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Customizing Corel® Painter™ IX: Lighting
By Gord Roberts
Corel® Painter™ lets you create custom lighting in three ways:
- Adding or deleting light sources - The lighting effect is created by applying light from different sources to the image. You can add or delete as many light sources as you wish; your only limit is your system's memory.
- Positioning lights - The type of lighting effect you create is determined by the position of light on the image. You can use the light indicators to move and direct light sources.
- Setting light properties - You can set light properties such as brightness, distance, elevation, and color.
After you've adjusted lighting and created an effect you like, you can save the settings in the library. This lets you quickly use the same settings on another image.
To create custom lighting
- Choose Effects menu > Surface Control > Apply Lighting.
- Add or delete light sources by doing the following:
- Add a light source by clicking anywhere in the Preview window.
- Delete a light source by clicking an indicator and pressing Backspace.
- Position light sources by doing the following:
- Move a light source by dragging the large end of the indicator to the point where you want the light to originate.
- Change the direction of a light by dragging the small end of the light indicator until the light is pointing in the desired direction.
- Set light properties by clicking an indicator in the Preview window to select it and then adjusting any of the following sliders:
- The Brightness slider is like a dimmer knob. Moving it to the left turns down the light source; moving it to the right increases brightness.
- The Distance slider controls how far the light is from the image. If you move the light source closer, you can compensate for the increased light by adjusting the Exposure slider to compensate.
- The Elevation slider sets the light's angle in relation to the canvas. At 90°, the light is shining straight down; at 1°, it's nearly horizontal.
- The Spread slider sets the angle of the light cone.
- The Exposure slider controls the image's brightness, as in photography. Moving the slider to the left decreases exposure and darkens the image; moving it to the right increases exposure and lightens the image.
- The Ambient slider controls the surrounding light in an image. If you have no individual lights in your image, the ambient lighting governs the overall lightness of the image. Moving the slider to the left darkens the overall lighting; moving it to the right increases the light.
- Change light colors by doing the following:
- Click the Light Color chip, choose a color from the Color dialog box, and click OK.
- Click the Ambient Light Color chip, choose a color from the Color dialog box, and click OK.
- Save the custom lighting by clicking Save. In the Save Lighting dialog box, type a name for your new lighting effect in the Save As box.
The effect is saved to the default Corel Painter settings library, and a thumbnail is displayed in the Apply Lighting dialog box.
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