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Velvet--Glove — UF Tip 6 - Creating a Texture Library
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Published: 2017-10-21 15:26:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 1402; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 83
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#6 in an occasional series of short tutorials - my top tips for users of Ultra Fractal.The aim of this series is to present a few time saving tips, helpful ideas and techniques that will assist UF users, particularly those who are quite new to the program.
This next tip shows how you can make a texture library within Ultra Fractal that will enable you to store and find any number of great textures to use in your fractal art projects! Experienced users will already know about this, this tutorial is largely for new users who are still finding their way around the program.
I hope this tip proves useful to some. Please add this deviation to your favourites and collections so others can find it. Thanks!
All Top Tip tutorials can be viewed together in my gallery here: Top Tips Series
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You're welcome. I hope you find it useful.
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You're welcome, Karin. I hope you find it useful.
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You're most welcome. I hope it helps you get the most out of UF.
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Most welcome, Chetje, though I expect you probably know about this already.
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Yes Chris, it's also for my visitors at DA
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Ah yes, of course.
Well, thanks for fav'ing this and helping to spread the word about UF's great features! 
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Thank for sharing!
I always can learn something new about Ultra Fractal!
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You most welcome, Danny. These tips are all rather peripheral to the actual making of fractal art but I'm sure they aid new users get the most out of UF. It has so many bells and whistles it's quite possible to overlook something for years if you're not told about it!
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I like to think of these tutorials as learning about the various aspects of the traditional painting media. I spent years learning all the various chemicals and how they make the paint dry to a fixed position. Even paint is a 3D medium, via the layers one places on the canvas, and the various layers interact based on how the drying chemicals interact with what was previously painted and a new layer. The intricacies of traditional media are just as numerous as the parameters one set for a digital painting. I have a book just about as thick on the science of painting as there is in a Grey's Anatomy. I have a library of books on Art and Art History that are more numerous than those I keep on computers now. Now, there are far more tutorials online than I could accomplish in 100 lifetimes. LOL
Keep up the fantastic work!
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I had no idea traditional paints are so complicated! You sound quite knowledgeable after your years of study, good for you! Learning new things throughout life is wonderful.
...and you're welcome.
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I experimented with all the fine-artist chemicals I could find. I kept looking for one that would make Titanium White (TW) dry faster, but not taint the pure white to make it a light pastel. I found Japan Dryer (a dark purple liquid) in small quantities would help the TW to dry overnight if it were not done in impasto. If TW is used in impasto, it can take a week to 3 weeks for it to dry enough to use without breaking the skin and releasing the "nearly-dry" white paint which taints the next layer, assuming you wanted to do wet over dry.
Here is a short article on the types of white oil paints, and their basic characteristics. Never underestimate any characteristic of an artist's medium. They can be a two-edged sword.
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Whoa, too much information, lol! I'm afraid you lost me there, buddy. I'm not a painter... not even an artist, if truth be told. 
Well, good luck in your alchemical hunt for a good TW drying agent!
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I quit oil painting in 1985 when I first saw a digital painting. I had already been working with scanned line art for 5 years. It was a fun job. I also learned that the heavy metals used in paints are poisonous to humans, and they never leave the body once ingested. Art historians have speculated that Van Gogh had dementia because of the oil paints.
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