User Guide

4
Using Textures, Patterns, and Weaves
In Corel Painter, paper textures,
gradients, patterns, and weaves can all
be applied to your image. You can
brush some of them on, get them to
interact with each other, spray them,
smear them, and even create your
own. Best of all, you never have to run
to the store in the middle of creating to
get a new tube of paint or the right
kind of paper.
You’ll use these items in several ways:
• to load a Brush tool with media for
painting
• to fill selections with the Effects
menu > Fill command or the
Paint Bucket tool
• to control certain image effects,
like Apply Surface Texture
This chapter explains how to select,
customize, and create textures,
patterns, and weaves, as well as how to
save them to a library for future use.
Papers, patterns, and weaves all use
libraries. The default libraries offer
sample materials. You’ll find more
libraries, with additional materials, on
the Corel Painter CD and on the
Corel Web site. For more information
about libraries, including how to load
alternate libraries, create your own
libraries, and manage library content,
refer to “What are Libraries?” on
page 23.
Using Paper Texture
In the real world, a marking tool has
different results when applied to
surfaces with different textures. Corel
Painter allows you to control the
texture of the canvas to achieve the
results you’d expect from Natural-
Media on a given surface—pencil on
Water Color paper, felt pens on cotton
paper, chalk on the sidewalk, and so
on.