User Guide

Textures, Patterns, and Weaves 113
Textures, Patterns, and Weaves
In Corel Painter, paper textures, gradients, patterns, and weaves can all be applied to
your image. You can brush some of them on, get them to interact with each other,
spray them, smear them, and even create your own. Best of all, you never have to run
to the store in the middle of creating to get a new tube of paint or the right kind of
paper.
You’ll use these items in several ways:
• to load a Brush tool with media for painting
• to fill selections with the Effects menu > Fill command or the Paint Bucket tool
• to control certain image effects, like Apply Surface Texture
This chapter explains how to select, customize, and create textures, patterns, and
weaves, as well as how to save them to a library for future use.
Papers, patterns, and weaves all reside in libraries. The default libraries offer sample
materials. You’ll find more libraries, with additional materials, on the Corel Painter CD
and on the Corel Web site. For more information about libraries, including how to load
alternate libraries, create your own libraries, and manage library content, see “What
Are Libraries?” in the Help.
Using Paper Texture
In the real world, a marking tool has different results when applied to surfaces with
different textures. Corel Painter allows you to control the texture of the canvas to
achieve the results you’d expect from natural media on a given surface — pencil on
water color paper, felt pens on cotton paper, chalk on the sidewalk, and so on.
Of course, some brushes, like those in the Airbrush category, don’t reveal paper texture
in their strokes. This behavior follows that of the natural tool.