Another useful feature is Reapply, which lets you repeat the last paint stroke with new parameters. Informatix added support for both JPEG and PICT files as textures, cutouts, and grains, and as import and export options. New also are 3D versions of the circular, rectangular, and raster brushes as well as two new brush profiles. New modes allow the paint stroke direction to vary with the orientation of the surface being painted, and you can lock the orientation. Using this feature, you can paint all planes that face the same direction.
Cutouts can now cast shadows when placed.
Once you position a cutout, you can tweak it to move it, change its position, scale it, and so forth. The Fog action found in the original release of Piranesi has been replaced by Fade Tools that you can use with any render action. Piranesi 2 includes more blend types, and captured textures allow capture of reflections. Once you paint with a texture, you can move, adjust, scale, and otherwise modify it. Some of Piranesi's new features owe their genesis more to Adobe Photoshop than to any rendering package.