User Guide

182 Corel Painter User Guide
5 In the Surface Lighting dialog box, use the sliders to set attributes for
Appearance of Depth and Light Controls.
6 Paint on the canvas or layer.
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 brush variant
or applied to any active brush. For more information on creating new brush variants,
see “Customizing Brushes” on page 197.
Setting Drawing Method
All of the drawing methods affect the next strokes you make in the document.
Impasto has three drawing methods:
• The Draw to Color method applies color. You can set the color on the Colors
palette.
• The Draw to Depth method applies depth to the image.
• The Draw to Depth and Color method 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.
This Impasto stroke is produced when Paper is used as the Depth Method.