<a name="1005406"> </a>Making mosaics is a classical art technique that creates pictures from colored tiles and grout. In Corel Painter, the Make Mosaic feature and its companion, Make Tessellation, let you create tile mosaics and stained-glass window formations.
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<a name="1005412"> </a>The Make Mosaics feature lets you paint with a mosaic medium. In essence, you're painting with tiles. The medium you paint with can be simple colored tiles or colors cloned from an original image. This way, you can paint an original image on a blank canvas or re-create an image from a cloned photo.
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<a name="998935"> </a>Each tile is an independent object and carves its shape so that it fits perfectly with surrounding tiles. You can erase and/or reshape tiles to create the perfect mosaic design.
<a name="998947"> </a>The Make Tessellation feature takes an original image and creates tile inlay patterns from non-rectangular tiles. This feature divides your image into polygonal shapes and then converts the shapes into tiles.
<a name="1008561"> </a><i>A mosaic with a surface texture.
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<a name="1008811"> </a>After creating a mosaic, using either of the two methods, you can give it a three-dimensional appearance. You can also apply brush strokes to the mosaic. A brush such as Distortion will smear the tile colors. For instructions on adding dimension to the tiles, refer to <a href="18-Mosaics6.html#999394">"Render Tiles into Mask"</a>.
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<a name="1008816"> </a>Suggestions for Creating Mosaics
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<a name="1008506"> </a>If you are either cloning from an existing image or creating a mosaic design from scratch, you'll want to follow a few suggestions:
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<li class="SmartList1"><a name="1008507"> </a>Use your first few courses of mosaic tiles to delineate the most important contours of your subject-just as if you were drawing with a pencil. Describe the most important lines of your scene first. Additional courses of tiles should follow the initial contours.</li>
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<li class="SmartList1"><a name="1010431"> </a>Use larger tiles in areas of flat color and smaller tiles in regions where you must add more detail. In flat color areas, it's effective to introduce some color variability. Tiles used in traditional mosaics rarely have uniform color.</li>
<li class="SmartList1"><a name="1010439"> </a>If you're working in a clone, turn on the Tracing Paper feature by enabling the Use Tracing Paper check box in the Make Mosaics dialog box. This helps you follow the source imagery.</li>
