BrushTalk

If you have not attempted masking in Painter, here there is a demo movie tutorial on this lynda.com page…click on the Layer Masks link in the Getting Started section.
As an aid to editing the Layer mask, I have put together a script library containing macro scripts to set the main and additional colors in the […]

I’ve just been dabbling with the Auto-Painting palette in Painter IX.5. After a little experimenting, I came up with some potentially useful auto-painted cross hatching and other textures in conjunction with the default Nervous Pen variant at 0% brush size (set in the Auto-Painting palette).

For the pencil-like hatching/cross-hatching, I unchecked the Randomness- Rotation check box, […]

Here’s an interesting variant I’ve developed for Painter 7 upwards, which is effectively a dual purpose brush. At default settings, whatever texture you see in the Paper Preview window of the Papers palette is exactly how the stroke will look when painted. This assumes that both the Directional Grain and Invert Paper buttons have not […]

Personally, I rarely use the Brush Creator dialogue when developing new Painter brushes, preferring to create a new 800 x 800 pixel document to use as my test pad. I then show the Brush Controls palettes from the Window menu and start experimenting.
Although my canvas occupies a large portion of the screen, it soon becomes […]