Corel Painter Help | Thick Paint

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To adjust the brush attributes of a Thick Paint brush

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To use the tilt of your stylus to vary the angle of a Thick Paint Palette Knife

Thick Paint - Brush controls

You can adjust the behavior of Thick Paint brushes by using the controls in the Thick Paint - Brush panel (Window Brush Control Panels Thick Paint Thick Paint - Brush).

Paint Loading

Infinite Paint lets you prevent the selected brush from running out of paint.

Infinite Paint disabled (left); Infinite Paint enabled (right)

When you disable the Infinite Paint check box, you can use the Paint Load slider to specify how much paint to load on the brush. In some cases, you may not want to load any paint on the brush. For example, if you want to scrape or drag existing paint with a Thick Paint Palette Knife brush, specify a value of 0.

Paint Load values: low (left), high (right)

Brush Density lets you adjust the number of bristles in the brush. High density values create thicker brushstrokes.

Brush Density values: low (left); high (right)

Blending

Resaturation controls the amount of the currently selected color that is replenished in a stroke. A lower Resaturation value makes the brushstroke fade in gently.

Resaturation values: low (left), high (right)

Expression lets you choose a real-time input factor such as the pressure of your stylus to vary the resaturation. Min Resat lets you specify the minimum amount of the selected color that is replenished in a stroke for the linked expression. For detailed information about expression settings, see Expression settings.

Bleed controls how much the brushstrokes blend with existing paint. With low bleed values, brushstrokes tend to cover existing colors. With higher bleed values, brushstrokes blend better with existing colors.

Bleed: low (left), high (right)

You can choose an expression from the Expression list box to vary the bleed by using your stylus. The Min Bleed slider lets you specify the minimum bleed for the linked expression.

You can reverse the effect of an expression on the resaturation and bleed by using the Reverse buttons .

Clumpiness

Clumpiness lets you control how bristles adhere to each other by applying a random variance to the thickness of each bristle, which makes some of the bristles look like they are clumping together. The controls in this area let you vary the radius, length, and thickness of the brush bristles.

Bristling lets you vary the radius of the bristles within the brush.

Bristling values: low (left); high (right)

Paint varies bristle length and thickness for a more natural brushstroke.

Paint values: low (left); high (right)

Color varies how individual bristles blend color.

Color values: low (left); high (right)

Palette Knife

The controls in this area have an effect only on Thick Paint Palette Knife brushes.

Corner Tilt allows you to use the tilt of your stylus to vary the angle of the palette knife. When you disable the Corner Tilt check box, the palette knife angle does not change: the palette knife remains flat, and the brush mark shape remains the same.

Corner Tilt disabled (left); Corner Tilt enabled (right)

Left to right: brushstrokes with and without corner tilt

Start lets you set the tilt angle of your stylus at which the palette knife starts to transition from corner to flat.

End lets you set the tilt angle of your stylus at which the palette knife becomes flat. The angle and brush mark of the palette knife change only when you tilt the stylus within the range set by the Start and End angles.

Start tilt angle of the stylus (left); end tilt angle of the stylus (right)

Plow

Strength lets you adjust how much paint is displaced by the brush.

Strength values: low (left), high (right)

Brushstrokes with low plow strength (left) and high plow strength (right)

Expression lets you vary plow strength. The Min Strength slider lets you specify the minimum amount of paint that is displaced with the linked expression. The Reverse button lets you reverse the effect of the expression on the plow strength.

Radius lets you specify how widely the displaced paint is spread.