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Underpainting in the Painter Photo Painting System

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Creating the Underpainting

Historically, an underpainting was used to establish the overall color values for a painting. Similarly, the Underpainting palette lets you adjust the color, tone, and detail of a photo to prepare it for auto-painting. For example, you can darken colors to simulate the colors used in an 18th-century painting, or you can soften colors to simulate the colors found in watercolor paintings. We consider this the first part of preparing your image for Auto-painting in Corel Painter.

One of the new and exciting additions to Painter X is the ability to apply the color of a source image to your under painting! The method below was to choose a source image that contains the colors and tones you want to use. The color and tone for the source image can be applied to our photo to create your underpainting.

Note: Some of the images in this tutorial are quite large. They have been scaled down to fit the online layout of the page. You can click the images throughout this tutorial to open the full size image in a new window.
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