Creating your own Color Set from a photo
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. Then click on the color on the photograph that you want to add to the Color Set.
- In the Color Sets palette, click the Add Color to Color Set icon as shown below.
The sampled color is appended to the Color Set.
- Continue sampling and adding to the Color Set until all the colors that you want are sampled.
- Save the Color Set into a file by selecting the Selector icon in the Color Sets palette and choosing the Save Color Set option.
The Enter Color Set Name dialog box appears.
- Type in a file name and click Save.
The Color Set is saved.
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