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Exploring the Brush Controls Palette

You can apply media to the canvas by using a ready-to-use default brush variant from the impressive Corel Painter brush library. You can also modify a brush variant to meet a particular need. The Brush Controls palette is comprised of multiple brush control panels that allows you to adjust a brush variant while you work, or alter an existing variant to create a new variant.

You can use the brush controls palette to adjust the Corel Painter brushes in many different ways, such as change their size, shape, angle, flow, and much more. In fact, the Corel Painter default brush variants are built by adjusting the same set of brush controls in order to emulate a real-life painting or drawing tool.

Changes that you make to brush variants, including basic controls, including changes to Size and Opacity, are retained until you restore the brush variant. You can also save custom brushes as the default, as new variants, or as looks. For more information, see Creating, Restoring, and Deleting Brush Variants and Saving a Look.

Some controls are specific to a brush category, such as Artists’ Oils or Impasto. Other controls and settings are specific to a type of variant. For example, Rake controls are active only when a rake brush variant is selected, regardless of brush category.

Modifying Brush Variants

When you modify a brush variant using the brush controls palette, the modified brush variant information is stored in the variant’s XML, NIB, STK, and in some instances, JPEG files that are found in the operating system’s User folder:

Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Corel\Painter12\Default\Brushes\Painter Brushes folder (Windows 7)

When you start Corel Painter, the application applies the modified settings to the brush variant, instead of the default settings. However, the default settings are not lost, they remain stored in the application folder. If you decide to reset a brush variant’s default settings, the modified brush variant files are automatically deleted from the Users folder.

To open a brush control panel

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Choose Window Brush Control Panels, and choose a brush control panel from the list.

To close a brush control panel

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