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Working with Photos - Edit and Enhance Photos in Corel Painter

Explore creative and practical ways you can edit and enhance digital photos using Corel Painter. Learn techniques for enhancing and correcting pictures and transforming photographs into paintings.
Underpainting in the Painter Photo Painting System
Historically, an underpainting was used to establish the overall color values for a painting. In Corel Painter, the Underpainting palette lets you adjust the color, tone, and detail of a photo to prepare it for auto-painting. One of the new and exciting additions to Painter X is the ability to apply the color of a source image to your under painting. Explore this feature of Corel Painter, in this underpainting tutorial.
Blending To Create a Watercolor Effect
Have fun creating a watercolor effect painting using blending techniques with Corel Painter. This technique is wonderful for pets as well as traditional portraits.
Creative Cloning Techniques With Corel Painter
In this tutorial, we will discover some creative ways to use the "Clone" function. For this technique, you will paint directly on the "Clone Of" image using your own color palette and depending less on traditional methods of cloning with Corel Painter.
Corel Painter 9 Tutorial: Artist's Shirt
From About Painting Guide Marion Boddy-Evans: How to quickly create a watercolor and pen painting from a photo using Corel Painter 9.
Pump Up The Color In Painter 8
Tutorial by Marilyn Sholin: "In a single photograph, there are two methods in Painter 8 to target colors and pump up the saturation. Both are simple and easy to work with."
Apply Special Effects to Photos
"The brushes in Corel Painter open limitless artistic vistas. But when you don't have time to explore those wide-open spaces, try this quick and easy trick." from creativepro.com
Cloning Techniques in Painter IX
"One of the workflow enhancements in Corel Painter IX is the new "Quick Clone" feature, which allows you to set up a document ready for cloning from a source image in one simple step. But cloning in Painter doesn't just mean reproducing portions of an existing image. It can also be used to create new images with painterly effects from Photographic source images."
Water Color Glazing
A scanned angel figurine is painted in the traditional watercolor technique of glazing.

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