Corel Painter has a great tool for handling details, such as texture, foliage, or stones. In fact, if you’ve been using Photoshop custom brushes for this kind of work, you may be surprised to learn that Painter has a custom brush capability, and a pretty darned good one, too. Check out the following image. Can you believe it took me less than a minute, starting with a blank canvas? No cloning around this time, folks. It’s time to learn about Painter’s most well-kept secret: the Image Hose.


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Tutorial: Paint a portrait in the style of Bouguereau with Corel Painter.


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The Image Hose is probably one of the most misunderstood tools in Corel Painter, and yet it’s pretty easy to use, and even customize with your own images. If you’ve ever tried the Image Hose (it’s one of the brush “variants,” right between Gouache and Impasto), you may have been reminded of a kid’s drawing program called KidPix. It worked much the same way, spraying a bunch of images across the page. Here’s a quick sample of the images that ship with Painter.


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Tutorial: Preparing a beach photo for painting in Corel Painter.


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As portrait painters, sometimes the photographs we are given to work from are not as good as they could be. Nearly always, in fact, you’ll find areas you can improve as you paint. The example we’ll look at here is a bit extreme–the lighting is harsh, the eyes lack definition–in order to show you how much you can improve a photograph during the painting process.


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Learn how to achieve smooth skin and silky hair with Corel Painter.


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Corel Painter does a terrific job of mimicking the look and feel of traditional media, such as oil paint, pastel, and charcoal. It took us a while, however, to find a method for working with Painter’s Watercolor that we felt truly looked like real watercolor. And we will share it with you in this tutorial.


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Tutorial: From photo to painting using Painter’s Quick Clone.


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When it comes to painting portraits, faces are definitely the hardest part. But running a close second has got to be hair. It’s so complicated! There’s so much detail! Today we’re going to tackle curly hair, the most difficult kind of hair there is. We’ll break it down, step by step, and by the end, we hope, you’ll have lost your fear of the Big Hairy Monster.


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Follow along with this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to paint eyes with Corel Painter.


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