Have fun creating a watercolor effect painting using blending techniques with Corel Painter. This technique is wonderful for pets as well as traditional portraits. We have provided you with a reference image to use if you wish, or use one of your choice.

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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.

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Corel Painter is making it easier and easier for us to organize our workspace efficiently. One of the best ways is to create your own Custom Palette! Custom Palettes give you the freedom to work in your own style by selecting the tools you need for your project.

In this exercise you will focus on making a custom palette of useful menu command shortcuts. Let's get started!

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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! The method below was to choose a source image that contains the colors and tones you want to use. The color and tone for the source image can be applied to our photo to create your underpainting.

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Did you know that you could create a paper texture from just about anything? Join us as we discover how in Corel Painter!

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Painter has many tools that can serve to enhance your creative process. One of the most interesting ways to add a dramatic effect to a portrait is to experiment with layers. Layers are a powerful way of communicating just the right message you want to convey. Reflecting a mood or atmosphere in a painting serves to hold the viewers interest and creates that emotional response that we so admire in fine works of art.

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In this tutorial you'll use Corel Painter to paint a festive Christmas tree for the holidays. This project makes a great Holiday greeting card. There are several steps to creating this tree. We will begin with the background image first. In this exercise you will be creating a mask. This is great fun and you will enjoy using them over and over on old photos or paintings that you create. You can create a complete folder of them, and by the way... you can get very creative with this technique.

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Marbling is a distortion technique in which colors are dragged across one another, mixing into each other. Like the effect you get when you drop a little bit of cream into a bowl of soup just before serving it and then flick a fork through it to create a decorative pattern.

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Corel recently announced Painter 11! Painter continues to expand the creative possibilities and takes the digital artist beyond what is possible in the traditional art world. With forty new brushes at your command the possibilities are endless. Let's take a look at what makes these new Hard Media brushes so special.

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Impasto is the classic technique of applying thick paint on a canvas to create depth. In Painter, Impasto refers to the brush feature that allows brushes to paint with the illusion of depth. You can use different brushes to simulate different types of natural media, such as thick Oil paint or Chalk with texture.

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