Be sure the Clone Colors button is still chosen, and you won’t have to manually select colors to paint with. If there are areas you’d like to touch up after auto painting, you can close the underpainting window, chose the If you’d like to add some detail and texture to the photo, then the following two steps will walk you through doing that. If you are satisfied with the finished result, you can stop here.

On this photo, I let the auto-paint stop itself. You may stop this process at any time by just clicking on the photo or hitting the stop button, so you can go for a very detailed look, or a more soft and abstract look to your painting. Click the Play button under Auto-Painting. You should be left with just a blank page. Now turn the tracing paper off either by selecting the icon in the upper right corner, or by pressing Ctrl+T on your keyboard. This will make the program pick up colors from your painting automatically when it is painting. , select the Oils category (not Artist Oils), and use the Flat Oils 20 brush.

This will ensure that the strokes the computer makes will follow the actual lines in your photo, and not be randomized. Under the Auto-Painting section, be sure to check the Smart Stroke and Smart Settings options if they are not already checked. Then click on the Quick Clone Button just below the Apply button. When you are satisfied with your new colors and the blur, click on the Apply Button. Tip: You will almost always want a Smart Blur of at least 30% to get an authentic “painterly” look to the photo. For example, I changed the values into this: Now change the values below to whatever appeals to you by using the slider bars or by manually typing in values. I’ve chosen Chalk Drawing for this particular photo. You may choose a color scheme from the top drop-down menu just below Underpainting. Now go to Window–> Show Underpainting to display a new tool bar in the workspace. I am choosing to use the photo below, which you can get here if you’d like. This tutorial works for both Corel Painter X and Corel Painter XI, but I have never used the older versions to know whether it will work for them as well.įirst, you’ll need to Open Corel Painter and open your picture. Here is a tutorial for one of my favorite uses of this feature: turning a photo into an oil painting quickly and easily. I have grown to love the auto-paint feature within the program, and use it for many personalized art pieces in my home, or for inexpensive artistic gifts. Using Corel Painter’s Auto-Painting FeatureĬorel Painter has made artistic expression easy even for those without much artistic skill.

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