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.

Texture painting

Corel Painter lets you paint with Texture brushes that create the appearance of surface texture. This brush category with source-blending technology makes it easy to integrate complex textures into your work. Whether you're aiming for a look that is more lifelike or one that's completely futuristic, or you want to make a digital painting look authentically timeworn, Texture Painting offers limitless possibilities.

Blend a texture into your painting to simulate cracked or peeling paint. Artwork by Cher Pendarvis.

3D artists can import a rendered version of a 3D model into Painter and add textures or perform touch-up work with Painter tools.

A 3D model is rendered into a 2D bitmap image (left); Texture is added to the image in Corel Painter to give the character more appeal and realism (right). Artwork by Mike Thompson.

Artists who start in grayscale can take their works to the next level by blending different textures into their grayscale paintings.

A grayscale illustration (top); a texture is blended into the tree (bottom). Artwork by Justin Buus.

Texture Painting isn’t simply manipulating a layer’s opacity. It lets you intelligently blend a texture into existing content using a range of stylus expressions, such as pressure. It respects the transparency of the selected texture, giving you full control of when, where, and how much texture is used. You start by choosing or creating a texture and pairing it with brushes designed specifically for adding texture. And by combining Texture brushes, flexible brush customization options, and the ability to capture and import your own textures, you can add any number of surfaces styles to your work. You can even add Dab Stencils, grain, and smudging to the brushes with all the speed, precision and control you expect from Painter. In addition, you can make your own custom textures from scratch or by modifying a preset texture. For more information about textures, see Textures.

This section includes the following topics:

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Painting with textures

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Customizing Texture brushes

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