Painter 8 Paper Textures

[Chris Johnson]

I've been playing around with Painter for a little while now and I have a question. In regards to the paper textures, is there a way to specify an offset or otherwise reorient the textures tiling without editing the actual texture. I can see how to scale and invert the texture but I'd like to be able to offset it up and down and possibly rotate at various angles. Any suggestions?

Chris.

[Jin]

Hi,

We can offset Patterns horizontally or vertically, but not Papers.

In the Papers palette, the left icon (Painter IX) is the Directional Grain icon and one would think that could be used to affect how the texture is applied. However, I can't find but a tiny bit of documentionon this feature in Painter IX Help > Help Topics and it doesn't explain how to use it, really.

You might try it with several Papers and grainy brush variants to see if you can get it to do what you want.

Otherwise, the only way that comes to mind is to use Effects > Surface Control > Apply Surface Texture to a blank white Canvas. Then edit that image, use Select > All, then choose either:

Capture Pattern if you want to have the ability to offset it horizontally or vertically, or....

Capture Paper if you're happy with the results.

In any case, a Pattern can be used to Fill the Canvas, then that Canvas can be captured as a custom Paper.

Sorry I can't be of more help. I hope Corel will expand on the Directional Grain option in future documention and/or make it work to do what you want.... also add the offset function to the Papers palette.

Let us know if you invent some better ways to get the results you're after as others will probably be interested too. I would, definitely.


Jinny