<a name="1000443"> </a>Corel Painter supports the Wacom« Intuos™ tablet, pen, and airbrush technology.
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<a name="1000444"> </a>Painting with an Intuos Tablet and Pen
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<a name="1000445"> </a>The Intuos tablet provides 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity to help you create smooth curves, gradual transitions, and precise brush strokes. Corel Painter allows you to take advantage of tilt and bearing input from an Intuos pen in new and exciting ways.
<li class="SmartList1"><a name="1013309"> </a>The mouse mode option in the Wacom controls panel-which causes a stylus to behave like a mouse-is not compatible with Corel Painter. Always use pen mode when painting with an Intuos tablet and pen.</li>
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<a name="1000461"> </a>Brush Tracking
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<a name="1000462"> </a>Every artist uses a different pressure when drawing on an Intuos tablet. The Corel Painter Brush Tracking preference helps you customize your Intuos tablet to meet your pressure sensitivity needs. Refer to <a href="03-Basics7.html#1012686">"Brush Tracking Preferences"</a> for more information.
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<a name="1001057"> </a>Expressions Settings
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<a name="1001058"> </a>Settings you make in the Expressions area of the Brush Creator allow you to tie brush features like Opacity, Grain, Angle, Size, Jitter, Resaturation, Bleed, Flow, and Depth to stylus data, such as Velocity, Direction, Pressure, Wheel, Tilt, and Bearing. For more information about using the Expressions section in the Brush Creator, refer to <a href="10-Brushes13.html#1003448">"Expression Settings"</a>.
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<a name="1000474"> </a>Minimum Size Settings
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<a name="1000478"> </a>In Corel Painter, the Minimum Size setting lets you take even further advantage of stylus input data. When Size is set in the Expressions area of the Brush Creator to respond to stylus pressure, and a Min Size setting is set to a small percentage of the brush Size, the strokes you make with the stylus create amazingly realistic results. Responding to the elegance of subtle movements, as your stylus pressure eases, brush strokes taper. As pressure increases, brush strokes widen, just as they would with a real brush.
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<a name="1000488"> </a>Using the Intuos Airbrush Wheel
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<a name="1000489"> </a>The Intuos Airbrush-the first true computer airbrush-provides fingertip media flow control. Corel Painter airbrushes respond to angle (tilt), bearing (direction), and flow (wheel setting) data from the Intuos stylus, allowing for a truly realistic brush stroke. For example, as you tilt your stylus, specks of media land on the paper in a way that reflects that tilt. Corel Painter airbrushes create conic-sections that mirror your stylus movements. Corel Painter airbrushes take advantage of the Intuos airbrush stylus wheel control. Like the needle control on a real airbrush, the Intuos wheel control adjusts airbrush flow, or how much medium is applied. For more information about using the new airbrushes, refer to <a href="06-Painting12.html#999867">"Painting with Airbrushes"</a>.
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<a name="1000502"> </a>Using Multiple Intuos Pens
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<a name="1000503"> </a>All Intuos pens-both standard and airbrush-feature ToolID™, which allows you to configure and work with multiple pens during a Corel Painter session.
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<a name="1000507"> </a>For example, let's assume you have two Intuos pens: Pen 1 and Pen 2. Pen 1 is set to an Oil brush variant; Pen 2 is set to an Artists variant.
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<a name="1000508"> </a>Every time you bring Pen 1 into the tablet's proximity, Corel Painter automatically changes the active brush to the Oil brush. Every time you bring Pen 2 into the tablet's proximity, Corel Painter switches to the Artists brush. If you've adjusted the tool assigned to a pen's size or other settings, Corel Painter remembers those changes for the next time you use that pen.
