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Layers 2: Anatomy of the Layers Palette in Corel� Painter�

The first installment in this series, Layers Palette Components

The Palette Bar

No, this isn't a drinking establishment frequented b ...

Layers 1: A Comparison of Adobe� Photoshop� & Corel� Painter� Layer Palettes

This installment is the first in a series that looks into Painter's Layers palette. Layers as a concept can take a b ...

The Mixer Palette in Corel� Painter�

Corel Painter provides many different mechanisms for choosing and organizing color. In the previous installments, we looked at the Mixer Palette, on the other ...

Creating and Editing Color Sets in Corel� Painter�

In the Creating New Color Sets

There are several sources of color from which a new Color Set can be populated. They include:

New Empty Color ...

Color Set Options in Corel� Painter�

Many artists come to Painter from traditional backgrounds. As intuitive as the Color Palette is, some artists prefer to choose colors using the color-naming con ...

The Color Palettes in Corel� Painter�

Color is a crucial element in the visual vocabulary of the artist. Color expresses emotion. It is paramount that an artist be able to precisely control the col ...

I bought painter IX and I was so excited until I found out it's color picking tools are awful. I hate the color triangle so much. It's not accurate at all and makes things a headache. If Painter had ...

Creating and Saving Customized Brush Tracker Files

A Photoshop user new to Painter recently asked if there is an equivalent to PS's Edit History Log feature. As much as I use PS, I have to admit th ...

Auto-Painting a Photograph in Corel� Painter� IX.5

In the previous installment, Photo Painting palettes. This installment focuses on applying these tools to a photograph. Let's get started!

Pr ...

The Photo Painting palette in Corel� Painter� IX.5

A major feature addition to Painter IX.5 are the Photo Painting palettes. These three palettes�Underpainting, Auto-Painting, and Restoration�initi ...

Corel� Painter's� Brush Creator: The Transposer

Introduction

In the last installment, Brush Creator, a virtual laboratory for generating new variants. We initially looked at the Randomizer opt ...

Corel� Painter's� Brush Creator: The Randomizer

Introduction

Painter's Brush Engine is infinitely variable; so much so that it can send users running in terror at the thought of wading into al ...

Multi-Point Cloning in Corel� Painter�

Introduction

Painter utilizes the concept of cloning to copy imagery from one location to another. In its most straightforward use, cloning is utilized i ...

Corel� Painter� Brush-ology: Brush Library Organization 3

In the previous 2 installments, Master Brush Library is the initial source of brushes. Painter does not modify this library; it only reads ...

Corel� Painter� Brush-ology: Brush Library Organization 2

In the previous installment, Master Brush Library, which is a component of Painter's installation, contains all of the initial brushes foun ...

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In connection with the publishing of [URL=http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/painter/index.php]PAINTER: The world's finest Painter art, Ballistic Publishing has announced the recipien ...

Corel� Painter� Brush-ology: Brush Library Organization

In this installment we are going to examine Painter's brush library organization. We'll venture outside of Painter and into the operating sys ...

Corel� Painter� Brush-ology: Quick Access to Favorite Brushes

This installment focuses on organizing your favorite brushes within Painter's interface for quick access. If you're like me, you probab ...

Painter Essentials 3's Smart Blur filter uses edge masking to perform its magic. There really is no current equivalent in Painter. Filters like Smart Blur remove complexity from an image. This is part ...

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I recently discovered a useful productivity enhancement that I'd like to share with Wacom Intuos3 and Cintiq 21UX owners.

I've owned a Wacom Intuos3 tablet for about a year. When I initially ...

Corel� Painter� Brush-ology: Anatomy of a Variant

A major strength of Painter IX is its extensive brush library. With close to 800 variants in 34 media categories to choose from, it's virtually gua ...

Creating a Cloud Sponge in Corel� Painter�

Clouds are one of nature's amazing displays of fractals. What are fractals, you ask? The world is full of them. Fractals are self-similar patterns that ar ...

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This is your last week�just 7 days left!�for submission of Painter art to be considered for inclusion in Ballistic Publishing's new PAINTER book.

You can submit art for the following ...

Adding Textures & Edging to Images with Poor Man's Masking in Corel� Painter�

It is popular these days to imbue images�both painted and photographic�with rough edges and distressed surface deta ...

Hot-Rodding Brushes in Corel� Painter�

Aside from simulating an amazingly wide variety of traditional media, Painter's Brush Engine performs another major task: writing pixels to the screen as abso ...

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It's getting closer to your last chance to submit Painter art to be considered for inclusion in Ballistic Publishing's new PAINTER book.

You can submit art for the following categorie ...

Kaleidoscopic Painting in Corel� Painter�

Over the past several weeks I've been concentrating on various brush customization strategies in Painter. This week, we're going to take a break and just h ...

Creating a Captured Dab Brush in Corel� Painter�

This week we are going to create a Captured Dab (CD) brush variant. CD variants are made by first creating a graphic element, then capturing it for ...

I think that one reason sketching larger is encouraged is that this forces the artist to use the the full motion range of the arm. Sketching small is mostly accomplished by wrist motion. Using the ent ...

Personally, I don't have a problem with you doing a bit of advertising here, John. You've posted a lot of helpful painter snippets otherwise.

Though I do think you'll find that the "turn a photo in ...