Now that we have our base, or underpainting, we can move on to color. This icon here. All the color choices in brushstroke are based on different shades, different values, different tones of colors. Some of the colors are actually based on specific paintings by famous painters. They don't tell you, you know which they are because it's not really important. It's just different combinations, both traditional and modern, and, you know, crazy stuff, whatever you want to do.

So we started with dust, that immediately takes all of the color, almost all the color out, but you can also again, do the adjustment thing, put a little of the color back in, put a lot of the color back in. Whatever you think looks best. faded, it's going to do the same thing. Heavy is going to have a much bolder sort of purines CO is going to be stronger than the tone of it is going to be much more vibrant. And you also begin to start to play with the actual colors on the palette. This is not just a straight up flower with green grass anymore.

It's one that has a little pink shading you know to make it look a little bit different. You can make it black and white. And again very that very, very faint color there. Keep going. Keep going that way and you until you get back to the original which is that but the fun thing is is that you can make it look like an old sort of hand tinted photograph if you do that with it. monochromatic colors, saturation.

This for instance this color is called brick. And when you look at it at 88 there's very little hints of the original color in it. But if you bumped it back up to 100, it's a completely different color palette, very subdued, very basic and neutral colors. gene is like very bold. Again, if you want to take it back down and make it look a little bit more like what you had before. Some of the adjustments show up more than others.

It depends on what is being changed. So there you have something called terrorists, and it has taken a lot of the color out of the flower itself, but not the grass. So go back, go forward, do whatever you want to do. Each choice is a different painting altogether. Now we have a pink flower and blue and green grass. So you see really the choices are what makes this app so distinctive.

You can do anything you want with it. And that's what I love about it, just playing with it, playing with it, trying all the different ones seeing which one looks best because it's going to be different for every picture that you use depends on the flower depends on the lighting and the photograph that you use depends on the subject of the photo, what's going to show up, that one is much subtler, but still very gentle sort of color. That looks a little bit more like the original, just just a little washed out. So just keep going through again, just like we did with the actual styles, and pick which one you like most. Make sure that you try them all because really, there's so much difference. I like that one because it's just kind of unusual and it's bold.

Stands out really well. There you got purple. Now all the colors gone into the flower. See, there's just so many different adjustments that you can make. And so we keep going and we go through. I'm going to stick with this particular choice, Helio, which is in the illustration style again.

And next lesson, we will go into choosing the surfaces that we're painting on.