Auto Pen and Pencil Textures/Hatching
November 20th, 2006 by brush
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, allowing me to adjust stroke angle manually via. the Auto-Painting palette’s Rotation slider.
The main down side for me, is the lightning fast speed at which the individual strokes accumulate (especially within the confines of small selections), and there is currently no method of slowing down the speed. I found the best approach was to use a mouse to actuate the Auto-Painting Play button, and click the button again to terminate the rendering. Check it out for yourself, and experiment with different variants and Auto-Painting stroke types/settings.
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