Watercolor in Painter 7

[FishMaze]

I posted this earlier but received no responses, which explains this
re-post.
I still have not upgraded to Painter 7 yet. This is partially due to what I
consider to be very sparse visual descriptions of the features for 7 as
compared with what MetaCreations used to display on their web site for P5
(lots of screen shots and examples of art using specific tools). I am also
unimpressed with the advertising and visual display of the feature set for
the new KPT. But that's another story.
My real question focuses on P7's new watercolor engine. What I like about
real world watercolors is it's ability to blend colors into random gradients
when mixing colors next to each other. Does this actually happen in P7? How
much closer to real world watercolor is P7 versus P6? Also Is P7 better
all-around in general?
Thanks for any responses!
FM

[Jinny Brown]

FishMaze,

Go to my website, PixelAlley, and read the information found by clicking
links on the right side of th PixelAlley Section Links Page. Especially,
read John Derry's Visual Guide for Painter 7 Water Colors (click the
link named "John Derry's Painter 7 Visual Guides, to Download".

http://www.pixelalley.com/pixelalley-sections-pages.html

The effect you want can very likely be achieved using any of a number of
Painter's brushes, not only the Water Color Variants. With the new
Painter 7 Update, we now have the Tinting brushes that are added to give
us some of the older version Water Color capabilities (the simpler
brushes), and they seem so far to be very nice, though I haven't had a
lot of time to play with them yet.

In addition to the Water Color and Tinting brushes, we can paint on the
Canvas using any Brush Category except those that only work on their own
layers (Water Color and Liquid Ink Variants), then lift the Canvas to a
Water Color Layer and Wet the Entire Water Color Layer. Depending on the
Brush Controls and Paper settings, this will result in various Water
Color effects.

Something to remember about Painter is that though a Brush Category has
a name specific to a certain painting medium, it's not necessary to use
only that Brush Category to achieve results that look like that specific
medium. Painter offers us a tremendous amount of control over how any
Brush Category's Variants will paint.

Merry Christmas! :o)

Jinny Brown

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