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Early in my career I colored my comic book covers and my novel colors with a traditional airbrush. I had a Iwatta airbrush, it was great, I mean I had a loud compressor, I wore a mask so that you know you don't inhale the vapors and turn into a mutant. And I also had to clean it out, it was a lot of work, I mean it was beautiful and you had to cut frisk its out and all this kind of stuff and well fortunately Painter allows you to do all that kind of stuff without having all that mess and all that loud compressor noise. A friskit is basically a sheet of acetate or clear plastic that you cut shapes from to protect parts of your image that you do not want to spray paint on and that's pretty much what these tools do here the masks. If you had a person's face here you will be able to draw a mask with any of the tools here and protect the parts that you don't want to paint over. So we're gonna simulate some of that kind of stuff but I what I want to do is create a new layer here and I'm going to draw rectangle and make believe this is a friskit and I don't, I don't want to paint outside of this area, I was to paint in here. So make believe I cut a hole here, gonna grab my paint bucket and fill that guy in and what I'm gonna do is I'm make sure I'm on my airbrush category and I have coarse spray as my variant selected. What I'm going to do now is change my color here and I'm going to on the edge start paint. You notice I have a nice spray there. I can control that by adjusting the spread here and also by adjusting the flow. You actually able to control you know how much air is going through that thing so if you want to variant, you want to get different looks and effects just play around with both the flow and the spread. You also have a feature option here, which will change the way the paint comes through the nozzle as well. So I'm gonna put that back up there again, and show you another way to paint this without having the marching ants or what's known as a marquee around your item here or your object. So I'm gonna deselect that, press command or control D and I want to point your attention right here to preserve transparency. Now, if you look here the area that has a little checkerboard around the image is actually transparent, I'll go ahead and hide the canvas and just show you. This is area is transparent, that's what the checkerboard means, this will not print. If I click preserve transparency what Painter will do is say oh, OK so he doesn't want to paint on these areas that are transparent. So I'm gonna preserve this, I'm only gonna paint on areas that have pixels on them already. So what I can do is I'll grab another color here and I can paint and you'll notice that it's going to be paint only in that area. Let me go ahead and increase the flow a little bit. It only paints in that area so I can be sloppy, I can come out here and just get the areas that I want. So that's the cool thing about the airbrush, you can simulate real life friskit by either using preserve transparency or making a selection with any selection tools. So the airbrush category will simulate your real airbrush and you have quite a few brushes to choose from, from graffiti to inverted pressure, pepper spray and so on and you can also simulate friskits by using masks.

Tutorial Information

Course: Corel Painter IX
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33688
ISBN: 1-933736-15-1
Release Date: 2006-03-31
Duration: 8 hrs / 129 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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