Sand Dune – Step 2

Upon pressing Continue, the Source for Step 2 begins to be processed. After a few seconds the Main Colours Tab appears with Source 4 selected and the ArtWizard Guide re-appears. The Guide’s text for what is currently happening is coloured blue.

Click the Default button and watch the ArtWizard paint the Palette on to the Canvas.

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When the painting has stopped, go to the Mixer labelled H/S (Hue/ Saturation). The ArtWizard has put the settings at 50,60. To change the amount of colour saturation, click, hold and gently drag the crosshairs up the screen until the readout says 50,86.

In addition, you can make the Palette and Canvas brighter by going to the B/C Mixer and moving the crosshairs down and to the right, from position 58,49 to 87,47. (Remember, you can also use the keyboard to move the crosshairs).

The Mixers should look something like the screen-grab below:

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The Canvas is now filled with vibrant colours held together with strong black outlines of the building and war memorial - see screen-grab below:

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In some ArtWizards an additional palette, called the Stencil, is brought into play. The ArtWizard Guide will tell you if the Stencil is being used and you will also see the letter “S” at the very bottom right-hand corner of your screen.

The Stencil is always set to greyscale, i.e. it is colourless, and it sits over the top of the Palette to add further control to the way the Palette is blended on to the Canvas - if you like, the Stencil acts as a filter. In essence, if there are white and light grey areas in the Stencil these let the Palette’s contents go through on to the Canvas; if there are black or dark grey areas in the Stencil, these reduce the amount of the Palette going through.

To access the Stencil, click the word Stencil seen in the screen-grab below:

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The Sand Dune ArtWizard has pre-selected Source 3 from the Unsharp Mask Tab and put the the Stencil’s B/C setting to 100,47. But click on the crosshairs and nudge them up until the readout says 100,50 and you will see quite a big difference in the appearance of the Stencil, (see the screen-grab below) which results in quite an interesting change in the Canvas too.

Try clicking the Invert icon and watch the Canvas change again. As with the Palette you can select alternative Sources for the Stencil. Click Invert again to cancel it.

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The Stencil is a powerful way of dramatically enhancing your artwork.

Now click on the word Palette and, assuming you have been following this example, your screen and Canvas should look something like the screen-grab below:

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To proceed to Step 3, click on the Continue button or press the Enter key on the keyboard.