Corel Painter 2018 User guide

USER GUIDE

Corel® Painter® 2018 User Guide

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Contents

Welcome to Corel Painter....................................................................................................................................................................23

Using the documentation.....................................................................................................................................................................23

Adjusting the Help window text size....................................................................................................................................................25

Corel Painter 2018 User Guide eBook.................................................................................................................................................. 26

Hints and tooltips.................................................................................................................................................................................26

Welcome Screen................................................................................................................................................................................... 27

Additional resources............................................................................................................................................................................. 27

Registration.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 28

Feedback...............................................................................................................................................................................................28

About Corel Corporation...................................................................................................................................................................... 28

What’s new in Corel Painter 2018...................................................................................................................................................... 29

What’s new in this version of Corel Painter..........................................................................................................................................29

What was new in earlier versions of Corel Painter................................................................................................................................34

Workspace tour................................................................................................................................................................................... 49

Corel Painter terms............................................................................................................................................................................... 49

Exploring the Document window......................................................................................................................................................... 51

Choosing a workspace layout...............................................................................................................................................................53

Exploring the toolbox........................................................................................................................................................................... 55

Displaying the toolbox..........................................................................................................................................................................59

Displaying the Media Selector bar........................................................................................................................................................ 60

Displaying the property bars.................................................................................................................................................................61

Exploring the Navigator panel.............................................................................................................................................................. 63

Displaying and customizing the Brush Selector.....................................................................................................................................63

Displaying the command bar................................................................................................................................................................67

Rearranging panels and palettes...........................................................................................................................................................67

Exploring panels................................................................................................................................................................................... 71

Creating and modifying custom palettes.............................................................................................................................................. 74

Renaming and deleting custom palettes...............................................................................................................................................76

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Saving, exporting, and importing custom palettes................................................................................................................................76

Working with libraries.......................................................................................................................................................................... 77

Creating, importing, exporting, and deleting workspaces..................................................................................................................... 78

Restoring the default Corel Painter settings.......................................................................................................................................... 79

A short tour of Corel Painter for users of Adobe Photoshop..............................................................................................................81

Creating, navigating, and manipulating documents........................................................................................................................... 85

Creating documents............................................................................................................................................................................. 85

Understanding resolution..................................................................................................................................................................... 87

Opening and placing files.....................................................................................................................................................................88

Creating and opening templates.......................................................................................................................................................... 90

Switching document views................................................................................................................................................................... 91

Navigating images and viewing image information.............................................................................................................................. 91

Zooming images...................................................................................................................................................................................93

Rotating images and the canvas...........................................................................................................................................................94

Flipping images.................................................................................................................................................................................... 96

Repositioning images............................................................................................................................................................................98

Cropping images.................................................................................................................................................................................. 98

Resizing images and the canvas........................................................................................................................................................... 99

Saving and backing up files............................................................................................................................................................... 102

Choosing a file format....................................................................................................................................................................... 102

Emailing documents........................................................................................................................................................................... 104

Closing documents and quitting the application................................................................................................................................ 105

Using two monitors............................................................................................................................................................................105

Support for tablets and other devices................................................................................................................................................ 105

Multi-touch support........................................................................................................................................................................... 106

Wacom Intuos support.......................................................................................................................................................................107

Drag-and-drop features...................................................................................................................................................................... 108

Keyboard shortcuts............................................................................................................................................................................ 109

Customizing keys................................................................................................................................................................................110

Toolbox commands.............................................................................................................................................................................112

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Panel commands................................................................................................................................................................................ 114

Corel Painter menu commands...........................................................................................................................................................115

File menu commands......................................................................................................................................................................... 115

Edit menu commands........................................................................................................................................................................ 116

Canvas menu commands....................................................................................................................................................................116

Layers menu commands..................................................................................................................................................................... 117

Select menu commands..................................................................................................................................................................... 117

Shapes menu commands....................................................................................................................................................................117

Effects menu commands.................................................................................................................................................................... 118

Window menu commands................................................................................................................................................................. 118

Screen navigation............................................................................................................................................................................... 118

Panel navigation................................................................................................................................................................................. 119

Panel menu commands...................................................................................................................................................................... 119

Brush tools......................................................................................................................................................................................... 120

Selection tools.................................................................................................................................................................................... 121

Adjuster tools..................................................................................................................................................................................... 122

Shape tools........................................................................................................................................................................................ 123

Animation...........................................................................................................................................................................................125

Lighting.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 125

Layer selection tools........................................................................................................................................................................... 125

Mosaics.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 125

Other commands................................................................................................................................................................................126

Painting..............................................................................................................................................................................................127

Choosing a painting workflow........................................................................................................................................................... 127

Brush tracking and calibration............................................................................................................................................................130

Exploring painting media....................................................................................................................................................................134

Working with the canvas and layers...................................................................................................................................................134

Displaying reference images............................................................................................................................................................... 135

Clearing the canvas............................................................................................................................................................................ 136

Setting up the drawing cursor........................................................................................................................................................... 136

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Using a stylus vs. a mouse................................................................................................................................................................. 138

Applying freehand and straight brushstrokes......................................................................................................................................139

Constraining, fading, and undoing strokes.........................................................................................................................................140

Erasing image areas........................................................................................................................................................................... 141

Aligning brushstrokes to paths and shapes........................................................................................................................................ 142

Letting media pool............................................................................................................................................................................. 143

Making 360° strokes...........................................................................................................................................................................144

Painting with airbrushes..................................................................................................................................................................... 144

Adjusting spread................................................................................................................................................................................ 145

Recording and playing back brushstrokes...........................................................................................................................................146

Reference: Troubleshooting.................................................................................................................................................................148

Working with paper texture and grain..............................................................................................................................................149

Applying paper texture.......................................................................................................................................................................149

Creating and deleting paper textures..................................................................................................................................................150

Opening and managing the Paper Textures library..............................................................................................................................152

Rotating paper texture........................................................................................................................................................................152

Inverting and scaling paper grain....................................................................................................................................................... 153

Controlling brightness and contrast of paper grain............................................................................................................................ 154

Adjusting grain direction and behavior...............................................................................................................................................154

Auto-painting photos........................................................................................................................................................................ 157

Creating underpaintings..................................................................................................................................................................... 158

Auto-cloning photos...........................................................................................................................................................................160

Auto-painting photos......................................................................................................................................................................... 160

Restoring detail to paintings...............................................................................................................................................................163

Image cloning and sampling............................................................................................................................................................. 165

Cloning workflows..............................................................................................................................................................................166

Using embedded images as clone sources..........................................................................................................................................170

Using textures as clone sources..........................................................................................................................................................174

Using patterns as clone sources......................................................................................................................................................... 176

Working with embedded clone sources..............................................................................................................................................177

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Setting cloning preferences................................................................................................................................................................ 178

Cloning brushes and controls............................................................................................................................................................. 179

Cloning image areas...........................................................................................................................................................................187

Applying transformations when sampling...........................................................................................................................................189

Using selections and transformations when sampling.........................................................................................................................196

Filling an area with a sampled image.................................................................................................................................................197

Working with composition tools, symmetry tools, rulers, and guides...............................................................................................199

Using the Layout Grid........................................................................................................................................................................ 199

Using the Mirror Painting mode.........................................................................................................................................................202

Using the Kaleidoscope Painting mode...............................................................................................................................................203

Using Perspective Guides.................................................................................................................................................................... 205

Using the Divine Proportion tool........................................................................................................................................................ 209

Using rulers........................................................................................................................................................................................ 212

Using guides.......................................................................................................................................................................................212

Using Snap to Guides.........................................................................................................................................................................214

Using the grid.................................................................................................................................................................................... 214

Using Snap to Grid............................................................................................................................................................................ 215

Color.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 217

Choosing colors from the Color panel................................................................................................................................................218

Resizing the Color panel.....................................................................................................................................................................220

Showing or hiding Color panel components...................................................................................................................................... 220

Using the temporal colors palette...................................................................................................................................................... 220

Changing the paper color.................................................................................................................................................................. 221

Sampling colors from images............................................................................................................................................................. 222

Cloning color......................................................................................................................................................................................223

Creating two-color brushstrokes......................................................................................................................................................... 223

Exploring the Mixer panel and mixing controls...................................................................................................................................224

Displaying and resizing the Mixer panel............................................................................................................................................. 225

Mixing, sampling, and applying colors from the Mixer pad................................................................................................................ 226

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Opening images in the Mixer panel................................................................................................................................................... 228

Changing and saving the Mixer color swatches..................................................................................................................................228

Saving Mixer panel colors to a color set.............................................................................................................................................229

Clearing and resetting Mixer panel colors...........................................................................................................................................229

Saving the Mixer pad......................................................................................................................................................................... 230

Loading color swatches and Mixer pad files....................................................................................................................................... 230

Working with color sets..................................................................................................................................................................... 231

Customizing the layouts of color sets.................................................................................................................................................232

Creating and exporting color sets.......................................................................................................................................................232

Editing color sets................................................................................................................................................................................233

Setting color variability....................................................................................................................................................................... 234

Setting Color Expression..................................................................................................................................................................... 235

Loading multiple colors...................................................................................................................................................................... 235

Working with color fills...................................................................................................................................................................... 235

Applying a color as a fill.................................................................................................................................................................... 236

Limiting and preventing leakage.........................................................................................................................................................237

Color management............................................................................................................................................................................ 239

Understanding color management..................................................................................................................................................... 239

Specifying the default RGB color profile............................................................................................................................................. 242

Embedding color profiles when saving files........................................................................................................................................242

Specifying the default CMYK color profile for converting CMYK images to RGB..................................................................................243

Previewing and soft-proofing color profiles........................................................................................................................................ 243

Assigning or removing color profiles.................................................................................................................................................. 244

Converting color profiles.................................................................................................................................................................... 244

Working with color profile policies..................................................................................................................................................... 245

Working with presets......................................................................................................................................................................... 246

Correcting and adjusting colors........................................................................................................................................................ 249

Correcting colors using curves............................................................................................................................................................249

Adjusting brightness and contrast...................................................................................................................................................... 250

Using the curve to correct colors....................................................................................................................................................... 253

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Drawing freehand curves to adjust colors...........................................................................................................................................254

Specifying the curve values to adjust colors........................................................................................................................................254

Adjusting hue, saturation, and value..................................................................................................................................................256

Adjusting selected colors.................................................................................................................................................................... 257

Equalizing images...............................................................................................................................................................................260

Matching color and brightness across images.................................................................................................................................... 261

Inverting colors...................................................................................................................................................................................262

Posterizing an image.......................................................................................................................................................................... 262

Applying video legal colors.................................................................................................................................................................263

Dodging and burning.........................................................................................................................................................................263

Libraries..............................................................................................................................................................................................265

Importing and exporting libraries....................................................................................................................................................... 265

Creating and removing libraries..........................................................................................................................................................266

Modifying the display of library panels...............................................................................................................................................267

Moving, renaming, and deleting library resources.............................................................................................................................. 267

Restoring default libraries................................................................................................................................................................... 268

Selecting, managing, and creating brushes...................................................................................................................................... 269

Understanding brushes.......................................................................................................................................................................269

Searching and selecting brushes.........................................................................................................................................................270

Acquiring brushes...............................................................................................................................................................................271

Setting basic brush attributes.............................................................................................................................................................273

Working with brushes using the property bars...................................................................................................................................276

Renaming brush categories and variants............................................................................................................................................ 279

Saving and deleting brush variants.....................................................................................................................................................279

Restoring default brush variants......................................................................................................................................................... 280

Creating and deleting brush categories.............................................................................................................................................. 281

Creating and deleting brush libraries..................................................................................................................................................281

Importing and exporting brush libraries, categories, and variants....................................................................................................... 282

Importing Photoshop brush images....................................................................................................................................................284

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Saving a brush look............................................................................................................................................................................285

Creating brush dabs........................................................................................................................................................................... 285

Exploring brush categories................................................................................................................................................................ 287

Acrylics and Gouache......................................................................................................................................................................... 288

Airbrushes...........................................................................................................................................................................................289

Artists’ Favorites................................................................................................................................................................................. 290

Artists’ Oils......................................................................................................................................................................................... 291

Audio Expression................................................................................................................................................................................ 292

Blenders..............................................................................................................................................................................................294

Chalk, Pastel, and Crayons..................................................................................................................................................................295

Cloners............................................................................................................................................................................................... 297

Dab Stencils........................................................................................................................................................................................299

Digital Watercolor...............................................................................................................................................................................301

Dynamic Speckles............................................................................................................................................................................... 303

Erasers................................................................................................................................................................................................ 304

F-X......................................................................................................................................................................................................305

Glazing brushes.................................................................................................................................................................................. 306

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

Impasto.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 309

Liquid Ink........................................................................................................................................................................................... 311

Markers.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 312

Oils..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 313

Palette Knives and Sponges................................................................................................................................................................ 314

Particles.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 315

Pattern Pens........................................................................................................................................................................................317

Pens and pencils.................................................................................................................................................................................318

Real Watercolor.................................................................................................................................................................................. 321

Real Wet Oil....................................................................................................................................................................................... 323

Selection brushes................................................................................................................................................................................324

Simple................................................................................................................................................................................................ 325

Smart Strokes..................................................................................................................................................................................... 325

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Sumi-e................................................................................................................................................................................................ 327

Texture brushes...................................................................................................................................................................................328

Thick Paint..........................................................................................................................................................................................331

Watercolor..........................................................................................................................................................................................333

Exploring brush categories in the Natural Media Brushes library......................................................................................................335

HARD MEDIA - Pencils........................................................................................................................................................................335

HARD MEDIA - Charcoal.................................................................................................................................................................... 336

HARD MEDIA - Conte.........................................................................................................................................................................336

HARD MEDIA - Pastels........................................................................................................................................................................336

INK - Pens.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 337

INK - Markers..................................................................................................................................................................................... 337

PAINT - Oils........................................................................................................................................................................................ 338

PAINT - Acrylics.................................................................................................................................................................................. 338

PAINT - Glazing.................................................................................................................................................................................. 338

REFINING - Blenders........................................................................................................................................................................... 339

REFINING - Erasers..............................................................................................................................................................................339

PAINT - Airbrushes..............................................................................................................................................................................339

PAINT - Watercolor.............................................................................................................................................................................340

Adjusting brushes with brush controls..............................................................................................................................................341

Exploring Brush Controls.................................................................................................................................................................... 342

Expression settings..............................................................................................................................................................................343

Audio Expression................................................................................................................................................................................ 344

Previewing brushstrokes and brush dabs............................................................................................................................................ 346

Calibrating brush variants...................................................................................................................................................................347

General controls................................................................................................................................................................................. 347

General controls: Dab types............................................................................................................................................................... 348

General controls: Stroke types............................................................................................................................................................ 351

General controls: Methods and subcategories.................................................................................................................................... 353

General controls: Source.....................................................................................................................................................................356

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General controls: Multicore................................................................................................................................................................ 357

Opacity controls................................................................................................................................................................................. 357

Grain controls.....................................................................................................................................................................................359

Stroke Attributes controls...................................................................................................................................................................361

Size controls....................................................................................................................................................................................... 363

Angle controls.................................................................................................................................................................................... 366

Spacing controls................................................................................................................................................................................. 369

Changing dab profiles........................................................................................................................................................................ 370

Real Watercolor controls.....................................................................................................................................................................372

Real Wet Oil controls..........................................................................................................................................................................376

Computed Circular controls................................................................................................................................................................ 381

Hard Media controls...........................................................................................................................................................................381

Bristle controls.................................................................................................................................................................................... 381

RealBristle controls..............................................................................................................................................................................382

Static Bristle controls.......................................................................................................................................................................... 382

Airbrush controls................................................................................................................................................................................ 384

Artists’ Oils controls........................................................................................................................................................................... 387

Impasto controls.................................................................................................................................................................................389

Digital Watercolor controls................................................................................................................................................................. 389

Water controls....................................................................................................................................................................................389

Liquid Ink controls..............................................................................................................................................................................393

Stroke Jitter controls...........................................................................................................................................................................398

Blending controls................................................................................................................................................................................399

Mouse controls...................................................................................................................................................................................402

Smoothing controls............................................................................................................................................................................ 403

Image Hose controls...........................................................................................................................................................................404

Rake controls......................................................................................................................................................................................404

Multi controls..................................................................................................................................................................................... 407

Color Variability controls.....................................................................................................................................................................407

Color Expression controls....................................................................................................................................................................409

Dynamic Speckles controls..................................................................................................................................................................411

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Dab Stencil controls........................................................................................................................................................................... 413

Glazing controls................................................................................................................................................................................. 418

Jitter brushes..................................................................................................................................................................................... 425

Choosing a Jitter brush variant...........................................................................................................................................................425

Controlling the behavior of Jitter variants...........................................................................................................................................426

Watercolor......................................................................................................................................................................................... 427

Working with the Watercolor layer.....................................................................................................................................................428

Watercolor brushes and paper texture interaction.............................................................................................................................. 429

Working with Real Watercolor brushes...............................................................................................................................................429

Working with Watercolor brushes...................................................................................................................................................... 429

Working with Digital Watercolor brushes........................................................................................................................................... 430

Particle brushes..................................................................................................................................................................................433

Gravity Particle brushes.......................................................................................................................................................................434

Flow Particle brushes.......................................................................................................................................................................... 436

Spring Particle brushes....................................................................................................................................................................... 438

Common Particle brush controls.........................................................................................................................................................441

Particles - Thin Lines brush controls....................................................................................................................................................444

Using Dynamic Speckles with Particle brushes.................................................................................................................................... 446

Texture painting.................................................................................................................................................................................449

Painting with textures.........................................................................................................................................................................451

Customizing Texture brushes.............................................................................................................................................................. 453

Textures.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 459

Creating textures................................................................................................................................................................................ 460

Transforming and editing textures...................................................................................................................................................... 465

Applying textures as fills.....................................................................................................................................................................466

Using textures in photo painting and image compositing.................................................................................................................. 467

Working with Texture libraries............................................................................................................................................................ 468

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Applying and adjusting flow maps................................................................................................................................................... 469

Getting started with flow maps......................................................................................................................................................... 469

Choosing flow maps and compatible brush variants.......................................................................................................................... 470

Enabling flow maps and controlling flow resistance...........................................................................................................................471

Customizing flow maps......................................................................................................................................................................472

Hard Media........................................................................................................................................................................................475

Choosing a Hard Media variant..........................................................................................................................................................475

Modifying Hard Media profiles........................................................................................................................................................... 476

Controlling the behavior of Hard Media variants................................................................................................................................ 477

Previewing Hard Media dabs..............................................................................................................................................................478

Markers.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 479

Getting started with markers..............................................................................................................................................................479

Customizing markers.......................................................................................................................................................................... 480

Image hose........................................................................................................................................................................................ 481

Using the Image hose........................................................................................................................................................................ 481

Adjusting the opacity and color of image hose elements................................................................................................................... 482

Adjusting the size and spacing of image hose elements.....................................................................................................................484

Indexing nozzle files........................................................................................................................................................................... 484

Understanding nozzles, ranks, and indexing.......................................................................................................................................486

Creating a 1-Rank nozzle................................................................................................................................................................... 488

Creating a 2-Rank nozzle................................................................................................................................................................... 490

Creating a 3-Rank nozzle................................................................................................................................................................... 491

Loading and managing nozzle files.................................................................................................................................................... 493

Creating a nozzle from a movie......................................................................................................................................................... 494

RealBristle brushes............................................................................................................................................................................. 497

Getting started with RealBristle brushes............................................................................................................................................. 497

Modifying RealBristle settings............................................................................................................................................................. 498

Using RealBristle brushes with Dynamic Speckles................................................................................................................................500

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Thick Paint......................................................................................................................................................................................... 501

Painting with Thick Paint.................................................................................................................................................................... 502

Thick Paint - Media controls...............................................................................................................................................................505

Thick Paint - Brush controls................................................................................................................................................................509

Adjusting Thick Paint layers................................................................................................................................................................ 512

Adjusting Thick Paint lighting............................................................................................................................................................. 513

Liquid Ink...........................................................................................................................................................................................517

Working with Liquid Ink brushes........................................................................................................................................................517

Adjusting attributes of the Liquid Ink layer.........................................................................................................................................518

Using Liquid Ink controls....................................................................................................................................................................518

Adjusting Liquid Ink lighting.............................................................................................................................................................. 519

Impasto..............................................................................................................................................................................................523

Applying, displaying, and clearing impasto.........................................................................................................................................523

Adjusting and creating Impasto brushes.............................................................................................................................................524

Adjusting Impasto lighting and depth................................................................................................................................................528

Blending impasto with other layers.................................................................................................................................................... 530

Layers................................................................................................................................................................................................. 533

Getting started with layers................................................................................................................................................................. 534

Displaying the Layers panel................................................................................................................................................................ 536

Creating and deleting layers............................................................................................................................................................... 538

Converting selections into layers or floating objects........................................................................................................................... 539

Naming and adding notes to layers................................................................................................................................................... 540

Selecting layers................................................................................................................................................................................... 541

Copying and duplicating layers...........................................................................................................................................................543

Moving layers..................................................................................................................................................................................... 544

Transforming layers.............................................................................................................................................................................545

Aligning layers.................................................................................................................................................................................... 548

Locking layers..................................................................................................................................................................................... 549

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Showing or hiding layers....................................................................................................................................................................549

Changing layer order..........................................................................................................................................................................549

Viewing layer position........................................................................................................................................................................ 550

Grouping layers.................................................................................................................................................................................. 551

Dropping layers with the canvas........................................................................................................................................................ 553

Painting on layers............................................................................................................................................................................... 553

Preserving layer transparency.............................................................................................................................................................. 554

Adjusting layer opacity....................................................................................................................................................................... 555

Adding drop shadows to layers..........................................................................................................................................................556

Blending layers by using composite methods..................................................................................................................................... 556

Creating and deleting layer masks...................................................................................................................................................... 562

Applying layer masks..........................................................................................................................................................................564

Loading layer masks to selections.......................................................................................................................................................564

Selecting and viewing layer masks......................................................................................................................................................564

Enabling and disabling layers masks...................................................................................................................................................565

Copying layer masks...........................................................................................................................................................................565

Inverting layer masks.......................................................................................................................................................................... 566

Editing layer masks.............................................................................................................................................................................566

Importing and exporting layers...........................................................................................................................................................567

Working with reference layers............................................................................................................................................................ 567

Storing layers as images in the Image Portfolio.................................................................................................................................. 568

Alpha Channels..................................................................................................................................................................................571

Creating and copying channels...........................................................................................................................................................571

Generating channels automatically..................................................................................................................................................... 573

Importing and exporting alpha channels............................................................................................................................................ 574

Selecting and viewing channels.......................................................................................................................................................... 574

Setting channel attributes...................................................................................................................................................................577

Deleting and clearing channels...........................................................................................................................................................577

Editing channels................................................................................................................................................................................. 578

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Selections and transformations......................................................................................................................................................... 583

Getting started with selections........................................................................................................................................................... 584

Creating path-based selections........................................................................................................................................................... 586

Creating pixel-based selections........................................................................................................................................................... 588

Selecting areas by painting.................................................................................................................................................................590

Creating selections from layers........................................................................................................................................................... 595

Choosing the protected area of a selection........................................................................................................................................ 596

Saving selections as alpha channels....................................................................................................................................................596

Working with the Selection Portfolio.................................................................................................................................................. 599

Viewing selections.............................................................................................................................................................................. 599

Inverting selections............................................................................................................................................................................. 600

Softening the edges of selections.......................................................................................................................................................601

Stroking selections..............................................................................................................................................................................601

Modifying the borders of selections................................................................................................................................................... 602

Expanding or contracting selections................................................................................................................................................... 603

Adding to or subtracting from selections........................................................................................................................................... 603

Preparing selections for transformations.............................................................................................................................................604

Moving selections............................................................................................................................................................................... 605

Transforming a duplicate selection......................................................................................................................................................606

Scaling and rotating path-based selections.........................................................................................................................................606

Skewing and distorting path-based selections.................................................................................................................................... 608

Canceling transformations.................................................................................................................................................................. 610

Common options for effects............................................................................................................................................................. 611

Fading effects..................................................................................................................................................................................... 611

Applying recently used effects............................................................................................................................................................ 612

Changing effects with open panels.................................................................................................................................................... 612

Applying effects using source luminance............................................................................................................................................612

Using focus and esoterica effects......................................................................................................................................................613

Applying Smart Blur........................................................................................................................................................................... 613

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Applying Camera Motion Blur............................................................................................................................................................ 614

Applying Depth of Field..................................................................................................................................................................... 615

Applying Glass Distortion................................................................................................................................................................... 617

Applying Motion Blur......................................................................................................................................................................... 619

Sharpening focus................................................................................................................................................................................620

Softening focus.................................................................................................................................................................................. 620

Applying Zoom Blur........................................................................................................................................................................... 621

Applying Marbling..............................................................................................................................................................................622

Automatically cloning an image......................................................................................................................................................... 623

Applying the Auto Van Gogh effect................................................................................................................................................... 624

Applying Blobs................................................................................................................................................................................... 625

Creating custom tiles..........................................................................................................................................................................626

Applying Grid Paper........................................................................................................................................................................... 629

Applying Growth effects.....................................................................................................................................................................629

Applying Highpass..............................................................................................................................................................................630

Applying the Maze effect................................................................................................................................................................... 631

Placing elements.................................................................................................................................................................................632

Applying the Pop Art Fill effect.......................................................................................................................................................... 633

Using lighting and surface texture effects........................................................................................................................................ 635

Applying preset lighting effects.......................................................................................................................................................... 636

Adding, deleting, and repositioning lights..........................................................................................................................................636

Adjusting light properties................................................................................................................................................................... 637

Using paper to create texture.............................................................................................................................................................638

Using 3D brushstrokes to create texture.............................................................................................................................................639

Using image luminance to create texture........................................................................................................................................... 640

Using clone source or pattern luminance to create texture.................................................................................................................640

Creating embossed effects..................................................................................................................................................................641

Using channels and layer masks tocreate texture...............................................................................................................................642

Creating reflection maps.....................................................................................................................................................................643

Adjusting texture lighting................................................................................................................................................................... 644

Apply Surface Texture controls............................................................................................................................................................645

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Applying the Apply Screen effect....................................................................................................................................................... 646

Applying the Color Overlay effect.......................................................................................................................................................646

Applying the Dye Concentration effect............................................................................................................................................... 648

Applying the Express Texture effect.................................................................................................................................................... 650

Applying a warp effect.......................................................................................................................................................................651

Applying the Woodcut effect............................................................................................................................................................. 653

Applying the Distress effect................................................................................................................................................................655

Applying the Serigraphy effect........................................................................................................................................................... 656

Applying the Sketch effect................................................................................................................................................................. 657

Dynamic Plug-ins............................................................................................................................................................................... 659

Getting started with dynamic plug-ins............................................................................................................................................... 660

Modifying and deleting dynamic layers.............................................................................................................................................. 660

Converting dynamic layers.................................................................................................................................................................. 660

Applying the Brightness and Contrast dynamic plug-in...................................................................................................................... 661

Applying the Burn dynamic plug-in.................................................................................................................................................... 661

Applying the Tear dynamic plug-in..................................................................................................................................................... 663

Applying the Bevel World dynamic plug-in.........................................................................................................................................664

Applying the Equalize dynamic plug-in...............................................................................................................................................665

Applying the Glass Distortion dynamic plug-in................................................................................................................................... 666

Applying the Kaleidoscope dynamic plug-in....................................................................................................................................... 668

Applying the Liquid Lens dynamic plug-in..........................................................................................................................................669

Applying the Liquid Metal dynamic plug-in........................................................................................................................................ 672

Applying the Posterize dynamic plug-in..............................................................................................................................................679

Patterns..............................................................................................................................................................................................681

Applying pattern fills.......................................................................................................................................................................... 681

Painting with patterns........................................................................................................................................................................ 683

Creating and editing patterns.............................................................................................................................................................684

Creating seamless patterns................................................................................................................................................................. 687

Creating fractal patterns.....................................................................................................................................................................689

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Gradients........................................................................................................................................................................................... 693

Applying gradients............................................................................................................................................................................. 695

Editing gradients................................................................................................................................................................................ 698

Applying paint effects to gradients.....................................................................................................................................................702

Creating gradients.............................................................................................................................................................................. 704

Replacing image colors with gradient colors...................................................................................................................................... 706

Mosaics and tessellations.................................................................................................................................................................. 709

Creating a mosaic...............................................................................................................................................................................710

Selecting and removing tiles...............................................................................................................................................................712

Specifying tile and grout color........................................................................................................................................................... 713

Adjusting mosaic tile dimensions and randomness.............................................................................................................................714

Filling an area with tiles..................................................................................................................................................................... 717

Creating 3D tiles.................................................................................................................................................................................718

Re-rendering mosaic tiles....................................................................................................................................................................719

Stroking and filling a selection with mosaic tiles................................................................................................................................ 719

Adding mosaic effects to an image....................................................................................................................................................720

Creating tessellations.......................................................................................................................................................................... 721

Weaves...............................................................................................................................................................................................725

Applying weaves.................................................................................................................................................................................725

Editing and saving weaves................................................................................................................................................................. 726

Creating weave patterns.....................................................................................................................................................................727

Using the Edit Weave dialog box....................................................................................................................................................... 728

Defining warp and weft expressions...................................................................................................................................................730

Defining warp and weft color expressions..........................................................................................................................................731

Designing the tie-up...........................................................................................................................................................................732

Reference: Expression operators..........................................................................................................................................................734

Shapes................................................................................................................................................................................................743

Getting started with shapes............................................................................................................................................................... 744

Drawing shapes.................................................................................................................................................................................. 744

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