Corel Painter 2015 User guide

Corel® Painter® 2015 User Guide

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Contents

Welcome to Corel Painter..................................................................................................................... 1

Using the documentation.....................................................................................................................1

Adjusting the Help window text size....................................................................................................4

Additional resources............................................................................................................................. 5

Registration.......................................................................................................................................... 5

Corel Cinco for Painter......................................................................................................................... 6

Feedback.............................................................................................................................................. 7

About Corel Corporation...................................................................................................................... 7

What’s new in Corel Painter 2015........................................................................................................9

Revolutionary digital brushes................................................................................................................ 9

Enhanced speed and performance..................................................................................................... 11

A fully responsive experience.............................................................................................................. 12

Mobile art that moves you.................................................................................................................13

What was new in earlier versions of Corel Painter.............................................................................. 13

Workspace tour...................................................................................................................................23

Corel Painter terms.............................................................................................................................24

Exploring the Document window....................................................................................................... 26

Choosing a workspace layout.............................................................................................................29

Exploring the toolbox......................................................................................................................... 31

Displaying the toolbox........................................................................................................................37

Displaying the Media Selector bar...................................................................................................... 38

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Displaying the property bar................................................................................................................ 39

Exploring the Navigator panel............................................................................................................ 40

Displaying the Brush Selector bar and the Brush library panel.............................................................41

Displaying the command bar............................................................................................................. 43

Exploring panels and palettes.............................................................................................................43

Rearranging panels and palettes.........................................................................................................49

Creating and modifying custom palettes............................................................................................ 53

Managing custom palettes................................................................................................................. 55

Working with libraries........................................................................................................................ 56

Creating, importing, exporting, and deleting workspaces................................................................... 57

Restoring the default Corel Painter settings........................................................................................ 58

A short tour of Corel Painter for users of Adobe Photoshop..............................................................61

Creating, navigating, and manipulating documents...........................................................................67

Creating documents........................................................................................................................... 68

Understanding resolution................................................................................................................... 70

Opening and placing files.................................................................................................................. 71

Creating and opening templates........................................................................................................ 74

Switching document views................................................................................................................. 74

Navigating images and viewing image information............................................................................ 75

Zooming images.................................................................................................................................77

Rotating images and the canvas.........................................................................................................80

Flipping images.................................................................................................................................. 82

Repositioning images..........................................................................................................................84

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Cropping images................................................................................................................................ 85

Resizing images and the canvas......................................................................................................... 86

Saving and backing up files............................................................................................................... 88

Choosing a file format....................................................................................................................... 89

Emailing documents........................................................................................................................... 91

Closing documents and quitting the application................................................................................ 92

Using two monitors........................................................................................................................... 93

Support for tablets and other devices................................................................................................ 93

Multi-touch support........................................................................................................................... 93

Wacom Intuos support.......................................................................................................................96

Drag-and-drop features...................................................................................................................... 97

Keyboard shortcuts............................................................................................................................. 99

Customizing keys..............................................................................................................................101

Toolbox commands.......................................................................................................................... 104

Panel commands.............................................................................................................................. 107

Corel Painter menu commands.........................................................................................................107

File menu commands....................................................................................................................... 108

Edit menu commands...................................................................................................................... 108

Canvas menu commands................................................................................................................. 109

Layers menu commands................................................................................................................... 110

Select menu commands................................................................................................................... 110

Shapes menu commands................................................................................................................. 111

Effects menu commands.................................................................................................................. 111

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Window menu commands............................................................................................................... 111

Screen navigation............................................................................................................................. 112

Panel navigation............................................................................................................................... 112

Panel menu commands.................................................................................................................... 113

Brush tools....................................................................................................................................... 114

Selection tools.................................................................................................................................. 116

Adjuster tools................................................................................................................................... 116

Shape tools...................................................................................................................................... 118

Animation........................................................................................................................................ 120

Lighting............................................................................................................................................ 120

Layer selection tools......................................................................................................................... 121

Mosaics............................................................................................................................................ 121

Other commands............................................................................................................................. 121

Painting............................................................................................................................................. 123

Choosing a painting workflow......................................................................................................... 124

Brush tracking and calibration..........................................................................................................126

Exploring painting media..................................................................................................................131

Working with the canvas and layers.................................................................................................132

Displaying reference images............................................................................................................. 133

Clearing the canvas.......................................................................................................................... 134

Setting up the drawing cursor......................................................................................................... 134

Using a stylus vs. a mouse............................................................................................................... 136

Applying freehand and straight brushstrokes....................................................................................138

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

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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......................................................................................... 147

Reference: Troubleshooting...............................................................................................................149

Working with paper texture and grain............................................................................................. 151

Applying paper texture.....................................................................................................................152

Creating and deleting paper textures................................................................................................153

Opening and managing the Paper Textures library............................................................................155

Inverting and scaling paper grain..................................................................................................... 155

Controlling brightness and contrast of paper grain.......................................................................... 157

Adjusting grain direction and behavior.............................................................................................157

Auto-painting photos........................................................................................................................159

Creating underpaintings................................................................................................................... 160

Auto-painting photos....................................................................................................................... 162

Restoring detail to paintings.............................................................................................................165

Image cloning and sampling............................................................................................................ 167

Cloning images................................................................................................................................ 167

Using Quick Clone............................................................................................................................171

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Setting cloning preferences.............................................................................................................. 172

Working with multiple clone sources................................................................................................173

Editing, updating, saving, and exporting clone source images.......................................................... 174

Painting in the clone........................................................................................................................ 176

Using brush loading.........................................................................................................................179

Performing offset sampling.............................................................................................................. 179

Applying transformations when sampling.........................................................................................182

Using selections and transformations when sampling.......................................................................191

Filling an area with a sampled image...............................................................................................193

Working with composition tools, symmetry tools, rulers, and guides.............................................. 195

Using the Layout Grid...................................................................................................................... 196

Using the Mirror Painting mode....................................................................................................... 198

Using the Kaleidoscope Painting mode.............................................................................................201

Using Perspective Guides.................................................................................................................. 203

Using the Divine Proportion tool...................................................................................................... 208

Using rulers......................................................................................................................................211

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

Using Snap to Guides...................................................................................................................... 213

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

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

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

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

Resizing the Color panel...................................................................................................................221

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Showing or hiding Color panel components.....................................................................................221

Using the temporal colors palette.................................................................................................... 222

Changing the paper color................................................................................................................ 223

Sampling colors from images........................................................................................................... 223

Cloning color....................................................................................................................................224

Creating two-color brushstrokes....................................................................................................... 224

Exploring the Mixer panel and mixing controls................................................................................. 226

Displaying and resizing the Mixer panel........................................................................................... 228

Mixing, sampling, and applying colors from the Mixer pad.............................................................. 229

Opening images in the Mixer panel................................................................................................. 231

Changing and saving the Mixer color swatches................................................................................ 232

Saving Mixer panel colors to a color set...........................................................................................232

Clearing and resetting Mixer panel colors.........................................................................................233

Saving the Mixer pad....................................................................................................................... 234

Loading color swatches and Mixer pad files..................................................................................... 234

Working with color sets................................................................................................................... 235

Customizing the layouts of color sets...............................................................................................236

Creating and exporting color sets.....................................................................................................237

Editing color sets..............................................................................................................................238

Setting color variability.....................................................................................................................240

Setting Color Expression................................................................................................................... 240

Loading multiple colors.................................................................................................................... 240

Working with color fills.................................................................................................................... 241

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Applying a color as a fill.................................................................................................................. 242

Limiting and preventing leakage.......................................................................................................244

Color management........................................................................................................................... 247

Understanding color management................................................................................................... 247

Specifying the default RGB color profile........................................................................................... 251

Embedding color profiles when saving files...................................................................................... 252

Specifying the default CMYK color profile for converting CMYK images to RGB.................................253

Previewing and soft-proofing color profiles...................................................................................... 253

Assigning or removing color profiles................................................................................................ 254

Converting color profiles.................................................................................................................. 255

Working with color profile policies................................................................................................... 256

Working with presets....................................................................................................................... 257

Correcting and adjusting colors........................................................................................................259

Correcting colors using curves.......................................................................................................... 260

Adjusting brightness and contrast.................................................................................................... 261

Using the curve to correct colors......................................................................................................264

Drawing freehand curves to adjust colors.........................................................................................266

Specifying the curve values to adjust colors......................................................................................267

Adjusting hue, saturation, and value................................................................................................268

Adjusting selected colors.................................................................................................................. 271

Equalizing images.............................................................................................................................274

Matching color and brightness across images.................................................................................. 276

Inverting colors.................................................................................................................................277

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Posterizing an image........................................................................................................................ 278

Applying video legal colors...............................................................................................................279

Dodging and burning.......................................................................................................................279

Libraries.............................................................................................................................................281

Importing and exporting libraries..................................................................................................... 281

Creating and removing libraries........................................................................................................282

Modifying the display of library panels.............................................................................................283

Moving, renaming, and deleting library resources............................................................................ 285

Restoring default libraries................................................................................................................. 285

Selecting, managing, and creating brushes...................................................................................... 287

Understanding brushes.....................................................................................................................288

Exploring brush categories............................................................................................................... 288

Searching and selecting brushes.......................................................................................................304

Setting basic brush attributes........................................................................................................... 306

Displaying advanced brush controls dynamically...............................................................................310

Organizing and displaying brushes in the Brush library panel........................................................... 310

Copying and moving brush variants................................................................................................. 312

Renaming brush categories and variants.......................................................................................... 312

Saving and deleting brush variants...................................................................................................313

Restoring default brush variants....................................................................................................... 315

Creating and deleting brush categories............................................................................................ 315

Creating and deleting brush libraries................................................................................................ 316

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Importing and exporting brush libraries, categories, and variants..................................................... 317

Saving a brush look......................................................................................................................... 321

Creating brush dabs......................................................................................................................... 321

Adjusting brushes with brush controls............................................................................................. 325

Exploring Brush Controls.................................................................................................................. 326

Expression settings........................................................................................................................... 327

Previewing brushstrokes and brush dabs.......................................................................................... 329

Calibrating brush variants.................................................................................................................330

General controls............................................................................................................................... 332

General controls: Dab types............................................................................................................. 332

General controls: Stroke types.......................................................................................................... 337

General controls: Methods and subcategories.................................................................................. 339

General controls: Source.................................................................................................................. 342

General controls: Multicore.............................................................................................................. 343

Opacity controls............................................................................................................................... 343

Grain controls...................................................................................................................................345

Stroke Attribute controls.................................................................................................................. 347

Size controls.....................................................................................................................................349

Angle controls.................................................................................................................................. 353

Spacing controls...............................................................................................................................357

Changing dab profiles...................................................................................................................... 359

Real Watercolor controls.................................................................................................................. 362

Real Wet Oil controls....................................................................................................................... 367

Computed Circular controls.............................................................................................................. 373

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Hard Media controls.........................................................................................................................373

Bristle controls..................................................................................................................................374

RealBristle controls........................................................................................................................... 375

Static Bristle controls........................................................................................................................ 375

Airbrush controls.............................................................................................................................. 378

Artists’ Oils controls......................................................................................................................... 381

Impasto controls.............................................................................................................................. 385

Digital Watercolor controls...............................................................................................................385

Water controls..................................................................................................................................385

Liquid Ink controls............................................................................................................................390

Stroke Jitter controls.........................................................................................................................397

Well controls.................................................................................................................................... 398

Mouse controls................................................................................................................................ 401

Smoothing controls.......................................................................................................................... 402

Image Hose controls........................................................................................................................ 403

Rake controls....................................................................................................................................403

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

Cloning controls............................................................................................................................... 407

Color Variability controls...................................................................................................................415

Color Expression controls..................................................................................................................417

Jitter brushes.....................................................................................................................................419

Choosing a Jitter brush variant.........................................................................................................419

Controlling the behavior of Jitter variants.........................................................................................422

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Watercolor.........................................................................................................................................423

Working with the Watercolor layer...................................................................................................424

Watercolor brushes and paper texture interaction............................................................................ 425

Working with Real Watercolor brushes.............................................................................................426

Working with Watercolor brushes.................................................................................................... 427

Working with Digital Watercolor brushes......................................................................................... 428

Particle brushes................................................................................................................................. 431

The New Brushes workspace layout..................................................................................................432

Gravity Particle brushes.....................................................................................................................432

Flow Particle brushes........................................................................................................................ 435

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

General Particle brush controls......................................................................................................... 442

Info palettes..................................................................................................................................... 447

Applying and adjusting flow maps...................................................................................................449

Getting started with flow maps....................................................................................................... 449

Choosing flow maps and compatible brush variants.........................................................................450

Enabling flow maps and controlling flow resistance......................................................................... 452

Customizing flow maps....................................................................................................................453

Hard Media....................................................................................................................................... 457

Choosing a Hard Media variant........................................................................................................457

Modifying Hard Media profiles.........................................................................................................460

Controlling the behavior of Hard Media variants.............................................................................. 462

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Previewing Hard Media dabs............................................................................................................ 463

Markers............................................................................................................................................. 465

Getting started with markers............................................................................................................465

Customizing markers........................................................................................................................ 467

Image hose....................................................................................................................................... 469

Using the Image hose...................................................................................................................... 470

Adjusting Image hose opacity and grain.......................................................................................... 471

Adjusting the size and spacing of image hose elements................................................................... 473

Indexing nozzle files.........................................................................................................................474

Understanding nozzles, ranks, and indexing.....................................................................................476

Creating a 1-Rank nozzle................................................................................................................. 479

Creating a 2-Rank nozzle................................................................................................................. 481

Creating a 3-Rank nozzle................................................................................................................. 483

Loading and managing nozzle files.................................................................................................. 485

Creating a nozzle from a movie....................................................................................................... 487

RealBristle brushes............................................................................................................................ 491

Getting started with RealBristle brushes........................................................................................... 492

Modifying RealBristle settings........................................................................................................... 492

Liquid Ink.......................................................................................................................................... 497

Working with Liquid Ink brushes......................................................................................................497

Adjusting attributes of the Liquid Ink layer.......................................................................................498

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Using Liquid Ink controls..................................................................................................................498

Impasto............................................................................................................................................. 501

Applying, displaying, and clearing impasto.......................................................................................501

Adjusting and creating Impasto brushes...........................................................................................503

Adjusting Impasto lighting and depth.............................................................................................. 507

Blending impasto with other layers.................................................................................................. 510

Layers................................................................................................................................................ 513

Getting started with layers............................................................................................................... 514

Displaying the Layers panel.............................................................................................................. 517

Creating and deleting layers............................................................................................................. 520

Converting selections into layers or floating objects..........................................................................521

Naming and adding notes to layers................................................................................................. 523

Selecting layers.................................................................................................................................524

Copying and duplicating layers.........................................................................................................526

Moving layers................................................................................................................................... 528

Transforming layers...........................................................................................................................530

Aligning layers..................................................................................................................................532

Locking layers................................................................................................................................... 533

Showing or hiding layers..................................................................................................................533

Changing layer order........................................................................................................................534

Viewing layer position...................................................................................................................... 536

Grouping layers................................................................................................................................ 536

Dropping layers with the canvas...................................................................................................... 539

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Painting on layers.............................................................................................................................539

Preserving layer transparency............................................................................................................541

Adjusting layer opacity..................................................................................................................... 542

Adding drop shadows to layers........................................................................................................543

Blending layers by using composite methods................................................................................... 543

Creating and deleting layer masks....................................................................................................552

Applying layer masks........................................................................................................................554

Loading layer masks to selections.....................................................................................................555

Selecting and viewing layer masks....................................................................................................555

Enabling and disabling layers masks.................................................................................................556

Copying layer masks.........................................................................................................................557

Inverting layer masks........................................................................................................................557

Editing layer masks...........................................................................................................................558

Importing and exporting layers.........................................................................................................558

Working with reference layers.......................................................................................................... 559

Storing layers as images in the Image Portfolio................................................................................ 561

Alpha Channels................................................................................................................................. 563

Creating and copying channels.........................................................................................................564

Generating channels automatically................................................................................................... 565

Importing and exporting alpha channels.......................................................................................... 567

Selecting and viewing channels........................................................................................................ 567

Setting channel attributes................................................................................................................ 570

Deleting and clearing channels.........................................................................................................571

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Editing channels............................................................................................................................... 571

Selections and transformations.........................................................................................................577

Getting started with selections......................................................................................................... 578

Creating path-based selections......................................................................................................... 580

Creating pixel-based selections......................................................................................................... 583

Creating selections from layers......................................................................................................... 586

Choosing the protected area of a selection...................................................................................... 588

Saving selections as alpha channels..................................................................................................588

Working with the Selection Portfolio................................................................................................ 592

Viewing selections............................................................................................................................ 593

Inverting selections........................................................................................................................... 594

Softening the edges of selections.....................................................................................................594

Stroking selections............................................................................................................................595

Modifying the borders of selections................................................................................................. 596

Expanding or contracting selections................................................................................................. 597

Adding to or subtracting from selections......................................................................................... 598

Preparing selections for transformations...........................................................................................600

Moving selections.............................................................................................................................600

Transforming a duplicate selection................................................................................................... 602

Scaling and rotating path-based selections.......................................................................................602

Skewing and distorting path-based selections.................................................................................. 604

Canceling transformations................................................................................................................ 606

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Common options for effects.............................................................................................................609

Fading effects...................................................................................................................................609

Applying recently used effects.......................................................................................................... 610

Changing effects with open panels.................................................................................................. 611

Applying effects using source luminance..........................................................................................611

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

Applying Smart Blur......................................................................................................................... 614

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

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

Applying Glass Distortion................................................................................................................. 618

Applying Motion Blur....................................................................................................................... 622

Sharpening focus..............................................................................................................................623

Softening focus................................................................................................................................ 624

Applying Zoom Blur......................................................................................................................... 625

Applying Marbling............................................................................................................................626

Automatically cloning an image....................................................................................................... 628

Applying the Auto Van Gogh effect................................................................................................. 629

Applying Blobs................................................................................................................................. 630

Creating custom tiles........................................................................................................................632

Applying Grid Paper......................................................................................................................... 636

Applying Growth effects...................................................................................................................636

Applying Highpass............................................................................................................................638

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Applying the Maze effect................................................................................................................. 639

Placing elements...............................................................................................................................640

Applying the Pop Art Fill effect........................................................................................................ 642

Using lighting and surface texture effects........................................................................................645

Applying preset lighting effects........................................................................................................ 646

Adding, deleting, and repositioning lights........................................................................................647

Adjusting light properties................................................................................................................. 648

Using paper to create texture...........................................................................................................649

Using 3D brushstrokes to create texture...........................................................................................650

Using image luminance to create texture......................................................................................... 651

Using clone source or pattern luminance to create texture............................................................... 652

Creating embossed effects................................................................................................................653

Using channels and layer masks tocreate texture.............................................................................654

Creating reflection maps.................................................................................................................. 655

Adjusting texture lighting................................................................................................................. 657

Apply Surface Texture controls..........................................................................................................659

Applying the Apply Screen effect..................................................................................................... 660

Applying the Color Overlay effect.....................................................................................................660

Applying the Dye Concentration effect............................................................................................. 663

Applying the Express Texture effect.................................................................................................. 666

Applying a warp effect.....................................................................................................................668

Applying the Woodcut effect........................................................................................................... 670

Applying the Distress effect.............................................................................................................. 672

Applying the Serigraphy effect......................................................................................................... 674

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