User Guide

Corel Painter 321
• Inverted, when enabled, lets
you work with an inversion of
the selected source.
• Softness controls the transi-
tions between displaced colors.
Increasing softness creates
more intermediate steps, which
produces a smoother distortion.
If you experience aliasing in a
glass distortion, try increasing
Softness.
• Amount controls the degree of
displacement. A higher amount
leads to more distortion.
• Variance creates multiple varia-
tions in the neighborhood of
the displacement. The result of
increasing variance depends on
the type of image and other set-
tings.
Tips
•
You can also use the Opacity slider on
the Layers palette to adjust the Glass
Distortion effect.
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You can move the Glass Distortion
layer in the document window to distort
other areas of the image.
The Glass Distortion dynamic layer using
Pa p er
The Glass Distortion dynamic layer using
Image Luminance
Kaleidoscope
The Kaleidoscope dynamic plug-in
creates a layer that produces
kaleidoscope effects from the imagery
it floats over.
The traditional kaleidoscope is a
hollow tube with a set of mirrors and
colored chips at one end. You peer into
the other end and enjoy the highly
symmetrical patterns the mirrors
create from the colored chips.
For best results, you should have
interesting imagery beneath the
Kaleidoscope dynamic layer. You can
move the layer in the document to see
the effect on different imagery.
To create a Kaleidoscope dynamic
layer:
1 On the Layers palette, click the
Dynamic Plug-ins button and
choose Kaleidoscope.
2 In the Kaleidoscope dialog box,
specify the size of the dynamic
layer.
Kaleidoscopes must be square.
3 Click OK to create a Kaleidoscope
layer.