Corel Painter Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Techniques

• Better brushstrokes with the Enhanced Brush Ghost  The Enhanced Brush Ghost gives you visual feedback as you apply brushstrokes with a pen tablet in Corel® PainterT X. This feedback gives you better control over your brushstrokes.
  
  
• Brightening eyes with the Dodge tool  Corel® PainterT X has an image enhancement tool that makes it easier than ever to brighten photos. The Dodge tool lets you lighten, or overexpose, specific areas of an image. This can help you improve a dark photograph, add interesting effects, or prepare a portrait for digital painting.
  
  
• Building a custom RealBristleT Impasto brush  This tip shows you how to build an Impasto brush in Corel® PainterT X. Impasto brushes and the Impasto depth layer in Corel Painter give you the ability to paint with realistic, three-dimensional brush strokes that leave bristle marks and paint texture on the surface of the image. Impasto brushes are found in the Impasto brush category and in other brush categories in the Painter Brushes library, such as Acrylics, Gouache, Oils, and Cloners.
  
  
• Create a Seamless Pattern Tile  This tutorial will teach you how to create seamless pattern tiles in Painter .. from Laurie McCanna.
  
  
• Create a Transparent GIF  This tutorial will teach you how to create transparent GIF file in Painter ... also from Laurie McCanna.
  
  
• Cropping Photos Using the divine Proportion tool  You can use the divine Proportion tool to aesthetically align the focal points in your painting. The divine Proportion tool displays a nonprinting pattern of triangles and spirals on your painting, which is a visual representation of the divine proportion. You can use this pattern as a guideline for composing the major focal points in your painting. You can crop existing artwork to make it better fit the composition of the divine proportion.
  
  
• DigArts Software  creates one of the more innovative imaging products on the market today. It's the Garden Hose series of Image Hose nozzles for Painter. As the name implies, the Garden Hose a virtual nursery of plant and flower nozzles designed for rendering nature.
  
  
• Painting photos in Corel Painter X  Transform a photo into a beautiful chalk drawing with digital artist, photographer, and Corel Painter pioneer, John Derry. In this tutorial, John describes how to choose a color scheme, create a custom border, and add touches that blend colors and create a realistic paper texture effect. Please note that this is a PDF download.
  
  
• Painting with RealBristleT Brushes  The RealBristleT brushes in Corel® PainterT X are extremely sensitive and natural to paint with. This new medium incorporates the performance of several kinds of conventional brushes, and the way that they apply paint. In the RealBristle category you will find soft brushes with longer bristles and stiffer brushes with shorter bristles, as well as round brushes, flat brushes, fan brushes, oily blenders and more! Also, the bristles of the RealBristle brushes bend and splay as you rotate your hand, allowing you to paint the most realistic strokes.