Sliders on the Presets tab vary scale, rotation, squash, sink and jitter, and that's just for starters.I put Deep Paint through its paces using the Intuos Intelligent Graphics Tablet from Wacom Technology Corp. You can change many aspects such as color strength and feathering. The program also has good controls for creating and saving custom brushes. Another of Deep Paint's 3-D variables is reflectance, which can vary from a flat look to a mirror shine, depending on the grayscale depth set in the Shine Channel.Deep Paint's excellent selection of preset brushes includes oils, charcoals, chalk and crayons. When you deepen the grayscale color toward black in the Bump Channel, the texturing deepens. Unlike some 3-D paint programs, Deep Paint can't change the light's color.Texture effects arise from bump mapping. You can control position, direction and intensity of ambient and spot lighting.
Its 2-D paint system simulates 3-D lighting and texture effects. Some showed up under different categories in the Presets tab others didn't exist.Although sold as a plug-in for Photoshop, Deep Paint is much more than a new set of filters. That sounds rather high, but because the plug-in and Photoshop work in tandem, the more RAM the better.Tutorials covered the basics, although I had trouble matching the brushes discussed with those actually in the program. Deep Paint needs a midrange Pentium II CPU and 64M or more of RAM.