Needs watercolor help

[FishMaze]

After drawing a rough landscape sketch and scan it into Painter, (ver 6) I
then may select a certain area to work on. When I begin applying watercolor
within the selected area, the color tends to not actually reach the black
lines of the sketch. How do I overcome this? Should I use Feather to
increase the size of the selected area?
Also, if the color actually reaches the dark pencil lines, I'm ultimately
left with color that never completely hides the pencil marks. If I make the
pencil lines lighter, then I have trouble selecting an area - especially if
the lines are a bit broken.
Any help will be appreciated.
FM

[Jinny Brown]

FishMaze,

Open your sketch in Painter 6.

Select > All and click inside the selection to lift the sketch to a
Layer, then click the Layer's Lock icon to prevent accidentally painting
on it or moving it.

Change the Layer's Composite Method to Gel. Now the white background is
transparent.

Paint either on the Canvas or on another Layer, below the sketch Layer,
or on both. Always keep the sketch Layer above the other Layers.

Now your painting won't interfere with the sketch and if you paint
beyond the sketch lines, you can clean those stray brushstrokes up when
you're finished, or as you work with the painting.

Jinny Brown

Painter Classes at TutorAlley Forums
http://www.tutoralley.com
PixelAlley Section Links Page at:
http://www.pixelalley.com/pixelalley-sections-pages.html
______________________________________

[Fugitive]

On Sat, 31 May 2003 15:44:29 -0700, Jinny Brown
<jinb...@mindspring.com> wrote:

>FishMaze,
>
>Open your sketch in Painter 6.
>
>Select > All and click inside the selection to lift the sketch to a
>Layer, then click the Layer's Lock icon to prevent accidentally painting
>on it or moving it.
>
>Change the Layer's Composite Method to Gel. Now the white background is
>transparent.
>
>Paint either on the Canvas or on another Layer, below the sketch Layer,
>or on both. Always keep the sketch Layer above the other Layers.
>

>Jinny Brown

Have I been doing this backwards? I always have a sketch under, and
paint on top. But I need to keep adjusting transparency on the
original to see.

Gallery http://www.picturetrail.com/fugitive1
PSP 8 Beta challenges http://community.webshots.com/album/66943839RXffyf

[DLFrost]

>Have I been doing this backwards? I always have a sketch under, and
>paint on top. But I need to keep adjusting transparency on the
>original to see.

If you want to preserve the original sketch, put it above in gel mode layer.
If you leave it on the canvas you can alter it with subsequent applications of
color. So it depends on what you want.

Remember though that gel blending mode determines transparency by the value of
the layer's pixels. So if you wanted to sketch with a color lighter than black
it will also be partially transparent when layered that way.

Doug Frost