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Jinny Brown is one of the premier users / teachers of Painter. She's a regular contributor to numerous Painter venues, including the Corel Painter newsgroup and very deservedly is held in very high regard by the Painter community. ~Danny~
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Hi Neve,
In your post in Danny's thread named "Photos to Paintings - Painter 8.1 Tutorials, Marilyn Sholin", I noticed you said your Painter 8 software "comes without help files etc.".
I'm surprised you say Painter 8 comes without Help files (unless I misunderstood your post) since they're available from inside Painter by clicking:
Help > Help Topics
That opens the Painter 8 User Guide in online format, in your browser. It's complete with a Contents tab, Index tab, and Search tab. On the Contents tab, the links are organized just as the chapters are in the hard copy Painter 8 User Guide.
If you want to install the Painter 8.1 patch (and I strongly suggest that you do install it), it can be downloaded along with the updated Corel Painter 8 User Guide in PDF format at:
ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/Painter/8.1
To have instructions for creating and using Custom Palettes, you'll need the updated Corel Painter 8 User Guide PDF, so don't forget to download it too.
You'll need to Uninstall Painter 8, reinstall Painter 8, and install the Painter 8.1 patch using all of the following steps to avoid problems:
1. Close Painter 8 and other programs.
2. Move any files you created into a new backup folder outside of the Painter 8 folders.
3. Uninstall Painter 8.
4. Manually delete any remaining Painter 8 folders and files.
5. Reboot.
6. Install Painter 8 and don't open it even one time.
7. Install the Painter 8.1 patch.
8. Reboot.
9. Launch Painter 8.1.
To make sure the Painter 8.1 patch was installed correctly:
1. Go to the Help menu and click About Corel Painter 8... to open the splash screen. Near the bottom, you'll see several lines of small text. At the right end of the first line of small text, you should see Version 8.1. Click the splash screen to close it.
2. At the bottom of the Window menu, you should see Custom Palettes.
3. Click any brush category icon, hold, and drag it onto the Painter screen. That will automatically create a new Custom Palette with the icon in it. The new Custom Palette will be named Custom 1.
4. To delete the test Custom Palette, use:
Window > Custom Palettes > Organizer
5. In the Organizer dialog box, highlight the name of your test Custom Palette (Custom 1), click the Delete button, then click the OK button.
You'll find many Painter tutorials on the Web. For starters, you'll find several on the Corel site, including one by Jeremy Sutton:
Transforming a Photograph into a Painting with Corel Painter 8.
Jeremy Sutton is not only a successful artist in his own right, he's been a Painter writer and instructor for many years and knows Painter far better than most, including some who teach and sell Painter teaching materials though they've only used Painter for a relatively short time. In addition, Jeremy is a gifted teacher, and a charming and helpful human being.
Along with Jeremy's tutorial, you'll find the others at this page on the Corel site:
Corel Painter 8 Tutorials
Painter's Clone painting feature is also explained in Help > Help Topics. Click the Contents tab, scroll down and click the link to the chapter named Cloning and Tracing.
To help you learn Painter more easily, I suggest joining several Painter related e-mail lists, message boards, and the Corel Painter Newsgroup, the best of which are listed on my PixelAlley site on the page linked below:
PixelAlley Section Links Page
On the lower left side of the page, click the link named Painter Community Links.
You'll also find other links at PixelAlley (on the page linked above) to Painter tutorials and demo's, Painter 7 information, and custom brushes you can download and use in any Painter version from Painter 7 through Painter IX. Most of the tutorials were written for earlier Painter versions but they should be fairly easy to translate for use in Painter 8 since the basics are pretty much the same, at least in Painter 6, Painter 7, and Painter 8.
I hope this info will help get you off to a good start.
As Jeremy says....
Happy Painting!
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Hi Neve,
In your post in Danny's thread named "Photos to Paintings - Painter 8.1 Tutorials, Marilyn Sholin", I noticed you said your Painter 8 software "comes without help files etc.".
I'm surprised you say Painter 8 comes without Help files (unless I misunderstood your post) since they're available from inside Painter by clicking:
Help > Help Topics
That opens the Painter 8 User Guide in online format, in your browser. It's complete with a Contents tab, Index tab, and Search tab. On the Contents tab, the links are organized just as the chapters are in the hard copy Painter 8 User Guide.
If you want to install the Painter 8.1 patch (and I strongly suggest that you do install it), it can be downloaded along with the updated Corel Painter 8 User Guide in PDF format at:
ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/Painter/8.1
To have instructions for creating and using Custom Palettes, you'll need the updated Corel Painter 8 User Guide PDF, so don't forget to download it too.
You'll need to Uninstall Painter 8, reinstall Painter 8, and install the Painter 8.1 patch using all of the following steps to avoid problems:
1. Close Painter 8 and other programs.
2. Move any files you created into a new backup folder outside of the Painter 8 folders.
3. Uninstall Painter 8.
4. Manually delete any remaining Painter 8 folders and files.
5. Reboot.
6. Install Painter 8 and don't open it even one time.
7. Install the Painter 8.1 patch.
8. Reboot.
9. Launch Painter 8.1.
To make sure the Painter 8.1 patch was installed correctly:
1. Go to the Help menu and click About Corel Painter 8... to open the splash screen. Near the bottom, you'll see several lines of small text. At the right end of the first line of small text, you should see Version 8.1. Click the splash screen to close it.
2. At the bottom of the Window menu, you should see Custom Palettes.
3. Click any brush category icon, hold, and drag it onto the Painter screen. That will automatically create a new Custom Palette with the icon in it. The new Custom Palette will be named Custom 1.
4. To delete the test Custom Palette, use:
Window > Custom Palettes > Organizer
5. In the Organizer dialog box, highlight the name of your test Custom Palette (Custom 1), click the Delete button, then click the OK button.
You'll find many Painter tutorials on the Web. For starters, you'll find several on the Corel site, including one by Jeremy Sutton:
Transforming a Photograph into a Painting with Corel Painter 8.
Jeremy Sutton is not only a successful artist in his own right, he's been a Painter writer and instructor for many years and knows Painter far better than most, including some who teach and sell Painter teaching materials though they've only used Painter for a relatively short time. In addition, Jeremy is a gifted teacher, and a charming and helpful human being.
Along with Jeremy's tutorial, you'll find the others at this page on the Corel site:
Corel Painter 8 Tutorials
Painter's Clone painting feature is also explained in Help > Help Topics. Click the Contents tab, scroll down and click the link to the chapter named Cloning and Tracing.
To help you learn Painter more easily, I suggest joining several Painter related e-mail lists, message boards, and the Corel Painter Newsgroup, the best of which are listed on my PixelAlley site on the page linked below:
PixelAlley Section Links Page
On the lower left side of the page, click the link named Painter Community Links.
You'll also find other links at PixelAlley (on the page linked above) to Painter tutorials and demo's, Painter 7 information, and custom brushes you can download and use in any Painter version from Painter 7 through Painter IX. Most of the tutorials were written for earlier Painter versions but they should be fairly easy to translate for use in Painter 8 since the basics are pretty much the same, at least in Painter 6, Painter 7, and Painter 8.
I hope this info will help get you off to a good start.
As Jeremy says....
Happy Painting!
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