Corel Painter Help | Applying textures as fills

Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 2018, and are not included in Painter Essentials 6. For more information about Corel Painter 2018, visit http://www.painterartist.com/. To get started with Painter Essentials 6, see the Painter Essentials 6 Quick Start Guide.

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To apply a texture as a fill

Applying textures as fills

Corel Painter lets you apply texture fills to images.

An example of a selection filled with a texture

To apply a texture as a fill

Create or open a document.

Perform a task from the following table.

To fill	Do the following
The canvas	Select the canvas in the Layers panel.
A layer	Select a layer in the Layers panel.
A selection	Choose a selection brush from the Brush Selector Panel (Window Brush Selector Panel) or a selection tool from the toolbox. Drag in the document window to select the area of the image that you want to fill.

Click the Paint Bucket tool

in the toolbox.

On the property bar, click the Fill Image button

From the Fill list box on the property bar, choose Texture.

Click the Fill selector on the property bar, and click a texture.

In the document window, click the canvas, selection, or layer.

You can also
Specify the range of colors to be filled	On the property bar, type a value in the Tolerance box or move the slider.
Specify the texture opacity for pixels outside the tolerance range	On the property bar, type a value in the Feather box or move the slider.
Soften the edges of the texture	On the property bar, click the Anti-Alias button . Anti-aliasing is desirable when the Feather setting is extremely low or set to zero.

You can also choose a texture by clicking Edit Fill. In the Fill dialog box, choose Texture from the Fill with list box, and click the Fill selector. Move the Opacity slider to adjust the texture opacity, and click OK. Texture transparency is maintained.

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