How to download and install Workspaces and Extra Content in Painter 12 – Knowledge Base

Painter 12 – Loading Extra content

One of Painter 12’s best features is its flexibility to be personalized. With the hundreds of brushes and controls one can create a workspace that is suitable for any project. For example, if you will be working mainly on Real Watercolors you may want to have the water color controls on the main work area for convenience.

The Painter team created 6 additional workspaces that can be downloaded from the website.

Painter 12’s Extra content is included on the installation CD.

Brushes

The Extra brushes included with Painter 12 need to be copied manually to the brushes directory in Painter 12

On Mac OS X

Insert the Painter 12 installation CD
Browse to the Corel Painter 12 disc using the Finder
Open the Extras folder
Open the Brushes folder
Copy the desired brushes to

/ Applications / Corel Painter 12 / Brushes

Alternatively, you can copy them to your user account folder. With this method however the brushes will only be available with the workspace in which they are installed

/ Users / [User Name] / Library / Application Support / Corel / Painter 12 / [User Name] / Brushes

You will now be able to choose the brush library by opening the brush drawer, then clicking on the icon and choosing the desired brush set from the Brush Library submenu.

On Windows

Insert the Painter 12 installation CD
Choose Install Painter Extras if you haven`t done so already
Once installed, browse to the folder:

C:\Program Files\Corel\Painter12\Extra Content\Brushes

Copy the brush folders you would like to install to the following folder
Copy the desired brushes to the appropriate program files folder

C:\Program Files\Corel\Painter12\Brushes

Alternatively, you can copy them to your user account folder. With this method however the brushes will only be available with the workspace in which they are installed

Windows XP
C:\ Documents and Settings \ [U'ser Name] \ Application Data \ Corel \ Painter 12 \ [U'ser Name] \ Brushes

Windows Vista / 7
C:\Users \ [U'ser Name] \ AppData \ Corel \ Painter 12 \ [[U'ser Name] \ Brushes

You will now be able to choose the brush library by opening the brush drawer, then clicking on the icon and choosing the desired brush set from the Brush Library submenu.

NOTE: The Painter 12.1 update adds the ability to import and export brush libraries from the brush menu. You can use these options to export the Painter 12 Extras brushes for easier installation later on.

Gradients

Go to Window
Go to Media Library Panels
Choose Gradients
On the Gradient Libraries palette that appears, click the in the upper right corner

Click Import Legacy Gradient Library
Navigate to the Gradients folder under the Extras folder and choose the desired gradient library, then click Open

The default location of the Extra content on a Windows system is
C:\Program Files\Corel\Painter12\Extra Content

Mac users will need to import the content from the installation disc, or copy the Extras folder to a location on their hard drive to import from there.