Black or White - Masking Delight
November 26th, 2006 by brush
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 Colors palette to black and white, or white and black respectively.
The macro scripts may be run via a custom palette as shown. Once the main and additional colors have been set using one of the scripts, the artist then has a choice of swapping the main/additional color via the respective custom palette script icon, using the Shift + X or Shift + S (depending on your Painter version) keystroke shortcut combination, or clicking the Color Swap icon in the bottom left of the Colors palette, or the same icon in the Tools palette. Wow! I count five alternative options to swap the main and additional colors in Painter IX.
The above scripts are now available for download, with full instructions included in the download folder;
black_white_pc.zip (12 kb) for PC platform.
black_white_mac.dmg.gz (8 kb) for Mac platform.
brush
Right on! This is something I was missing in the shift from Photoshop, a quickmask-like feature. I’ll give it a go!
Maybe I read a bit too quickly… but I could see how this might lead to a Quickmask feature in Painter… I’ll have to tinker with it.
Thanks for the scripts!