User manual COREL PAINTER IX

[. . . ] Corel® PainterTM IX User Guide The contents of this user guide and the associated Corel Painter software are the property of Corel Corporation and its respective licensors, and are protected by copyright. For more complete copyright information about Corel Painter, please refer to the About Corel Painter section in the Help menu of the software. Corel, the Corel logo, Corel Painter, CorelDRAW KPT , Gel, Goo, LensFlare, , Lightning, Pyramid Paint, Reaction, ShapeShifter, and Natural-Media are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in Canada, the U. S. Adobe, Illustrator, Photoshop, PostScript, and Premiere are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. [. . . ] By creating your own set of images, you can paint with a unique image series. The Image Hose feature allows you to paint with images. The Image Hose deposits 24-bit images with an 8-bit mask. The mask enables you to layer the images gently, without aliased edges or artifacts. You can load the Image Hose with images of any description -- leaves, bark, grass, stones, people, or whatever you want. When you paint with these image elements, you can build them into coherent shapes, such as a tree, hill, cobblestone street, or crowd of people. Image Hose 191 How the Image Hose Works The Image Hose is a brush. On a garden hose, you attach a nozzle to control the flow of water; in Corel Painter, you attach a nozzle to the Image Hose to control its medium -- images. Usually, the images are similar and form a logical series -- that is, the images progress along some order. It is not necessary for images to progress in a logical series, but the Image Hose is more effective when they do. "Indexing" refers to the method used to select particular images from the many images in a nozzle file. Which method (indexing rule) to use for selecting nozzle images is controlled in the Brush Creator by modifying the Image Hose settings on the Stroke Designer tab. You can hose images sequentially, at random, or based on pressure, stroke direction, or several other factors. The images are indexed so that Corel Painter can locate and paint specific images on request. As you paint with the Image Hose, you can request specific images from the nozzle index by varying your input value. For example, you can set up the nozzle so that by pressing harder with a pressure-sensitive stylus, you paint with larger images. If you want more variety in the images, create more images in the nozzle file. For more information about designing and creating nozzle files, see "Creating, Loading, and Saving Nozzles for the Image Hose" in the Help. As your Image Hose requirements become more exacting, you can create complex nozzles that involve two progressions -- for example, images getting larger and changing angle. In this case, you'll use one input factor to determine image size and use another factor to determine image angle. This creates a 2-Rank nozzle. 192 Corel Painter User Guide A 2-Rank nozzle progresses in two dimensions. In this example, the first rank changes angle, and the second rank changes size. Getting Started with the Image Hose Corel Painter lets you select nozzles containing various images to use with the Image Hose. You can adjust the opacity, size, color, position, and spacing of the images you paint. Image Hose Basics The Image Hose is easy to use and offers a number of options for the behavior of "nozzle spray. " As with other Corel Painter brushes, the Image Hose has several variants. These built-in variants combine nozzle control factors (indexing rules) with brush settings to create different hose effects. The Nozzle Selector in the toolbox. Image Hose 193 Variants are divided into two types -- Spray and Linear -- according to the placement of images in relation to the stroke. [. . . ] 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. To preview an image 1 On the Info palette, click the palette menu arrow. 386 Corel Painter User Guide 2 Choose one of the following: · To view the image as it appears on your canvas with no relation to the printing paper, choose Canvas Preview. · To view the image as it will appear on the currently selected printing paper, choose Page Layout Preview. 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. For example, when this option is enabled, a 12-by-12-inch image would be resized to fit on an 8. 5-by-11-inch page. To size an image to fit your page 1 Do one of the following: · (Mac OS) From the menu bar, choose File menu > Page Setup, and choose Corel Painter IX from the Settings pop-up menu. [. . . ]