Learning Corel Painter X3 - Be Creative With Painter

Learn to build a layered red chairs painting in Corel Painter X3 by tracing a photo, blocking color, and adding shadows and highlights with multiple layers and blending modes.

Explore Corel Painter X3 toolbox, from brush variants and dropper to selection tools, shapes, text, and kaleidoscope effect, and learn composition guides to enhance your art.

Configure Painter X3 toolbox and preferences for a vertical double-column interface, background color, pixel units, brush ghost cursor, and undo levels up to 32.

Explore Corel Painter X3's paper and media libraries, adjust paper textures and controls, and create or capture custom papers, patterns, gradients, nozzles, and weaves for diverse brush looks.

Explore Corel Painter X3 menu commands, including file operations, iterative save, custom palettes, Get Info, Acquire, and vector export, while mastering transforms, perspective guides, and the divine proportion grid.

Explore Corel Painter X3 layer commands, including grouping, layer masks, and preserve transparency; master brushes, variants, and shape duplication to create and manage independent layers and masks.

Explore painters' cloner brushes and clone color, using source images like sunflowers to create strokes that reflect patterns, with tracing paper, crosshairs, and quick clone results.

Set up the painter workspace with clone source and cloner brush panels, save a cloning layout, and explore the pear image using quick clone and color scheme changes.

Explore brush controls in painter x3: dabb type, stroke type, method, subcategory, and previews, with a custom palette; compare build up versus cover methods and texture effects.

Explore advanced brush controls in Painter X3, including dab profiles, clumping, spacing, and stroke jitter, and learn to reverse engineer brushes and save custom variants.

learn to create custom brush variants in Corel Painter X3 that imitate stitching, using a leaky pen, stroke controls, and the cover method. save, search, and build stitching pen palette.

Learn to create an abstract painting from a photo by simplifying shapes and detail, using color, texture, and composition. Apply iterative save, clone, and brush controls to refine the piece.

Explore tonal controls in painter to adjust brightness, contrast, and color with curves for red, green, and blue; manipulate hue, saturation, value, paper texture, posterize, and color sets.

Explore Corel Painter X3 surface controls, applying lighting presets, color overlays, textures, and image warps to create 3-D textures, woodgrain effects, and dynamic focus and motion effects.

Explore esoterica effects in Corel Painter X3, including pop art dot grid, high pass edge enhancement, maze creation, growth organic shapes, place elements, blobs, and marbling techniques.

Learn to create mosaic effects in Painter by arranging tiles with adjustable width, length, color, and grout, then enhance with 3D texture and custom tile options.

Explore selection tools and commands in Corel Painter X3, using the magic wand with contiguous and tolerance, then refine with add/subtract, smoothing, feathering, and saving selections as channels.

Discover how to use Painter X3's text tool, adjust font, size, alignment, spacing, and curve styles, and apply independent text and shadow effects for creative typography.

Master selections and painting in Corel Painter X3 by isolating sky and water, refining channels, and using airbrush and blender tools to create a colorful postcard graphic.

Learn to craft a postcard graphic in Corel Painter X3 by sampling colors from a reference sunset, painting with airbrush, and applying gradient text with a drop shadow.