Corel Painter 2016

Explore brush selection in Corel Painter 2016 by using the brush selector to switch brush libraries, categories, and variants, including pens and pencils, acrylics, and flat color brushes.

Discover how to search and locate brushes in Corel Painter 2016 using the search brushes field, browse by category, and quickly access recently used brushes with stroke previews.

Learn to create and manage custom palettes in Corel Painter 2016, organizing brushes into reusable palettes, moving items with shift-drag, and tweaking icon views and preferences.

Learn to organize and save custom palettes within a Painter workspace, including renaming, deleting, exporting as a palette, or saving as a box, for easy import on other computers.

Organize brushes by categories and variants in the brush collector, create a learning category, and save a new variant with defaults like size 30, dab opacity 100%, and hardness 100%.

Corel Painter 2016 teaches how to set a new default variant by overwriting brush defaults, copy variants between categories, and export or import brushes and libraries.

Hide non-drawing brush categories to streamline your drawing workspace, while default categories remain. Use the fly-out menu to show all categories and all variants when needed.

Customize your brush selector in the learning workspace by switching category and variant displays between icons and lists and rearranging brushes with drag and drop.

Export and manage custom brushes in Painter 2016 by creating a learning category, exporting brush libraries, and using a separate library to edit without altering the default.

Learn to customize painter 2016 by creating 30 pixels by 30 pixels png or jpeg icons for brush categories and variants, and manage custom palettes and saved variants.

Explore how the enhanced brush ghost shows brush size in radius, tilt and bearing, and how an art pen's rotation adds a size dot to indicate barrel rotation.

Master brush size and opacity in Corel Painter 2016, noting dabs for flat color and pressure effects on other brushes, plus keyboard shortcuts and increment preferences.

Master onscreen brush controls in Corel Painter 2016 to adjust size, opacity, squeeze, and angle with control and alt, without using the brush property bar, including legacy style.

Clean and organize your brush palette, load essential brushes, and compare cursor types in Painter, including enhanced brush ghost and brush ghost, via interface preferences.

Discover how to constrain strokes in Corel Painter 2016: use freehand strokes with shift for straight lines, or straight line strokes, and understand canvas versus interface alignment and pressure tilt.

Explore advanced brush controls in Corel Painter 2016, mastering the property bar, brush variants, and advanced brush control panels, including stroke preview, grain, reset bleed, and brush calibration.

Explore color in Corel Painter 2016 by mastering RGB color space, HSV adjustments, and the color picker, while contrasting Painter's single color mode with Photoshop's multi-mode options.

Master color picking in painter using HSV/HSP and RGB concepts, adjusting hue with the color wheel and triangle, and using main, additional colors, and the temporal color picker on canvas.

Navigate color set libraries in Painter, use the color panel, and import and sort color sets like Windows default 256 colors and pan tone process coated colors to organize paints.

Explore how monitor type and color spaces shape color accuracy, comparing RGB workflows for screen work with CMYK print needs and Adobe RGB 1998 for pre-press.

Explore why Adobe RGB 1998 offers a broader color space than sRGB for print, and how to convert profiles and renderings to optimize process color output and web versions.

Explore color proofing in Corel Painter 2016 by comparing Adobe RGB 1998 and sRGB profiles, adjusting the rendering intent, blackpoint compensation, and proof previews to predict print results.

Configure color management in Corel Painter 2016 by choosing blackpoint compensation, setting the default RGB profile for print (RGB 1998), and managing profile mismatch prompts and rendering intent.

Explore the mixer in Corel Painter 2016, adjust background to middle gray, and use apply color and mix color tools to create blends with the two components: paint and background.

Explore the painter mixer to sample single and multiple colors with brushes, adjust sampling radius, and paint with color puddles, then manage color wells and presets for cmyk workflows.

Explore painter's mixer presets and mixer pads, learn to use image-based paint for color picking and mixing, and restore defaults while displaying colors in HSV.

Master brush calibration and brush tracking in Corel Painter 2016, adjusting velocity and pressure scales to shape brush response. Understand local vs global settings for consistent input.

Explore how brush calibration maps pen pressure to output using scale and power curves, adjust via sliders or scratchpad, and save per-brush defaults for consistent results.

Record a stroke with the real fat chalk to capture paper grain, then playback to compare changes from brush and paper settings against a control stroke.

Explore how paper textures interact with brush grain and seamless tiling in Corel Painter 2016. Adjust rotation, scale, contrast, and brightness to shape the paper mask and vary stroke results.

Explore how the invert toggle and per paper basis presets modify paper texture masks and color behavior, and how the direction toggle reshapes grayscale values into height for different papers.

Manage paper libraries in Painter 2016 by selecting textures, watercolor papers, and Painter 2015 papers, and use the libraries panel to create, drag between libraries, and import or export libraries.

Create custom paper textures in Corel Painter 2016 using the make paper tool as a procedural texture generator; define size, patterns like halftone ellipse or diamond, and tiling for detail.

Define pattern to create seamless tile textures by combining textures and capturing them as papers. Experiment with fractal patterns and paper libraries to produce brushed metal looks and varied directions.

Create seamlessly tileable paper textures by defining patterns and capturing them in the paper library, then explore fractal patterns to craft varied surfaces.

Explore how surface lighting in Corel Painter 2016 renders impasto, allowing you to adjust amount, shine, reflection, and multi-light setups to control depth and realism.

Explore new document creation in Corel Painter 2016, choosing canvas presets, adjusting width and height in pixels or inches, and setting resolution, canvas color, and paper color.

View document width, height, and resolution in the info panel; resize the canvas to change pixels while preserving aspect ratio, and use canvas size to add or crop.

Learn to use rulers and guides in Corel Painter 2016 to read pixel coordinates, snap to ruler ticks, and set precise crop positions.

Learn to use guides with crop tools and rulers and Cartesian coordinates for precise placement, and manage guide color, position, lock, and deletion.

Learn how to use rulers and guides in Corel Painter 2016 to establish precise coordinates, snap to ruler ticks, and set exact crop positions with a one-to-one aspect ratio.

Set up and customize a virtual grid in Corel Painter, choosing a rectangular grid with inch-based dimensions, and adjust color and snapping to align with guides, rulers, and crops.

Apply the rule of thirds with the layout grid in Corel Painter 2016, adjust grid divisions, and manage presets, line color, and opacity for precise compositions.

Explore symmetry in Corel Painter 2016 using mirror painting and kaleidoscope tools to create multi-plane, rotational patterns with customizable planes and colors.

Explore mirror painting and kaleidoscope symmetry in Corel Painter 2016, using adjustable planes, rotation, color, and visibility to create intricate, tiled brush patterns.

Enable perspective guides to draw in one-, two-, and three-point perspective with vanishing points and a horizon line, use brush stroke controls, and save presets for easy reuse.

Learn to create perspectives in Corel Painter 2016 using vanishing points, horizon line, main and intermediate lines, and density and opacity controls across two-point, one-point, and three-point setups.

Learn how layers control drawing in Corel Painter 2016: create and delete layers on the canvas, toggle visibility, and place new layers above the selected item to test ideas.

Learn to manage layers in Corel Painter 2016 by creating shapes on separate layers, rearranging them with drag and drop, and using the layer adjuster to move content precisely.

Rename layers for clarity, then lock or unlock them to prevent edits, and use preserve transparency and pick-up underlying color to control blending on the active layer only.

Explore composite methods in Corel Painter 2016, adjusting layers with normal to luminosity, and experiment with opacity and modes like multiply, screen, overlay, hue, saturation, color, and luminosity.

Create textured surfaces on layered paints in Corel Painter 2016 using a bristle brush and composite depth options—ignore, add, subtract, and replace, to simulate wet-on-dry painting.

Create and apply a layer mask to reveal or hide layer content using grayscale values, controlling transparency with black, white, and shades, and preview masks via the channels panel.

Learn how to create floating objects from selections using the layer adjuster, duplicate layers, and trim big data beyond canvas boundaries to optimize file size.

Master grouping layers in Corel Painter 2016 by creating, selecting, and moving multiple layers, using layer groups for efficient control of visibility, locking, and canvas integration.

Explore raster vs vector graphics in Corel Painter 2016, and learn to use shape layers, the pen tool, conversions, selections, and align path to manage pixels and resolution.

Explore creating bezier curves with the pen tool, converting points to curve points, and manipulating bezier handles to shape paths, using the shape selection and align-to-path features for accurate curves.

Explore the pen tool, corner points, and bezier curves to build smooth vectors in Corel Painter 2016, then convert points and refine curves with shape selection and convert point tools.

Explore how handle association with the pen tool produces smooth curves, using backspace to undo while preserving the node-link continuity; avoid interruptions that break the curve.

Explore vector drawing tools in Corel Painter 2016, including the pen tool, quick curve, and rectangle and oval shapes, and learn to toggle stroke and fill and edit nodes.

Explore stroke and fill properties in Corel Painter 2016, adjust fill and stroke opacity separately, learn about shape attributes for stroke width inside/outside, and set shape defaults before drawing.

Explore advanced shape attributes in Corel Painter 2016, including corner, rounded, and bevel miters and end caps, then adjust the miter limit and stroke for open shapes and set defaults.

Change main and additional colors to control stroke and fill in vector shapes. Use the layer adjuster and shape handles to transform, skew, rotate, and maintain aspect ratio.

Learn how to convert between shapes and selections in Corel Painter 2016, converting a shape to a selection, then back to a shape, and understanding default colors for shapes.

Explore path based selections in Corel Painter 2016 using the rectangular, lasso, and polygonal tools from the property bar, and convert selections to shapes for precise curves.

Master selection tools in Corel Painter 2016 by using the new selection mode to replace, and using Shift or Alt to add or subtract selections.

Learn how shift and alt modifiers constrain to perfect circles and squares, add or subtract selections, and draw from a center using the oval and rectangular tools.

Master the selection adjuster in Corel Painter 2016, matching layer adjuster functionality for complex multi-part selections by adding/subtracting with shift, transforming with handles (scale, rotate, skew), and avoiding floating objects.

Master modifying selections in Corel Painter 2016 by inverting, contracting and expanding, creating borders, feathering edges, and smoothing jagged selections with practical fill and tool workflows.

stroke a polygon selection with the digital airbrush in Corel Painter 2016 and learn its drawing modes to control painting inside, outside, or anywhere.

Explore anti-aliasing in Corel Painter 2016 by using the polygon selection tool and paint bucket to compare aliased versus anti-aliased edges, adjust high quality display, and note rotating canvas effects.

Explore how the magic wand tool performs pixel-based selections by using tolerance and contiguous options, and distinguish it from path-based selections, with practical tips on adding, subtracting, and refining selections.

Explore aliasing issues with the magic wand in Corel Painter 2016, comparing aliased and anti-aliased circles, and learn workarounds using transform selections and converting to shapes and default layers.

Learn to save and load complex selections in Painter by building with shift and alt, saving to alpha channels, and loading with replace, add, subtract, or intersect.

Explore brush and paper libraries, try layer combinations, and develop a personal Painter workflow. Create custom workspaces and panels to tailor your experience, and learn about the brush engine.