“While painting with
Clone Tinting enabled,
you can add the currently
selected color, or a
sampled color, to
any brush, independent
of the clone source.”
any brush, independent of the clone source. It even enables
you to colorize monochrome images, or change colors, in
ways you can’t achieve using adjustment layers in Photoshop,
for example.
As always, Painter 2021 improves its UI in several places. For
photo artists, a new Photo Art command bar lets you instantly
clone, access photo art panels, and apply surface texture, as
well as adjust colors, brightness and contrast, and equalize. To
give you more room to paint, you can move command bars
anywhere on the screen. These improvements are very wel-
come, but they’re long overdue.
A new AI Styles panel includes presets and styles that use
artificial intelligence to create a painting from a photo, done in
a specific style, e.g. impressionist or modern. You can fine-tune
the settings of AI Styles, and save your own custom preset.
I personally found these styles so obviously machine-created,
it hurts the eyes. But that’s my personal opinion. n› › REVIEWS> KELBY ONE.COM
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