Painter Brushes I
Lesson 5
Creating and Saving a Variant
I love creating and saving a variant...except when that variant overwrites the default variant. I am still not certain why that should have happened. But it did! In restoring my Artists' Impressionist brush, I restored Painter 11 to its factory default by starting Painter with the shift button depressed and chose to restore the workspace I was using at the time to the default. That, however, deletes any original brush variants I may have created.
The other way was to go to the AppsData file, Corel Painter 11,and then Brushes, and paste in the Default of the damaged brush which should be copied from the Application file in Program Files. Since my User\AppsData files were hidden (which I learned about after a frustrating search)I could not find that. Once I had made those files visible through Control Panel I was then all set.
Capturing Brush Dabs
This was fun and really opens the possibilities in Painter to create brushes which could be quite individual to a certain project...
Shown below are some projects using both brush dabs and saved variants.
(above)The leaves, flowers, birds and grass are Captured Dabs while the clouds are a saved variant.
(below)The stars and leaves are Captured Dabs as are the tree trunks. The clouds and hills are a smeary variant.
The butterflies brush, a Captured Dab brush, demonstrates my final understanding of how to get my dab to rotated and change size. I was actually doing all the things I should have, but I HAD NOT DONE BRUSH TRACKING!!! I did not really understand how important Brush Tracking was until, after all my efforts had failed at size jitter with pressure, I tracked and then painted. Only then did the dab behave as I had hoped!!! BIG lesson for me.
Creating a New Brush Category
and Creating Your Own Brush Library
Now, that was interesting! Here is what my new Category looks like. Beneath that, the Libraries ready to be loaded and they do!
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