Making Your Own Patterns

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Making Your Own Patterns

Patterns are used as material you can paint with, as a material for Balls and Bubbles, as fill for vector objects, and as a material you can use with the Sculpture effect.

Just as you can make your own textures, you can make your own patterns. Any 16-million color image can be used as a pattern, but for best results, the image should be a seamless tile.

To make a basic tile available for use in Paint Shop Pro, try this:

1. Create a seamless pattern with Paint Shop Pro's Seamless Tiling effect or another effect that can produce a seamless tile. (See Chapter 7 for discussion of Paint Shop Pro's effects.)

2. Save the pattern file to one of your Patterns folders (as specified in your file preferences). Any image in one of the Patterns folders will be recognized as a pattern.

Figure 11.4 shows an example of painting with a pattern made using the Kaleidoscope effect, and Figure 11.5 shows an example of the Sculpture effect with a seamless pattern made with Seamless Tiling.

Figure 11.4. Painting with a kaleidoscope pattern.

Figure 11.5. The Sculpture effect using a seamless pattern made with Seamless Tiling.

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