User Guide

Impasto138
A new light indicator (small circle)
appears where you click.
To delete a light:
• Click on a light indicator and press
Delete.
Viewing Lights
The Display slider beneath the sphere
controls the brightness of the sphere,
so that it’s easier to see light positions.
It does not affect the lights themselves.
The Show Light Icons check box lets
you hide or show the light indicators
on the sphere.
To change a light’s angle:
• Drag a light indicator on the
sphere.
Setting Light Properties
The three Light Controls sliders let
you set the intensity and brightness of
a light source.
• Brightness indicates the amount of
contribution of the light to the
overall lighting color.
• Conc (concentration) adjusts the
spread of the light’s shine over the
surface.
• Exposure globally adjusts the
overall lighting amount from
darkest to brightest.
You can also change a light’s color
using the Light Color control. You can
have multiple colored lights interact
with the depth to produce different
textural effects.
To change light color:
1 Click the Light Color icon.
2 On the color picker, choose a color.
Creating Custom Impasto
Brushes
Using the Impasto brush settings in
the Brush Creator, most brush
variants can become Impasto brushes.
The controls let you set drawing and
depth methods, the amount of depth
applied, and the brush interaction.
The Impasto settings act identically to
other brush settings, in that they can
be saved as part of a variant or applied
to any active brush.
For more information on creating new
brush variants, see “The Brush
Creator” on page 143.
To create an Impasto variant:
1 Choose the Brush tool from the
toolbox.
2 On the Stroke Designer page of
the Brush Creator, click Impasto.
3 Choose a drawing method from
the Draw To pop-up menu.
4 Choose an application method
from the Depth Method pop-up
menu.
5 Adjust the Depth slider to set how
much depth the brush applies.
6 Adjust the Smoothing slider to set
the transitions in the texture.
Higher Smoothing values produce
less textured strokes.
7 Adjust the Plow slider to control
how much a depth stroke displaces
other strokes that it intersects.