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Corel Painter Brushes

Since this article was written Corel Painter 12 has been released. Some of these brushes may not work in Painter 12 and remain to be tested. They will work in Painter 11.

There is no mystery to downloading free brushes for Corel Painter, but there are a few misunderstandings. I must get more emails and questions about this one topic than any other one. There are many places to download the brushes as you will see, but there are a few tips and tricks to loading them and some basic knowledge about your computer is necessary.

After the brushes are downloaded they will usually be in the form of a .zip file. There is a free Brush Manager designed by Chris Price that is amazing and will take your zip file and instantly install it. But, it is important to know how to also do this manually especially when people are sharing the free brushes and might be emailing them or just passing them around.

IMPORTANT: CLOSE PAINTER! This is the one error that many newbies have happen to them. They forget to close Painter and AFTER the brushes are installed, then open it. The brushes will not appear in the brushes list unless Painter has been closed. After painter is reopened use the slider to look down the entire list and find the new brushes at the bottom of the list.

Corel Painter brushes are installed to the folder: Painter Brushes (not the BRUSHES folder!). Open the BRUSHES folder and inside is the Painter Brushes folder. OPEN the Painter Brushes folder and you will see all the brushes and jpg. There will be a folder and a jpg for each folder. The folder and the jpg BOTH have the same name. It is important not to open the folder of the brushes (do not open the Acrylics folder for instance).

Copy the folder and the jpg that matches it. Do NOT drag them. We have found that especially on Macs if the brushes are dragged, sometimes they totally disappear from the folder.

After pasting all the folders and jpgs reopen Corel Painter and scroll down using the slider in brush categories to find the brushes you just installed. They will be below the default brushes unless the makers knew how to make them appear at the top. (Brush creator trick!)

Here is a BEFORE painting of mine. This shows a painting and gives a base to see how the brushes interacted with this background.

Here is a list of brushes and showing how they interacted with this painting. Looking at them carefully you can see that I tried to show the clone method and the painting with color method on most of them.

In the above sample paint strokes here are the brush names and the links to download them for Corel Painter all for free.

1. John Derrys Flemish Rub 2
2. David Gells Living Oils>Oil Sponge Small HSV10
3. David Gells Freehand Frames>2 Paint Splat Spaced CS
4. Dens Oil Funky Chunky
5. Marilyn Sholins Rainbow Brush
6. Don Seegmillers Oil Scumble
7. David Gel Textured Acrylics>grnThin Acrylic 12
   

An added FREE bonus is David Gells SNOWTIME brushes!

Snowtime BRUSHES FREE DOWNLOAD

There are plenty of free Corel Painter brushes all over the internet, but sometimes they are hidden in little websites and under so many layers they are hard to find. Stay tuned for the next installment of free brushes coming soon!