Re: C-DRAW and Painter IX
Stefan the illustrator
Hi again,
Sorry I wrote wrong.
I mean under "File"
its "Acquire" and there it is only Adobe illustrator file.
Still something strange here.
Stefan
Stefan the illustrator wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am new with painter.
> I just saw that in import under archive
> it only says: import Adobe illustrator file.
> ?????
> Only illustrator files??
>
> Something missing here.
>
>
> Wy? anyone!
>
> Stefan
> illustrator and artist
>
>
David Goerndt
I've been evaluating IX to see if it's worth the upgrade. So far I think it
is, however, I was playing with a previous finished work in watercolor. I
raised the painting to the watercolor layer and when I attempted to paint,
the program went away. Now I was working with a fairly large image (12x18
@300ppi), but this shouldn't happen with any size image. System: Windows
2000, P4 2.0 gHz, 1gig ram.
I also have another question regarding the Digital Watercolor brushes. I
want to paint on a previously finished piece, but the watercolor brushes
only add color on top of the existing pixels without interacting with them.
My question; is it possible to have the digital watercolor brushes interact
with pixels or is it that once the pixels are dry you can't "rewet" and
continue painting?
David Goerndt
Bernd Ertl
"David Goerndt" <dav...@iag.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>
> I've been evaluating IX to see if it's worth the upgrade. So far I think
> it
> is, however, I was playing with a previous finished work in watercolor. I
> raised the painting to the watercolor layer and when I attempted to paint,
> the program went away. Now I was working with a fairly large image (12x18
> @300ppi), but this shouldn't happen with any size image. System: Windows
> 2000, P4 2.0 gHz, 1gig ram.
Hi David,
works fine on a similar machine here, except with 2 GB RAM. Perhaps that
makes a difference?
> I also have another question regarding the Digital Watercolor brushes. I
> want to paint on a previously finished piece, but the watercolor brushes
> only add color on top of the existing pixels without interacting with
> them.
> My question; is it possible to have the digital watercolor brushes
> interact
> with pixels or is it that once the pixels are dry you can't "rewet" and
> continue painting?
To my understanding a once dried watercolor can not become wet again, so
strokes will multiply on it.
best,
Bernd
> David Goerndt
>
>
>
Ron Cavedaschi
Hi Stefan
I'm only writing because it seems no one has answered you. I am not sure but
I think the implication of your question is right. Earlier versions of
Painter would only import Illustrator files and from your question it seems
thats probably still the case. Worse, whenever I have tried to import
Illustrator files it was only early versions of illustrator it would work
with. I think you can save or maybe export your coreldraw files as
Illustrator files so this would be the workaround. But why Corel doesn't let
you use Coreldraw files is beyond understanding.
Good luck
Ron C
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Karen Sperling
If you mean previously finished and closed, you have to save in the riff
format for the digital watercolor strokes to stay "wet."
Karen
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David Goerndt
> If you mean previously finished and closed, you have to save in the riff
> format for the digital watercolor strokes to stay "wet."
>
> Karen
>
> > I also have another question regarding the Digital Watercolor brushes. I
> > want to paint on a previously finished piece, but the watercolor brushes
> > only add color on top of the existing pixels without interacting with
them.
> > My question; is it possible to have the digital watercolor brushes
interact
> > with pixels or is it that once the pixels are dry you can't "rewet" and
> > continue painting?
> >
> > David Goerndt
No, I was hoping that I could get the digital watercolors to work on an
existing image (photo, previous painting, etc.), but I found that the
digital watercolor works on top of the existing pixels. I haven't tried the
clone method yet but wiil give that a shot. My initial hope was that I could
take an existing image and "wet" it allowing me to work with the digital
watercolors but the "wet entire layer" only works with the other watercolors
which , by the way, still don't work very well.
David Goerndt