From the course: Painter 2019 Essential Training

Isolating paint on individual layers - Painter Tutorial

From the course: Painter 2019 Essential Training

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Isolating paint on individual layers

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- [Instructor] We initially colored our layers in order to easily keep track of them, visually. Now we'll fill-in each layer with appropriate coloration and flowers. We'll begin by first updating the layer colors. We'll utilize Preserve Transparency to isolate each layer for painting and adjustments. After that's finished, the fun begins. Painting the wildflowers. So, I'm going to begin at the forward ridge here. And I'm just going to select some colors that are kind of generalized ground colors. And we don't have to worry about receding into the background in terms of the atmospheric depth. We'll do that in the next movie when we adjust saturation and brightness. So right now, it's just a matter of getting first the underlying colors, and then painting-in the wildflowers themselves. So let's start with this one. And remember, we're going to want to work through this with Preserve Transparency on. So I'm going to fill. And then I'm just going to go to each one of these and kind of vary these colors a little bit. Some of these may be a little bright, but once again, all of that can be taken care of when we actually adjust with the Saturation and Value command. Okay, here's where the fun begins. So I'm going to go to the front one. And the pen we're going to use here, once again it happens to be in the Pens and Pencils category, it's called the Leaky Pen. And we certainly don't want it that large, so I'm going to reduce the size a bit. And this pin works so that, you'll see in a minute, it randomly changes that size a bit. So I'm going to go through and start painting with this to add color. Let's start with some yellow. And you know, I'm not trying to be perfectly correct with this. I just want to get a fanciful appearance of color. And I'm going to, like, the real wildflowers, the way they grow, they tend to grow in clusters of certain colors together. Okay, then we'll go to the next one. And I'm just going to keep doing this, so you might not watch me paint all of these, but you'll get a chance to do this yourself. See right now, there's really no separation. We'll take care of that when we adjust the saturation and lightness on these. So I'll keep going through and doing this, and then once we're all done, I'm going to show you how to do this by controlling saturation and lightness.

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