Corel PaintShop Pro Help | Using textures

Using textures

You can paint, draw, or fill with a texture to create the effect of a textured canvas or paper. You can use textures with the current color, gradient, or pattern for foreground and background strokes or fills. PaintShop Pro includes many textures you can choose from, such as clouds, cracked cement, and old paper. You can also create your own textures from an image.

For information about the difference between patterns and textures, see Using patterns.

To apply the current texture

Edit tab

• On the Materials palette, click the Texture button

on the Foreground and Stroke Properties box or the Background and Fill Properties box.

The most recently chosen texture becomes active.

To choose a texture

Edit tab

1 On the Materials palette, do one of the following:

• To choose a foreground texture, click the Foreground and Stroke Properties box.

• To choose a background texture, click the Background and Fill Properties box.

The Material Properties dialog box appears.

2 Click the Texture button.

3 On the Texture page, mark the Add Texture check box.

4 Click a texture thumbnail.

5 Adjust the following controls for the texture:

• Angle — specifies the angle (or direction) of the texture, from 0 to 359 degrees

• Scale — specifies the scale (from 10 to 250) of the image’s actual size. At smaller values, the image is repeated more frequently throughout the texture. At larger values, the image may be cropped or may lose detail and become blurry.

As you adjust these controls, the Current preview box displays the resulting material (the style plus the texture).

6 Click OK.

You can also
Change the style of the material	Click the Color, Gradient, or Pattern button and adjust the controls.
Apply the current materials to all tools	On the Materials palette, mark the All tools check box. If you unmark this check box, the current materials are applied to the active tool only.

You can apply strokes or fills multiple times to gradually darken and fill in the texture.

You can also change the angle of the texture by dragging the control needle in the texture preview on the Pattern page.

To save an image as a texture

Edit tab

1 Create an image in PaintShop Pro or another application.

2 Save the image as a BMP file in the Textures folder of the PaintShop Pro program folder or in the ...Documents/Corel PaintShop Pro/2023/Textures folder.

The texture appears in the Texture thumbnails on the Texture page of the Material Properties dialog box.

The texture thumbnails include all the available files in the Textures folder of the PaintShop Pro program folder.

To change the default location of texture files, click the More Options button , and choose File Location. For more information about setting file locations, see Setting file locations.