User Guide

Corel Painter 69
To remove edge lines
• Do one of the following:
• Set the Straight Cloner brush
to clone from somewhere
inside the image to preserve
detailed imagery. Refer to
“Painting in the Clone” on
page 190 for more information
about cloning.
• Paint out edge lines using any
color brush.
• Smear across edge lines with a
Water or Drip brush.
• Copy a selection to a layer and
move it over the line. Feather
the layer and reduce opacity to
help produce clean transitions.
Drop the layer when you’re sat-
isfied. Refer to “Using Layers
and Layer Masks” on page 229
for more information about
working with layers.
Turning a Fractal Pattern into
a Paper Texture
You can turn a fractal pattern into a
paper texture that will be saved to the
Paper library.
To convert a fractal pattern to a
texture:
1 On the Patterns palette, click the
palette menu arrow and choose
Check Out Pattern.
The pattern displays in a new
image window.
2 Choose Effects menu > Tonal
Control to adjust image elements
such as brightness, contrast, and
luminance.
3 When you’re satisfied with the
tonal balance, choose Select menu
> All.
4 Choose Window menu > Show
Papers
to display the Papers
palette.
5 Click the palette menu arrow and
choose Capture Paper.
6 In the Save Paper dialog box, set
the crossfade to 0.00.
7 Name the paper texture.
Creating and Capturing
Patterns
Corel Painter offers three ways to
create patterns:
• Define the current image as a
pattern, then add it to the Pattern
library.
• Create a rectangular selection,
then capture it as a pattern. For
more information about creating
selections, see “Creating
Selections” on page 206.
• Make a Fractal pattern, then add it
to the library. For more
information on creating fractal
patterns, see “Creating Fractal
Patterns” on page 71.
After creating a pattern tile, you’ll
probably want to refine it, so that it
tiles seamlessly. Refer to “Creating
Seamless Tiles” on page 68.
Images that you turn into patterns and
save in RIF format maintain their
pattern characteristics even after being
saved and reopened.
Creating patterns can become
addictive. It’s a good idea to keep
libraries small. Use the Patterns
Mover to create new libraries and
delete unwanted patterns. You can
switch libraries whenever you want to
use a different set of patterns. For