Watercolor is a brush post effect (brush FX) that
can be refined through one of the brush settings
panels, now called the 'FX' tab.
You can access brush settings also with keyboard
shortcut 'o' (as in options).
Not only have we seen dramatic new features and
speed improvements in the Brush FX tab (Impasto,
Gel, Gouache), but there is also a specific new
feature for Watercolor mode.
Look at the way the vertical blue brush strokes
(placed on top of the other colored ones) appear
to smear into the lower ones, and more so as we
increase the lifting value going from left to
right.
Here's another example (using Translucent
Watercolor). First we painted a brush stroke in
a wave from left to right in blue, then we
painted short dabs in light yellow across the
blue. The ones on the left have very low value
of lifting, the ones on the right side have high
lifting values:
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Why call it lifting? Imagine you paint the first
stroke, then a litle later a second at different
color, and you see the pigments from the first
stroke blend and mix into the second as if
they're being lifted into the wet second stroke.
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