User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Featured artists
- Table of contents
- Welcome to Corel Painter IX
- The Basics
- Working with Documents
- Creating and Opening Documents
- Creating and Opening Templates
- Placing Files
- Understanding Resolution
- Zooming
- Repositioning Documents
- Rotating Documents
- Cropping Images
- Using Full Screen Mode
- Image Size Information
- Resizing the Canvas
- Rotating and Flipping the Canvas
- Saving Files
- Closing Documents and Quitting the Application
- Setting Preferences
- Working with Documents
- Layers
- Getting Started with Layers
- Managing Layers
- Editing Layers
- Painting on Layers
- Brush Methods and Painting on Layers
- Preserving Layer Transparency
- Working with Floating Objects
- Adding Drop Shadows
- Creating Patterns on Layers
- Working with Reference Layers
- Setting Layer Opacity
- Blending Layers by Using Composite Methods
- Adding Notes to a Layer
- Storing Images with the Image Portfolio
- Organizing Layers with Image Portfolio Libraries
- Color
- Getting Started with Color
- Working with the Mixer Palette
- Working with Color Sets
- Setting Color Variability
- Viewing Color Information
- Setting Color Expression
- Working with Gradients
- Textures, Patterns, and Weaves
- Using Paper Texture
- Using Patterns
- Using Weaves
- Painting
- Exploring Brushes
- Marking the Canvas
- Exploring Painting
- Working with Fill
- Watercolor
- Liquid Ink
- Impasto
- Image Hose
- Customizing Brushes
- Getting Started with the Brush Creator
- Managing Settings and Controls
- General Controls
- Size Controls
- Spacing Controls
- Angle Controls
- Bristle Controls
- Well Controls
- Rake Controls
- Random Controls
- Mouse Controls
- Cloning Controls
- Impasto Controls
- Image Hose Controls
- Airbrush Controls
- Water Controls
- Liquid Ink Controls
- Digital Watercolor Controls
- Artists’ Oil Controls
- Color Variability Controls
- Color Expression Controls
- Expression Settings
- Managing Custom Brushes
- Cloning and Tracing
- Image Effects
- Working with Surface Texture
- Setting Appearance of Depth Properties
- Using Paper to Create Texture
- Using 3D Brush Strokes to Create Texture
- Creating 3D Oils
- Using Image Luminance to Create Texture
- Using Clone Source Luminance to Create Texture
- Creating Embossing Effects
- Using Channels and Layer Masks to Create Texture
- Working with Reflection Maps
- Applying Lighting to a Texture
- Working with Surface Texture
- Mosaics
- Getting Started with Mosaics
- Placing and Customizing Tiles
- Using Shapes
- Animation and Video
- Creating Animations and Video
- Getting Started with Movies
- Modifying a Movie
- Rotoscoping
- Saving and Exporting Movies
- Printing
- Index
Mosaics 321
Once you choose Re-render Mosaic, Corel Painter erases any part of the image
that is not a tile or grout.
Using Stroke Selections and Fill Selection Commands
The Stroke Selections and Fill Selection commands let you apply mosaic tiles to
selections. These features work only with path-based selections created with the
Rectangular Selection, Oval Selection, and Lasso tools. You might need to use the
Transform Selection command to convert a channel-based selection to a path-based
selection when you work with mosaics. For more information, refer to “Getting Started
with Selections” in the Help.
Stroking and filling a selection are appropriate only when you change a parameter
between operations — for example, if you change the tile color or dimensions. The
Stroke Selection command applies a single row of tiles as an outline along the selection
path. To fill an entire selection with tiles, you can make the selection using the Lasso
tool. To fill an oval or rectangular selection, you must first use the Stroke Selection
command to apply tiles to the selection path, and then use the Fill Selection command
to fill the rest of the selection.
To fill an oval or rectangular selection, you must first use the Stroke Selection command to apply tiles to
the selection path (left), and then use the Fill Selection command to fill the rest of the selection (right).
To create a mosaic in a selection
1 Set up the area you want to tile as an active selection.
2 Choose Canvas menu > Make Mosaic.