Jin
Jul 14th, 2003, 08:00 AM
Hi folks,
It's taken me a while to get around to doing this, but I'd like to share some photo enhancements I've done using Painter 8. You can take a look and read about the photographer, Lance Rivera, the Yahoo group, Digital Nuts, where I met his wife Nancy one of the owners/moderators, and the process I used to enhance his photo (three versions) at:
http://www.pixelalley.com/photo_enhancements/lances_photo_3_enhancements.html
Another photo, an old one of mine taken in the California Sierra Mountains, and not a very good one at that, I turned into a painting, using Painter 7 and a custom brush variant named Jinny's© Brush, a gift to me from Paulo Roberto Purim who's another artist and dear friend.
http://www.pixelalley.com/2001-2002-Gallery/sierra-woods-jinnys-brush-by-paulo.html
I used Painter's Clone feature to do the painting, which allows us to take color information from an original photo or other image specified as the Clone Source and paint it into a new image, the Clone.
In this case, though it's not always the way an artist uses the extremely versatile Clone feature, I first made a Clone of the photo (an exact copy), then deleted the image from the Clone to leave a blank white Canvas, and turned on another Painter feature, Tracing Paper, which displays a 50% opacity view of the original photo or image.
Then, with the Clone Colors box checked, to tell Painter to take color information from the original photo, I began. This one took me a couple of hours one very early morning and it was a lot of fun as Paulo's custom brush almost paints by itself (well not really by itself). You'd have to try it to know what I mean, but others who have used it say the same thing. It's soft and liquid, pushes color around, and does some surprising and often lovely things in response to pressure, using a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet and stylus (pen).
Lots of wonderful things can be done with photos using Painter, especially because of it's huge number of brush variants most of which can be made to work as Cloners and the fact that we can create endless numbers of our own custom brush variants to get nearly any effect we want.
In addition, multiple photos can be combined in a single final painting using a variety of brush variants and other features in Painter, like applying texture with either with brush variants that pick up the current Paper texture or by using the Effects menu's Apply Surface Texture option. Much more to say, and if you either do, or plan to, own Painter, we'll help you learn the many wonderful ways to use it.
Thanks for taking a peek. Comments are most welcome. :)
It's taken me a while to get around to doing this, but I'd like to share some photo enhancements I've done using Painter 8. You can take a look and read about the photographer, Lance Rivera, the Yahoo group, Digital Nuts, where I met his wife Nancy one of the owners/moderators, and the process I used to enhance his photo (three versions) at:
http://www.pixelalley.com/photo_enhancements/lances_photo_3_enhancements.html
Another photo, an old one of mine taken in the California Sierra Mountains, and not a very good one at that, I turned into a painting, using Painter 7 and a custom brush variant named Jinny's© Brush, a gift to me from Paulo Roberto Purim who's another artist and dear friend.
http://www.pixelalley.com/2001-2002-Gallery/sierra-woods-jinnys-brush-by-paulo.html
I used Painter's Clone feature to do the painting, which allows us to take color information from an original photo or other image specified as the Clone Source and paint it into a new image, the Clone.
In this case, though it's not always the way an artist uses the extremely versatile Clone feature, I first made a Clone of the photo (an exact copy), then deleted the image from the Clone to leave a blank white Canvas, and turned on another Painter feature, Tracing Paper, which displays a 50% opacity view of the original photo or image.
Then, with the Clone Colors box checked, to tell Painter to take color information from the original photo, I began. This one took me a couple of hours one very early morning and it was a lot of fun as Paulo's custom brush almost paints by itself (well not really by itself). You'd have to try it to know what I mean, but others who have used it say the same thing. It's soft and liquid, pushes color around, and does some surprising and often lovely things in response to pressure, using a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet and stylus (pen).
Lots of wonderful things can be done with photos using Painter, especially because of it's huge number of brush variants most of which can be made to work as Cloners and the fact that we can create endless numbers of our own custom brush variants to get nearly any effect we want.
In addition, multiple photos can be combined in a single final painting using a variety of brush variants and other features in Painter, like applying texture with either with brush variants that pick up the current Paper texture or by using the Effects menu's Apply Surface Texture option. Much more to say, and if you either do, or plan to, own Painter, we'll help you learn the many wonderful ways to use it.
Thanks for taking a peek. Comments are most welcome. :)