Important! Patterns are available for grayscale and 16 million–color images only. For more information about increasing the color depth of an image, see Increasing the color depth of an image.
What is the difference between patterns and textures?
For more information about patterns, refer to the Help.
To apply the current pattern |
• | On the Materials palette, click the Pattern button on the Style drop-list for the Foreground and Stroke Properties box or the Background and Fill Properties box. |
The most recently chosen pattern becomes active. |
To choose a pattern |
1 | On the Materials palette, do one of the following: |
• | To choose a foreground pattern, click the Foreground and Stroke Properties box. |
• | To choose a background pattern, click the Background and Fill Properties box. |
The Material Properties dialog box appears. |
2 | Click the Pattern button. |
3 | On the Pattern page, click a pattern thumbnail. |
4 | Adjust the following controls: |
• | Angle — specifies the angle (or direction) of the pattern, from 0 to 359 degrees |
• | Scale — specifies the scale (from 10 to 250) of the image’s actual size. At smaller values, the image is repeated more frequently throughout the pattern. At larger values, the image may be cropped, or may lose detail and become blurry. |
5 | Click OK. |
Click the Add to Palette button.
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On the Materials palette, mark the All tools check box. If you unmark this check box, the current materials are applied to the active tool only.
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To use the active image or a selection as a pattern |
1 | Open the image you want to use. |
2 | To select a part of the image as the pattern, make a selection in the image. |
The pattern appears in the Pattern thumbnails on the Pattern page of the Material Properties dialog box. |
To save an image as a pattern |
1 | Create an image in Corel PaintShop Pro or another application. |
2 | Save the image file in the Patterns folder of the Corel PaintShop Pro program folder, or in the My Documents/Corel PaintShop Pro/17.0/Patterns folder. |
The pattern appears in the Pattern drop-list on the Pattern tab of the Material Properties dialog box. |
To change the default location of pattern files, click the More Options button , and choose File Location. For more information about setting file locations, see Setting file locations.