Corel Painter Help | Creating custom tiles

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To apply custom tiles

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To apply custom tiles by using clone or pattern luminance

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To apply custom tiles by using paper luminance

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To apply custom tiles by using layer mask or channel luminance

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Custom tile controls

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

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To apply the effect to:

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The canvas — Click the Canvas in the Layers panel.

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A selection — Click a selection tool from the toolbox, and drag in the document window to select an area.

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A layer — Click a layer in the Layers panel.

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Choose Effects

Esoterica

Custom Tile.

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Choose one of the following patterns from the Using list box:

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Brick

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Hex

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Square

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Triangle

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Cross

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12-6-4

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12-6-4 V2

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Adjust any of the Custom Tile controls. For information, see Custom tile controls.

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

To apply custom tiles by using clone or pattern luminance

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Perform a task from the following table.

Do the following

Use a clone source

In the Clone Source panel (Window

Clone Source), choose Embedded Image from the Source list box.

In the Embed Source Image dialog box, do one of the following:

To browse for a file, enable the Browse option.

To clone a currently open document, enable the Current Document option, and choose a document from the list box.

To embed the active texture, enable the Current Texture option.

Click OK.

Use a pattern

Choose Window

Media Panels

Patterns, and click a pattern swatch in the Painter Patterns area.

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To apply the effect to:

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The canvas — Click the Canvas in the Layers panel.

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A selection — Click a selection tool from the toolbox, and drag in the document window to select an area.

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A layer — Click a layer in the Layers panel.

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Choose Effects

Esoterica

Custom Tile.

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Choose Original Luminance from the Using list box.

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Adjust any of the Custom Tile controls. For information, see Custom tile controls.

To apply custom tiles by using paper luminance

1 .

Choose Window

Media Panels

Papers.

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Choose a paper swatch in the Paper Textures area.

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To apply the effect to:

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The canvas — Click the Canvas in the Layers panel.

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A selection — Click a selection tool from the toolbox, and drag in the document window to select an area.

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A layer — Click a layer in the Layers panel.

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Choose Effects

Esoterica

Custom Tile.

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Choose Paper from the Using list box.

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Adjust any of the Custom Tile controls. For information, see Custom tile controls.

To apply custom tiles by using layer mask or channel luminance

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Do one of the following:

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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.

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To apply the effect to:

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The canvas — Click the Canvas in the Layers panel.

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A selection — Click a selection tool from the toolbox, and drag in the document window to select an area.

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A layer — Click a layer in the Layers panel.

3 .

Choose Effects

Esoterica

Custom Tile.

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Choose the channel or layer mask from the Using list box.

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Adjust any of the Custom Tile controls. For information, see Custom tile controls.

Custom tile controls

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Brick Width and Brick Height — adjusts the size of bricks

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Angle and Scale — adjusts the tile orientation and size of built-in tile shapes

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Blur Radius — sets the sampling radius for blurring the crack or grout color. Increasing the Blur Radius adds more neighboring colors to the crack pixels in each pass.

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Blur Passes — sets the number of times the crack pixels are blurred. More passes mix more tile color into the cracks. Blurring occurs only when Blur Passes is greater than zero.

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Threshold — draws the line between light and dark. Everything above the Threshold value becomes tiles, and everything below becomes grout.

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Use grout — adds grout between the tiles

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Grout Color — sets the grout color

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Grout Thickness — controls the width of the cracks between tiles or the grout lines (if grout is enabled)

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