Impasto effects not staying

[Jyoung]

hi
so im having this problem with painter 11. when i try to save the file to a bitmap it losses all of its impasto effects.

all of my paint is still there just completely lacking all the impasto.

i tried saving to png but that didnt work, i also tried saving to tiff.

i cant seem to find anything helpful anywhere.
i was wondering if you guys had any ideas.

thanks in advance.

[Jason Ross]

Try flattening the image first then saving it as a jpeg. Open that jpeg then save it as a bitmap. Jpegs will have the impasto effect as far as I've known painter.

[AdventDawn]

no, it's there. What your seeing in Painter is the fictional overhead light that makes the impasto visible. When you save it outside of a riff that magical light turns off and your left with low visible texture.

It pissed me off too.

[jason_maranto]

You need to create a clone of the impasto enabled rif file in Painter and save that clone to whatever format you like -- this "bakes" the impasto into the pixel data.

Best,
Jason.