Painter Classic

[Thomas Bjørnseth]

This is probably the wrong newsgroup, but there seems to be so much
experience
here that I will give it a try anyway.
I just bought and installed the Wacom Graphire mouse and pen, which by the
way seems well worth the money. I also installed the bundled Painter Classic
program, and after a quick look, I couldn't really find anything that I
can't already do with PP9.
So my question is this. Can I save myself the work of getting to know this
program, or is it worth the effort?

TB

[Barb McMillen]

In article <388c6ee4@cnews>, tho...@telnett.no says...

> Can I save myself the work of getting to know this
> program, or is it worth the effort?
>
>

It's worth the effort. I thought it was just a toy. But liked it enough
to purchase Painter 6. I don't use the editing tools much but I do use
the brushes and textures.

Barb

[mr. chip]

well i don't know about PP9 but i have Painter Classic and PP8 and i find
that Painter is far better than PP8 at reproducing the look and feel of
'natural' media such as pencil and water colour...i also think it responds
much better to my Wacom Intous pen and tablet. However i haven't really
explored the more general photo editing capabilities of Painter as i find PP
does everything i need well. So i would say it depends on what you want to
do.

Oh by the way, while we're on the topic...can anyone tell me if PP9 is
significantly better than PP8 when it come to these natural media tools?.

Simon.

"Thomas Bjørnseth" <tho...@telnett.no> wrote in message
news:388c6ee4@cnews...

> This is probably the wrong newsgroup, but there seems to be so much
> experience
> here that I will give it a try anyway.
> I just bought and installed the Wacom Graphire mouse and pen, which by the
> way seems well worth the money. I also installed the bundled Painter
Classic
> program, and after a quick look, I couldn't really find anything that I
> can't already do with PP9.

> So my question is this. Can I save myself the work of getting to know this

> program, or is it worth the effort?
>

> TB
>
>
>
>

[Cricket]

Painter Classic is wonderful! It has stripped out most of the obtuse
features of Painter 5 and leaves you with the brushes, nothing but the
brushes. As compared to Photopaint's brushes, Painter's are much better at
doing impasto type looks (real depth to the strokes). Also texturing with
the strokes is better in painter than in PP. I also have Painter 5 but find
I use painter Classic much more. It also can do wraparound painting! I sure
wish PP had that feature. Painter Classic doesn't have layers...so it's
straight painting. Which is another reason I like it so much. Nothing to
complicate your life. Just choose a brush, color, and swish away.

There is no real difference between the brushes in PP8 and PP9 except PP9
has more presets (and they're good!) and the parameters are easier to set
because they reside on one panel rather than in a tabbed docker. I play with
the parameters much more in PP9 than I did in PP8 and have therefore grown
to understand them better. PP 9 is really really good at blending colors
that are already on the paper, something few other 'painting' programs do
well if at all.

HTH

Cricket

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