User manual COREL PAINTER ESSENTIALS 3

[. . . ] Painter Essentials 3 USER GUIDE Copyright 1991 - 2005 Corel Corporation. Corel® PainterTM Essentials 3 Getting Started Guide The contents of this user guide and the associated Corel Painter Essentials software are the property of Corel Corporation and its respective licensors, and are protected by copyright. For more complete copyright information about Corel Painter Essentials, please refer to the About Corel Painter Essentials 3 section in the Help menu of the software. Corel, the Corel logo, Corel Painter Essentials, Corel Painter, Natural-Media, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and Corel Photo Album are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in Canada, the U. S. [. . . ] Each nozzle file contains multiple images that are organized by characteristics such as size, color, and angle. Each characteristic (parameter) can be linked to a stylus attribute (animator), such as Velocity, Pressure, and Direction. The name of each Image Hose variant tells you which parameter and animator are in effect. For example, the Linear-Size-P Angle-R brush variant links size to stylus pressure (P) and sets the angle randomly (R). Linear-Angle-B (Bearing) Linear-Size-P (Pressure) Oils Oil brush variants let you create effects you'd expect from oil paints. Some variants are semitransparent and can be used to produce a glazed effect. Other variants are opaque and cover underlying brush strokes. Painting 79 Fine Camel Opaque Flat Smeary Round Palette Knives You can use Palette Knife brush variants to scrape, push, or pick up and drag colors in your image. Only one Palette Knife brush variant, the Loaded Palette Knife, applies the current paint color. Palette Knife dabs are always parallel to the shaft of the stylus. Loaded Palette Knife Palette Knife applied to a brush stroke Smeary Palette Knife Pastels Pastels range from hard pastel styles that reveal the paper grain to extra soft pastels that glide on to completely cover existing brush strokes. Opacity is linked to stylus pressure. Artist Pastel Chalk Soft Pastel 80 Corel Painter Essentials 3 User Guide Pattern Pens Pattern Pen brush variants let you use a brush to apply a pattern to an image. Pattern Pen Pattern Pen Masked Pattern Pen Soft Edge Pencils Pencil brush variants are great for any artwork that would traditionally require pencils; from rough sketches to fine line drawings. Like their natural counterparts, Pencil brush variants interact with canvas texture. All of the variants build to black and link opacity to stylus pressure. The width of Pencil strokes varies according to the speed of the stroke, so dragging quickly produces a thinner line and dragging slowly leaves a thicker line. 2B Pencil Grainy Variable Pencil Tinting Tinting brush variants let you apply effects to photos or existing artwork. For example, you can apply translucent color to areas of a black and white photo using the Basic Round brush variant. Painting 81 Basic Round Blender Soft Grainy Round Selecting a Brush On the Brush Selector bar, you can choose from brush variants that are arranged in recognizable categories. Corel Painter Essentials brushes are built to emulate NaturalMedia tools, which lets you select a tool with a reasonable expectation of how it will behave. In an art store, if the tools in one aisle don't produce the results you want, you can try a different aisle. Similarly, with Corel Painter Essentials, you can try different brush categories to find the tool you want. To show the Brush Selector bar · In the toolbox, double-click the Brush tool . You can also show the Brush Selector bar by choosing Window menu > Show Brush Selector Bar. To choose a brush 1 On the Brush Selector bar, choose a brush category from the Brush Category selector. 2 Choose a variant from the Brush Variant selector. 82 Corel Painter Essentials 3 User Guide The Brush Category pop-up menu of the Brush Selector bar. Choosing Brush Settings Basic brush controls for size, opacity, and grain are located on the property bar. The property bar may also contain additional controls for the selected brush category, such as resaturation, bleed, and jitter. When a brush is selected and positioned over the canvas, the cursor changes, by default, into a "ghost" of the brush -- mirroring size and shape -- so you can see the area that you're about to paint. This ghost brush provides a handy way to see if a change in size is required. Setting Brush Size The Size slider on the property bar determines the size of a single brush dab. The text field next to this slider lets you enter a specific size (in pixels). Painting 83 To set brush size 1 Choose the Brush tool from the toolbox. 3 On the property bar, type a value in the Size box, or adjust the pop-up slider. [. . . ] Instead of creating a composited version by dropping all the layers in the image, you can clone the file and then print the clone. Keep layers in the saved RIFF file so you can return and make changes. For more information, see "Cloning a Document" on page 104. Printing 165 Printing Your Work Corel Painter Essentials offers a wide range of printing options for a number of output devices. You can preview and size the image before you print it. Setting Up Printing Options for setting up your file for printing depend on several factors: the output device, color versus black-and-white printing, and whether you are printing separations. To access print settings · Choose File menu > Page Setup. Sizing an Image If you want to print an image that is larger than a selected page size, you can size the image to fit the page. [. . . ]