re fantastic paintengine tutorial

[carol wade]

Well too bad! Experiment I have, and I guess will continue to do so -
any recommendations on settings for waterpaint effects? That I
haven't been able to generate. As to putting the fmachines.ini file
in windows, I know that I did not do that, and am not really sure what
that means, but will give it a shot and will remember about saving
effects that I like. thanks for the thoughts. Carol

[Kris Zaklika]

carol wade wrote:
>
> Well too bad! Experiment I have, and I guess will continue to do so -
> any recommendations on settings for waterpaint effects? That I
> haven't been able to generate. As to putting the fmachines.ini file
> in windows, I know that I did not do that, and am not really sure what
> that means,

What that means is putting the file FMACHINES.INI in the
Windows folder. Do Start > Find > Files or Folders to
look for a file called FMACHINES.INI. Right click on
the name when it is found, select Copy, open Windows
Explorer, find your Windows directory (usually
C:\WINDOWS), right click in this folder and select
Paste. I can't answer the question about how to get
a watercolor setting.

> but will give it a shot and will remember about saving
> effects that I like. thanks for the thoughts. Carol

Here's another idea for achieving a watercolor effect,
though I may have something different in mind than you.
First run Effects > Noise > Edge Preserving Smooth with
a very high setting (20 or more) on your image. Be patient,
this will take some time. Then do Layers > Duplicate and,
on the duplicate layer, run Effects > Artistic Effects >
Brush Strokes. Press the reset button to get the default
settings and then set the Opacity down to 20 (or maybe a
bit less). Press OK. Now in the Layer Palette, lower the
transparency of the brushstroke layer so that the layer
below starts to become visible (say a transparency of
around 30%). This allows you to adjust the visibility of
the brushstrokes effect. When you like what you see do
Layers > Merge All.
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[Nightingail]

Carol, I see that Kris explained what to do with the fmachine.ini file.
If you can't find the file itself, email me if you'd like, and I will
send it to you. It has presets that you can use for watercolor effects.

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[diana]

carol wade wrote:
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> Well too bad! Experiment I have, and I guess will continue to do so -
> any recommendations on settings for waterpaint effects?

You might want to copy and paste the line below to your fmachine.ini
but change the "Setting86" to the next sequential number and edit the
name, watercolor3, to one that hasn't been used in your ini file. They
are not necessarily in numerical order in the list although I edit my
ini file now and then to correct that. This is as close to watercolor
I've stumbled across so far and it's still not "it" but you can see
for yourself.

Setting86=watercolor3;1,1,0,0,0,0,4294967241,127,15,2,100,124,87,47,0,2,-71,0,4294967295,2

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[Michael Koerner]

Kris; Should that not be FMACHINE.INI instead of FMACHINES.INI

Michael

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[co]

diana <s...@address.in.signature> wrote in
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>You might want to copy and paste the line below to your fmachine.ini
>but change the "Setting86" to the next sequential number and edit the
>name, watercolor3, to one that hasn't been used in your ini file. They
>are not necessarily in numerical order in the list although I edit my
>ini file now and then to correct that. This is as close to watercolor
>I've stumbled across so far and it's still not "it" but you can see
>for yourself.
>
>Setting86=watercolor3;1,1,0,0,0,0,4294967241,127,15,2,100,124,87,47,0,2,-
>71,0,4294967295,2
>

Thanks for this. I just found that I failed to save the fmachine.ini file
when I reformatted my C:\ drive, and I lost all my custom settings,
including my version of "tiny" watercolor. I thought something was strange
the last time I used Paint Engine...isn't there something more to this???

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[diana]

co wrote:
>
> Thanks for this. I just found that I failed to save the fmachine.ini file
> when I reformatted my C:\ drive, and I lost all my custom settings,
> including my version of "tiny" watercolor. I thought something was strange
> the last time I used Paint Engine...isn't there something more to this???

http://users2.ev1.net/~dctodd/temp/fmachine.ini

It's not 100% original but it's close enough if you need to replace
the missing ini file.

[co]

diana <s...@address.in.signature> wrote in
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>co wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for this. I just found that I failed to save the fmachine.ini
>> file when I reformatted my C:\ drive, and I lost all my custom
>> settings, including my version of "tiny" watercolor. I thought
>> something was strange the last time I used Paint Engine...isn't there
>> something more to this???
>
>http://users2.ev1.net/~dctodd/temp/fmachine.ini
>
>It's not 100% original but it's close enough if you need to replace
>the missing ini file.

Thank you, but I was able to get a copy of the original .ini file from an
archived zip of the plug-in that I have.

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[Kris Zaklika]

I've no idea. I copied the name from the previous post,
not having the plug-in. Unlike many folks, I don't
collect plug-ins - no room on the laptop :(

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