How To Use the Digital Watercolor Brush Control in Corel Painter 11 and 12

I wrote this tutorial for my eBook a few months ago. Actually I thought I had published it, but couldn't find it if I have! I think I am getting it mixed up with Understanding Basic Brush Controls because I used a Digital Pointed Simple Water brush in that tutorial.

This one is about brush controls that are specific to Digital Watercolour Brushes. As always the variable are almost infinite, and my illustrations only show one possible variation. Use that as the starting point for figuring out what all these settings really do. I found I had a lot more control over my DWC after I wrote these two tutorials. Breaking it down to the simplest terms and changing one element at a time really helped me understand each control.

Do some similar experiments to mine to see the effect of each control one at a time on the same brush stroke. I use a Played back stroke to altereach element so that I know I started with the same thing each time. You could call it the "Control Stroke."

Examples of How Fringe Control Works

Each of the layers shown in this painting were painted with a DWC brush with the fringe control set at 21%. If I dry each digital watercolour layer the fringe control stays at 21%.