Painting

The Corel Painter application lets you draw and paint as you might with real artists’ tools and media. In your studio, you use brushes, pens, pencils, chalk, airbrushes, and palette knives to make marks on a canvas or piece of paper. With Corel Painter, an infinite variety of marks are possible.

This section contains the following topics:

• 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
• Aligning brushstrokes to paths and shapes
• Making 360° strokes
• Erasing image areas
• Letting media pool
• Recording and playing back brushstrokes
• Reference: Troubleshooting

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