Applying pattern fills

Corel Painter lets you apply preset pattern fills to images. A pattern is a repeating design, and the smallest unit of a pattern is known as a "tile." When you fill an area with a pattern, the tile, which is rectangular, is repeated across the selected area.

You can adjust the appearance of a pattern in various ways. For example, you can change the tile size, also known as the scale, and offset tiles in a fill. When you offset the tiles, you adjust the horizontal or vertical position of the first tile, relative to the top of the object, which affects the rest of the pattern fill.

Left: A pattern scaled at 20%. Right: The same pattern scaled at 100%.

Left: The pattern offset set to 50% produces a seamless pattern. Right: The pattern offset set to 100% increases the pattern tile visibility. The tiles also appear misaligned.

To apply a pattern as a fill

1	Choose Window Media Control Panels Patterns.

4	Choose the Paint Bucket tool from the toolbox.

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 pattern 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 pattern	On the property bar, click the Anti-Alias button . Anti-aliasing is desirable when the Feather setting is extremely low or set to zero.

The image must be larger than the tile in order for the tiling to be visible in an image.

You can also choose a pattern from the Pattern Selector in the toolbox or by choosing Edit Fill. In the Fill dialog box, choose Original Luminance from the Fill With list box, and click the Pattern selector. Note that the Pattern selector appears only if Current Pattern is selected in the Clone Source panel.

To adjust the appearance of a pattern

1	Choose Window Media Control Panels Patterns.

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Rectangular Pattern Type — places the tiles in a rectangular grid for fills. This option disables the Pattern Offset slider.

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Horizontal Pattern Type — offsets the tiles in subsequent rows

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Vertical Pattern Type — offsets the tiles in subsequent columns

If applicable, move the Pattern Offset slider to control the amount of offset.

4	Move the Pattern Scale slider to control the size of each tile in the pattern.

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