Corel Painter Help : Texture painting
Corel Painter lets you paint with Texture brushes that create the appearance of surface texture. Whether you are an illustrator, character designer, concept artist, or photography hobbyist, Corel Painter can help you integrate intricate textures into your projects, add detail to your marks, and expand your creativity. For example, 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.
Photo artists can use textures in collages for creative impact.
Texture painting makes it easy to integrate textures into a photo collage. Artwork by Mandy McMahan.
You can add textures to the sky, land, and sea and paint nature scenes and environments. You can use textures to create the look of pores, scales, feathers, fur and add realism to your characters. Whether it's wood, glass, or metal, textures can simulate the appearance of materials. Aging textures can add natural-looking cracks and breaks to your paintings.
Blend a texture into your painting to simulate cracked or peeling paint. Artwork by Cher Pendarvis.
Whether you choose a texture from the library of preset textures available in the application or create your own texture, Corel Painter provides powerful controls that let you customize textures.
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