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devone23 In reply to Overweight-Cat [2005-09-26 18:25:21 +0000 UTC]

You know, I get that often, but it means even more coming from a master such as yourself. Thanks.

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devone23 In reply to Santah [2005-08-26 22:10:41 +0000 UTC]

T_T Your words make my heart soar. It's so encouraging to me for you notice that T_T.

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devone23 In reply to Asseri [2005-08-26 22:22:44 +0000 UTC]

I'm using a blender tool in Corel Painter 8. But usually, photoshoppers use the blur or smudge tool, I think. Also try decreasing the opacity of your brush when going from one tone to another.

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IllectaTekknica In reply to devone23 [2005-09-14 05:44:37 +0000 UTC]

Hey, you said you use Corel Painter. Do you by chance also have Jasc, and if so, is there diffrences. (Well, I'm sure there are, but I want to know diffrences in feature sets, quality, ect.....)

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devone23 In reply to IllectaTekknica [2005-09-14 23:43:11 +0000 UTC]

I used Jasc's PSP briefly, and from what little experience I had of it, I can tell you PSP (not counting Animation Pro) is like a watered-down version of Photoshop. It's got less features, and is more geared toward drawing than complex photo-manipulation. As for differences between it and Corel Painter 8, I think Painter's got a lot more brushes. Painter's brushes, like acrylics and watercolor, feel much more realistic and visceral, whereas Jasc's got your standard digital airbush and paintbrush with mechanical behavior.

But I never really tried to do much with Jasc, so someone with more experience could shed some more light on the matter. Having tried all three programs (PS7, Painter8, and PSP), I go with PS7 for finishing pics with special effects and encoding PSD as JPEG, and I use Painter 8 for realistic coloring and smooth shading. Basically, Painter mimicks real media (watercolor/airbrush/acrylics/etc), while PS7 and PSP are more digital in intent.

Also worth mentioning is Open Canvas 3, which I use for doing lineart and cell-shading. It's got a super-fast response to tablet marks (almost as fast as oekaki), and is really good at varying line-weight. It's inferior to the other programs in terms of coloring, although most of that is the artist's fault T_T (I've seen some amazing stuff done with it T_T_T_T_T).

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IllectaTekknica In reply to devone23 [2005-09-15 04:21:18 +0000 UTC]

I got OC4, and PSP9 right now.

Actually, since I am a student in college....
I am looking at getting PSP X (my dad will get that), Adobe Creative Suite 2 (yep, the whole thing. ), and possibly Corel Painter. I will be set for life. (Until updates come out that is. )

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devone23 In reply to IllectaTekknica [2005-09-16 03:47:24 +0000 UTC]

Heh, nice. I've never used Adobe Creative Suite 2, though I have heard of it (distantly). But by PSP9 are you refering to Photoshop 9? or Paintshop Pro 9? Because I don't remember Paintshop Pro having numbers behind it, at least back when I used it.

All those shiny programs are secondary to your drawing hand though, so keep practicing! Some amazing works are still done on Photoshop 5.5 -_-;

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IllectaTekknica In reply to devone23 [2005-09-16 04:26:30 +0000 UTC]

Paint Shop Pro also had a 9 suffix......

(i still use gimp sometimes....)

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devone23 In reply to devone23 [2005-09-14 23:43:48 +0000 UTC]

Thx for asking, by the way ^^. Like many artists, I love talking about what I love.

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