Painter Auto-Wrecks My Brushes...

[handrawn]

hi

it looks like those links I gave you do not work - they just go to the landing page - typical Corel unhelpfulness [if you go to the index tab > B > and scroll down to brushes - lots of useful stuff]

anyhow... is this what you want?......:

To open a Corel Painter 7 or later brush library
1 In the operating system, browse to the location where the Corel Painter 7 or later brush library folder is stored.
2 Copy the files.
3 Paste the library folder in the Corel\Painter 12\Brushes folder.

You need to ensure that the library folder is writable by doing the following:

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(Mac OS) While pressing Control, click the brush library folder, and click Get Info. In the Info dialog box, disable the Locked check box. Repeat for subfolders and files.

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(Windows) Right-click the brush library folder, and choose Properties. On the General page, disable the Read-only check box, and click Apply. In the Confirm Attribute Changes dialog box, enable the Apply Changes to This Folder, Subfolders and Files option.


4 In Corel Painter, click the Brush Selector on the Brush Selector bar.
5 In the Brush Library panel, click the Brush Library Options button , and choose Brush Library Painter Brushes.

[GPainter]

Yup. Did all that from the get-go. Ok here is what I just did.
Went into Painter 11. Imported Photoshop workspace (my preference). Then I dragged and dropped my old brush folders in as described in your link above. All worked in Painter 11. Then I exported the workspace. Went to Painter 12, imported the workspace and all brushes worked. Exited Painter, came back in and immediately got an error about a missing category. After that only the Painter 12 brushes worked. So I am back to square one.

I think Painter/Corel is just riddled with problems like this. I have been using Corel since Corel Draw version 5 (on and off) and they just never seem to get proper QA going in any of their work (although Corel Draw seems to be improving). I wish to god that Photoshop had these brushes. The so called natural media bristle brushes in PS are just a joke compared to Painters, but then in Painter I seem to spend 50% of my time fighting the app.

Guess I will manually delete the bogus folders Painter inserts when I need to access those brushes. And I will be praying for big strides forward when PS CS6 comes out in 2012.

[handrawn]

well like I said I'm not up to speed on painter 12

try here :

http://painterfactory.com/Default.aspx

good luck

[GPainter]

Thank you for your help and effort.

[Jinny Brown]

Hi GPainter,

I haven't read this entire thread, only the first few posts, so I may have missed something important.

It sounds like you were doing everything as you should. However, there's a known bug in Painter 12 that has not been fixed even with the SP1 patch installed.

The only solution is to install custom brushes in the application/program folder's > [Workspace Name] > Brushes folder, ideally in their own custom brush library.

The reason for installing custom brushes in their own custom brush library is because loading up an existing brush library with a lot of custom brush categories and brush variants can slow down Painter's performance.

It only takes a few minutes to create custom brush categories and their accompanying brush category .JPG icon image files, then create a custom brush library folder and place both the brush category folders and their (matching name) .JPG brush category icon image files inside the custom brush library.

Remember, if you place them in the User folder you'll continue to have those peculiar extra folders added by Painter and need to be cleaning them up all the time.

Hope this helps. It should, and hopefully Corel will give us another patch one of these days that will fix this, and other, bugs.

[rimce44]

It should all brushes in it

[rimce44]

It should have all the brushes in there

[rimce44]

First you need create the brush category.

[Jinny Brown]

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[handrawn]

thanks Jinny