Understanding the Underpainting panel

…We saw in the previous video how you can manually clone an image and use your…own brush strokes to bring a source image…through to a destination and create a painted result.…Well what if you don't want to go to all that effort?…What if you want to go the easy way?…Well, Painter has a set of panels called the Auto Painting…panels, and we're going to take a look at em now.…So, let's go up to the Window menu, we'll drop down here…to Auto Painting, you can click any one of these and it'll bring it up.…

We're going to start, though, with the Underpainting palette.…And in order to do anything, we need a source image, so let's once again go to…our exercise files, chapter10, and we're going to use tokyo here.…So let's open this up. Here's our image.…The term underpainting comes from a traditional painting…environment and refers to the initial paint laid…down on the canvas to establish tonalities and composition.…For our purposes, underpainting allows us to eliminate the high detail aspect of the…photo, as well as adjust its color…