Win 2000?
Lex vd Oudeweetering
Does anyone have any experience on running Painter 5.5 on a machine with Win
2000? Any problems?
I'm considering to take Win 2000 on my new machine to come.
And I'm still learning about 5.5 and not certain jet when to upgrade
Painter.
Friendly greetings--
Lex van de Oudeweetering - illustrator BNO
Koning Nobelpad 7 - 3813 KJ Amersfoort
+31 (0)33 4779971 - lex.ill...@planet.nl
Find me and other illustrators at:
http://www.dutch-illustration.com
Raghavendra Chandrashekara
I haven't used Painter on Windows 2000 (I am waiting for Windows XP to be
released) but I recommend that you upgrade to Painter 7. The water colours
aren't great but there are a lot of new features and brushes available in
Painter 7 that aren't available in Painter 5.5. The single most important
reason is probably layers!
Raj.
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Jinny Brown
Actually, the Painter 7 Water Color Brushes are great, if you are
interested enough to explore them, and have the time to explore and
patience to wait for paint to dry (depending on the setting adjustments,
it can be forever or almost as fast as you lay down the stroke). We just
need to learn how to use them and remember that if we want a very simple
brush like Simple Water and have the same results, we'll need to use the
older version of Painter for those brushes.
Some of us have come up with Painter 7 Water Color Brushes that come
closer, at least, and I've just learned another way to speed them up..
just this morning. This method increased the speed of one of my custom
variants from incredibly slow to almost real-time drying of the paint.
It was such an obvious fix that I'm embarrassed not to have used it on
my own. (Adjust the Dry Rate slider to the right.) DUH!! That does,
however, cause the brush to paint differently so if I want the special
effects of the slower version, I'll just use that custom brush and use
the new variant when I need to go fast and don't care about the special
effect.
I'll be adding the faster version to this page as soon as I have some
time.. probably today or tomorrow, so watch for it (the top brush demo
and .XML file are for the slow brush I mentioned above):
http://www.pixelalley.com/Painter7/painter7-water-color-brushes.html
Three tips for speeding up Painter 7 Water Color Brushes that others
have shared and I can recall right now:
For Water Color Brush Variants with Bristles: in the Brush Controls
palette's Size section, move the Feature slider to the right (reduces
the number of bristles and makes the stroke less dense, so test first).
In the Brush Controls palette's Water section, move the Dry Rate slider
to the right.
In all three cases, do some testing to find the right comprimise between
the default settings' slowing effect and your own settings' resulting
changes. Also, learn how to use the brush differently after making
adjustments. For instance, one light stroke vs. two or three strokes,
one laid over the other after each dries.. and/or other ways of
painting.
The bottom line is, how much time you have to experiment and learn,
understand both traditional watercolor techniques and how some of them
are made possible in Painter 7 Water Color brushes, wait for paint to
dry, are interested in watercolor painting in the first place, and
probably other factors.
Whatever brushes you use, Happy Painting! :o)
Jinny Brown
http://www.pixelalley.com
Please visit PixelAlley's new Memorial home page
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Jinny Brown
Please replace my last message with this one. I forgot to include the
third method for speeding up Painter 7 Water Color Brushes and there
were some goofy typos that I hope are all fixed now. <g>
Actually, the Painter 7 Water Color Brushes are great, if you are
interested enough to explore them, and have the time to explore and
patience to wait for paint to dry (depending on the setting adjustments,
it can be forever or almost as fast as you lay down the stroke). We just
need to learn how to use them and remember that if we want a very simple
brush like Simple Water and have the same results, we'll need to use the
older version of Painter for those brushes.
Some of us have come up with Painter 7 Water Color Brushes that come
closer, at least, and I've just learned another way to speed them up..
just this morning. This method increased the speed of one of my custom
variants from incredibly slow to almost real time drying of the paint.
It was such an obvious fix that I'm embarrassed not to have used it on
my own. (Adjust the Dry Rate slider to the right.) DUH!! That does,
however, cause the brush to paint differently so if I want the special
effects of the slower version, I'll just use that custom brush and use
the new variant when I need to go fast and don't care about the special
effect.
I'll be adding the faster version to this page as soon as I have some
time.. probably today or tomorrow, so watch for it (the top brush demo
and .XML file are for the slow brush I mentioned above):
http://www.pixelalley.com/Painter7/painter7-water-color-brushes.html
Three tips for speeding up Painter 7 Water Color Brushes that others
have shared and I can recall right now:
For Water Color Brush Variants with Bristles: in the Brush Controls
palette's Size section, move the Feature slider to the right (reduces
the number of bristles and makes the stroke less dense).
In the Brush Controls palette's Water section, move the Dry Rate slider
to the right (makes wet paint dry faster).
In the Brush Controls palette's Spacing section, adjust the Spacing and
Min Spacing sliders to the right (too much can make brush dabs appear as
a series of circles instead of a continuous brush stroke).
In all three cases, do some testing to find the right compromise between
the default settings' slowing effect and your own settings' resulting
changes. Also, learn how to use the brush differently after making
adjustments. For instance, one light stroke vs. two or three strokes,
one laid over the other after each dries.. and/or other ways of
painting.
The bottom line is, how much time you have to experiment and learn,
understand both traditional watercolor techniques and how some of them
are made possible in Painter 7 Water Color brushes, wait for paint to
dry, are interested in watercolor painting in the first place, and
probably other factors.
Whatever brushes you use, Happy Painting! :o)
Jinny Brown
http://www.pixelalley.com
Please visit PixelAlley's new Memorial home page
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Antti Ussa
"Lex vd Oudeweetering" <illus...@planet.nl> kirjoitti viestissä
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> Hello
> Does anyone have any experience on running Painter 5.5 on a machine with
Win
> 2000? Any problems?
> I'm considering to take Win 2000 on my new machine to come.
> And I'm still learning about 5.5 and not certain jet when to upgrade
> Painter.
>
I'm using version 5 on my win2000 machine, and it works great. Don't know
exactly about version 5.5, but give it a try. Bets are on, that it works
just fine.
-antti-
Lex vd Oudeweetering
Thanks for the reaction. I'm glad to hear it.
Greetings
Raghavendra Chandrashekara
I just got the RC2 version of WindowsXP. Painter 7 seems to work quite well
as far as I know.
Raghavendra.
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