Creating underpaintings

An underpainting is a version of the photo in which you adjust the photo’s colors, tones, and sharpness. The purpose of the underpainting is 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. After retouching a photo, you must clone it to preserve it and prepare it for auto-painting. For more information, see Auto-cloning photos.

Choosing an underpainting method

Depending on the effect you want to achieve, you can choose one of the following methods for creating an underpainting:

One method you can use to prepare a photo for painting (left) is to choose a source image (center) that contains the colors and tones you want to use. The color and tone of the source image can be applied to your photo to create an underpainting (right).

To create an underpainting

2 .	Choose Window Auto-Painting Panels Underpainting.

A preview of the change is shown in the photo, but the change is not applied until you click the Apply Underpainting button .

6 .	Click the Apply Underpainting button to create the underpainting.

Before clicking the Apply Underpainting button , you can return the photo to its original state by clicking the Reset Underpainting button .

You can add an edge effect to simulate the unpainted edge of a canvas or to create a frame effect by choosing an edge from the Edge Effect list box and moving the Amount slider.

To save underpainting settings as a preset

2 .	Click the Add Preset button .

You can delete a preset by choosing it in the Photo Enhance list box and clicking the Delete Preset button .

To create an underpainting by matching the color and tone of another image

4 .	Click the Apply Underpainting button .

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