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What you'll learn
- Master the features and functions of Corel Painter X3.
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Course content
17 sections • 108 lectures • 10h 14m total length
- Expectations7:45
- Wacom5:43
Discover how to choose the Wakeham tablet for painter, from on-screen antique displays to Intuos and bamboo options, with a focus on the art pen’s barrel rotation for precise input.
- Painter File System3:58
Explore Painter X3's install and user folders, including hidden files, to manage brushes. Copy Jason brushes into the brushes folder before launching Painter for the first time.
- First Launch4:17
- Welcome3:57
Explore Corel Painter X3's welcome screen to quickly access new and recent images, manage workspaces, adjust brush tracking and color management, and access online help and tutorials.
- User Interface / Preferences5:39
Learn to customize painter X3's user interface, dock palettes for fixed layout, switch to Jason brushes (no art pen), and set preferences for full screen, memory usage, and multicore usage.
- Creating a New File8:18
Create a new document in Corel Painter X3 by setting an 8 by 10 canvas at 300 ppi. Learn about raster graphics, pixels, resolution, and canvas versus paper.
- Grabber / Magnifier / Rotate Page6:25
Learn to navigate painter documents using grabber, magnifier, and rotate tools; pan, zoom, and rotate non-destructively with keyboard shortcuts, while understanding resets and display options.
- Navigator Panel5:54
- Brush Selector6:13
- Understanding the Cursor3:29
- Constraining Brush Strokes6:51
- Size and Opacity Shortcuts5:14
- Onscreen Brush Attribute Controls5:07
Explore how to control brush properties in Corel Painter X3 using keyboard shortcuts to adjust size, opacity, squeeze, and angle, then reset to default with the reset tool.
- Advanced Brush Controls4:11
- Setup3:38
- Papers4:27
- Direction Toggle7:41
- Make Paper4:11
- Capture Paper8:01
- Paper Libraries7:28
Learn to manage paper libraries in Corel Painter X3 by creating, importing, exporting, and organizing paper textures and watercolor papers, with flexible viewing options and show/hide controls.
- Impasto6:44
- Surface Lighting5:39
- Color6:41
- Color Sets7:54
Navigate color set libraries in Corel Painter X3, import/export palettes, manage visible versus loaded libraries, and explore sorting by hue, lightness, and saturation alongside Pantone process colors.
- Advanced Color Sets5:36
- Primaries7:25
Explore primaries across paint, monitor, and print, distinguishing additive RGB primaries for screens from subtractive CMYK process colors for printing, and explain how each space shapes color mixing.
- Color Spaces7:12
- Color Proofing Mode6:19
- Color Management Settings5:33
- Mixer7:56
- Advanced Mixer6:41
- Color Set from Mixer6:21
- New Layer5:46
- Layer Features5:22
- Composite Method7:31
Explore how to use composite methods in Corel Painter X3 to blend layers, compare normal, dissolve, multiply, screen, and especially hue, saturation, color, and luminosity for precise color control.
- Composite Depth8:42
- Layer Attributes5:05
- Layer Masks6:38
Master layer masks in Corel Painter X3 to control transparency by painting with black, white, and grayscale values, erase and recover data, and apply or disable masks for permanent edits.
- Groups6:21
- Layer Power Tips6:11
- Image Portfolio4:55
Learn how to manage layers in Corel Painter x3 image portfolio, duplicate and nudge layers with the layer adjuster, and save reusable layers with attributes, transparency, masking, and multiplier settings.
- Layer Effects5:37
- Dynamic Layers4:16
Learn to use dynamic layers in Corel Painter X3 with the liquid lens floater to liquefy, bulge, twirl, pinch, and rain distortions in real time.
- Bevel World6:03
Explore the Bevel World dynamic plugin in Corel Painter X3, adjusting bevel width, rim slope, cliff, baseload, smoothing, lighting, and reflection patterns to create varied bevel effects on any shape.
- Brightness and Contrast4:45
- Digital Watercolor7:15
Explore digital watercolor in Painter X3, focusing on diffusion and fringe on a virtual layer. Learn how drying to the canvas and layers affect the painting.
- Watercolor Layer6:46
Corel Painter X3 teaches watercolor layer techniques, showing how second generation brushes create diffusion on a gel layer, with wet and dry watercolor modes.
- Real Watercolor7:24
- Liquid Ink Layer7:26
- Converting Layers7:00
Explore converting watercolor layers to default layers, manage visibility, and apply real watercolor and liquid ink brushes to create high-contrast inked artwork.
- Introduction to Shapes7:18
- Bezier Curves5:48
Explore how Bezier curves are defined by points (nodes), handlebars, and magnets, using a grid with snap to grid for precise, math-driven curves.
- Converting Points4:41
Master Bezier curves by closing a shape with the pen tool, adjusting top and bottom arcs via handlebars, and breaking associations with the convert point tool for independent curves.
- Creating a Heart Shape4:15
- Primitive Shapes5:13
- Adding and Removing Points6:53
Master adding and removing points in Corel Painter X3, control curves with magnets, and round corners by editing nodes, while practicing grid alignment and stroke and fill colors.
- Modifying Shapes6:56
Adjust stroke and fill attributes in the set shape attributes dialog, changing color, opacity, and width; explore mitered, rounded, and beveled corners, caps, and fill behavior on open shapes.
- Cutting and Joining5:14
- Duplicate Transform7:24
In Corel Painter X3, create a red-orange circle with shift constraint, attach a filled pedal, group, set duplicate transform, rotate 45 degrees, and duplicate with control+right bracket.
- Compound Shapes6:03
- Creating Text5:01
- Text Panel4:19
- Shadow Attributes3:53
Explore how to adjust text shadows in Corel Painter X3 by configuring external and internal shadows, setting multiply composite, opacity, blur, and directional blur to craft lighting effects.
- Text on a Curve5:16
- Converting Text to Shapes5:26
Convert text to shapes in Corel Painter X3, remove shadows, convert to individual shapes, edit points and curves, and create custom logos by transforming fonts into vector shapes.
- Path-Based Selections6:33
- Selection Modifier Keys5:46
Master path-based selections in Corel Painter X3 by adding to or removing from selections with shift and alt, drawing from center, and constraining to circles or squares.
- Adjusting Selections4:17
Explore the selection tool and selection adjuster in Corel Painter X3 to create, constrain, move, rotate, and skew circular selections, and manage single or multiple selections.
- Modifying Selections3:45
- Stroking Selections6:01
- Anti-Aliasing4:50
- Magic Wand6:08
Explore the magic wand tool and pixel-based selections in Corel Painter X3, focusing on tolerance settings, contiguous options, and how 0 vs 128 tolerance shapes pixel picks.
- Aliasing Issues5:20
- Selection Portfolio4:22
- Save / Load Selections4:48
- Alpha Channels4:27
- Boolean Functions5:42
- Channel Attributes6:05
Explore channel attributes to preview, rename, adjust opacity and color for master and selected areas; manage channels with duplicate, delete, clear, feather, and load replace alpha.
- New from Image Luminance3:33
- New from Color Range4:58
- Transforming Pixel-Based Selections4:37
Requirements
- Access to the software Painter X3 recommended, but not required.
Description
Painter X3 is Corel's latest update to their powerful and popular natural media emulator which is used by professional creative artists in a wide variety of genres and styles. This VTC course, taught by longtime illustrator and fine artist Jason Maranto, is designed to quickly familiarize you with the core features of this powerful application. Focusing on all the main tools and functions with an in-depth yet easy-to-follow style, this course is packed with professional workflow tips and tricks that it will help you to master Painter in no time. To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner to pro designers