User Guide

Using Textures, Patterns, and Weaves68
2 Click the palette menu arrow, and
choose Check Out Pattern.
Corel Painter opens the selected
pattern tile in its own document
window.
You can now edit the pattern tile as
you would any image. To put the
modified pattern back in the palette,
you must save it to the Pattern library.
For more information about saving
patterns to a library, refer to “Adding
Patterns to the Pattern Library” on
page 70.
Creating Seamless Tiles
Patterns are created by repeating a
rectangular image tile across an area.
When you develop patterns, you’re
creating images that will be tiled.
Ideally, those images must tile
seamlessly. That is, the eye should not
be able to distinguish tile edges. Corel
Painter provides ways to help you
generate images that will tile easily.
The wrap-around colors feature lets you paint
off one side of an image and onto the other side.
To help in making seamless tiles,
Corel Painter gives documents
defined as pattern tiles two special
characteristics: wrap-around colors
and wrap-around seams.
• With wrap-around colors, a brush
stroke dragged off one edge of an
image appears on the other side.
This makes it easier to paint
seamless, self-tiling patterns.
• The wrap-around seams feature
lets you move the edges of pattern
tiles to the center of the image,
where their tonal differences are
more apparent and easier to
correct.
To minimize seams:
1 On the Patterns palette, click the
palette menu arrow and choose
Define Pattern.
2 In the toolbox, choose the Grabber
tool .
3 Hold down the Shift key and drag
inside the image.
You’ll see a horizontal and vertical
line where image edges meet.
4 When the crossing lines are
centered, release the mouse button.
The wrap-around seams feature lets you move
the pattern tile edges to the middle so you can
edit them.