Corel Painter 12 manual

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Contents 1 | Introducing Corel P ainter 12 .... ............. .........................1 2 | Customer profiles .... ................ .......................................3 3 | What’s included? ...... ................ .......................................5 4 | Key featu res .......... ................. ................ ........................[...]

Reviewer’s Guide [ 1 ] Introducing Corel ® Pa i n t e r ™ 12 Corel ® Pa i n t e r ™ 12 is the ultimate digital art st udio. Its combination of inventive drawing tools, image cloning capabiliti es, virtually unl imi ted customization options, as well as Natural- Media ® brushes, colors, and textures help you achieve total creative expressio[...]

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Reviewer’s Guide [ 3 ] Customer profiles Concept artists Concept artists work ing in advertising and graphic desi gn firms, as well as entertainment, gaming, and man ufacturing industries combin e P ainter with traditional art and design techniques to create characte rs, animations, special effects, and complex sets more efficiently t han ever . [...]

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Reviewer’s Guide [ 5 ] What’s included? Main application • Corel P ainter 12, Mac OS ® and Wi ndows ® versions Content • Libraries of unique gradients, nozz les, patterns, stock photos, paper textures, and brushes Documentation • Printed Getting Started Guide • HTML Help (Windows ® ) and Apple Help (Macintosh ® ) files • Online Us[...]

[ 6 ] Reviewer’s Guide Windows ® version: •M i c r o s o f t ® Windows ® 7 or Windo ws Vista ® (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows ® XP (32-bit edition), with the latest Service P acks installed • 1 GHz processor or greater •1 G B o f R A M • 600 MB of hard disk space for application files 1 •M o u s e o r t a b l e t • 1200 [...]

Reviewer’s Guide [ 7 ] Ke y f e a t u r e s Corel P ainter 12 is the ultimate digital art studio. W orkflow and customization If you’re familiar with Adobe ® Photoshop ® , you’ll feel right at home with Corel P ainter 12. The redesigned user interface offers endless customization options so you can reduce clutter , keep frequently used tool[...]

[ 8 ] Reviewer’s Guide New! Navigator panel: This new panel makes it eas ier to navi gate the canvas and is particu larly convenient when working with la rge images. Y ou can use t he preview window i n the Navigator pane l as your point of orientation on the canvas. The preview window presents a red rectangle that you can drag to change your foc[...]

Reviewer’s Guide [ 9 ] The Brush Library is accessible from the Brush Selector bar and lets you access additional brush libraries, copy and save brush variants, as well as adjust the way that brush categories and variants ar e displayed. T o import additional brush libraries, you simply drag a BRS file to the Brushe s folder in the P ainter12 app[...]

[ 10 ] Reviewer’s Guide Enhanced! Customizing brushes: Corel P ainter 12 makes it easier tha n ever to create and save your own brush va riants and catego ries. Y ou c an use the many brush control panels to adjust numerous aspects of any brush variant. When you find settings th at you want to keep, you can easily save a custom brush variant by c[...]

Reviewer’s Guide [ 11 ] New! Smart Blur effect: The new Smart Blur effect lets you quickly apply a painterly effect to an image. By smoo thing out colo rs and sharp deta ils, the Smart Blur effect softens the appearance of an image with a resu lt that is similar to applying soft brushstrokes. Y ou can fi nd the Smart Blur effect in the Effects me[...]

[ 12 ] Reviewer’s Guide P rogressive digital art capabilities Corel P ainter 12 continues to introduce revolutionary composition tools, which help you achieve artistic effects th at no other software can produce. New! Mirror Painting: With the new Mirror Painting mode, you can now easily create a symmetrical painting. This new time-saving mode le[...]

Reviewer’s Guide [ 13 ] New! Kaleidoscope P ainting: The new Kaleidoscope Painting mode lets you transform basic brushstrokes into a balanc ed spectrum of colorful shapes. When you paint a brushstroke in one kaleidoscope segment, mult iple reflect ions of that brushstroke appear in the other segments of the kaleidoscope. Y ou can choose between 3[...]

[ 14 ] Reviewer’s Guide New! Clone Source palett e: With the new Clone So ur ce palette, you can now create and manage images for cloning in a single P ainter file. This means that you no longer have to copy an d paste additional clone objects from multiple files into separate layers. F or anyone working with photos, this time- saving palette wil[...]

Reviewer’s Guide [ 15 ] 3 All three photo subjects, now with their eyes open. 4 The finished painting . W o rking with multiple clone sources 1 Open the image that you want to clone and click Fi le menu ` Clon e . 2 If the Clone Source panel is not displayed, click Window menu ` Clone Source . 3 On the Clone Source panel, click the Open Image but[...]

[ 16 ] Reviewer’s Guide New! Gel brushes and Merge Modes: The new Gel brushes let you tint an image’s underlyi ng colors with the bru shstroke color . For example, a yellow brushstroke gives the underlying color a yellow cast. The effect is similar to blending layers by using a composite me thod, except that the Gel brushes paint directly on th[...]

Reviewer’s Guide [ 17 ] Unmatched Natural-Media ® capabilities P ainter has long set the standard for pr oviding artists with the most realistic Natural-Media brushes that produce digi tal artwork with warmth, richness, and texture. Painter 12 continues th at tr adition by introducing two new brush categories whose characteristics cannot be repl[...]

[ 18 ] Reviewer’s Guide New! Real W e t Oil: The new Real Wet Oil brush category help s you achieve realistic oil brushstrokes that were p reviously only possible with pungent solvents and oils. W ith Real Wet Oil brush variants , you can control paint visco sity and color concentration, similar to mixing oil paint and a medium. The Real Wet Oil [...]

Reviewer’s Guide [ 19 ] RealBristle P ainting System: RealBristle brush variants bring an unprecedented level of realis m to the d igital painting experienc e by simulating the natural movement of an artist’s brus h. The RealB ristle brushes are based on individual brushes from other categori es, but their Natural-Media capabilities are enhance[...]

[ 20 ] Reviewer’s Guide Enhanced! File format support: With Corel Painter 12, you can open and save a variety of industry -standard file formats, including Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Adobe ® Photoshop ® (PSD), TIFF (CMYK & RGB), Windows ® Bitmap (BMP), PC P aintbrush (PCX), T ARGA ® (TGA), GIF , JPEG, QuickTime ® (MOV), Video for W[...]

Reviewer’s Guide [ 21 ] Summar y The following is a summary of the new and enhanced features in Corel P ainter 12. W orkflow and customization • F eel right at home with a redesigned workspace that gives you easier access to tools, media, commands, and features. • Find your brush faster with the improved Br ush Library panel that integrates b[...]

[ 22 ] Reviewer’s Guide • Enjoy maximum brush performance wh en working on a multicore computer with new multicore su pport . • Soften the appearance of an image by smoothing out co lors and sharp details with the new Smart Blur effect . Unmatched Natural-Media ® capabilities • Precisely control water consistency and movement, as well as t[...]

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