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Corel® Painter™ IX User Guide
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Featured artists
Ryan Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chet Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Christopher Welch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Jeremy Sutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Cher Threinen-Pendarvis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Don Seegmiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
John Taylor Dismukes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
John Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Andrew Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
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Table of contents
Art by Ryan Church: Concept painting for a movie scene
Welcome to Corel Painter IX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What’s in This User Guide? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What’s New in Corel Painter IX?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
How to Use the Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
How to Sign Up for Free Training from lynda.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
How to Access Corel Support Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Art by Chet Phillips: Newspaper illustration
The Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Working with Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Getting Started with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Managing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Editing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Art by Christopher Welch: Concept vehicle design
Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Getting Started with Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Working with the Mixer Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Working with Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Setting Color Variability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Viewing Color Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Setting Color Expression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Working with Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Textures, Patterns, and Weaves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Using Paper Texture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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Using Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Using Weaves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Art by Jeremy Sutton: Digital portrait painting
Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Exploring Brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Marking the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Exploring Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Working with Fill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Getting Started with Watercolor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Working with Digital Watercolor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Liquid Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Working with the Liquid Ink Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Using Liquid Ink Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Impasto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Getting Started with Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Adjusting Surface Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Image Hose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
How the Image Hose Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Getting Started with the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Art by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis: Digital landscape painting
Customizing Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Getting Started with the Brush Creator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Managing Settings and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Managing Custom Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Art by Don Seegmiller: Concept character painting
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Cloning and Tracing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Cloning Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Using Cloner Brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Turning Other Brushes into Cloners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Working with Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Getting Started with Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Placing and Customizing Tiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Art by John Taylor Dismukes: 3D Halloween concept design
Using Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Getting Started with Shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Creating Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Editing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Transforming Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Combining Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Art by John Ryan: Animation storyboard for a radio commercial
Animation and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Creating Animations and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Getting Started with Movies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Modifying a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Rotoscoping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Saving and Exporting Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Art by Andrew Jones: Character design for a video game
Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Understanding Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Getting Started with Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Ryan Church is one of the leading concept artists working today. He has worked with clients such as
Walt Disney Imagineering, Universal Studios, Industrial Light and Magic, and Lucasfilm. Ryan
is currently a Concept Design Supervisor for Star Wars: Episode III, and a Senior Art Director at
Industrial Light and Magic.
Art by Ryan Church: Concept painting for a movie scene
Welcome to Corel Painter IX 3
Welcome to Corel Painter IX
Corel® Painter™ IX is the leading Natural-Media® painting application.
Corel Painter lets you simulate a wide range of art tools — from felt pens, charcoal,
and colored pencils to watercolor and oils.
What’s in This User Guide?
The Corel Painter IX User Guide is divided into nine sections. Each section describes a
collection of tools you can use to create digital artwork and provides step-by-step
instructions. In addition, artwork by a renowned digital artist is featured at the
beginning of each of the nine sections to demonstrate what can be achieved using
Corel Painter IX.
The content provided in this user guide describes the most common tasks performed in
Corel Painter IX. Please note that it is not an exhaustive reference for every tool. If you
require detailed information about topics that are not discussed in this user guide,
please refer to the application’s Help system.
What’s New in Corel Painter IX?
Corel Painter IX adds a range of tools and features that increase performance, fuel
creativity, and further extend compatibility with other industry-standard tools and
applications. With improved Help, tutorials by world-class digital artists, and free
lynda.com videos, getting started with Corel Painter is easier than ever.
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Performance and Productivity
Increasing the overall speed, performance, and stability was a top priority for
Corel Painter IX. Working closely with Apple, Intel, and AMD, Corel engineers
created improvements and efficiencies wherever possible. Corel Painter has never been
a more efficient and powerful application.
Improved Speed
This is the fastest version of Corel Painter yet, with some brushes up to 10 times faster!
Brushes now perform, on average, twice as fast. In addition, users can now change the
default scratch disk location in the Preference settings.
New Welcome Screen
Getting down to the job at hand has never been easier, thanks to the Corel Painter IX
Welcome screen, which launches on startup. Divided into four sections, the Welcome
screen gives quick access to recently used files, tutorials, brush and color-management
settings, and even artwork from renowned Corel Painter masters.
Brush Control Palettes
New Brush Control palettes provide easy access to all brush settings and controls.
Making on-the-fly changes to brush settings and variables is as simple as dragging a
slider — without any disruption to workflow.
For example, the new Boost slider, found in the General palette of the Brush Controls,
instantly enhances brush speed. Just drag the slider and see brush performance
accelerate.
Frames-per-Second Control
Animators can now test frame rates directly in Corel Painter. With the new Frames-
per-Second Control, frame rates can be set and previewed in a range of 1 to 40 frames
per second.
Rotate/Flip Canvas
Entire images can now be easily rotated or flipped directly in Corel Painter. Image
composition is easily verified at the touch of a button.
Welcome to Corel Painter IX 5
Customizable Shortcut Keys
Corel Painter now offers creative professionals an unprecedented level of control over
their workflow by enabling complete customization of shortcut keys. A handy
printable template for keeping a quick reference is included.
Multiuser Support
Corel Painter now supports multiple users on both the Mac® and Windows®
platforms. User files are stored in the user file directory, ensuring that users in a
networked environment can retain individual settings and preferences. In addition, all
settings are easily reverted to the default without having to reinstall the application.
Tracker Palette Enhancements
The Tracker palette stores historical information about every brush stroke that is
applied to the canvas. Acting as a "virtual brush diary," the Tracker palette tells the
story of an image created with Corel Painter IX brushes. Brushes used in the last
session can be recalled in the next, and favorite brush variants can be locked so that
they are always readily accessible.
Iterative Save
Iterative Save enables users to quickly save sequentially numbered versions of an image
with a simple menu command. The first time Iterative Save is used, "_001" is
appended to the filename. Each subsequent time the number increments by 1, and a
new sequentially numbered file is created.
Creativity
Corel Painter IX delivers an impressive array of new features that provide
unprecedented power to replicate natural media, and dazzling new effects offer more
options than ever.
Artists' Oils Painting System
The Artists' Oils Painting System is a milestone in the evolution of digital art. This
new painting system enables users to apply paint blends created in the Mixer palette
directly onto images in the document window. Each brush dab loads the brush variant
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with a finite amount of oil. As the oil runs out, the brush stroke becomes fainter. Brush
strokes interact with any paint already on the canvas just as they would with natural
media.
The Artists' Oils Painting System has four components:
• Artists' Oils Brush Category and Variants
• Artists' Colors are based on the color measurements of real-world oil paints.
• Integration of Artists' Oils with the Mixer palette, including a new multicolor
eyedropper
• Artists' Oil Brush Controls provide the ability to control the amount of oil,
viscosity, blend, bristling, clumpiness, brush trails, and dirtiness.
Snap-to-Path Painting
When users need to create a perfect curve or shape, Snap-to-Path Painting is a great
time-saver. Snap-to-Path Painting makes it possible to constrain a brush stroke along a
path or a shape by clicking a button or using a keyboard shortcut. With a simple click,
users can now create a perfect, precise brush stroke that reflects the attributes typically
found in a Corel Painter stroke, such as pressure, tilt, and bearing.
Welcome to Corel Painter IX 7
Digital Watercolor
Digital Watercolor has been significantly enhanced in Corel Painter IX. Paint stays wet
between sessions, enabling users to start one session where the last one ended. The wet
fringe of digital watercolor brush strokes can now be changed dynamically, enabling
experimentation after the brush stroke has been applied.
Quick Clone
Quick Clone is ideal for photographers, enabling them to transform their photos into
paintings. This new feature speeds up the image-cloning workflow and reduces five
steps to one. Quick Clone settings can be defined on the General page of the
Preferences dialog box.
KPT Filters
KPT® filters are renowned, powerful plug-ins that creative professionals rely on to
produce stunning effects quickly and easily. Seven powerful KPT filters have been
included in Corel Painter IX: KPT® Gel™, KPT® Goo™, KPT® LensFlare™,
KPT® Lightning™, KPT® Pyramid Paint™, KPT® Reaction™, and KPT®
ShapeShifter™. These plug-ins are valuable additions to the impressive array of effects
available in Corel Painter.
Compatibility
The ability to use Corel Painter in conjunction with other industry-standard software
and hardware is greater than ever. New color-management enhancements enable
printer colors to be reproduced more accurately on-screen and in print. Extended
support for Adobe® Photoshop® and Wacom® pen tablets streamlines a professional
workflow.
Enhanced Adobe Photoshop Support
Moving between Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter is simple. Files saved to the
Adobe Photoshop (PSD) file format open in Corel Painter IX, with layer masks, alpha
channels and layer sets (layer groups) maintained.
Layer behavior in Corel Painter is now very similar to Adobe Photoshop. New layers
are now added above the selected layer, layers with different merge modes are
collapsible, and it is now possible to hide or display multiple layers by simply clicking
and dragging.
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In addition, Corel Painter now supports Photoshop plug-ins for Mac OS® X.
Enhanced Wacom Support
Corel Painter IX features support for Wacom's newest pen tablet model — the
Wacom® Intuos®3 — and the entire Wacom tablet product line. The Wacom
Intuos3 has touch strips that can be configured to control brush size, zooming, and
many other functions, eliminating the need for a keyboard while painting. In addition,
tablet keys can be used as modifier keys, such as Command, Option, Shift, or Spacebar
on a Mac; or Ctrl, Alt, Shift, or Spacebar on a PC.
Enhanced Color Management
Corel Painter IX includes an enhanced Color Management System that ensures
accurate color reproduction when images are printed. Supporting industry-standard
ICC4.0 profiles, Corel Painter IX Color Management enables color matching between
on-screen and printed colors. A color-management tutorial helps users configure their
system for optimal color reproduction.
Learning
With improved Help, a revitalized User Guide, tutorials from leading graphics
professionals, training videos from lynda.com, and courseware specifically designed for
educators, getting started with Corel Painter IX has never been easier!
Improved Help
A revised User Guide and Help system provide information and fast solutions. The
Corel Painter IX Handbook, which is included with Corel Painter IX Full and
Upgrade versions, offers a collection of step-by-step tutorials created by well-known
creative professionals.
Free lynda.com Training Videos
Corel Painter IX includes training videos created by lynda.com, one of the world's
most renowned graphics training companies, to guide users through the Corel Painter
workspace, tools, features, and techniques.
Welcome to Corel Painter IX 9
Free Academic Courseware
Corel Painter academic courseware consists of complete lesson plans and exercises for
10 classes on a variety of subjects.
How to Use the Documentation
You can find answers to many of your questions in the Corel Painter User Guide and
the Help available from within the Corel Painter workspace.
The Corel Painter User Guide contains commonly used procedures and information. A
Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the Corel Painter User Guide is available
on the Corel Painter IX CD. Full-color versions of the Corel Painter User Guide can be
purchased from www.corel.com/painterix.
The Help gives you access to a full range of topics in a searchable format.
If you have any comments or suggestions about The Handbook, user guide, Help, or
tutorials, please contact us at www.corel.com/painterix/feedback.
Documentation Conventions
The following table describes important conventions used in the
Corel Painter User Guide and in the Help.
Convention Description Example
Multiple platforms The Corel Painter User Guide is
for both the Mac OS and
Windows platforms. As a
convention, Mac OS commands
precede Windows commands in
the text.
Hold down Command (Mac OS)
or Ctrl (Windows).
Modifier keys When a modifier key differs
between Mac OS and Windows,
the Mac OS modifier is listed
first, followed by the Windows
modifier.
“Command + I (Mac OS) or Ctrl
+ I (Windows)” means that
Mac OS users would press
Command + I and Windows
users would press Ctrl + I.
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Choose X menu >
menu item
On the menu bar, click the menu
name, and choose the menu item
from the list.
“Choose File menu >
Quick Clone” means the
following:
Title bar A title bar is located at the top or
side of some UI elements, such as
the toolbox, property bar, and
palettes. It may not display title
text.
Examples of the toolbox title bar
on the Mac OS (left) and in
Windows (right):
Palette title bar The palette title bar appears at
the top of a palette. When
expanded, the palette’s title bar
changes to dark gray. When a
palette is collapsed, you can still
see the palette’s title bar, which is
now light gray.
Palette title bars for the Colors,
Mixer, and Color Sets palettes are
collapsed, and the Color Info
palette is expanded.
Palette arrow The palette arrow is used to
expand or collapse a palette.
The Color Sets palette arrow is
collapsed, and the Color Info
palette arrow is expanded.
Convention Description Example
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