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clyde
08-26-2004, 08:24 AM
Hi Guys,

I am using wacom graphire 3 to sketch in photoshop, I am wondering what setting i should put to make the pencil sketch as close as 2B pencil sketching on paper? such as the opacity and the tip size.. when we sketch on paper, you can sketch it gentlely with light line and highlight it with darker line, i tried to activate the pressure sensitivity to make the opacity change with pen pressure but it turns out that you have to press it hard to make it darker line but at the same time the line get thicker too.. If you sketch with a tablet, please share with me what kind of setting you are using. Thank you.
Shogmaster
08-29-2004, 12:06 PM
I gotta tell ya, I just don't sketch/draw with Photoshop anymore because it's just not there yet compared to Painter or Alias Sketchbook Pro (or even Art Rage). If I have to do any sketching/drawing, I do it in Painter. It just plain old gives you better line quality and emulation of real media like pencils.

The close as I got to pencil quality with Photoshop was to kill the pressure control of the size and just keep it for opacity changes. Also make sure you have "smoothing" turned on, and maybe give it some slight jitter and/or texture. Still doesn't come close to out of box tools in Painter 8 like dirty marker or Color pencils. Those Painter tools and Wacom Cintiq = good enough to say goodbye to paper!
dwin
08-29-2004, 11:48 PM
Have you try to make the color to gray? Pencil won't look 100% black like in airbrush and you should make the brush small maybe about 3 pixel.
berniebernie
08-30-2004, 11:27 AM
painter also has the ability to fake the paper texture... Check a close-up a pencil drawing; you'll see the canvas pattern appear, which sometimes makes the drawing a bit chalk-y.


Trying playing with the brush options in PS to recreate that.
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