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Sometimes, I will start with one, but usually create them in PS, or often Painter (some different media available, especially the Papers).
Hunt, how did you learn to use Painter, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’ve got Painter 8 and the "Painter 8 Wow!" book and have worked thru the pdf tutorials from Corel’s site but damned if I can get very good results with
that
program. I can never get the color management to work right (deletes any ICC profiles, for example) and other than using Auto Clone on a few images it has been a real disappointing program for me. Are there any on-line tutorials or any step-by-step books available? I asked these questions on the painter NG and one author told me "well, color management is HARD!" … 🙂
TIA.
Bill
I started with it at about ver 2, and, like you did not like the color management aspect, or their "masking" techniques. Photoshop was always much better for me. I used 3-5 a great deal, until my computers got too much RAM. I did try 6-8 and liked the latter, after Corel finally got it together. I even built a machine specifically for Painter 5 and a few 3-D paint programs from that time frame.
As for tutorials, I like the www.lynda.com materials. I’ve got DVD and several of Lynda Weinman [SP?] books with CD’s. All have been excellent, even though I am more of a book, than CD/DVD/e-book person. I also liked the Painter WOW series and had them for most versions.
A lot of what I do, is PS ancillary sort of stuff (very little actual creation in Painter), but I still use the heck out of it for the "natural media" looks, and keep Painter 5 on at least one machine.
I do agree that earlier versions were counter-intuitive, especially for PS users, but I just do/did the stuff I needed in PS, then brought in pieces, or worked on the image in Painter, and brought back to PS for finishing and always printing or output.
Take a look at the newer ver IX, as Corel has worked hard to match it more closely to PS.
Hecate, the real one, would be another source for info, as I think she uses Painter quite a bit, and probably much more extensively than I do.
Hunt