Photoshop Underpainting

Updated: 12/29/2023 by Computer Hope
Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop Underpainting or Underpainting brushes on texture, stronger in more detailed areas of the painting. Its parameters are brush size, texture coverage, texture type, texture scaling, texture relief, and light direction. The effect can be inverted. Texture choices are brick, burlap, canvas, and sandstone.

Underpainting works on 8 Bit, RGB (red, green, and blue), grayscale, and Multichannel images, and Smart Objects. This filter is part of the Filter Gallery, and launches another window with options.

Underpainting is part of Adobe Photoshop's Extended Filters.

Underpainting filter settings in Adobe Photoshop.

Underpainting filter example in Adobe Photoshop.

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