The Paintlayer is a seperate layer floating above your image. When you use a paint tool, such as the airbrush, you are painting into the paintlayer, not the real image underneath. That's why you can rub-away the paint you apply to reveal the original image underneath.

Photogenics 2 offers some new, more powerful, functions to control and manipulate the paintlayer directly, and, unlike previous editions, you can now load and save this paintlayer data to disk. You can re-load this paintlayer data into another image (as long as it has the same physical dimensions as the paintlayer) and use that to apply effects, or you can load the paintlayer file directly as a new buffer into Photogenics, and work on it as a normal image.

Use 'Save Paintlayer' from the Alpha/PaintLayer menu to save the current paintlayer to disk, use 'Load Paintlayer' to re-load it as a paintlayer.


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