Examining your importance hierarchy

Earlier in Chapter 11, I used the analogy of actors on a stage to represent the…distinction between a painting's subject and background.…Now is a good time to again utilize this analogy.…Assuming you are creating some sort of storytelling element to a painting,…you should examine your importance hierarchy.…The actors, your subject in the scene, should be the beneficiaries of detail,…saturation, contrast, composition, all of the techniques we've discussed in order…to focus the viewer's attention on them.…

Everything else is secondary.…Now, we're going to take a look at where we are in our partially…completed painting here.…I have said this before, but I will remind you again.…If you have flattened your image and started to add new layers as I've done…here, this is my varnish layer, this is the, what is that stuff removed from image.…These layers can be highlighted, and assuming I had another image open, I can go…here and say I want to duplicate these layers, and then I could duplicate them…to the existing layered file.…