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Corel® Painter™ 12 User Guide

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Contents i

Contents

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What’s New in Corel Painter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Using the Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Accessing the Corel Painter Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Additional Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

About Corel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Workspace Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Corel Painter Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

The Document Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Exploring the Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Displaying the Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Displaying the Media Selector bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

The Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

The Navigator Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

The Brush Library Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Exploring Panels and Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Working with Panels and Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Creating and Modifying Custom Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Managing Custom Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Customizing and Sharing Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Restoring the Default Corel Painter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Corel Painter for Users of Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Creating Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Understanding Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Opening and Placing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Creating and Opening Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Switching Document Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Navigating Images and Viewing Image Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Zooming Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Rotating Images and the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Flipping Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Repositioning Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

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Cropping Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Resizing Images and the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Saving and Backing up Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Choosing a File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Emailing Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Closing Documents and Quitting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using Two Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Wacom Intuos Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Drag-and-Drop Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Choosing a Painting Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Exploring Painting Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Working With the Canvas and Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Setting up the Drawing Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Brush Tracking and Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using a Stylus vs. a Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Applying Freehand and Straight Brushstrokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Constraining, Fading, and Undoing Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Erasing Image Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Aligning Brushstrokes to Paths and Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Making 360° Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Painting with Airbrushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Adjusting Spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Recording and Playing Back Brushstrokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Reference: Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Composition Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Using the Layout Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Using the Mirror Painting Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Using the Kaleidoscope Painting Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Using the Divine Proportion tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Using Rulers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Using Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Using Snap to Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Using the Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Using Snap to Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Using the Perspective Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

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Photo Painting System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Creating Underpaintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Auto-Painting Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

Restoring Detail to Paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Selecting, Managing, and Creating Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Understanding Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Selecting and Searching for Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Setting Basic Brush Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Organizing and Displaying Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Exploring Brush Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Creating and Deleting Brush Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Opening and Importing Brush Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Creating, Restoring, and Deleting Brush Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Creating a Brush Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Saving a Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Creating Brush Dabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Importing and Exporting Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Creating and Removing Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Modifying the Display of Library Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Editing Library Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Restoring Default Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Paper Texture and Grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Applying Paper Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Creating and Deleting Paper Textures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

Opening and Managing the Papers Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Inverting and Scaling Paper Grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Controlling Brightness and Contrast of Paper Grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Adjusting Grain Direction and Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Using the Color Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Using the Temporal Colors Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Changing the Paper Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Sampling Colors From Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Cloning Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174

Creating Two-Color Brushstrokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174

Working with the Mixer Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176

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Displaying the Mixer Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Using the Mixer Panel Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Mixing Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Mixing Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Creating Mixer Swatches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Working with Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Customizing the Layouts of Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Creating and Exporting Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Editing Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Annotating Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Setting Color Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Setting Color Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Loading Multiple Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Working with Color Fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Applying a Color as a Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Limiting and Preventing Leakage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Applying Pattern Fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Painting with Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Creating and Editing Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Creating Seamless Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Creating Fractal Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Applying Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Replacing Image Colors With Gradient Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Adjusting Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Creating and Editing Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Saving Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Applying Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Editing and Saving Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Creating Weave Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using the Edit Weave Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Defining Warp and Weft Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Defining Warp and Weft Color Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Designing the Tie-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Reference: Expression Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Contents v

Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Understanding Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247

Getting Started with Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252

Previewing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254

Changing Color Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255

Working with Color Profile Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257

Working with Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258

Adjusting Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Exploring the Brush Controls Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262

General Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263

General Controls: Dab Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264

General Controls: Stroke Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268

General Controls: Methods and Subcategories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269

General Controls: Source, Opacity, and Grain Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273

General Controls: Stroke Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .275

General controls: Multicore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278

Dab Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278

Size Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282

Spacing Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284

Angle Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287

Static Bristle Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289

Computed Circular Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292

Well Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292

Rake Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .294

Mouse Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298

Cloning Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299

Impasto Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306

Image Hose Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308

Airbrush Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309

Water Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310

Liquid Ink Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .314

Digital Watercolor Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

Artists’ Oils Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

Real Watercolor Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

Real Wet Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328

Jitter Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333

RealBristle Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .334

Color Variability Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .334

Color Expression Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .336

Brush Calibration Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .337

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Expression Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Hard Media Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Hard Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Using Hard Media Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Customizing Hard Media Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Getting Started with Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Customizing Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

RealBristle Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Getting Started With RealBristle Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

RealBristle Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Working with the Watercolor Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Watercolor Brushes and Paper Texture Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Working with Real Watercolor Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Working with Watercolor Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Working with Digital Watercolor brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Liquid Ink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Working with Liquid Ink brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Adjusting Attributes of the Liquid Ink Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Using Liquid Ink Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Getting Started with Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Adjusting Surface Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Image Cloning and Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Cloning Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Using Quick Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Working with Multiple Clone Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Painting in the Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Using Brush Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Performing Offset Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Applying Transformations When Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Using Selections and Transformations When Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Filling an Area With a Sampled Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

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Selections and Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Creating and Saving Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407

Viewing Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417

Adjusting Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418

Loading and Combining Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .424

Transforming Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .428

Alpha Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Creating, Generating, and Importing Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .436

Managing and Editing Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439

Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Getting Started with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .448

Managing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .458

Editing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .469

Working with Layer Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .487

Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .493

Correcting and Adjusting Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .496

Equalizing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .505

Tonal Control Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .508

Using Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .513

Working with Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .516

Using Other Surface Control Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .529

Using Focus Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .540

Using Esoterica Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .547

Dynamic Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Getting Started with Dynamic Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .568

Exploring Dynamic Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .570

Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

How the Image Hose Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .598

Getting Started with the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .599

Controlling the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .600

Indexing Nozzle Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .604

Creating, Loading, and Saving Nozzles for the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .607

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Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

Getting Started with Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Placing and Customizing Tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Working with Tessellation Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Getting Started with Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Creating Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Editing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Transforming Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Combining Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Saving and Exporting Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Understanding the Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Creating and Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Applying Effects to Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Converting and Dropping Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

Creating Web Page Backgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

Creating Web Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Working with Rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Working with Image Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Creating GIF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

Using Web-Safe Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

Selecting Brushes for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Getting Started with Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Editing Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Working with Scripts and Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Animation and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Creating Animations and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Getting Started with Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718

Modifying a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

Rotoscoping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

Saving and Exporting Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Creating and Exporting Animations for the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738

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Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Getting Started with Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .743

Notes for Users of Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Comparing Terminology in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .747

Comparing Tools in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .748

Frequently Asked Questions from Users of Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .750

Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

General Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .753

Interface Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .755

Performance Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756

Shapes Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .758

Quick Clone Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .759

Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

Customizing Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .763

Toolbox Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .765

Panel Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .767

Corel Painter Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .768

File Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .768

Edit Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .769

Canvas Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .769

Layers Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .770

Select Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .770

Shapes Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .770

Effects Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .771

Window Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .771

Screen Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .772

Panel Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .772

Panel Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .773

Brush Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .774

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Shape Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .777

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Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .779

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Getting Started 1

Getting Started

Corel® Painter™ 12 is the ultimate digital art studio. Its inventive drawing tools,

realistic brushes, cloning capabilities, and customizable features let you expand your

creative output in exciting new ways. When you use the pressure-sensitive brushes of

Corel Painter, they become fluid extensions of your hand, so the resulting brushstrokes

are unrivaled in texture and precision. What’s more, features such as the ability to

build your own Natural-Media® brushes and customize how brushes interact with the

canvas give you countless ways to develop your artistic ideas. Corel Painter takes you

far beyond what’s possible in a traditional art environment.

This section contains the following topics:

• What’s New in Corel Painter?

• Using the Documentation

• Accessing the Corel Painter Help

• Additional Resources

•Registration

•Feedback

•About Corel Corporation

What’s New in Corel Painter?

In this section, you will find information about the new and enhanced features of

Corel Painter 12.

Workflow and customization

Redesigned user interface The Corel Painter workspace has been redesigned to

give you easy access to tools, media, commands, and

features. The redesigned workspace also includes an

improved Brush Library panel that integrates both

brush categories and variants.

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Workflow and customization

Enhanced Cloning capabilities The new Clone Source Panel lets you visualize and

manage clone sources. In addition, you can use one

or multiple clone sources in a document, which are

now embedded in the clone document.

New Navigator panel The Navigator panel allows you to better orient

yourself in the document window and quickly

modify the document window display. You can also

enable various tools from the Navigator including

the drawing modes, Impasto, tracing paper, grids,

and color management.

Enhanced Library management The libraries have been enhanced to help you better

organize and manage a collection of similar items,

such as brushes, paper textures, color sets, and

gradients.

New Temporal Colors palette The new Temporal Colors palette is a floating color

palette that displays in the document window and

lets you view and choose colors within the context of

the image.

Enhanced Custom Palettes The enhanced Custom Palettes feature allows you to

create custom palettes by adding items to custom

palettes that were previously inaccessible for

customization.

Enhanced New Image dialog box The enhanced New Image dialog box lets you set

the size, resolution, paper texture, and paper color of

a new document. You can also create presets for

canvas settings that you use frequently.

Enhanced High Quality Rendering Corel Painter 12 renders smoother-looking images

onscreen when you zoom in and increases the speed

of rendering images when you zoom out.

New Computed Circular brush dab

and controls

The Computed Circular dab type and controls let

you customize dab profiles, instead of choosing

preset profiles.

Getting Started 3

Workflow and customization

Enhanced Dynamic brush

adjustments

You can now set brush size, opacity, angle, and

squeeze dynamically onscreen, which is useful for

sizing and shaping a brush within the context of the

image.

New Brush Calibration Controls The new Brush Calibration controls let you calibrate

individual brush variants to match your stroke

strength when you use a pressure-sensitive stylus.

New Multicore support for brushes Multicore brush support maximizes brush

performance when you work on a multicore

computer.

New Smart Blur effect The Smart Blur effect softens the appearance of an

image by smoothing out the colors and sharp

details.

Enhanced Custom Palettes The enhanced Custom Palettes feature allows you to

create custom palettes by adding items to custom

palettes that were previously inaccessible for

customization.

Progressive digital art capabilities

New Mirror painting The new Mirror painting mode allows you to create

a symmetrical painting.

New Kaleidoscope painting mode The new Kaleidoscope painting mode lets you

quickly transform basic brushstrokes into colorful

and symmetrical kaleidoscope images.

New Gel brushes and Merge Mode

controls

The new Gel brushes allow you to tint the

underlying colors of an image with the brushstroke

color. You can customize Gel brushes by using the

new Merge Modes brush control to produce

different effects.

New Digital Airbrushes The new Digital Airbrush variants allow you to

apply brushstrokes that do not build up color on

single brushstrokes. You can achieve color buildup

by overlaying multiple brushstrokes.

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Unmatched Natural-Media capabilities

New Real Watercolor brushes and

Controls

The Real Watercolor brushes and controls allow you

to apply pigment to the paper in a very realistic way.

The brush control options allow you to precisely

control water consistency and movement. You can

also control the way the water and pigments interact

with the paper.

New Real Wet Oil brushes and

Controls

The Real Wet Oil brushes and controls allow you to

achieve the look and feel of real-world oil paints.

The brush control options allow you to precisely

control paint consistency and movement. You can

also control the way the paint interacts with the

canvas.

The perfect complement

New Content Corel Painter 12 includes various new content, such

as brushes, papers, nozzles, and other media, that

you can work with or integrate into your images.

Compatibility Corel Painter 12 is compatible with your tools and

workflows:

•Mac OS® and Windows® — compatible with

both Mac OS and Windows (including Windows

64-bit) operating systems

•Adobe® Photoshop® support — lets you import

in and export to the Adobe Photoshop file format

•Wacom® Pen and Tablet support — lets you

maximize the Natural Media brush capabilities of

Corel Painter

New Web-based Help Corel Painter 12 now includes a web-based Help

system in order to provide up-to-date help content.

However, if you’re working offline and need to

consult the Help, a Help file is installed locally.

Getting Started 5

Using the Documentation

The server-based Help gives you access to a full range of up-to-date topics in a

searchable format. You need to have an active internet connection to access the server-

based help. However, if you are working offline, you can access the local help file that

is installed with Corel Painter.

The Help is also provided in PDF format, which is installed on your computer. In

addition, you can refer to the Corel Painter 12 Getting Started Guide, which provides

general overviews about Corel Painter features, presents the most commonly used

procedures, and includes Insights from the Experts.

Documentation Conventions

The following table describes the conventions used in the Help.

Convention Description Example

Mac OS and Windows

commands

Commands for Mac OS and

Windows sometimes appear

within the same procedural

step, with the operating

systems specified in

parentheses.

Hold down Command

(Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows).

Modifier keys (Command,

Option, Ctrl, Alt)

Names of modifier keys for

Mac OS and Windows

sometimes appear within the

same procedural step, with

the operating systems

specified in parentheses.

Command + I (Mac OS) or

Ctrl + I (Windows)

(For the Mac OS, press

Command + I; for

Windows, press Ctrl + I.)

Menu commands (Choose X

menu

 menu item)

You choose a menu name by

clicking it, and then you

click to choose a menu item

from the list.

Choose File

 Quick Clone.

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Header bar A header bar is located at the

top or side of some

workspace components, such

as the toolbox, property bar,

and panels.

Panel tab The panel tab appears at the

top of a panel. You can click

a panel tab to expand that

panel.

Panel options menu Clicking the Panel Options

menu button displays a pop-

up menu with additional

commands.

Flyout Flyouts are containers shared

by certain tools in the

toolbox. You can open a

flyout by clicking and

holding down the tool on the

flyout that is displayed.

By clicking and holding

down the Layer Adjuster

tool in the toolbox, you can

display a flyout that includes

the Transform tool.

A note contains information

that is important to the steps

that precede it. Often, a note

describes conditions under

which the procedure can be

performed.

This command is available

only if you have turned off a

selection.

A tip contains suggestions

related to the procedure.

Some tips present alternative

methods of performing the

steps, or information about

other benefits and uses of the

procedure.

You can choose a brush

category and variant in the

main application or in the

Brush Library panel.

Convention Description Example

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Accessing the Corel Painter Help

The Help is a fully searchable source of information about Corel Painter.

To use the Help

1 Choose Help menu  Corel Painter 12 Help (Mac OS) or Help Topics (Windows).

2 Perform a task from the following table.

Additional Resources

You can access additional Corel Painter resources online to learn more about the

product and connect with the Corel Painter community.

To Do the following

Browse through Help topics Click the Contents tab.

Use the index Click the Index tab, and scroll through the

entries to find a topic.

Search the full text of the Help (Mac OS) Type a word or phrase in the

Search box in the upper-right corner of the

Help window, and press Return.

(Windows) Click the Search tab, type a word

or phrase in the box, and click Go. Note that

the search feature does not support

quotation marks. If you enclose the word or

expression in quotation marks, the search

will not produce any results.

Resources To access

Corel Painter page on the Corel website

http://www.corel.com/painter

Corel Painter Factory

http://www.painterfactory.com/

Corel Painter on Twitter

http://www.twitter.com/corelpainter

Corel Painter on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/corelpainter

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Registration

Registering Corel products is important. Registration provides you with timely access

to the latest product updates, valuable information about product releases, and access

to free downloads, articles, tips and tricks, and special offers.

If you skipped the registration process when installing Corel Painter 12, you can

register at www.corel.com/support/register.

Feedback

We value any feedback that you may have about the product or the Help content. To

provide feedback about a specific Help topic, scroll to the bottom of any Help topic and click

the “Was this page helpful?” link.

About Corel Corporation

Corel is one of the world’s top software companies, with more than 100 million active

users in over 75 countries. We develop software that helps people express their ideas

and share their stories in more exciting, creative, and persuasive ways. Through the

years, we’ve built a reputation for delivering innovative, trusted products that are easy

to learn and use, helping people achieve new levels of productivity. The industry has

responded with hundreds of awards for software innovation, design, and value.

Our award-winning product portfolio includes some of the world’s most widely

recognized and popular software brands, including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite,

Corel® Painter™, Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite, Corel® PaintShop Photo®

Pro, Corel® VideoStudio®, Corel® WinDVD®, Corel® WordPerfect® Office,

WinZip® and the recently released Corel® Digital Studio™ 2010. Our global

headquarters are in Ottawa, Canada, with major offices in the United States, United

Kingdom, Germany, China, Taiwan, and Japan.

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