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Contents Welcome to Corel Painter 8 What's New in Corel Painter 8? . . . . . . . 1 Redesigned User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . 1 About Your User Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Corel Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Saving Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Closing Documents and Quitting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Using Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Wacom Intuos Support . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 The Workspace Using the Menus and Document Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Workspace Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Using the Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Using Selectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Using the Property Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Using the Brush Selector Bar . . . . . . . . 15 The Brush Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Working with Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Exploring the Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Setting Palette Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Libraries and Movers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Modifying a Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Customizing Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Creating Custom Palettes . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using Textures, Patterns, and Weaves Using Paper Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Using Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Using Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Color Working with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Changing Paper Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 The Mixer Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Using Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Color Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Color Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Color Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Annotating Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Using Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Basics Opening Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Working with Documents . . . . . . . . . . 37 Painting Exploring Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Understanding Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Using a Stylus or Mouse . . . . . . . . . Selecting a Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brush Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Where You Can Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . Marking the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . Painting with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . Painting with Gradients and Patterns Painting with Airbrushes . . . . . . . . . Recording and Playing Back Strokes . Filling Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 103 104 106 106 108 112 114 117 118 Using Water Color The Water Color Layer . . . . . . . . . . . Working with Water Color Variants . Water Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Digital Water Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 126 126 127 Using Liquid Ink The Liquid Ink Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Impasto The Impasto Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating an Impasto Effect . . . . . . . . Adjusting Impasto Depth . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Surface Lighting . . . . . . . . Creating Custom Impasto Brushes . . Blending Impasto with Other Layers . 135 136 136 137 138 141 Using the Randomizer . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Transposer . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Stroke Designer . . . . . . . . Setting Size Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting Spacing Controls . . . . . . . . . Setting Angle Controls . . . . . . . . . . . Setting Bristle Controls . . . . . . . . . . . Expression Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting Well Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting Rake Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting Random Controls . . . . . . . . . Setting Mouse Controls . . . . . . . . . . Setting Cloning Controls . . . . . . . . . Setting Impasto Controls . . . . . . . . . Setting Image Hose Controls . . . . . . Setting Airbrush Controls . . . . . . . . . Setting Water Controls . . . . . . . . . . Setting Liquid Ink Controls . . . . . . . . Setting Digital Water Color Controls . Managing Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 147 147 155 158 160 162 164 165 167 169 172 172 173 175 175 176 179 182 183 Turning Other Brushes into Cloners . Using a Selection while Cloning . . . . Repeating Source Imagery . . . . . . . . Filling with Transformed Cloning . . . 197 199 201 201 Using Selections Working with Selections . . . . . . . . . Creating Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . Converting Selections to and from Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loading Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Combining Selections Using Boolean Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transforming Selections . . . . . . . . . . Editing Path-Based Selections . . . . . . Using the Selection Portfolio . . . . . . 203 206 210 210 211 212 214 214 217 Using Alpha Channels Understanding Alpha Channels . . . . Creating Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 220 222 225 Cloning and Tracing Cloning Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cloning a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Tracing Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changing Clone Source . . . . . . . . . . Painting in the Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Auto Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Auto Van Gogh . . . . . . . . . . . Point-to-Point Cloning . . . . . . . . . . . Multi-Point Cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 188 188 190 190 191 192 192 193 Using Layers and Layer Masks Layer Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Working with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving Files Containing Layers . . . . . Deleting Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 231 232 234 235 235 240 The Brush Creator Customizing Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Using the Brush Creator . . . . . . . . . . 143 The Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 ii Table of contents Changing Layer Characteristics . . . . . 248 Using the Image Portfolio . . . . . . . . . 254 Working with Layer Masks . . . . . . . . 255 Using Image Effects Basics of Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . Third-party Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orientation Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Correct Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other Tonal Control Effects . . . . . . . Apply Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apply Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . Other Surface Control Effects . . . . . . Focus Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Esoterica Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Objects Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 261 262 264 268 274 277 286 294 299 312 Using the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . Controlling the Image Hose . . . . . . . Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Nozzles for the Image Hose Nozzle Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a Nozzle from a Movie . . . . 334 336 337 340 347 347 Image Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating GIF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Web-Safe Colors . . . . . . . . . . . Brushes for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 409 411 412 Scripting Understanding Scripting . . . . . . . . . . How Scripts Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Scripts Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recording Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playing Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scripts and Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 416 416 417 418 419 420 Mosaics Getting Started with Mosaics . . . . . . Tile Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Working with Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . Mosaic Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Working with Tessellation Mosaics . . 351 354 356 357 360 Using Shapes About Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting Shape Attributes . . . . . . . . . . Editing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Working with Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 368 372 373 378 Animation and Video Creating Animations and Video . . . . The Frame Stacks Palette . . . . . . . . . Creating a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modifying a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Animation Considerations . . . . . . . . . Combining Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rotoscoping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving and Exporting Movies . . . . . . Animations for the World Wide Web 423 424 425 429 430 431 432 438 442 Using Dynamic Plug-ins Dynamic Plug-in Basics . . . . . . . . . . . Brightness/Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bevel World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Equalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glass Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaleidoscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liquid Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liquid Metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posterize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 315 316 317 317 319 320 321 322 326 331 Working with Text The Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Applying Effects to Text . . . . . . . . . . 386 Exporting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 The Web Features for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Web Page Backgrounds . . . Creating Web Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Image Slicer . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 393 396 397 403 Printing Understanding Printing . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Setting Up Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446 Printing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 The Color Management Dialog Box . . 448 Options for Files Saved as Encapsulated The Image Hose How it Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 Corel Painter iii PostScript (EPS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 Keyboard Shortcuts Toolbox Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . Palette Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . File Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . Edit Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . Canvas Menu Commands . . . . . . . . Effects Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . Select Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . Shapes Menu Commands . . . . . . . . Window Menu Commands . . . . . . . Screen Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Palette Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brush Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selection Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjuster Tools . . . ...