User Guide

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Mosaics
Making mosaics is a classical art
technique that creates pictures from
colored tiles and grout. In Corel
Painter, the Make Mosaic feature and
its companion, Make Tessellation, let
you create tile mosaics and stained-
glass window formations.
The Make Mosaics feature lets you
paint with a mosaic medium. In
essence, you’re painting with tiles.
The medium you paint with can be
simple colored tiles or colors cloned
from an original image. This way, you
can paint an original image on a blank
canvas or re-create an image from a
cloned photo.
Each tile is an independent object and
carves its shape so that it fits perfectly
with surrounding tiles. You can erase
and/or reshape tiles to create the
perfect mosaic design.
A mosaic image.
The Make Tessellation feature takes
an original image and creates tile inlay
patterns from non-rectangular tiles.
This feature divides your image into
polygonal shapes and then converts
the shapes into tiles.