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I think I found a solution to watercolors getting too dark
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Karen Sperling
Oct 15, 2001, 11:15:53 PM10/15/01
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Hi all,
I've been updating my Artistry CD's for Painter 7. It's been a real dilemma
what to do about tutorials about watercolors, since all I want to say is,
forget it, use Painter 6.
But using Painter for 11 years, I have ALWAYS found a workaround for any
problem. Yet this watercolor problem in Painter 7 seemed impossible. How do
you make the strokes not turn black? I've been looking and looking just like
everyone else and have come up empty.
Till now?
I dug out the Painter 7 manual just to see if there was something I missed
about watercolor the first time I looked.
And I found something. Unfortunately, you might not catch this yourselves.
When I teach Painter and people ask me why I know so much about the program,
even though I'd like to say it's because I'm so smart, it's not true. It's
because I was paid to write the original manuals, and I think if you were,
you'd know the program like I do, too.
OK, so in the index it says Watercolor profile brush tips, p. 190.
Watercolor profile? What's that, I thought. It's talking about the little
pictures in the Brush Controls size palette, but if you go there (Command+7,
Mac; Ctrl+7, Windows) and choose the watercolor brushes in Painter, the tip
silhouette pictures ARE NOT AVAILABLE to edit. Like the info about Wet
Fringe in the manual, the watercolor profile applies to previous versions of
Painter. Hmm, I thought, then why does the preview show a dot in the middle
if the silhouettes are not available to change? So I changed it the only
other way there is, and that is by moving the min spacing slider to the
left. What that slider is for usually is to edit the stroke's tapering
quality. If it's to the left, you get an even-width stroke straight thru, if
it's to the right, the stroke is narrow and wide, depending on how much
pressure you add to your stylus. Hmm, come to think of it, that min spacing
slider was funky in Painter 6. I taught Painter at a design firm and we
found it was behaving erratically.
Back to watercolors. Lo and behold, by moving the min spacing slider to the
left and making the stroke solid, and also moving the opacity slider to the
left a bit, it appears the strokes don't turn to black anymore!
Am I right? I have a slow machine. I'm a writer more than I am an artist,
and don't have the zuped up machines you production artists have.
Check it out and report back to us-I think I might have solved our dilemma.
Let me know if it works!
Karen Sperling
Editor/Publisher
Artistry
http://www.artistrymag.com
I've been updating my Artistry CD's for Painter 7. It's been a real dilemma
what to do about tutorials about watercolors, since all I want to say is,
forget it, use Painter 6.
But using Painter for 11 years, I have ALWAYS found a workaround for any
problem. Yet this watercolor problem in Painter 7 seemed impossible. How do
you make the strokes not turn black? I've been looking and looking just like
everyone else and have come up empty.
Till now?
I dug out the Painter 7 manual just to see if there was something I missed
about watercolor the first time I looked.
And I found something. Unfortunately, you might not catch this yourselves.
When I teach Painter and people ask me why I know so much about the program,
even though I'd like to say it's because I'm so smart, it's not true. It's
because I was paid to write the original manuals, and I think if you were,
you'd know the program like I do, too.
OK, so in the index it says Watercolor profile brush tips, p. 190.
Watercolor profile? What's that, I thought. It's talking about the little
pictures in the Brush Controls size palette, but if you go there (Command+7,
Mac; Ctrl+7, Windows) and choose the watercolor brushes in Painter, the tip
silhouette pictures ARE NOT AVAILABLE to edit. Like the info about Wet
Fringe in the manual, the watercolor profile applies to previous versions of
Painter. Hmm, I thought, then why does the preview show a dot in the middle
if the silhouettes are not available to change? So I changed it the only
other way there is, and that is by moving the min spacing slider to the
left. What that slider is for usually is to edit the stroke's tapering
quality. If it's to the left, you get an even-width stroke straight thru, if
it's to the right, the stroke is narrow and wide, depending on how much
pressure you add to your stylus. Hmm, come to think of it, that min spacing
slider was funky in Painter 6. I taught Painter at a design firm and we
found it was behaving erratically.
Back to watercolors. Lo and behold, by moving the min spacing slider to the
left and making the stroke solid, and also moving the opacity slider to the
left a bit, it appears the strokes don't turn to black anymore!
Am I right? I have a slow machine. I'm a writer more than I am an artist,
and don't have the zuped up machines you production artists have.
Check it out and report back to us-I think I might have solved our dilemma.
Let me know if it works!
Karen Sperling
Editor/Publisher
Artistry
http://www.artistrymag.com
Michel Pouli
Oct 17, 2001, 3:00:47 AM10/17/01
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Hi Karen,
I already thought it was a graphic card problem. Turning into black instead
of fade out is the new feature in the new watercolor brushes? The workaround
you suggested is not working on my configuration (Pentium III, windows 2000,
256 Mb ram). The color black is gone allright, but is replaced by
transparant multicolors that won't fade in the background as they would in
previous versions.
Michel Pouli
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