Katz, I just Googled Painter 9 tutorials and found and it gave me this
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Pai...en-GB:official
maybe you could find the answer you want in one of those?

Chris

p.s. You can make lots of painting effects from the filters in Photoshop, plus there are some good add ons by plug-in for Photoshop about.