User Guide

Corel Painter 139
Setting Drawing Method
All of the drawing methods affect the
next strokes you make in the
document.
Impasto has three drawing methods:
• Draw to Color applies color. You
can set the color on the Colors
palette.
• Draw to Depth applies depth to
the image.
• Draw to Depth and Color applies
both color and depth to the image.
Setting Depth Method
The Depth Method pop-up menu lets
you choose a control medium for
applying depth.
Corel Painter uses the luminance
(brightness) information in the
control medium to determine how
much depth is applied within a stroke.
Light areas of the medium receive
more depth; dark areas receive less.
Black areas appear flat.
For example, when you use Paper as
the Depth Method, the bright and
dark areas of the paper grain
determine where grooves and bumps
appear in the stroke.
The Impasto stroke produced when Paper is
used as the Depth Method.
There are five depth methods you can
choose from:
• Uniform applies depth evenly.
Strokes have little texture.
• Erase levels the depth layer. If you
created texture strokes you don’t
like, use this setting to remove
them.
Erase applies only to depth, not to
color. When you set the Drawing
Method to Depth and Color, the
Erase method removes depth
while applying color.
The amount of depth removed
depends on the value of the Depth
slider. If you want to remove the
entire Impasto stroke, set Depth to
0.
• Paper controls depth using the
current paper texture. You can
choose different papers and change
their scale using the Papers selector
in the toolbox. Refer to “Inverting
and Scaling Paper Textures” on
page 63 for more information.
• Original Luminance uses a clone
source’s luminance to control
depth. Refer to “Creating Texture
Using Clone Source Luminance”
on page 281 for more information.
• Weaving Luminance controls
depth using the current Weave.
You can choose different weaves
using the Weaves selector in the
toolbox.