Adapting Grainy Water Brush in Corel Painter

• Published January 27th, 2011 by Helen Yancy
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Grainy Water (or Grainy Water 30, which is simply Grainy Water in the size of 30 pixels) is a wonderful blender in the Blenders Category (Media) in Corel Painter. I like it much better than a brush that simply melts the pixels, such as the Just Add Water variant in Blenders, which in my opinion makes mush - Grainy Water has character. That said, it also has circles, and I often don't like it when the circles formed at the ends of the strokes are too obvious. Therefore, I adapt Grainy Water using the Brush Creator, found under the Window heading on the top menu bar. (The keystrokes to open the Brush Creator are Mac, Command>B or Windows, Control>B).

Here are screen shots of the way I adapted to create my Grainy Water Brushy variant. I love that it has a "hairs of the brush" look rather than the circles, but I still keep both in my custom palette, and use both. Remember once you create the new brush (with the Brush Creator window still open) you will need to click on Save Variant under Variant in the menu bar above the Brush Creator, and then Restore Variant, also under Variant in that menu bar for your Grainy Water brush when you're finished. If you forget, and close Brush Creator, you can go to the Brush Selector, press on the little triangle on the far right, and you can click on those commands there.

When you adapt, you can change settings to suit your particular style, create and save your own brushes using the Brush Creator!

 Click here to Download screen shots of this process.