Growth Patterns for Corel Painter

Perhaps a normally overlooked feature of Corel Painter is the Growth fractal/ pattern generator (Effects menu> Esoterica> Growth). I have used the Growth dialog to create various shapes, which I then saved to a custom patterns library for Corel Painter 6 and above. There is a download link at the end of this post. Growth [...]

Converting a Corel Painter Paper Texture into a Pattern

In my Pattern Pens Plus (and Pattern Pens Glow) brush libraries (available for download on this site), there is a variant named WYSIWYG Paper Extractor. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use this variant to extract any loaded paper texture and then capture that texture as a Painter pattern. 1. Select the WYSIWYG [...]

Working with Painter’s Pattern Mover

Please also see the thread Problems with Pattern Libraries at the Painter Factory. In Corel Painter, individual patterns are stored in pattern libraries. The default pattern library is named Painter Patterns.patterns in Painter X and 11, and in earlier versions was named Painter Patterns in the Mac version and Painter.ptl in the Windows version. Painter [...]