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I tried out doing a digital pencil sketch using a Intuos 3 tablet and Corel Painter X. The experience and result are almost as good and as satisfying as doing it on real paper and pencil as shown in the sketch below. The steps I did are described below. Start up Painter and open up a photograph. Select File > Quick Clone . A clone of image window is created . In the Brush Selector , select the Pencils brushes' 2B Pencil variant as shown below. Now choose a dark grey Main Color  for the 2B Pencil in the Colors , Mixer or the Color Sets palettes. Zoom in closer in the clone window as shown below. On the keyboard, press B to activate the Brush tool. Use the tablet and pen to sketch over the clone image. Outline the object and block out the positive spaces and negative spaces. Note: the 2B Pencil variant uses a Buildup method i.e. the color values will darken as you repeatedly sketch over the same area . Now use the Pencils' Oily Var...

Corel Painter can be used to isolate objects from photographs as shown below. The result can be even better if a Wacom tablet is used to paint away the background. An example of an isolated image on white background is the tiger image below. In a nutshell, you just need to create a mask to cover the background and then carefully paint away the background at the edges of the object with a soft brush. Start up Corel Painter and open up the photograph containing the object to be isolated. Press CTRL+A  on the keyboard. The entire image is selected . Click Select > Float . The entire image is floated from the Canvas to a new layer . In the Layers palette, click the  Create Layer Mask icon as shown below. A layer mask is added to Layer 1 . In the Layers palette, click on the mask as shown below. A black outline surrounds the mask icon . In the Main toolbar, click on the Lasso    icon. Draw a lasso around the object. Press CTRL+S...

Painter has an interesting Brush setting that aligns your brush strokes to existing curve paths on the canvas. The path can be moved to another location or resized and repainted with another brush stroke. Here are the steps to use the Align To Path setting.  Start up Corel Painter and create a new file. C Use any of the Main toolbar icons e.g. Pen , Quick Curve , Rectangular Shape , Oval Shape to draw paths on the canvas. Draw on the canvas. The path is drawn on the canvas and a new layer Shape1 is created.  . In the Layers palette, click the Canvas layer. The Canvas layer is activated . Click the Brush icon. The Brush property bar appear . Toggle on the Align-to-Path as shown in the red circle above. And choose a Brush Variant e.g. Pastels' Soft Pastel . Choose a Main Color e.g. yellow. Brush on the canvas. The brush stroke follows the shape path .

I found my home computer and a few thumb drives infected with this virus. The only indication that something was not right was that whenever I plug in my multi-card reader into my USB port, a message will pop up saying that the drive is empty or something to that effect; or in other words, something was trying to write to my multi-card slots. So I examined my thumb drives and SD cards and found these hidden files VirusRemoval.vbs and Autorun.inf on it. Luckily this virus doesn't do anything more damaging than changing the home page of Internet Explorer and propagating itself onto portable drives. And I was able to remove it with a few simple steps. Symptoms of the virus: If a computer is infected, then the following are true. The file VirusRemoval.vbs can be found in the Windows system folder c:\Windows\System32\ as a hidden, readonly file. The HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\ registry entry will be set to start up the VirusRemoval.vbs scr...

Before you begin any drawing or painting with your Wacom tablet on Corel Painter, it is preferable that you adjust Painter to your brush stroke style - pressure and speed . To do this, simply do the following: Start up Corel Painter. Select Edit > Preferences > Brush Tracking . The Preferences dialog box appears . With the stylus and tablet, draw a stroke with your normal strength and speed on the Scratch Pad area of the Preferences dialog box. Click OK . The brush tracking has been set to match your normal stroke .

In Corel Painter , you can create your own palette of colors from existing photographs or images by sampling discrete colors;. the Painter term for this customized palette is: Color Set . From this Color Set, you can paint new images that matches each other's color hues. An example of a Color Set is shown below. To begin, start up Corel Painter and open up a photograph to sample colors from. Open up the Color Sets palette by selecting Window > Color Palettes > Show Color Sets . Click the Color Sets selector button and choose New Empty Color Set as shown below. Before sampling the colors from the photograph, we want to turn off the color variability so that the sampled colors are exact. So select Window > Brush Controls > Show Color Variability to display the Color Variability palette if it is not displayed.Then move the sliders for HSV all the way to the left as shown below. To start sampling, click the Dropper    icon on the Main toolbar. ...

I tried out a method using Corel Painter to create a black and white woodcut image from a photograph. The result is shown above. The idea is simple - just fill the photograph entirely with black color and then use the Scratchboard Tool to etch out the white areas. Open up a photograph in Corel Painter as shown below. Select File > Quick Clone to make a clone image of the photograph. The clone image is created . Now we want to fill the clone image with the color black. Press CTRL+A on the keyboard. The entire clone image is selected . Click the Paint Bucket command on the Main toolbar. The Paint Bucket properties appear . Choose a black color in the Select Fill combo box of the Paint Bucket properties. Make sure the Fill is set to Current Color . Click anywhere within the clone image. The clone image is filled with black . Use the Colors palette to set the main color to white . Now choose the Scratchboard Tool brush variant of the Pens brush...