Creating a mosaic

You can create a mosaic from scratch or from a clone source. When you create a mosaic, it is applied directly to the canvas. You cannot apply mosaic tiles inside a layer.

After you exit the Mosaic and Tessellation dialog box, you can treat this rendered image just like any photograph or painting. You can paint it, apply effects to it, select portions of it, or increase the canvas size. You can also integrate mosaic effects into an existing image. For information, see Adding mosaic effects to an image.

After you apply tiles to a mosaic, you can select, deselect, or remove tiles to change their color or apply effects to them. For information, see Selecting and removing tiles and Specifying tile and grout color.

When creating mosaics from scratch, you can follow these helpful guidelines:

Tiles applied to the outline of an image

You can create a mosaic from a clone with tracing paper turned off to hide the clone source image.

To create a mosaic from scratch

1 .	Start a new document by choosing File New.

2 .	Choose Effects Esoterica Make Mosaic and Tessellation.

For more information about changing the grout and tile color, see Specifying tile and grout color.

You can also change tile dimensions and shape. For more information, see Adjusting mosaic tile dimensions and randomness.

You can also specify that Corel Painter automatically fill an area with tiles by choosing Stroke/Fill Selection from the Action list box in the Mosaic and Tessellation dialog box. For more information, see Stroking and filling a selection with mosaic tiles.

To create a mosaic from a clone source

1 .	Choose File Open, and locate the file that you want to clone.

2 .	Choose File Quick Clone.

3 .	Choose Effects Esoterica Make Mosaic and Tessellation.

You can monitor the progress of the clone-based mosaic by viewing the image with the Use tracing paper check box enabled. This lets you see a faded out version of the clone source.

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