thanks for joining me today I'm Corel
Painter master Aaron Rutten and in this
video we're going to take a look at some
of the new convenient color selection
features in Corel Painter 2020 color
selection has been improved for route
painter for example dialogues that deal
with choosing colors such as the paint
buckets fill with current color now show
the universal color wheel which is a
color picker that is synchronized across
painter so this color wheel that I get
when I'm selecting the current color for
the fill is the same color wheel that
I'll get when I'm just choosing general
color here in painter and if I switch to
a shape tool and I select a fill for
that I get the same color picker this
color picker has the color wheel it has
color sliders and it shows you your
color swatches I'm going to go ahead and
put down some light blue paint here and
I want you to look on the main color
swatch here in the color picker I'm
gonna change my color to a different
color and you can see that swatch is now
split in half so I can see my previous
color next to my current color so if I
wanted to blue that's just a tiny bit
darker
I could choose that and now when I put
that down I get a nice comparison before
I even start painting I wanted to make
that color maybe a little bit more
indigo I could change it just a bit and
that's a great way to pick color you
probably can't help but notice that the
sliders for color are now in color so
for example this is the red slider and I
can add less or more red to my color and
do the same with green and blue now I
personally do not like RGB for picking
color I prefer to change this to display
as HSV now I can view my color as hue
saturation and value so I can control
the hue or the pure color which is on
the ring here I can control the
saturation which is the horizontal axis
making the color D saturated or more
saturated and I can control the value on
the vertical axis here with the V slider
and I can see those colors update on the
fly so I can very easily make tweaks to
my color I can even hold ctrl or command
on my keyboard and I can move this in
very small very fine increments you can
also expand this horizontally so I can
stretch these sliders out to make them
wider and you can customize the color
panel to show more or less content and
be more compact so for example I can
right click on the color panel I can
hide the color wheel
and hide
color swatches it hide the clone color
button and now all I'm left with are the
color sliders so you could have
something like this to choose color
which takes up a lot less space let's go
ahead and go to the window menu let's
look under color panels and you can see
that right now we're using the full view
color panel but there's also a new
compact mode which gives you something
very similar and if you prefer you can
work with color this way but you can
also press ctrl alt 1 to bring up the
temporal color panel and this has been
updated as well you'll notice that
there's a new menu up in the top right
and if we click on that menu we can
choose to make this pinned or unpinned
if it's pinned it's going to stay
visible on the screen at all times if
it's unpinned then when you click on the
screen and paint it goes away if you
want to bring it back you can use your
keyboard shortcut of ctrl alt 1 to bring
it back if we go back to that menu you
can also turn a clone color on and off
you can swap the colors swapping between
main and additional color and you can
switch it to left-handed mode which
shows this color swatch on the other
side that way left-handed people aren't
covering up their color swatch when
they're choosing a color another thing
you might notice is this new harmonies
panel will go ahead and select this
bluish color and you can see that the
harmonies panel updates to show me color
harmonies these are colors that are
complementary to your currently selected
color there are six different modes
which we can access up here in the top
right sub dialog right now we're showing
complementary but we could also show
analysis split complementary tetrad ik
monochromatic light and monochromatic
dark the way this works is you want to
choose your primary color this is the
color that all of the harmonies will be
based off of so let's say it's going to
be this blue color here and then you
have these lock icons now these lock
icons are going to make it so that if
you choose a color in your harmony it's
not going to change your primary color
and I'll show you what I mean I'll go
ahead and lock this harmony here I'll
paint a test stroke I'll select this
aqua color on the end and you can see
that because I lock through this one
this one didn't change the other ones
changed their primary color to that aqua
color so now if I paint and I switch
between all these different harmonies
this top option is not changing and most
of the time that's going to be what you
want it to do if you're experimenting
with these different colors
this lock is very important if I go
ahead and I sample that original base
color again and I lock these remaining
harmonies now I can pick the colors from
within those harmonies without the
primary or the target color changing as
soon as I unlock that layer it's going
to designate the currently selected
color as the primary color for the
harmony now if you want to be able to
save these color harmony swatches for
later you can click the next icon which
adds them to a color set you can give it
a name I'll just call it analogous
harmonies now if I look in my color set
libraries I can see my analogous
harmonies are now saved here permanently
as swatches so there you go those are
the convenient color selection
improvements in Corel Painter 2020 I
hope you enjoyed this tutorial make sure
to check out some of my other
demonstrations of painter 2020s top
features
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