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In case you haven't had the benefit of working with Painter 7 basics which were recorded by Andrew Hathaway for VTC, I'm just going to take you for a very quick tour through the Painter environment. In the toolbox, the main tool that we will be using when we make marks on a canvas is this little paintbrush tool. The choices for the kind of mark we make are in the brushes palette. There are several categories of brush and they are listed here, which you may use this list for selecting any given brush category until you get accustomed to what these icons stand for; anytime you do choose a category you are going to have several, possibly quite a few variants or specific brushes to use that correspond, that belong to this group. So, a flat color pen and I don't want to be painting white on white. Let's go over here and I'll just make a flat color stroke with that pen. There were other variants to use: nervous pen is one of my favorites. It was introduced in Painter 6. Let's take a look at some of these other categories: some of them are pretty obvious - the eraser, the air brush, although note that there are more categories of air brush than in earlier versions of the program. That isn't right. I think what happened was I made a change without restoring the default variant. And this is something you are going to need to remember. If you do make a change, now that I've restored it, it's showing me what it is supposed to look like. Whenever you make any kind of a change to a brush, you are going to have to return the default values by using this command in the variant menu. Let's change color and look at a few other kinds of brushes in the brush category. We've got a few, quite a few actually, as you scroll down you'll see that there are opaque, and graphic, and smeary brushes of various kinds. Let's take a look at what a smeary bristle spray will do. So, that's applying color but its also smearing the underlying color. One of my favorites is the dry ink brush, which has a wonderful dry brush look to it. And that comes from the footprint of the brush which I can show you by just doing a tap. There it is, there is the foot print. Which you'll also see as this little ghost image showing you what the shape of the brush tip looks like. If we turn to dry media and I choose oil pastel, notice the other members of this group. Oil pastel has a little triangular foot print and it looks something like that - there is a kind of a smeary quality but obviously it also adds color to the canvas; now there are some effects brushes. This particular group has been around, most of these items have been around for a while; a gradient string, I'm not sure that we have seen that before in earlier versions, OK, that's a gradient string. Confusion is a distortion brush that provides a kind of a blur effect with a very strong texture to it. I'll let you explore all of these on your own. I'm certainly not going to be able to take you through each variant in this little brief introduction. There are photo brushes, which allow you to do things like burn, and dodge and some other important effects. What's new, not that watercolor is new, but the watercolor engine. The way watercolor works is new and very sophisticated. Notice all of the many, many variants available for watercolor. Get a grainy wash flat. When I work with grainy wash flat, you'll see that there is a very strong paper grain that accompanies this stroke. Anything called grainy will tend to show more paper texture than other kinds of brushes, let's look at fine bristle with the same color. That has a very different look. Dry camel - you can see the bristles more clearly on those; and let's do a diffuse bristle - let's see what that looks like. Any of the diffuse brushes will take some time to get soaked into the paper, and that is one of the more realistic water color brushes in this collection. Now one thing that's new in Painter 7, you've got a watercolor layer as before but you can have as many watercolor layers as you like. You've also got another kind of layer. We can add just a standard layer; we can add new watercolor layers with this icon at the bottom of the layer palette. And also we can have a liquid ink layer and this is a brand new brush category for Painter 7. I'm just going to make the watercolor layers invisible for the moment. And with liquid ink layer active, let's choose the liquid ink brush category. There it is, and we can take a look at the many variants available; here's a graphic camel. I'm just going to change color here. That's a very exciting look. The liquid inks have the only resist brushes. Resist will enable you to remove some or all of a painted stroke: if you begin by painting a resist and then paint over that area with a brush. Well the resist has established an area that is of course resistant to the color that you apply. We'll have some projects where you will get accustomed to using liquid ink and see what it is capable of doing for you.