You can make your own styles and brushes for reuse. Paint Alchemy puts simple, intuitive tools in your hand to invent new styles or modify old ones. Pop-up palettes vary the coverage, color variation, brush angle, brush size and opacity. You control each parameter by interactive sliders or by direct value entry. White areas are opaque, and black areas are transparent.
Gray areas vary in transparency.
Canvas control Paint Alchemy brushes give the effect of smearing paint over an underlying image. You can limit the effect to areas selected by the magic wand or apply it over the whole image. The controls are excellent. TypeCaster 1.15 manufactures 3-D text for your images. It controls every aspect of size, position, lighting, texture and bevel.