Corel Painter Photo Painting

One of the best things that can be done with Corel Painter involves drawing one's own photos. This can be great in that the photos can make for an impressive work when brought into painting. Here's a look at what to do for Corel Painter Photo Painting.

The first of the things to do for realistic paintings like this is to use a good color scheme. While photos can make for realistic paintings there can be different colors used to make the painting look better. At the Corel Painter window the user should go to the Show Underpainting menu and choose from one of the schemes. There are all sorts of schemes to deal with different types of paintings, including Impressionist and Modern.

The next part of photo painting involves the borders. At the Canvas menu the Canvas Size option should be chosen. The right size should be used based on the pixels on the image. At the Color Palettes menu the Show Colors option should be chosen to help determine the colors of the borders. The saturation and value triangle should be altered according to the colors that are desired. The Rectangular Selection tool can be used to isolate the border and the border can be filled with color with the Paint Bucket tool.

After all of the preparations are needed for the photo to be used for Corel Painter photo painting a clone of an image can be created. The blank canvas should be filled with a color that is also to be used for the border of the photo. The Quick Clone option should be used on the Underpainting palette so that it will be easier to get the photo to be illustrated on Corel Painter.

Smart Stroke Painting can be used as well on the program. The checkbox for this should be clicked on the Auto-Painting palette. At the Brush Selector bar the Brush Vibrant selector should be used and a Smart Stroke variant should be chosen. The Clone Color button on the Colors palette should be clicked and then the Play button on the Auto-Painting palette can be clicked so that this form of painting can begin. This is essential for making realistic paintings easier to make.

There are a few final steps to use. The Diffuse Blur variant, which is on the Brush Selector bar at the Blenders category, can be used to create hand-blend images in parts of the painting. For surface texture the Apply Surface Texture should be used from the Effects menu. Paper should be on the Using box in the Apply Surface Texture dialog box. This is so that the texture will work to be smooth and therefore will create more realistic paintings.

Corel Painter photo painting is one of the easiest things to use with the Corel Painter program. With these methods it can be easy to make some of the most realistic paintings possible from actual photos.