Water Wash?

[Andrew Bokelman]

I'm not exactly sure what I want to ask about. I thought I saw
something some place regarding Painter and the ability to lay down a
water wash (?) over the entire picture. IOW, not as stroked on the
picture with a brush, but maybe as if I sprayed a mist of water onto the
painting and color edges started to bleed together slightly and unevenly
and the other color area became slightly uneven as if the color had
pooled a little while wet.

[FFFish]

Open the Layers menu, choose "Wet Canvas." Works only on watercolour
layers, of course.

[Jinny Brown]

Hi,

In my U.S. Painter 7 version, there's no Wet Canvas command in the
Layers section menu (nor is there in 7.1.357).

Here are the steps:

1. In the Layers section menu, choose Lift Canvas to Water Color Layer

2. Choose a Water Color variant and Paper combination and make any
setting adjustments to both the Water Color variant and Paper to give
you the effect you want (experiment until you know because the effect
can differ widely depending on the variant's settings and Paper chosen).

3. In the Layers section menu, choose Wet Entire Water Color Layer.

4. Go get a cup of tea or coffee, get comfortable, and wait 'til the
Water Color Layer's water droplet icon stops dripping (make sure it's
stopped because it will sometimes hesitate then continue dripping). If
your Water Color variant's not a very wet, slow drying, lots of
diffusion one, it won't take that long but some do, especially when the
image is large.

It's a very neat technique and can be used to "revive" a pixelated image
sometimes as it diffuses paint and the jaggies "melt" into the paper.
I've done it with a small image that I liked enough to want to increase
its size for printing and the Wet Entire Water Color Layer did the trick
pretty darned well. :o)

Jinny Brown

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[Andrew Bokelman]

> 1. In the Layers section menu, choose Lift Canvas to Water Color Layer

Thanks. I never noticed that dark triangle in the corner of the menu
before.

BTW, I noticed an interesting phenomenon. If I undo the wet canvas, at
the point right before I return to not having a water color layer, the
picture becomes more saturated. I don't know if there is a use for
this, but it's there.

[Jinny Brown]

Andrew,

Undo a second time and the Water Color Layer returns to its previous
state.

Jinny Brown

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