Corel Painter, Photoshop,and Illustrator Tutorials

A video tutorial showing how to easily add your signature to a digital painting

You can easily add your signature to your Corel Painter paintings by making a custom brush. This video tutorial shows you how easy that is.

Here are the written instructions but before trying to follow these I suggest that you watch the video once or twice.

1. Make a new file at about 8″ x 8″ at 300ppi

2. You can probably chose any brush category but for your first signature brush I recommend the “Oils” category and then choose the “Flat Oils 40″ as your variant.

3.To the right of the variants click the little arrow and choose  “Save Variant” and then give a name to your new brush. Why not name it   My Signature.

4. Now click on the brush variant and scroll down to the bottom and you should see your new brush. Click on your new brush to select it.

5.Set your color to black and opacity to 100%. Now write your signature on the canvas. Keep writing your signature til you get it looking good.

6. Now choose the “Rectangle Selection” tool and then click and drag a square around your signature.

7. Go back to the little arrow to the left of the brush variant and click on it and then choose “Capture Dab” and you have now made your signature into a brush shape.

Many people want to know which is better, Letting Photoshop determine color or Letting the Printer choose the color. It’s better to let photoshop determine color. I’ve made a little video that shows how to do this. It is specific to my Epson 9800 printer but I think you can get pointers from it even if you are using a different model printer or even a different brand like Canon or HP. The main thing is to chose Let Photoshop determing colors and then in the printer dialog box you need to turn off color correction. Watch the video to understand better.

Here is an odd but fun tutorial using Corel Painter. This is especially good if you happen to know someone who has a big mouth like maybe a teenager.  Don’t know what I’m talking about? Just watch the video.

In this video tutorial we will get our brushes all set up and ready for us to start painting. Click on the photo to watch the video.

In the previous tutorial we set up our brushes. Now we are ready to start painting. Click on the photo to watch the video tutorial.

This video will show you how to do the painting using Layers. The last tutorial showed how to do the painting just using one layer but I kinda like using layers and I think you will too. Click on the photo to watch the video.

Photoshop has a wonderful Crop and Straighten tool that is Automatic and very easy to use. This is a short video that will show you how to do it. Click on the photo to see the video.

This is just a basic video tutorial on how to use the crop tool in Photoshop. It will introduce you to a few features that the crop tool has that will make cropping easy and useful. Most photos can benefit from tight crops so learn how to use this important tool. Click on the photo to go to the video.

When you open up a photo in Photoshop and make whatever changes that are necessary you should embed a color profile with it as you save the file. This video will show you how to do that- its really easy. Click on the photo to watch the video.

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Just a quick little video showing how to change your working space in Photoshop. It’s important to do this- fortunately it’s easy to do. Click on the photo to watch the video.

This tutorial will show you how to set text on fire. There are quite a few steps to do this but it is actually easy. As you are watching the video if you  click the pause button after each step and go do that step in your own version of Photoshop and then go watch the video some more for the next step. This is a really cool/hot way to set text on fire so have fun with it. Click here to see the video.

There are many ways to get great colors in Photoshop. In this tutorial you will find out how to use Levels the precise way. Click on the photo to watch the video.

Have you just opened up Painter and don’t know where to start? I have a  video tutorial that  will show you how to get started using the brushes in Painter. Just go to my Corel Painter Tutorials page and watch the     How to Use The Brushes tut.