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Deep Paint's Command Panels

The next panel is the brushes and paints settings. From here you control the size and shape of the brush and adjust how the paint reacts with the canvas and other materials.

The three brush types available are:

1. Simple Brush
2. Artist Brush
3. Airbrush

The paint types available are:

1. Standard Paint
2. Oil Paint
3. Chalk and Charcoal
4. Pen and Pencil
5. Marble Paint
6. Image Processing Paint

Each brush and paint type has its own settings so this palette will display a different set of options depending on the brush and paint type that is currently selected; some brush and paint settings offer many more options that those shown here. Each of the settings are described in detail in the online help.

Next is the layer panel. From here you can add and delete layers, control a layer's opacity setting, hide and unhide layers, lock and unlock layers, and define layers as a clone source for use with the clone tool. Using layers along with the clone tool allows you apply painterly effects and artistic styles to photos that can be very realistic looking. If you're not an artist, this is where you can really have a lot of fun working with Deep Paint.

The fourth tab is the lighting controls. Here you control the lighting direction and the intensity of ambient and spot lights. Any changes you make in the lighting panel are automatically reflected in your image. The three variations of sample text below are a result of simply changing the lighting angle and intensity.

Experimenting with the lighting controls as you work can result in some very dramatic effects.

~ Sue Chastain
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