User Guide

322 Corel Painter User Guide
3 In the Make Mosaic dialog box, choose Dimensions or Randomness from the
Settings pop-up menu.
4 Choose the color for the tile and the grout.
5 Use the Options pop-up menu to select the command you want:
• Stroke Selections creates one row of tiles along each selection path.
• Fill Selection applies multiple rows of tiles, working in from the path until the
selected area is filled with tiles.
The Fill Selection command works with selections made using the Lasso tool. To fill
an oval or rectangular selection, you must first choose the Stroke Selection
command, and then choose the Fill Selection command.
In some cases, Corel Painter might not put a tile in every space. You can fill
openings by choosing the Apply Tiles tool and putting them the tiles in
yourself.
If you want to change the tiling of an area, you can use the Remove Tiles tool
to clear it. Then you can reapply tiles manually
Working with Mosaics and Layers
Each mosaic tile you create is stored as a resolution-independent object within the
Corel Painter image database. This means that if you resize an image composed of
mosaic tiles, your image can be displayed at the same quality as if it had been created
at a higher resolution originally.
The image that you see displayed is the set of all mosaic tiles rendered as an image
onto the canvas. Mosaics can be re-rendered at any time. Once you exit the Make
Mosaic dialog box, you can treat this rendered image just like any photograph or
painting. You can paint it, apply effects to it, select portions of it, or increase the
canvas size. However, once you choose Re-render Mosaic, Corel Painter erases any
image that is not a tile or grout.
The first thing the Mosaic feature does is cover the entire canvas with grout. This
obliterates images that are on the canvas, but leaves objects that hover above the
canvas, such as layers and shapes. These objects are not deleted, but they do cover up
the mosaic you’re working on. The Mosaic feature works with the entire canvas. You
cannot apply mosaic tiles inside a layer.