The Palette Knife effect creates an image rendered in rough applications of color that appear to have been applied with a palette knife. Because the color patches are irregular in size and shape, the result is strongly representational.
Stroke Size
Move the slider to the right to increase the size of the knife stroke and to the left to decrease the size.
Stroke Detail
Move the slider to the right to make the knife strokes more detailed and to the left to make the strokes less detailed.
Softness
Move the slider to the right to increase the softness of the edges in the image and to the left to decrease the softness of the edges.
Tips
• For a variety of special effects, posterize your image prior to applying Palette Knife (if your host program has this capability); alternately, apply the Accented Edges effect.
• After applying the Palette Knife effect, use the Texturizer effect to add a texture—for example, Canvas—for an especially realistic depiction of manually-applied paint onto a textured surface.
• When the size of the daubs created by the Watercolor effect (from Aldus Gallery Effects: Classic Art, Volume 1) are too small (especially when working with large images), first apply the Palette Knife effect with a large Stroke Size setting. Then apply the Watercolor effect for the final watercolor style.
