Move - Move your image within the app
In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Impresso Pro’s New Paint Layers and teach you techniques to bring out detail in the foreground paintings, create distances, and colorize paint cracks.
In this video we will demonstrate how to automatically transform a photo into a painting, then combine paint effects with layers and brushes to create a colorful print-worthy portrait.
Move - Move your image within the app
Brush Tool - Add back sections of the layer that were erased with the Erase Tool
Erase Tool - Erase parts of the layer allowing layers beneath it to be seen
Ellipse Tool - Reveals the Ellipse Tools
Brush Size - Increase the size of the brush for the Paint and Erase Tools
Opacity - Changes the opacity of the brush
Mask - Fill: resets the image adding back any parts of the layer that were erased. Clear: Erases the whole layer allowing you to paint back parts of the layer. Invert: Reverses sections of the layer that were erased with sections of the layer that were not erased
Hide and show the sidebar
Add a layer using one of the included effects
Delete the selected layer
Duplicate Layer - Duplicate the chosen layer
Reset Layers - Removes all added layers and resets the settings
Save Layer Preset - Save the chosen layer or layers as a preset
Click to hide or show the chosen layer
Click to change the layers name
You can use the Adjust Tab to customize your image. The Adjust Tab changes depending on which style is chosen.
Use the Detail Elipse Tool to render finely painted brush strokes on eyes and faces
Impresso automatically transforms a photo into a painting—Alla Prima style
The Detail Tool can also be used as a focal point in your landscape
Voilà your painting is now a beautiful brush-filled impressionism—En Plein Air style
Click to hide the Style Browser
Randomize the effect using the chosen preset style
Create a Preset using your current settings
Permanetly delete a Preset
Once you have applied a preset and modified it using the adjust tabs, you can save your own custom preset by clicking the Plus Symbol in the bottom right corner.
To save the settings for a specific layer as a preset select the layer and click the layer button in the top right corner of the app and select Save layer Preset
Once saved the preset will appear with the other presets with a layer icon in the corner of the preset, select the preset to load the Layer Preset
Favorite a preset to move it to the front of the presets list for quick access. To favorite or delete a preset click down on a preset thumbnail and hold until an X and heart appears, click the heart to favorite it or click the X to delete it.