Visual Settings Panel

Adjust the settings for watercolor behavior, oils & acrylic and canvas visibility.

Open the Visual Settings panel via the Window menu or click on the button in the Layers panel or tap the shortcut 'F12' on your keyboard.

Watercolor Behavior

Presets - Select from Default, Hot Pressed, Cold Pressed, Rough and Japanese paper presets to simulate the behavior of watercolors on different types of paper.

Presets menu - Reset the parameters of the selected paper preset or Save to 'Custom' preset.

Hot pressed paper has a smooth, hard surface and an even texture. It offers a sleek finish and it's great for mixed media work. One step up is cold pressed paper - is the most versatile and popular texture, its semi-rough surface is suitable for both detailed work and smooth washes. When you glide your brush over it, some of the paint settles on it while skipping the indentations of the grainy texture, leaving them blank. This creates beautifully textured brushstrokes.

Rough paper has a pronounced texture that's good for washes and creates expressive brushstrokes that can provide a lot of character and emotion to a painting. You can use Japanese paper, canvases and other materials too. No type of paper is inherently better than the other. It all depends on your needs, your preferred techniques and what look you are going for in your painting.

Tip

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Absorbency - Set the absorbency of paper (0-10). It represents how fast the paper absorbs the washes. When set to 0, the washes diffuse for a longer time.

Re-wet - Set how the primary wash reacts to the newly laid strokes (1-10). If the Re-wet is set low, the new paint blends softer and beautifully mixes with the paint below. If it is set high, the new paint rewets the paint below faster and creates strong watercolor edges.

Texture Influence - Set how much the canvas texture should influence the washes (0-10). When set to maximum, the washes gain a heavy texture from the underlying canvas.

Edge Darkening - Set how dark the edges of watercolor strokes should get when dried (0-10). When set to 0, the edges don't darken during the diffusion.

Diffusion Speed - Adjust the speed of the diffusion on canvas (1-10). When set to 1, the diffusion is the slowest, when set to 10, the paint and water diffuse very quickly.

Create Drips - Select if drips should form from the washes or not.

Drip Size - Set the size of the drips (1-10).

Drip Length - Set the length of the drips (1-10).

Granulation - Add granulation effects for your watercolor strokes. Granulation will reveal when the painting is drying. You can choose from four different granulation textures.

• Strength - Set the strength of the granulation (1-10).

• Density - Set the density of the granulation (1-10).

Example of granulation on watercolor strokes.

Video tutorial

Learn more about the Granulation and Diffusion speed in this video: Watercolor Granulation and Diffusion Speed.

Oils & Acrylics

Impasto Depth - Set the visibility of the structure of oil and acrylic strokes (0-10).

Gloss - Set the illumination of the paint structure (0-10).

Examples of impasto and gloss settings.

Canvas Visibility

NanoPixel - Turn the NanoPixel on to be able to zoom in to get extra sharp detail of your artwork. When the nanopixel technology is in use, Rebelle uses OpenGL for rendering. Turn NanoPixel off to use the CPU instead.

Paper Texture - Control the visibility of the canvas texture (0-10).

Paint Texture - Control the visibility of the canvas texture on the painted strokes (0-10).

Tip

With these settings, you can influence the strength of the canvas texture on the canvas and the paint separately. This opens a huge range of opportunities for your works as you can create heavily textured strokes on a plain canvas as well as have neat, clean strokes on a heavily textured canvas.

Video tutorial

Learn more about Rebelle's Visual Settings in this video: Living Digital Canvas.

Metallic Materials

Reflectivity (0-10) - Set the level of reflectivity of metallic materials. The higher the value the more pronounced the effect of reflectiveness.

Scale (1-10) - Set the scale of the metallic effect.

Strength (1-10) - Set the strength of the metallic effect.

Lock Reflectivity - When NanoPixel is enabled you can see the reflection moving on the metallic strokes when transforming them or when you pan the canvas. This enables you to find and achieve the best look of your metallic strokes. Once you are satisfied with how the stroke looks, you can use the option to lock reflectivity, preventing further changes while moving the canvas. Note that reflectivity will still adjust during stroke transformations.

Note

Metallic Materials are available for Oils & Acrylics.

Video tutorial

Learn more about Rebelle's Metallic Materials in this video: Metallic Materials.