pattern chalk question

[commador]

Hi all,

How do you go about creating a pattern to use with the pattern chalk brush (or other pattern brushes). When I use it now I can select a pre-defined pattern from the toolbar, but I would like to create my own patterns. I know the process has to be similar to capturing papers, but I cant seem to find where to do it?

[Jin]

Hi,

To learn how to create Patterns in Corel Painter X, read the following:

Painter X Help > Help Topics > Contents tab > Textures, Patterns, and Weaves

Click the plus sign to the left of Textures, Patterns, and Weaves, then click Using Patterns.

Read the page that displays in the right panel.


In case your Patterns palette doesn't function as it should (mine didn't in Painter X and still doesn't in Painter X.1):

We can use any flattened image as a Pattern by opening it in Painter and doing one of the following:

Use File > Clone Source and, in the flyout menu, check the file name of the image you want to use as a Pattern, or
(Providing your Patterns palette will allow you do do this... mine does even if the rest of the Patterns palette isn't working properly), Select > All (select the entire image Canvas) and in the Patterns palette menu, choose Define Pattern. This will allow you to use the image as a Pattern as long as you don't choose another Pattern in the Patterns palette or use Select > All, then Define Pattern to use another image as the Pattern.



If your Patterns palette won't allow you to save a Pattern you create to the currently loaded Patterns palette library, save the Pattern as you would any image. Then, with the Pattern image open on the Painter screen, use one of the two methods listed above to specify it as the Clone Source or define it as the Pattern.


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