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. [. . . ] 2 Choose a brush from the Brush Selector bar. 3 On the property bar, type a value in the Size box, or adjust the pop-up slider. Corel Painter Essentials may need to rebuild the brush after you resize it. Automatic rebuilding of modified brushes is the default in Corel Painter Essentials. Expect a short delay while Corel Painter Essentials is rebuilding the brush. To use the resize shortcut 1 Hold down Command + Option + Shift (Mac OS) or Ctrl + Alt + Shift (Windows). 2 With the Brush tool, drag in the image window. A circle representing the brush size is displayed beside the pointer. When the circle is the size you want, release the mouse button. 3 Click the image to reactivate the Brush tool. A handy way to set brush size is to use the keyboard shortcut: Command + Option + Shift (Mac OS) or Ctrl + Alt + Shift (Windows). You can also adjust brush size "on the fly" by using the square bracket keys: To increase brush size incrementally, click the right square bracket ( ] ) key. To decrease brush size incrementally, click the left square bracket ( [ ) key. Adjusting Opacity and Grain The Opacity slider controls the degree to which a stroke "covers" or "builds up" on the underlying pixels. 84 Corel Painter Essentials 3 User Guide 80% opacity (top) and 20% opacity (bottom). The Grain slider controls how much color penetrates into the paper texture. Lower settings show more of the grain. 89% grain (top), and 12% grain (bottom). To set opacity 1 Choose the Brush tool from the toolbox. 2 Choose a brush from the Brush Selector bar. 3 On the property bar, type a percentage in the Opacity box, or adjust the pop-up slider. When Opacity setting is low, the applied color is thin, allowing you to see through to the underlying colors. When the setting is high, the applied color covers underlying pixels more completely. To set grain · On the Brush property bar, type a percentage in the Grain box, or adjust the pop-up slider. Painting 85 Move the slider to the left to reduce penetration and reveal more texture. Move it to the right to increase penetration and reveal less grain. For liquid media brushes, Grain controls the amount of "pull. " For Image Hose brushes, Grain controls the mixture with the additional color. For other brushes, such as airbrushes, the Grain slider is not available. Using a Stylus or Mouse When you reach for a wide, flat brush, you expect the stroke you make to depend on how you hold the brush. A stroke using the face of the brush comes out wide. A mark using the edge is narrow. Paint with the face of a flat brush for a wide stroke; use the edge for a narrow stroke. Corel Painter Essentials produces realistic brush strokes that fade in and out; change width, tilt, and angle; and penetrate based on the stylus input. Some brush variants, such as the Smeary Flat variant in the Oils category, also react to stylus tilt (how close to vertical the stylus is held) and bearing (the compass direction in which the stylus is pointing). Tilt can significantly affect brush strokes. [. . . ] . 9, 152 Art Pen Brushes brush category . 75 C Canvas flipping marking resizing rotating Auto Van Gogh effect . 71, 111 Brightness Index i Cloner tool . . 135 Commit dialog box reinstating . [. . . ]