Lynda - Painter X3 Essential Training

Year: 2013

Author: John Derry

Total time: 5 Hours

Get your creative ideas out of your head and onto your canvas. John Derry, one of the original Corel Painter authors, teaches the tools and techniques that will get beginners up and running with Painter X3 and help old hands harness the best new features. Learn the basics of painting on a computer, and learn to set up your system (your Painter preferences, tablet and pen, and your palettes) so it works best for you. Then John shows you how to mix and manage color, wield Painter's brushes with maximum control, work with layers and selections, and integrate with that other digital painting powerhouse, Adobe Photoshop. John also covers perspective-guided strokes and the Universal Jitter control for adding analog-like sensitivity to your artwork. Dive in now and get your creative juices flowing.

Topics include:

Working with a pen tablet  

Creating, opening, and saving files  

Configuring panels and palettes  

Controlling and mixing control  

Calibrating brushes for maximum stroke quality  

Working with jitter brushes  

Working with digital watercolor brushes  

Selecting with the Lasso and Magic Wand tools  

Preserving transparency in layers  

Cloning artwork  

Comparing Photoshop and Painter  

Troubleshooting Painter