August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
8h 28m
English
CHAPTER 12

Special Effects
At the heart of Painter is the vast range of brushes and art materials, which have been explored in earlier chapters, but the program also has a range of special effects and this chapter explores a selection of them.
The Effects menu contains many different special effects under the headings of Focus, Surface Control and Esoterica and these are applied as filters to your picture.
The Dynamic Plug-ins are available from the Layers Menu or from an icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. The list of Plug-ins includes a range of effects which in many cases are applied to a separate layer which can be adjusted later, as ...