Using textures

You can paint, draw, or fill with a texture to create the effect of a textured canvas or paper. You can use textures with the current color, gradient, or pattern for foreground and background strokes or fills. Corel PaintShop Pro includes many textures you can choose from, such as clouds, cracked cement, and old paper. You can also create your own textures from an image.

For information about the difference between patterns and textures, see Using patterns.

To apply the current texture

Edit workspace

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On the Materials palette, click the Texture button

on the Foreground and Stroke Properties box or the Background and Fill Properties box.

The most recently chosen texture becomes active.

To choose a texture

Edit workspace

On the Materials palette, do one of the following:

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To choose a foreground texture, click the Foreground and Stroke Properties box.

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To choose a background texture, click the Background and Fill Properties box.

The Material Properties dialog box appears.

Mark the Texture check box.

Click the Texture drop-list to view thumbnails of the available patterns and choose a texture.

Adjust the following controls for the texture:

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Angle — specifies the angle (or direction) of the texture, from 0 to 359 degrees

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Scale — specifies the scale (from 10 to 250) of the image’s actual size. At smaller values, the image is repeated more frequently throughout the texture. At larger values, the image may be cropped or may lose detail and become blurry.

As you adjust these controls, the Current preview box displays the resulting material (the style plus the texture).

Click OK.


You can also
Change the style of the material	Click the Color, Gradient, or Pattern tab and adjust these controls.
Access recently used materials	Right-click in a properties box on the Materials palette to open the Recent Materials dialog box.
Apply the current materials to all tools	On the Materials palette, mark the All tools check box. If you unmark this check box, the current materials are applied to the active tool only.

You can apply strokes or fills multiple times to gradually darken and fill in the texture.

You can also change the angle of the texture by dragging the control needle on the texture in the Material Properties dialog box.

To save an image as a texture

Edit workspace

Create an image in Corel PaintShop Pro or another application.

Save the image as a BMP file in the Textures folder of the Corel PaintShop Pro program folder or in the My Documents/My PSP Files/Textures folder.

The texture appears in the Texture drop-list in the Material Properties dialog box.

The Texture drop-list displays all the available files in the Textures folder of the Corel PaintShop Pro program folder. You can also include TEX files from previous versions of the application in this folder.

To change the default location of texture files, click the File Locations button

in the Texture drop-list in the Material Properties dialog box. For more information about setting file locations, see Setting file locations.