To prepare your image for painting open the Auto Painting Palette. To open the Auto Painting palette select Window Menu > Show Underpainting. For this exercise we will use the Auto Painting palette.
The Auto Painting palette lets you create paintings based on your digital images or scanned photos. You simply choose a smart stroke brush variant and let Smart Stroke Painting do the work. If you want more control over how the brush strokes interact with the canvas, you can set individual stroke settings although the Smart Stroke brush variants are optimized for auto painting, you can also use any Cloner brush variant.
Using the Auto-Painting Palette
The Auto-Painting palette lets you specify how paint strokes are applied to a photo. You can choose from the following options:- Smart Stroke Painting - automatically applies paint strokes that follow forms in the photo
- Smart Settings - changes the size, length, and pressure of brush strokes in areas of greater detail. This option can be used with Smart Stroke Painting to preserve detail from the source photo.
- Stroke - lets you choose a brush stroke. You can also add custom brush strokes to the list.
- Randomness - introduces an "accidental" quality in color and stroke. Randomness contributes to the appealing, unique look of artwork created with Corel Painter. You can control the randomness of the following settings:
- Pressure - lets you set a value from 0 to 200 to specify the amount of pressure with which brush strokes are applied. This setting represents the percentage of the preset pressure for the Stroke option.
- Length - lets you set a value from 0 to 200 to specify the length of the brush strokes. This setting represents the percentage of the preset length for the Stroke option.
- Rotation - lets you set a value from 0 to 360 degrees to specify the rotation of the brush strokes.
- Brush Size - lets you set the brush size.