Creating custom tiles

Corel Painter transforms images into tiles based on a preset pattern, like bricks or hexagons, or from a paper pattern, clone source, or channel. If you use a preset pattern, the tiles are uniform in size and cover the entire image evenly.

The color of each tile is determined by applying the average color of the image pixels it covers.

Before (left) and after (right) applying tiles generated from a preset pattern.

When you generate tiles from either a paper pattern, clone source, or channel, tiles are based on light and dark concentrations in the selected source. In this case, the shape of the tiles is varied and may not cover an image evenly.

Tiles generated from a paper pattern.

The Custom Tile effect functions differently from the Make Mosaic and Make Tessellation effects. For more information, see Creating a mosaic.

To apply custom tiles

2	Choose Effects Esoterica Custom Tile.

The original grout appearance (left) is changed by blurring (right).

To apply custom tiles by using clone or pattern luminance

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To use a clone source, choose Window Clone Source. In the Clone Source panel, click the Open Image button , and Open Source to choose a clone source.

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To use a pattern, choose Window Media Library Panels Patterns, and click a pattern swatch from the Pattern library panel.

3	Choose Effects Esoterica Custom Tile.

To apply custom tiles by using paper luminance

1	Choose Window Paper Panels Papers.

4	Choose Effects Esoterica Custom Tile.

To apply custom tiles by using layer mask or channel luminance

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To use a layer mask, choose Window Layers, and click the layer that contains a layer mask in the Layers panel.

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To use an alpha channel, choose Window Channels, and click the alpha channel in the Channels panel.

3	Choose Effects Esoterica Custom Tile.

Custom tile controls

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