Please keep your serial number in a safe place in case you need to reinstall Corel Painter Essentials 4, or in case you need to call Corel Support Services. To install Corel Painter Essentials 4, you need a Corel Painter Essentials 4 serial number unless you are using a trial version. On the Mac OS, in the Dock, a small, black triangle displays below the icons of open applications. In Windows, open applications are displayed on the taskbar. If other applications are running, they may interfere with the normal installation process. Preparing to Install Corel Painter Essentials 4īefore you install Corel Painter Essentials 4, you must close all other applications, including virus detection programs. View the Corel Painter Essentials 4 training videos. Training VideosĪdobe(R) Flash(R) Player version 7 or higher is required to play the Corel Painterįor download versions of the software, you must be connected to the Internet to On Windows are required for components of Corel Painter Essentials 4. Safari(TM) web browser on the Macintosh and Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 6 (or greater)
Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 (with latest revision)Īdobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader are required for components of Corel Painter Essentials 4.Windows Vista or Windows XP (with latest Service Pack).We hope you enjoy Corel Painter Essentials 4! Release Notes: This readme file contains installation information and other late-breaking news. You can get help from other users, share paintings you have created, and more. Online Community: We invite you to join our online community at. Guidebook: The Guidebook provides step-by-step tutorials, a tour of application, art tips, and more. The video tutorials can be accessed from the Help menu. Video Tutorials: Learn from Painter Master John Derry. Corel Painter Essentials 4 also comes with extensive learning resources to help you get started in creating digital paintings: The layer’s icon in the Layers panel changes to an eight-handled shape, and an eight-handled box marks the boundary of the layer’s contents in the document window.Whether you are transforming your photos into paintings or sketching and painting on a blank canvas, this art studio offers everything you need to explore your inner artist. To create a reference layerĬhoose Layers Convert To Reference Layer. For more information, see Opening and placing files. You can create a reference layer by basing it on an existing layer or by placing an image. If you try to paint on or apply effects to a reference layer, Corel Painter prompts you to commit it back to a pixel-based layer.
You cannot edit the image data in a reference layer. Corel Painter examines the source image to restore the original resolution. When you finish making changes, you can commit the reference layer back to a standard layer.
The changes are immediately displayed in the document window. Working with a reference layer allows you to resize, rotate, or slant a layer onscreen by dragging its handles. They provide a low-resolution representation of the original image that you can quickly manipulate in ways that would otherwise require more time. Reference layers get their image content from an external source - either a pixel-based layer in the current document or a separate file.