You can use Digital Watercolor brushes in Corel® Painter™ IX to create effects similar to those produced with Watercolor brushes, but without having to create a separate layer. Settings such as Diffusion, Opacity, and Wet Fringe control the appearance of the stroke.

Wet Fringe
The Wet Fringe slider controls the amount of pooling of water and paint at the edges of Digital Watercolor brush strokes. You can dynamically adjust the wet fringe on any Digital Watercolor brush stroke before you dry it. Dynamically adjusting the wet fringe affects every Digital Watercolor brush stroke that's still wet. Digital Watercolor brush strokes remain wet until you dry them. Once you're satisfied with the wet fringe, it's a good idea to dry the brush strokes. This allows you to dynamically adjust the wet fringe on future Digital Watercolor brush strokes without affecting existing brush strokes.

To adjust the wet fringe

1. Apply one or more strokes with a Digital Watercolor brush.
   If you would like to restrict the diffusion to a specific area, make a selection with any selection tool. The pooling effect will apply only within the selection.
   
   
2. On the property bar, adjust the Wet Fringe slider.
   Drag the slider to the right to increase pooling, or to the left to decrease pooling.
   
   

   A brush stroke with a wet fringe setting of 10%.
   A brush stroke with a wet fringe setting of 70%.

To dry Digital Watercolor brush strokes

• Choose Layers menu > Dry Digital Watercolor.

Remember that once you dry a Digital Watercolor brush stroke, you can no longer adjust its wet fringe.