User Guide

Using Textures, Patterns, and Weaves70
more information about movers, refer
to “Moving Items Between Libraries”
on page 25.
To create a pattern:
1 Open the image file you want to
create a pattern from.
2 Choose Window menu > Show
Patterns
to display the Patterns
palette.
3 Click the palette menu arrow, and
choose Define Pattern.
Tip
•
With the Grabber tool selected, you
can hold down the Shift key and drag the
seams to the center of the image. For best
results, do this at 100% scale, not zoomed
in.
To capture a pattern:
1 Using the Rectangular Selection
tool , select the area of the
image you want to use as a pattern.
Remember, selection edges meet
when the image is tiled, so select
carefully.
2 Choose Window menu > Show
Patterns
to display the Patterns
palette.
3 Click the palette menu arrow and
choose Capture Pattern.
4 Enable one of the following
options:
• Rectangular Tile — places the
tile in a regular grid for fills.
The Bias slider does not apply.
• Horizontal Shift — offsets the
tiles in subsequent rows. The
Bias slider controls the amount
of offset.
• Vertical Shift — offsets the tiles
in subsequent columns. The
Bias slider controls the amount
of offset.
As you try different tile
arrangements and Bias settings,
the Preview window shows the
result.
5 Enter a descriptive name for the
pattern.
Corel Painter captures the pattern
and saves it to the current library.
Once saved, you can find the
captured pattern on the Patterns
palette. If you want to edit it, you
can check it back out of the library.
The Capture Pattern dialog box lets you decide
how much to offset pattern tiles and in which
direction.
Adding Patterns to the
Pattern Library
You can add any image as a pattern tile
to the current Pattern library.
To add a pattern to the library:
1 On the Patterns palette, click the
palette menu arrow and choose
Add Image to Library.
2 In the Save Image dialog box, give
it a descriptive name.