Corel Painter Help : Textures

Textures

Textures are an essential tool in digital painting. Whether you are an illustrator, character designer, concept artist, or photography hobbyist, Corel Painter can help you integrate intricate textures into your projects, add detail to your marks, and expand your creativity. You can add textures to the sky, land, and sea and paint nature scenes and environments. You can use textures to create the look of pores, scales, feathers, fur and add realism to your characters. Whether it's wood, glass, or metal, textures can simulate the appearance of materials. Aging textures can add natural-looking cracks and breaks to your paintings.

You can use textures in texture painting. For more information, see Texture painting.

A 3D model is rendered into a 2D bitmap image (left); Texture is added to the image in Corel Painter to give the character more appeal and realism (right). Artwork by Mike Thompson.

You can also use textures in photo painting. For more information, see To use a texture as a clone source.

Photo artists can use textures in collages for creative impact. Artwork by Mandy McMahan.

Explore the collection of textures in Corel Painter to find some interesting and useful textures that can spark ideas for your work, create your own custom textures, or import your library of content assets that you have built up over time.

Whether you choose a texture from the library of preset textures available in the application or create your own texture, Corel Painter provides powerful controls that let you synthesize, manipulate, and modify textures to achieve dramatic and unique effects.

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