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This document was created by an unregistered ChmMagic, please go to http://www.bisenter.com to register it. Thanks .OverpaintingThe Underpainting filter leaves you with a somewhat indistinct picture, fine for some purposes but definitely unfinished. An artist wouldproceed to go back and overpaint the areas that need to have detail, so that's what you'll do to complete this autumn scene.Because oil paintbrushes tend to be rather stiff, choose a hard brush rather than a soft-edged one. Be sure to turn off Wet Edges in theBrushes palette, if it happens to be on. You'll probably also want to change the blending mode, although Normal will work fine for someparts of the painting where you want to make actual strokes of paint. However, Dissolve might be the most useful mode for working into thetrees. Use it, as shown in Figure 10.9, to stipple colors into the underpainting. (Stippling means to paint with the very end of a hard roundbrush, placing dots rather than strokes of paint. Dissolve does this effect very well.) Vary the Brush Size and Opacity to add more or lesspaint with each stroke.Figure 10.9. I've added orange and brighter greens to the trees, and sharpened up the close evergreens.You can go on painting into this picture until it looks exactly like an oil painting, or you can use it as a basis to experiment with other filters