Hi All. I'm fairly new to Painter 8, and hopefully you can help me with this question.

I'm making a pastel "painting" from a photograph (clone source). When I create a stroke, it changes color, as it passes over the colors in the photo behind it (using tracing paper). In many cases, this is alright, but I'd like my stroke to pick up the color in the photo from the point where the stroke STARTS, and keep the colorconsistent throughout THAT STROKE. How Do I do that?

Explained another way:When using real oil pastels, the stroke color is always the same (other than smudging from other colors already laid down). When using a green pastel, I'm not going to get any other color. Using the cloning source, the stroke changes throughout to match the clone source. I suppose I could use the eyedropper to sample the color stroke I want, then apply the stroke without using a clone source color, but that would be a real pain. I'd have to sample the color for nearly each stroke!

Any ideas? (I'm guessing it just a simple setting, but I couldn't find it in the program or manual).

Thanks.