Of course, the technique of creating source and destination images via cloning is an option. If you were to directly overpaint a photograph, you would be destroying the original detail, making it difficult to go back and adjust various elements that need additional enhancement. A variety of brushes can be applied to the wet imagery to imbue it with a hand-painted appearance. It is as if the photograph has been transformed into wet oil paint. Overpainting is the process in which an existing image-a photograph in our example-is interpreted into a painting by utilizing non-paint-bearing brushes to smear the underlying color within the image. Interpreting a photograph into a painting utilizes the concept of overpainting. However, this same technique is equally useful with regard to imagery created from scratch. The use of this technique dramatically expands your creative safety net, enabling you to selectively edit painted elements-as well as save time.įor my example image, I’m going to use a photograph as it dramatically illustrates the use of smeary brushes on layers. This capability enables a highly useful technique that I refer to as nondestructive layer painting. In general, brushes that smear and blend on a layer can equally smear and blend any underlying color found below the current layer.

However, what sets Painter’s layers apart is their ability to treat any underlying imagery-no matter how many layers-as wet paint. Painter’s layers can be used similarly to Photoshop for arranging and compositing a multitude of visual components. Layers 6: Non-destructive Layer Painting in Corel Painter

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