Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 2020, and are not included in Painter Essentials 7. For more information about Corel Painter 2020, visit http://www.painterartist.com/. To get started with Painter Essentials 7, see the Painter Essentials 7 Quick Start Guide.
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Inverting and scaling paper grain

Paper texture can be visualized as a three-dimensional landscape made up of grains. The size, shape, and spacing of the grains determine the pattern and direction of the paper texture. When applying media to the canvas, brushes react to paper texture by coloring the grain peaks and ignoring the valleys. However, Corel Painter allows you to invert this effect to make color fill the grain valleys instead of the peaks. You can also resize the paper grain by adjusting the scale.

To invert paper grain Back to Top

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You can also invert paper texture by clicking the Paper options button in the Papers panel, and choosing Invert Paper.

The green brushstroke was painted with the paper grain inverted.

To scale paper grain Back to Top

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Scaling large textures can use a great deal of Random Access Memory (RAM). Most textures in Corel Painter range from 50 to 400 pixels square at 100% scaling.

Brushstrokes on paper grains with different scale values


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