Wall art

Raised paint

Pick where the paint, or the clear gel on a canvas print, stands up, then set how thick it stands at its thickest.

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Two Craft steps shape the relief of your artwork. What gets bumped decides where the paint stands up off the canvas. Artwork decides how thick it stands. The step after them, Bumped paint, decides what the raised paint is like.

On a Print on canvas, the same two steps place clear gel over the print instead of paint. A Print on paper is flat ink and skips both.

What gets bumped

Six cards set where the paint stands up:

• The brushwork: where the image shows thick paint. This is the start for a painting.
• The figure: the subject painted thick over thin washes.
• By shape: click the parts on your painting.
• By colour: click the colours that stand up.
• Everything: thick paint all over.
• Nothing: thin paint everywhere, with the canvas showing through.

On a print on canvas, this is where the clear gel goes. It starts at Nothing, which keeps the print flat.

By shape

By shape uses the same parts picker as fabric's What stands up. Your painting is read into closed parts, once per picture, and its lighter parts start raised.

• Click a part to raise it or lay it flat; drag across the picture to change many at once.
• A click picks: One part or Same colour.
• Quick picks: All but the ground, Swap and Clear.
• By the colour of the parts: a swatch raises or flattens every part of its colour. Outlined means all raised, dashed means some.
• Show: Pick on the painting is the picker; What gets bumped shows the result.

Your picks keep their meaning if you change the real size later. For the full picker controls, see What stands up.

By colour

The colours of the painting shows swatches. Click a colour to raise it, and click again to lay it flat. Outlined colours stand up, and at least one colour always has to.

The result picture

Except while you pick by shape, the picture shows the result: full colour where the paint stands up, dimmed where the paint is thin and the canvas shows through. A label gives the share of the painting that stands up (or, on a print on canvas, the share that gets clear gel).

Artwork: how thick the paint stands

The Artwork step has one slider: Thickest paint (or Thickest gel on a print on canvas), from 0 to 3 mm in 0.1 mm steps. It sets the height of the thickest paint; thinner paint stands lower.

When you arrive, the picture shows your artwork from above, then the camera moves down to a true-scale side view, with a gauge post as high as the relief. Move the slider and the paint rises and falls live; let go and the artwork's maps are made again. The view is never exaggerated.

The relief comes from the paint body in your image, never from the drawing, so a hard edge in the drawing stays flat. For heavy impasto, raise Thickest paint.

If nothing is picked on a print on canvas, a note tells you the print stays flat: pick where the gel goes in What gets bumped.

Tip: Try The brushwork first. It is automatic: it raises the paint wherever your image already shows thick paint.