As promised here is the Corel Painter tutorial on how to create repeating patterns. I think after this I will show how to incorporate all of the repeating patterns tutorials and various programs to create something really special. Though I may just do a quick tutorial next week on how to take various scans of a large image and piece them together in Photoshop as I have a painting right now that has been drawn out and is right at that step in my process. I figure I might as well get some of my own work done while I am sharing various tips and strategies in the digital art world.
Anyways let’s start with a piece of artwork that we want to turn into a pattern. Here is a piece that I created a long time ago with some Dover clip art and some painting.
First let’s open up the patterns window, to do this go to Window, Library Palettes, and Show Patterns.
Now use the selection marquee tool to select the image, it looks & works exactly the same as Photoshop’s selection marquee tool.
From the pattern window click the little triangle to the right and select capture pattern.
A dialog box opens up with several options for your pattern and a preview.
By adjusting the horizontal or vertical shift you can see how it changes your pattern.
You can adjust your patterns the same way in Photoshop by opening the cloned source window and changing the horizontal or vertical offset.
Now in Corel from the patterns window you can scale your pattern down or up and control the horizontal or vertical offset. I scaled it down.
From the brushes dropdown menu, choose cloners. So now that you have any cloner brush picked (and you can adjust the settings of your brush however you like), and your pattern picked in the pattern window you are ready to paint with your new pattern.
Now I felt that this pattern should have been a tiny bit bigger, so I adjusted the scale in the patterns window and then painted this.
