User Guide

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Compositing Mosaics with Other Images
If you want to composite a mosaic with another image, you have several options:
• Using multiple documents — You can create the mosaic in its own document.
When you’re satisfied with the result, float and copy the mosaic to the document
where you want to composite it. For information on creating floating objects, see
“Working with Floating Objects” on page 66.
• Using layers — You can float the non-mosaic portion of the image. Create the
mosaic on the canvas. When you’re satisfied with the mosaic, you can drop the
layers.
• Layering mosaics — If a mosaic already exists in the document when you open the
Make Mosaic dialog box, it is assumed that you want to keep existing tiles, and
Corel Painter does not apply new grout. To avoid this, you can use a layer to create
a mosaic on top of an image.
To layer mosaics
1 Create a mosaic, and then click Done to exit the Make Mosaic dialog box.
2 Fill, paint, and drop layers to create your background.
3 When you return to the Make Mosaic dialog box, your background image remains,
and you can place tiles over the top of it.
Removing tiles placed on an image reveals the grout, not the image.