User Guide

Academic Courseware: Chapter 10
Joyce Ryan
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Using the Kaleidoscope dynamic plug-in
The Kaleidoscope dynamic plug-in in Corel Painter allows you to make
seamless tiles from any type of source image with beautiful and
unexpected results. This tool is simply fun to play with!
Create seamless tile with the Kaleidoscope
1 Open the file Lazyday.tif.
2 On the Layers palette, click the Dynamic Plug-ins button. Select
Kaleidoscope and set the size to 200.
3 Move the kaleidoscope around until you have a tile you like.
4 Open the Layers palette menu and choose Drop And Select. The
kaleidoscope area becomes a selection.
5 On the Patterns palette, click the menu arrow and choose Capture
Pattern. You have now created a seamless pattern that needs no
retouching!
Lazyday painting created by Joyce Ryan in Corel Painter.
If you have access to a 3-D
modeling program, create a simple
model and apply your seamless tiled
image as a texture map.