User Guide

Using Textures, Patterns, and Weaves64
Tip
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You can also use the Paper selector in
the toolbox to invert paper grain. Click
the Paper selector, click the selector menu
arrow, and choose Invert Paper.
Two brush strokes overlapping. The green one
was painted with the grain inverted.
To change paper texture scale:
1 Choose Window menu > Show
Papers.
2 On the Papers palette, use the
Paper Scale slider to resize the
paper grain.
As you move the slider, the texture
preview updates to display the new
grain size. You can scale texture
down to 25% or up to 400%.
Note
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Scaling large textures can use a great
deal of RAM. Most textures in Corel
Painter are from 50 to 400 pixels square at
100% scaling.
Brush strokes on paper grains with different
scale values.
Randomizing Paper Grain
Normally, paper grain is fixed, which
means the texture is in the same
position each time you apply a brush
stroke. You can change this when you
want grain to be applied randomly.
To randomize paper grain:
1 Choose Window menu > Show
Brush Creator.
2 Click the Stroke Designer tab, and
choose Random.
3 Enable the Random Brush Stroke
Grain option.
Controlling Paper Texture
Brightness and Contrast
Brightness can be thought of as
controlling the depth of the paper
grain. Paper that is less bright acts as if
the grain is shallow.
Contrast can be thought of as
controlling the steepness of the paper
grain. The grain in higher contrast
paper goes from high to low more
quickly and with fewer intermediate
levels.
To change paper texture
brightness:
1 Choose Window menu > Show
Papers.
2 Adjust the Paper Brightness slider
to modify the brightness of the
grain.
To change paper texture contrast:
1 Choose Window menu > Show
Papers.
2 On the Papers palette, use the
Paper Contrast slider to modify the
contrast of the grain.