Corel Painter Help :
Web : Choosing web-friendly brushes
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Corel Painter includes brushes that are designed for creating images for the web, you can choose want to consider Web artists are pulled between the desire for beautiful images and the need for small image file sizes, with faster download times.
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 contained in an image, the more compressed (smaller) the resulting GIF file.
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 identical brush and stroke 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 variations in Corel Painter, you can convert them to web-friendly brushes, too.
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Choose Window  Brush Controls 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 Select Brush Library dialog box, locate the web brushes library on the DVD. |
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, and choose Import Brush Library. 