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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shape Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Layer Section Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 457 457 457 458 458 458 458 459 459 459 459 460 461 462 463 463 463 464 iv Table of contents 1 Welcome to Corel Painter 8 Digital water color, a new Sketch effect, and more than 400 new brushes all expand your creative potential. You can create custom brush variants using the new Brush Creator, which includes the Randomizer, Transposer, and Stroke Designer. Corel Painter also includes redesigned layer masks and channels that provide a smoother workflow and greater compatibility with Adobe® Photoshop®. Corel® PainterTM 8 is the leading Natural-Media® painting application. Corel Painter lets you simulate a wide range of art tools, from felt pens, charcoal, and colored pencils to water color and oils. What's New in Corel Painter 8? Corel Painter lets you experiment with the widest range of Natural-Media tools. You can expand your digital drawing and painting techniques with a portfolio of new features. Corel Painter features a redesigned user interface, including a new toolbox, Brush selector bar, property bar, Info palette, and new palette design and behavior. Corel Painter also includes a Mixer palette that realistically mimics the traditional paint mixing experience. Redesigned User Interface Corel Painter features a redesigned user interface, which is based on the following new elements. Toolbox The toolbox has been redesigned vertically and, by default, is docked to the top-left corner of the document window. The toolbox lets you access the tools in Corel Painter, as well as the primary and secondary colors, and provides easy access to the Paper, Pattern, Gradient, Nozzle, Weave, and Brush Look libraries. The toolbox can be undocked and moved anywhere inside the application window, or it can be turned off. and variant is displayed on the right side of the Brush Selector. You have the option to view the categories and variants by a thumbnail or list view. The Brush Selector is docked, by default, to the top-right corner of the document window, beside the property bar. It can be undocked and moved to any location in the document window, or it can be turned off. Info Palette The new Info palette provides access to the following information: · Image size preview · Document information, such as width and height · X and Y coordinates and the cursor position · Context-sensitive information based on the selected tool. For example, if the Eyedropper tool is selected, the HSV and RGB information is displayed. · Unit information, such as pixels, inches, and resolution Property Bar The property bar replaces the Controls palette. The property bar is context-sensitive depending on which tool is selected, providing commonly used controls for each tool. The property bar is docked below the menu bar by default, but it can be undocked and moved to any location in the document window, or turned off. Palettes The palettes have been redesigned for this version of Corel Painter, and they include the following new features: · Group/Ungroup -- You can group and ungroup palettes by dragging them together or apart to create any combination of palettes. · Resizeable -- You can increase or decrease the size of list palettes, such as the Layers, Channels, and Scripts palettes. Mixer Palette The new Mixer palette lets you mix colors interactively. The Mixer palette contains a Brush tool and a Palette Knife tool for applying and mixing colors, mimicking the traditional experience of mixing two or more colors on a palette. Brush Selector The Brush Selector lets you choose a brush category, using the Brush Category picker, and a brush variant, using the Brush Variant picker. The name of the selected brush category 2 Welcome to Corel Painter 8 The Mixer palette also includes an Eyedropper tool for sampling specially mixed colors from imagery, as well as Zoom and Pan tools for easy navigation in the palette. You can choose to save your Mixer palette settings for future use, and you can create a custom color set from the colors in the Mixer palette. New Brush Variants Corel Painter includes over 400 new Brush variants. New brushes are included in the following categories: · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Acrylics Airbrushes Artists Blenders Calligraphy Pens Chalks Charcoals Colored Pencils Conte Crayons Digital Water Color Distortion Erasers Felt Pens F-X Gouache Image Hose Liquid Ink Oil Pastels Digital Water Color Digital Water Color is a simple, transparent medium that is ideal for hand painting line drawings, touching up photographs, or creating simple water color washes. · · · · · · · · · · · Oils Palette Knives Pastels Pattern Pens Pencils Pens Photo Sponges Sumi-e Tinting Water Colors Brush Creator Corel Painter features a Brush Creator, which is designed to make the brush variant creation process easy and fun. The Brush Creator includes three key features: · Randomizer -- The Randomizer lets you choose an existing brush variant and randomize its properties to create a new variant. You can set the amount of randomization to determine how much of the original brush's Corel Painter 3 Sketch Effect The new Sketch effect in Corel Painter lets you convert images or photographs to simple pencil drawings, while providing controls for the amount of paper grain being applied, the heaviness of the pencil line, and the desired level of detail. properties remain--a low amount will result in variants that are very similar to the original, while a high amount will result in variants that are radically different. To help you visualize how the new brush variants will look, the Randomizer provides a brush stroke preview of each new variant. · Transposer -- The Transposer lets you change the properties of one brush variant using the properties of another. For example, you can choose the 2B Pencil and create brush variants that are mutated toward another variant, such as Charcoal. To help you visualize how the new brush variants will look, the Transposer provides a brush stroke preview of each new variant. · Stroke Designer -- The Stroke Designer lets you modify the properties of brush variants using advanced controls. The Stroke Designer has 16 different sets of controls: General, Size, Spacing, Angle, Bristle, Well, Rake, 4 Random, Mouse, Cloning, Impasto, Image Hose, Airbrush, Water, Digital Water, and Liquid Ink. To make the brush creation process more visual and interactive, the Stroke Designer includes a live preview that updates each time you make changes to the brush variant. Industry-Standard Masks, Layer Masks, and Channels Layer Masks: The redesigned layer masks let you hide and reveal areas of layers without making permanent changes to an image. Channels: The Channels palette lets you use alpha channels to create and store masks to modify, separate, and preserve specific areas of an image. · Enhanced keyboard shortcuts to make it easier to transition between Corel Painter and other applications · Enhanced file compatibility with Adobe Photoshop · New paper textures, patterns, Image Hose nozzles, brush looks, gradients, and more! · Extra content CD, including 100 pictures from http://www.brandxpictures.com, hundreds of brushes, paper textures, and more! About Your User Guide You can find answers to most of your questions in the Corel® PainterTM User Guide. It provides information you need to get the most out of Corel Painter. The Corel Painter User Guide is for both the Mac OS® and Windows® platforms. As a convention, Mac OS commands precede Windows commands in the text. And So Much More... · Thumbnail previews for Layers, Layer Masks, and Channels · Brush cursor preview that lets you see the size of the brush you're painting with Welcome to Corel Painter 8 When a modifier key differs between the Mac OS and Windows, the Mac OS modifier is listed first, followed by the Windows modifier. For example, Command + I (Mac OS) or Ctrl + I (Windows) means that Mac OS users would press Command + I and Windows users would press Ctrl + I. Choosing a menu item from a menu follows the convention "Choose menu name > menu item." For simplicity, the term "folder" refers to directories as well as folders. The Corel Painter interface for Mac OS and Windows platforms is identical, unless otherwise specified. · by mail--send the product registration card to the Corel Customer Service Center nearest you · during installation--follow the instructions provided by the product setup Corel Support Services Corel Support Services can provide you with prompt and accurate information about product features, specifications, pricing, availability, services, and technical support. For the most current information on support services available for your Corel product, please visit www.corel.com/support. Registering Products Registering products is important. Registration provides you with timely access to the latest product updates, valuable information about product releases, and access to free downloads, articles, tips and tricks, and special offers. You can register a Corel product · online--follow the instructions provided on the Corel Web site Corel Painter 5 2 The Workspace The document window lets you access the following features with the click of a button: · · · · · · tracing paper grid color correction impasto effect drawing mode navigation The Corel Painter workspace has been designed to give you easy access to tools, effects, commands, and features. The workspace is organized across a series of menus, selectors, and interactive palettes. Some features are also available in the frame of the document window. Using the Menus and Document Window Using the commands on the Corel Painter menu bar, you can: · work with files and editing commands · adjust and apply effects · perform selection operations, work with shapes, and create animations · control the document window or the Corel Painter workspace Workspace Tour Menu bar Property bar Toolbox Brush selector Colors palette Color Selection box Content selectors Layers palette Canvas Document window Drawing mode icon Navigation icon Zoom slider 8 The Workspace Using the Toolbox In the toolbox, there are tools to make marks, draw shapes, fill shapes with color, view and navigate, and make selections. There are also six selectors that let you choose papers, gradients, patterns, weaves, looks, and nozzles. Some tools of similar function share a space in the toolbox. The button for only one of these tools is displayed at a time. Any tool that has a triangle in the bottom-right corner has one or more tools underneath it in a flyout menu. The toolbox is open by default; however, it can be closed. You can move the toolbox around the document window, and you can dock the toolbox to the document window or to other palettes. The current tool can be modified by options on the property bar, which change as you change tools. For more information, see "Using the Property Bar" on page 14. To access tools grouped in flyout menus: Some tools share a space in the toolbox. Hold down the tool button that's displayed to open the flyout menu. To close the toolbox 1 In the toolbox, hold down the tool icon whose flyout menu you want to open. 2 Choose the tool you want to use. · Do one of the following: · Click the Close button in the top corner of the toolbox. · Choose Window menu > Hide Toolbox. To open the toolbox, choose Window menu > Show Toolbox. To move the toolbox 1 Place the cursor over the title bar of the toolbox. The toolbox. Corel Painter 9 2 Drag the toolbox to a new location in the document window. To dock the toolbox The Grabber Tool The Crop Tool 1 Place the cursor over the title bar of the toolbox. 2 Drag the toolbox to the edge of the document window or a palette. 3 When the toolbox lines up with the edge of the document window or palette, release the mouse button. The toolbox will snap into place. The Grabber tool gives you a quick way to scroll an image. For more information, see "Repositioning Documents" on page 39. The Rotate Page Tool The Crop tool lets you remove unwanted edges from the image. For more information, see "Cropping Images" on page 40. Tools that Apply Color The Brush Tool Navigation and Utility Tools The Magnifier Tool The Rotate Page tool lets you rotate an image window to accommodate the way you draw naturally. Refer to "Rotating Documents" on page 39 for more information. The Perspective Grid Adjuster Tool You use the Brush tool to make marks on the Canvas or a layer. The Brush tool represents a category of marking tools. Within the Brush category are pencils, pens, chalk, an airbrush, oil paints, water colors and more. When the Brush tool is selected, you can choose specific brushes from the Brush selector bar. For more information about selecting brushes and tools, refer to "Selecting a Brush" on page 103. You can use the Magnifier tool to magnify areas of an image when you are performing detailed work, or to reduce areas to get an overall view of an image. For more information, see "Zooming" on page 37. The Perspective Grid Adjuster tool lets you select and move the location of the perspective grid lines, the vanishing point, the horizon line, the ground line, and the picture plane. See "Using the Perspective Grid" on page 45 for more information. 10 The Workspace You can set opacity, grain, and drawing style (freehand strokes or straight line strokes) on the property bar. The Paint Bucket Tool color. When you select a color with the Dropper tool, that color becomes the current color on the Colors palette. For more information, see "Sampling Colors from Imagery" on page 80. The Lasso tool lets you draw a freehand selection. Refer to "Using Selection Tools" on page 206 for more information. The Magic Wand Tool The Selection Tools The Paint Bucket tool lets you fill an area. The property bar shows choices for what area to fill and what to fill it with. The Color Tolerance and Color Feather values let you control the extent of fill and opacity in neighboring areas. You can also choose to anti-alias a fill. Double-click the Paint Bucket tool to specify what color in the image to lock out of your fill. For more information on the Paint Bucket tool, refer to "Filling Techniques" on page 118. The Dropper Tool The Rectangular Selection Tool You use the Rectangular Selection tool to create rectangular selections. Refer to "Using Selection Tools" on page 206 for more information. The Oval Selection Tool The Magic Wand tool lets you click or drag in the image to select an area of similar color. Refer to "Using the Magic Wand" on page 207 for more information. The Adjuster Tools The Layer Adjuster Tool You use the Oval Selection tool to create oval selections. Refer to "Using Selection Tools" on page 206 for more information. The Lasso Tool The Layer Adjuster tool is used to select, move and manipulate layers. Refer to "Using Layers and Layer Masks" on page 229 for more information. The Selection Adjuster Tool The Dropper tool lets you pick up a color from an existing image. The property bar shows you values for the Corel Painter 11 The Selection Adjuster tool lets you select, move, and manipulate selections created with the Rectangular, Oval, and Lasso selection tools and those converted from Shapes. The Text tool creates text shapes. Use the Text palette to set the font, point size, and tracking. For more information, see "Working with Text" on page 385. The Shape Objects Tools The Shapes Objects tools create rectangular or oval shapes. When you create a shape, the details are displayed on the property bar. For more information, see "Creating Shapes" on page 368. The Rectangular Shape Tool The Shape Tools Corel Painter creates all shapes by using Bézier curves. Every shape you create automatically becomes a separate layer in the document. Shapes are listed on the Layers palette. The Shape Selection Tool The Shape Design Tools You use the Pen tool and the Quick Curve tool to draw shapes. The Pen Tool The Pen tool lets you create straight lines and curves in shape objects. For more information, see "Using Shapes" on page 365. The Quick Curve Tool You use the Rectangular Shape tool to create rectangular shape objects. The Oval Shape Tool The Shape Selection tool is for editing Bézier curves (shape paths). You use the Shape Selection tool to select and move anchor points and to adjust their control handles. Refer to "Working with Shapes" on page 378 for more information. The Text Tool You use the Oval Shape tool to create oval shape objects. The Quick Curve tool lets you create shape paths by drawing freehand curves. For more information, see "Using Shapes" on page 365. The Shape Edit Tools The Shape Edit tools allow you to manipulate existing shapes. For more information, see "Editing Shapes" on page 373. 12 The Workspace The Scissors Tool The Convert Point tool is used to convert between smooth and corner anchor points. Using Selectors The selectors in the toolbox give you quick access to the libraries for the following Corel Painter elements: papers, gradients, patterns, weaves, looks, and nozzles. You can display items in selectors as thumbnails or in a list. You can also access commands from each selector menu. If the command you want is not available, you can display the entire palette that corresponds to the selector. To open a selector: You use the Scissors tool to cut an open or closed segment. If the segment is closed, once you click on a line or point to cut the shape path, the shape path becomes open. The Add Point Tool The Color Selection Box The Color Selection box lets you choose primary and secondary colors. The front rectangle displays the primary color, and the back rectangle displays the secondary color. For more information, refer to "Understanding Primary and Secondary Colors" on page 79. You use the Add Point tool to create a new anchor point on a shape path. The Remove Point Tool The Color Selection box. You use the Remove Point tool to remove an anchor point from a shape path. The Convert Point Tool To change the primary or secondary color: 1 Click the flyout menu arrow on the bottom-right corner of the selector you want to open. 2 Choose an item from the list. To display items as thumbnails or in a list: 1 Double-click the primary or secondary color rectangle. 2 Choose a color from the Color dialog box. 1 Click the flyout menu arrow on the bottom-right corner of the selector you want to open. 2 Click the selector menu arrow, and choose List or Thumbnails. Corel Painter 13