User manual COREL PAINTER IX

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Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitations may not apply to you. 007094 Featured artists Ryan Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chet Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Christopher Welch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Jeremy Sutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Cher Threinen-Pendarvis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Don Seegmiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 John Taylor Dismukes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 John Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Andrew Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Table of contents Art by Ryan Church: Concept painting for a movie scene Welcome to Corel Painter IX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What's in This User Guide? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What's New in Corel Painter IX? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 How to Use the Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 How to Sign Up for Free Training from lynda.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 How to Access Corel Support Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Art by Chet Phillips: Newspaper illustration The Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Working with Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Getting Started with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Managing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Editing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Art by Christopher Welch: Concept vehicle design Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Getting Started with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Working with the Mixer Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Working with Color Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Setting Color Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Viewing Color Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Setting Color Expression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Working with Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Textures, Patterns, and Weaves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Using Paper Texture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Table of contents i Using Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Using Weaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Art by Jeremy Sutton: Digital portrait painting Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Exploring Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Marking the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Exploring Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Working with Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Watercolor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Getting Started with Watercolor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Working with Digital Watercolor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Liquid Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Working with the Liquid Ink Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Using Liquid Ink Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Impasto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Getting Started with Impasto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Adjusting Surface Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Image Hose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 How the Image Hose Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Getting Started with the Image Hose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Art by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis: Digital landscape painting Customizing Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Getting Started with the Brush Creator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Managing Settings and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Managing Custom Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Art by Don Seegmiller: Concept character painting ii Table of contents Cloning and Tracing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Cloning Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Using Cloner Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Turning Other Brushes into Cloners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Working with Surface Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Getting Started with Mosaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Placing and Customizing Tiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 Art by John Taylor Dismukes: 3D Halloween concept design Using Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Getting Started with Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transforming Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Combining Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 330 339 345 351 Art by John Ryan: Animation storyboard for a radio commercial Animation and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Creating Animations and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting Started with Movies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modifying a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rotoscoping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving and Exporting Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 362 367 369 378 Art by Andrew Jones: Character design for a video game Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Understanding Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Getting Started with Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 Table of contents iii Art by Ryan Church: Concept painting for a movie scene Ryan Church is one of the leading concept artists working today. He has worked with clients such as Walt Disney Imagineering, Universal Studios, Industrial Light and Magic, and Lucasfilm. Ryan is currently a Concept Design Supervisor for Star Wars: Episode III, and a Senior Art Director at Industrial Light and Magic. Welcome to Corel Painter IX Corel® PainterTM IX 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 watercolor and oils. What's in This User Guide? The Corel Painter IX User Guide is divided into nine sections. Each section describes a collection of tools you can use to create digital artwork and provides step-by-step instructions. In addition, artwork by a renowned digital artist is featured at the beginning of each of the nine sections to demonstrate what can be achieved using Corel Painter IX. The content provided in this user guide describes the most common tasks performed in Corel Painter IX. Please note that it is not an exhaustive reference for every tool. If you require detailed information about topics that are not discussed in this user guide, please refer to the application's Help system. What's New in Corel Painter IX? Corel Painter IX adds a range of tools and features that increase performance, fuel creativity, and further extend compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications. With improved Help, tutorials by world-class digital artists, and free lynda.com videos, getting started with Corel Painter is easier than ever. Welcome to Corel Painter IX 3 Performance and Productivity Increasing the overall speed, performance, and stability was a top priority for Corel Painter IX. Working closely with Apple, Intel, and AMD, Corel engineers created improvements and efficiencies wherever possible. Corel Painter has never been a more efficient and powerful application. Improved Speed This is the fastest version of Corel Painter yet, with some brushes up to 10 times faster! Brushes now perform, on average, twice as fast. In addition, users can now change the default scratch disk location in the Preference settings. New Welcome Screen Getting down to the job at hand has never been easier, thanks to the Corel Painter IX Welcome screen, which launches on startup. Divided into four sections, the Welcome screen gives quick access to recently used files, tutorials, brush and color-management settings, and even artwork from renowned Corel Painter masters. Brush Control Palettes New Brush Control palettes provide easy access to all brush settings and controls. Making on-the-fly changes to brush settings and variables is as simple as dragging a slider -- without any disruption to workflow. For example, the new Boost slider, found in the General palette of the Brush Controls, instantly enhances brush speed. Just drag the slider and see brush performance accelerate. Frames-per-Second Control Animators can now test frame rates directly in Corel Painter. With the new Framesper-Second Control, frame rates can be set and previewed in a range of 1 to 40 frames per second. Rotate/Flip Canvas Entire images can now be easily rotated or flipped directly in Corel Painter. Image composition is easily verified at the touch of a button. 4 Corel Painter User Guide Customizable Shortcut Keys Corel Painter now offers creative professionals an unprecedented level of control over their workflow by enabling complete customization of shortcut keys. A handy printable template for keeping a quick reference is included. Multiuser Support Corel Painter now supports multiple users on both the Mac® and Windows® platforms. User files are stored in the user file directory, ensuring that users in a networked environment can retain individual settings and preferences. In addition, all settings are easily reverted to the default without having to reinstall the application. Tracker Palette Enhancements The Tracker palette stores historical information about every brush stroke that is applied to the canvas. Acting as a "virtual brush diary," the Tracker palette tells the story of an image created with Corel Painter IX brushes. Brushes used in the last session can be recalled in the next, and favorite brush variants can be locked so that they are always readily accessible. Iterative Save Iterative Save enables users to quickly save sequentially numbered versions of an image with a simple menu command. The first time Iterative Save is used, "_001" is appended to the filename. Each subsequent time the number increments by 1, and a new sequentially numbered file is created. Creativity Corel Painter IX delivers an impressive array of new features that provide unprecedented power to replicate natural media, and dazzling new effects offer more options than ever. Artists' Oils Painting System The Artists' Oils Painting System is a milestone in the evolution of digital art. This new painting system enables users to apply paint blends created in the Mixer palette directly onto images in the document window. Each brush dab loads the brush variant Welcome to Corel Painter IX 5 with a finite amount of oil. As the oil runs out, the brush stroke becomes fainter. Brush strokes interact with any paint already on the canvas just as they would with natural media. The Artists' Oils Painting System has four components: · Artists' Oils Brush Category and Variants · Artists' Colors are based on the color measurements of real-world oil paints. · Integration of Artists' Oils with the Mixer palette, including a new multicolor eyedropper · Artists' Oil Brush Controls provide the ability to control the amount of oil, viscosity, blend, bristling, clumpiness, brush trails, and dirtiness. Snap-to-Path Painting When users need to create a perfect curve or shape, Snap-to-Path Painting is a great time-saver. Snap-to-Path Painting makes it possible to constrain a brush stroke along a path or a shape by clicking a button or using a keyboard shortcut. With a simple click, users can now create a perfect, precise brush stroke that reflects the attributes typically found in a Corel Painter stroke, such as pressure, tilt, and bearing. 6 Corel Painter User Guide Digital Watercolor Digital Watercolor has been significantly enhanced in Corel Painter IX. Paint stays wet between sessions, enabling users to start one session where the last one ended. The wet fringe of digital watercolor brush strokes can now be changed dynamically, enabling experimentation after the brush stroke has been applied. Quick Clone Quick Clone is ideal for photographers, enabling them to transform their photos into paintings. This new feature speeds up the image-cloning workflow and reduces five steps to one. Quick Clone settings can be defined on the General page of the Preferences dialog box. KPT Filters KPT® filters are renowned, powerful plug-ins that creative professionals rely on to produce stunning effects quickly and easily. Seven powerful KPT filters have been included in Corel Painter IX: KPT® GelTM, KPT® GooTM, KPT® LensFlareTM, KPT® LightningTM, KPT® Pyramid PaintTM, KPT® ReactionTM, and KPT® ShapeShifterTM. These plug-ins are valuable additions to the impressive array of effects available in Corel Painter. Compatibility The ability to use Corel Painter in conjunction with other industry-standard software and hardware is greater than ever. New color-management enhancements enable printer colors to be reproduced more accurately on-screen and in print. Extended support for Adobe® Photoshop® and Wacom® pen tablets streamlines a professional workflow. Enhanced Adobe Photoshop Support Moving between Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter is simple. Files saved to the Adobe Photoshop (PSD) file format open in Corel Painter IX, with layer masks, alpha channels and layer sets (layer groups) maintained. Layer behavior in Corel Painter is now very similar to Adobe Photoshop. New layers are now added above the selected layer, layers with different merge modes are collapsible, and it is now possible to hide or display multiple layers by simply clicking and dragging. Welcome to Corel Painter IX 7 In addition, Corel Painter now supports Photoshop plug-ins for Mac OS® X. Enhanced Wacom Support Corel Painter IX features support for Wacom's newest pen tablet model -- the Wacom® Intuos®3 -- and the entire Wacom tablet product line. The Wacom Intuos3 has touch strips that can be configured to control brush size, zooming, and many other functions, eliminating the need for a keyboard while painting. In addition, tablet keys can be used as modifier keys, such as Command, Option, Shift, or Spacebar on a Mac; or Ctrl, Alt, Shift, or Spacebar on a PC. Enhanced Color Management Corel Painter IX includes an enhanced Color Management System that ensures accurate color reproduction when images are printed. Supporting industry-standard ICC4.0 profiles, Corel Painter IX Color Management enables color matching between on-screen and printed colors. A color-management tutorial helps users configure their system for optimal color reproduction. Learning With improved Help, a revitalized User Guide, tutorials from leading graphics professionals, training videos from lynda.com, and courseware specifically designed for educators, getting started with Corel Painter IX has never been easier! Improved Help A revised User Guide and Help system provide information and fast solutions. The Corel Painter IX Handbook, which is included with Corel Painter IX Full and Upgrade versions, offers a collection of step-by-step tutorials created by well-known creative professionals. Free lynda.com Training Videos Corel Painter IX includes training videos created by lynda.com, one of the world's most renowned graphics training companies, to guide users through the Corel Painter workspace, tools, features, and techniques. 8 Corel Painter User Guide Free Academic Courseware Corel Painter academic courseware consists of complete lesson plans and exercises for 10 classes on a variety of subjects. How to Use the Documentation You can find answers to many of your questions in the Corel Painter User Guide and the Help available from within the Corel Painter workspace. The Corel Painter User Guide contains commonly used procedures and information. A Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the Corel Painter User Guide is available on the Corel Painter IX CD. Full-color versions of the Corel Painter User Guide can be purchased from www.corel.com/painterix. The Help gives you access to a full range of topics in a searchable format. If you have any comments or suggestions about The Handbook, user guide, Help, or tutorials, please contact us at www.corel.com/painterix/feedback. Documentation Conventions The following table describes important conventions used in the Corel Painter User Guide and in the Help. Convention Multiple platforms Description 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. When a modifier key differs between Mac OS and Windows, the Mac OS modifier is listed first, followed by the Windows modifier. Example Hold down Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows). Modifier keys "Command + I (Mac OS) or Ctrl + I (Windows)" means that Mac OS users would press Command + I and Windows users would press Ctrl + I. Welcome to Corel Painter IX 9 Convention Choose X menu > menu item Description On the menu bar, click the menu name, and choose the menu item from the list. Example "Choose File menu > Quick Clone" means the following: Title bar A title bar is located at the top or side of some UI elements, such as the toolbox, property bar, and palettes. It may not display title text. The palette title bar appears at the top of a palette. When expanded, the palette's title bar changes to dark gray. When a palette is collapsed, you can still see the palette's title bar, which is now light gray. Examples of the toolbox title bar on the Mac OS (left) and in Windows (right): Palette title bar Palette title bars for the Colors, Mixer, and Color Sets palettes are collapsed, and the Color Info palette is expanded. Palette arrow The palette arrow is used to expand or collapse a palette. The Color Sets palette arrow is collapsed, and the Color Info palette arrow is expanded. 10 Corel Painter User Guide