User Guide

Impasto140
Inverting a Depth Method
You can invert the Depth Method
using the Invert option. When a
method is inverted, the negative of the
source is used in the stroke.
For example, using Invert with Weave
luminance switches the luminance
values of the current weave so that
light areas of the weave become dark
and vice versa. This results in an
inverted texture within the Impasto
brush strokes.
Controlling the Depth
Interaction of a Medium
When you start painting using a
Depth Method, you’re painting with a
new medium — one that can have
texture and builds up depth as you
layer brush strokes.
The Impasto sliders in the Brush
Creator let you set how much depth is
applied with a stroke, the amount of
texture applied within a stroke, and
how each stroke interacts with other
Impasto brush strokes.
• Depth controls the depth of
individual strokes. Higher values
produce stokes that have deeper
grooves.
• Smoothing controls the transition
of the texture applied to a stroke.
• Plow controls how much a stroke
interacts with other Impasto brush
strokes.
When a stroke with a high Plow
value encounters another Impasto
stroke, it displaces the depth of the
existing stroke. In essence your
brush stroke “plows” through
existing strokes.
Plow can produce incredibly
realistic effects.
The effects of high and low Plow settings.
• The Negative Depth option
changes the direction of depth.
When Negative Depth is enabled,
the brush digs valleys instead of
raising ridges.