When Tracing Paper is in use, you see a faded-out version of the clone source, as if it were displayed under real tracing paper on top of a light box.Īs you trace, brush strokes appear at 50% opacity. To use Tracing Paper, the source and clone documents must be the same size. The choices are quite deep, too: you can choose to change the texture of the image by changing the paper, you can change the brush type and width, and even use different kinds of paints to change your staid photo into an Impressionist work of art.You can use cloning to help you trace the source image by using Tracing Paper, the on-screen 'light box' in Corel Painter Essentials. When you upload an image, you select which parts of it you want shown by using the same variety of paint tools available in the Drawing & Painting workspace.

The first is a standard image-creation template, while the second lets you upload a photo and 'paint' over it.

The program features two workspaces, Drawing & Painting and Photo Painting. Brush sizes and opacity can be adjusted at the top of the editing window using sliders, and while a few main brushes live on the main left-side toolbar, you can change those by accessing the Brush Drawer. For those who like to play around with their photos, tweaking them artistically, Essentials provides a deep toolbox under its intuitive layout.Īll the tool icons in the palette are large and easy to understand, there's nothing obscure or hard to remember here.

Corel Painter Essentials 4 is a slimmed-down version of Painter for home use, but don't let that fool you into thinking that the average home user will be disappointed.

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