User Guide

Academic Courseware: Chapter 10

Joyce Ryan

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.

Create a seamless tile

1 Open the Brick.jpg file and make a selection around some of the

bricks.

2 Open the Pattern Selector in the toolbox, then click the menu arrow

and choose Launch Palette to open the Patterns palette.

3 On the Patterns palette, click the palette menu arrow and choose

Capture Pattern. Name the new pattern Brick.

4 From the palette menu, choose Check Out Pattern. A document with

your pattern will open, allowing you to edit the pattern.

5 Select the Grabber tool from the toolbox and while holding down the

Shift key, drag the image sideways. Where the edge of the image was,

Seamless tiles are great for

Web page backgrounds. A single

pattern tile is repeated by your Web

browser to fill a background. This

allows you to use a small file to create

a large background!