Click the Tracing Paper icon to toggle tracing paper on and off. Brush strokes appear at 50% opacity when Tracing Paper is turned on. Press Command + T (Mac OS) or Ctrl + T (Windows).Ī 50% ghost of the source image shows through the tracing paper.ĥ Trace over the image using any Corel Painter Essentials brush variant.Click the Tracing Paper icon l in the vertical scroll bar.When you finish tracing and turn Tracing Paper off, the faint source image disappears, and your brush strokes appear at 100% opacity.ġ Choose File menu > Clone to create a clone of the original document you wish to trace.ģ Press Delete (Mac OS) or Backspace (Windows) to clear the entire canvas. When Tracing Paper is in use, you see a faded-out version of the clone source, as if it were displayed under real tracing paper on top of a light box.Īs you trace, brush strokes appear at 50% opacity. To use Tracing Paper, the source and clone documents must be the same size. You can use cloning to help you trace the source image by using Tracing Paper, the on-screen 'light box' in Corel Painter Essentials.

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