Displaying and resizing the Mixer panel

Mixing, sampling, and applying colors from the Mixer pad

Opening images in the Mixer panel

Changing and saving the Mixer color swatches

Saving Mixer panel colors to a color set

Clearing and resetting Mixer panel colors

Saving the Mixer pad

Loading color swatches and Mixer pad files

Working with color sets

Customizing the layouts of color sets

Creating and exporting color sets

Editing color sets

Setting color variability

Setting Color Expression

Loading multiple colors

Working with color fills

Applying a color as a fill

Limiting and preventing leakage

Color management

Understanding color management

Specifying the default RGB color profile

Embedding color profiles when saving files

Specifying the default CMYK color profile for converting CMYK images to RGB

Previewing and soft-proofing color profiles

Assigning or removing color profiles

Converting color profiles

Working with color profile policies

Working with presets

Correcting and adjusting colors

Correcting colors using curves

Adjusting brightness and contrast

Using the curve to correct colors

Drawing freehand curves to adjust colors

Specifying the curve values to adjust colors

Adjusting hue, saturation, and value

Adjusting selected colors

Equalizing images

Matching color and brightness across images

Inverting colors

Posterizing an image

Applying video legal colors

Dodging and burning

Libraries

Importing and exporting libraries

Creating and removing libraries

Modifying the display of library panels

Moving, renaming, and deleting library resources

Restoring default libraries

Selecting, managing, and creating brushes

Understanding brushes

Exploring brush categories

Searching and selecting brushes

Setting basic brush attributes

Displaying advanced brush controls dynamically

Organizing and displaying brushes in the Brush library panel

Copying and moving brush variants

Renaming brush categories and variants

Saving and deleting brush variants

Restoring default brush variants

Creating and deleting brush categories

Creating and deleting brush libraries

Importing and exporting brush libraries, categories, and variants

Saving a brush look

Creating brush dabs

Adjusting brushes with brush controls

Exploring Brush Controls

Expression settings

Previewing brushstrokes and brush dabs

Calibrating brush variants

General controls

General controls: Dab types

General controls: Stroke types

General controls: Methods and subcategories

General controls: Source

General controls: Multicore

Opacity controls

Grain controls

Stroke Attribute controls

Size controls

Angle controls

Spacing controls

Changing dab profiles

Real Watercolor controls

Real Wet Oil controls

Computed Circular controls

Hard Media controls

Bristle controls

RealBristle controls

Static Bristle controls

Airbrush controls

Artists’ Oils controls

Impasto controls

Digital Watercolor controls

Water controls

Liquid Ink controls

Stroke Jitter controls

Color Variability controls

Color Expression controls

Jitter brushes

Choosing a Jitter brush variant

Controlling the behavior of Jitter variants

Watercolor

Working with the Watercolor layer

Watercolor brushes and paper texture interaction

Working with Real Watercolor brushes

Working with Watercolor brushes

Working with Digital Watercolor brushes

Particle brushes

The New Brushes workspace layout

Gravity Particle brushes

Flow Particle brushes

Spring Particle brushes

General Particle brush controls

Info palettes

Applying and adjusting flow maps

Getting started with flow maps

Choosing flow maps and compatible brush variants

Enabling flow maps and controlling flow resistance

Customizing flow maps

Hard Media

Choosing a Hard Media variant

Modifying Hard Media profiles

Controlling the behavior of Hard Media variants

Previewing Hard Media dabs

Markers

Getting started with markers

Customizing markers

Image hose

Using the Image hose

Adjusting Image hose opacity and grain

Adjusting the size and spacing of image hose elements

Indexing nozzle files

Understanding nozzles, ranks, and indexing

Creating a 1-Rank nozzle

Creating a 2-Rank nozzle

Creating a 3-Rank nozzle

Loading and managing nozzle files

Creating a nozzle from a movie

RealBristle brushes

Getting started with RealBristle brushes

Modifying RealBristle settings

Liquid Ink

Working with Liquid Ink brushes

Adjusting attributes of the Liquid Ink layer

Using Liquid Ink controls

Impasto

Applying, displaying, and clearing impasto

Adjusting and creating Impasto brushes

Adjusting Impasto lighting and depth

Blending impasto with other layers

Layers

Getting started with layers

Displaying the Layers panel

Creating and deleting layers

Converting selections into layers or floating objects

Naming and adding notes to layers

Selecting layers

Copying and duplicating layers

Showing or hiding layers

Changing layer order

Viewing layer position

Grouping layers

Dropping layers with the canvas

Painting on layers

Preserving layer transparency

Adjusting layer opacity

Adding drop shadows to layers

Blending layers by using composite methods

Creating and deleting layer masks

Applying layer masks

Loading layer masks to selections

Selecting and viewing layer masks

Enabling and disabling layers masks

Copying layer masks

Inverting layer masks

Editing layer masks

Importing and exporting layers

Working with reference layers

Storing layers as images in the Image Portfolio

Alpha Channels

Creating and copying channels

Generating channels automatically

Importing and exporting alpha channels

Selecting and viewing channels

Setting channel attributes

Deleting and clearing channels

Editing channels

Selections and transformations

Getting started with selections

Creating path-based selections

Creating pixel-based selections

Creating selections from layers

Choosing the protected area of a selection

Saving selections as alpha channels

Working with the Selection Portfolio

Viewing selections

Inverting selections

Softening the edges of selections

Stroking selections

Modifying the borders of selections

Expanding or contracting selections

Adding to or subtracting from selections

Preparing selections for transformations

Moving selections

Transforming a duplicate selection

Scaling and rotating path-based selections

Skewing and distorting path-based selections

Canceling transformations

Common options for effects

Fading effects

Applying recently used effects

Changing effects with open panels

Applying effects using source luminance

Using focus and esoterica effects

Applying Smart Blur

Applying Camera Motion Blur

Applying Depth of Field

Applying Glass Distortion

Automatically cloning an image

Applying the Auto Van Gogh effect

Applying Blobs

Creating custom tiles

Applying Grid Paper

Applying Growth effects

Applying Highpass

Applying the Maze effect

Placing elements

Applying the Pop Art Fill effect

Using lighting and surface texture effects

Applying preset lighting effects

Adding, deleting, and repositioning lights

Adjusting light properties

Using paper to create texture

Using 3D brushstrokes to create texture

Using image luminance to create texture

Using clone source or pattern luminance to create texture

Creating embossed effects

Using channels and layer masks to create texture

Creating reflection maps

Adjusting texture lighting

Apply Surface Texture controls

Applying the Apply Screen effect

Applying the Color Overlay effect

Applying the Dye Concentration effect

Applying the Express Texture effect

Applying a warp effect

Applying the Woodcut effect

Applying the Distress effect

Applying the Serigraphy effect

Applying the Sketch effect

Dynamic Plug-ins

Getting started with dynamic plug-ins

Modifying and deleting dynamic layers

Committing dynamic layers to default layers

Applying the Brightness and Contrast dynamic plug-in

Applying the Burn dynamic plug-in

Applying the Tear dynamic plug-in

Applying the Bevel World dynamic plug-in

Applying the Equalize dynamic plug-in

Applying the Glass Distortion dynamic plug-in

Applying the Kaleidoscope dynamic plug-in

Applying the Liquid Lens dynamic plug-in

Applying the Liquid Metal dynamic plug-in

Applying the Posterize dynamic plug-in

Patterns

Applying pattern fills

Painting with patterns

Creating and editing patterns

Creating seamless patterns

Creating fractal patterns

Gradients

Applying gradients

Replacing image colors with gradient colors

Adjusting gradients

Creating and editing gradients

Saving gradients

Mosaics and tessellations

Creating a mosaic

Selecting and removing tiles

Specifying tile and grout color

Adjusting mosaic tile dimensions and randomness

Filling an area with tiles

Creating 3D tiles

Re-rendering mosaic tiles

Stroking and filling a selection with mosaic tiles

Adding mosaic effects to an image

Creating tessellations

Weaves

Applying weaves

Editing and saving weaves

Creating weave patterns

Using the Edit Weave dialog box

Defining warp and weft expressions

Defining warp and weft color expressions

Designing the tie-up

Reference: Expression operators

Shapes

Getting started with shapes

Drawing shapes

Drawing lines and curves

Setting preferences for drawing shapes

Selecting a shape

Modifying shape outlines and fills

Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points

Adjusting curvature

Cutting and joining shape segments

Converting shapes to image layers

Converting selections to shapes

Resizing, rotating, skewing, and flipping shapes

Duplicating shapes

Combining shapes

Blending shapes

Saving a shape outline as a selection

Exporting Adobe Illustrator shapes

Adding text

Adding text to images

Formatting text

Aligning text

Adjusting text kerning and leading

Stretching, rotating, and skewing text

Adding drop shadows to text

Applying effects to text

Applying curves to text

Converting text layers

Dropping text

Working with animation and digital videos

Choosing an animation workflow

Creating frame-by-frame animation

Opening a Corel Painter movie

Importing QuickTime and AVI files

Selecting movie frames

Editing frame content

Applying effects to a single frame

Previewing animations

Using onion skinning

Animating with layers

Adding, deleting, and erasing frames

Repeating frames

Inserting movies

Rotoscoping

Applying scripts to movies

Exporting movies as QuickTime

Exporting movies as AVI

Importing and exporting numbered files

Exporting animated GIFs

Using scripts to automate tasks

Getting started with scripts

Displaying the Scripts panel

Recording and playing scripts

Enabling and playing background scripts

Creating resolution-independent scripts

Editing, renaming, and deleting scripts

Converting scripts to movies

Importing and exporting scripts

Importing and exporting script libraries

Creating and deleting script libraries

Printing images

Specifying the page layout and image size

Printing your work

Saving files in EPS format for printing

General notes on printing

Notes for users of Adobe Photoshop

Comparing terminology in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop

Comparing tools in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop

Frequently asked questions from users of Adobe Photoshop

Setting preferences

General preferences

Interface preferences

Performance preferences

Shapes preferences

Cloning preferences

Tablet preferences

Connections preferences

Web

Choosing web-safe colors

Posterizing using color sets

Choosing web-friendly brushes

Creating transparent GIFs

Reducing the number of colors in GIF files

Creating image maps

Creating server-side image maps

Creating web page backgrounds

Creating web buttons