Contents 1 | Introducing Corel Painter 12 ..........................................1 2 | Customer profiles ...........................................................3 3 | What’s included?.............................................................5 4 | Key features ....................................................................7 Workflow and customization...................................................................... 7 Progressive digital art capabilities......................................
Introducing Corel® Painter™ 12 Corel® Painter™ 12 is the ultimate digital art studio. Its combination of inventive drawing tools, image cloning capabilities, virtually unlimited customization options, as well as Natural-Media® brushes, colors, and textures help you achieve total creative expression in a digital realm.
Customer profiles Concept artists Concept artists working in advertising and graphic design firms, as well as entertainment, gaming, and manufacturing industries combine Painter with traditional art and design techniques to create characters, animations, special effects, and complex sets more efficiently than ever. The results of their work can be seen in movies, video and computer games, and on television.
What’s included? Main application • Corel Painter 12, Mac OS® and Windows® versions Content • Libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper textures, and brushes Documentation • Printed Getting Started Guide • HTML Help (Windows®) and Apple Help (Macintosh®) files • Online User Guide and Getting Started Guide (PDF) Training • Online videos • Online tutorials Minimum system requirements Mac OS® version: • Mac OS® X 10.5 or 10.
Windows® version: • Microsoft® Windows® 7 or Windows Vista® (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows® XP (32-bit edition), with the latest Service Packs installed • 1 GHz processor or greater • 1 GB of RAM • 600 MB of hard disk space for application files1 • Mouse or tablet • 1200 × 800 screen resolution • DVD drive • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 or higher 1. Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.
Key features Corel Painter 12 is the ultimate digital art studio. Workflow and customization If you’re familiar with Adobe® Photoshop®, you’ll feel right at home with Corel Painter 12. The redesigned user interface offers endless customization options so you can reduce clutter, keep frequently used tools within easy reach, and tailor Painter to work the way you prefer. In addition, the more than 700 brushes are customizable in every way, so you can make your designs stand out from the pack.
New! Navigator panel: This new panel makes it easier to navigate the canvas and is particularly convenient when working with large images. You can use the preview window in the Navigator panel as your point of orientation on the canvas. The preview window presents a red rectangle that you can drag to change your focal point on the canvas. This lets you move to a different image area without having to switch tools or adjust the zoom level.
The Brush Library is accessible from the Brush Selector bar and lets you access additional brush libraries, copy and save brush variants, as well as adjust the way that brush categories and variants are displayed. To import additional brush libraries, you simply drag a BRS file to the Brushes folder in the Painter12 application folder. The Paper selector remains in the toolbox and gives you quick access to the Paper Textures panel.
Enhanced! Customizing brushes: Corel Painter 12 makes it easier than ever to create and save your own brush variants and categories. You can use the many brush control panels to adjust numerous aspects of any brush variant. When you find settings that you want to keep, you can easily save a custom brush variant by clicking Brushes menu ` Save Variant. You can also save the variant as a look. When you save a look, variant settings, paper texture, pattern, gradient, and nozzle data are included.
Setting brush attributes dynamically 1 In the toolbox, click the Brush tool. 2 Click the Brush Selector to open the Brush Library panel, click a brush Category, and then click a brush variant. 3 To change the brush size: • press Command + Option (Mac OS) or Ctrl + Alt (Windows) • press and hold the stylus or left mouse button • drag the Radius circle until it is the size that you want and then release the stylus or mouse button.
Progressive digital art capabilities Corel Painter 12 continues to introduce revolutionary composition tools, which help you achieve artistic effects that no other software can produce. New! Mirror Painting: With the new Mirror Painting mode, you can now easily create a symmetrical painting. This new time-saving mode lets you sketch or paint in either a one- or two-plane mirror. Once you define the axis of the plane, your brushstrokes are replicated on the opposite side of the axis.
New! Kaleidoscope Painting: The new Kaleidoscope Painting mode lets you transform basic brushstrokes into a balanced spectrum of colorful shapes. When you paint a brushstroke in one kaleidoscope segment, multiple reflections of that brushstroke appear in the other segments of the kaleidoscope. You can choose between 3 to 12 mirror planes for a kaleidoscope. You can also rotate or reposition the mirror planes to expose different colors and patterns.
New! Clone Source palette: With the new Clone Source palette, you can now create and manage images for cloning in a single Painter file. This means that you no longer have to copy and paste additional clone objects from multiple files into separate layers. For anyone working with photos, this timesaving palette will spare you from tedious file management tasks so you can focus on being creative. You simply create a library of objects that can easily be cloned and inserted into a painting.
3 All three photo subjects, now with their eyes open. 4 The finished painting. Working with multiple clone sources 1 Open the image that you want to clone and click File menu ` Clone. 2 If the Clone Source panel is not displayed, click Window menu ` Clone Source. 3 On the Clone Source panel, click the Open Image choose Source.
4 Locate the image that you want to add as a clone source, select it, and click Open. The clone source is added to the Clone Source panel and it’s also embedded in the document. You can repeat steps 3 and 4 to add additional clone sources. 5 Click the Brush Selector to open the Brush Library panel, click the Smart Strokes icon, and then click a brush variant. 6 Apply brushstrokes to the canvas. To work with a different clone source, choose the clone source from the clone source list.
Unmatched Natural-Media® capabilities Painter has long set the standard for providing artists with the most realistic Natural-Media brushes that produce digital artwork with warmth, richness, and texture. Painter 12 continues that tradition by introducing two new brush categories whose characteristics cannot be replicated by any other software. New! Real Watercolor: The introduction of new Real Watercolor behavior continues Painter’s long legacy of uniquely simulating traditional media.
2 Click the Brush Selector to open the Brush Library panel, click the Real Watercolor icon, and then click one of brush variants. 3 Apply a brushstroke in the drawing window. 4 Press Ctrl + B to open the Brush Control Panels and then doubleclick the Real Watercolor panel. 5 On the Real Watercolor panel, make any adjustments you like, and then apply another brushstroke in the drawing window to compare the differences.
2 Click the Brush Selector to open the Brush Library panel, click the Real Wet Oil icon, and then click one of brush variants. 3 Apply a brushstroke in the drawing window. 4 Press Ctrl + B to open the Brush Control Panels and then doubleclick the Real Wet Oil panel. 5 On the Real Wet Oil panel, make any adjustments you like, and then apply another brushtroke in the drawing window to compare the differences.
Enhanced! File format support: With Corel Painter 12, you can open and save a variety of industry-standard file formats, including Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Adobe® Photoshop® (PSD), TIFF (CMYK & RGB), Windows® Bitmap (BMP), PC Paintbrush (PCX), TARGA® (TGA), GIF, JPEG, QuickTime® (MOV), Video for Windows (AVI), and Corel Painter Frame stacks (FRM). You can also save files in Encapsulated PostScript® (EPS) format.
Summary The following is a summary of the new and enhanced features in Corel Painter 12. Workflow and customization • Feel right at home with a redesigned workspace that gives you easier access to tools, media, commands, and features. • Find your brush faster with the improved Brush Library panel that integrates both brush categories and variants. • Better orient yourself in the document window with the new Navigator panel, which makes it easier to manuever large canvases.
• Enjoy maximum brush performance when working on a multicore computer with new multicore support. • Soften the appearance of an image by smoothing out colors and sharp details with the new Smart Blur effect. Unmatched Natural-Media® capabilities • Precisely control water consistency and movement, as well as the interaction between water and pigments with the paper, with new Real Watercolor brushes. • Achieve the look and feel of real-world oil paints with new Real Wet Oil brushes.
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