Possible to make a 20"x24" painting in Painter IX?

[RiKToR]

I would leave the DPI at 72 in painter and start blocking you shapes / paintings and increase the canvas size as you begin to add more detail then import it into a photoshop document with 300 dpi set. In Ryan Church's DVD he starts with a roughly a 1000 x 1000 pixels document and ends with about 5 times that size (while leaving the dpi at 72). When you drop it into photoshop it will automatically scale based on the DPI of the created document.

[donseeg]

Working up gradually the size of an image is a very good idea. It helps you refrain from painting the eyelashes too early in the process. I personally have painted images that have been printed at 2' x 4' without any problem. The actual file was probably that size at 200 dpi instead of 300 but you really would have a hard time seeing any differences.

Don
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[crossbones]

WHen I had Feng's class at Art Center, we started at a small value like 1600X900 pixels and blocked in what we could, up rez and then added our details. At times we would just let photoshop do our pixel filtering and not worry about it.

People will tell you that Photoshop can handle bigger files,well in theory if you don't have the ability to spin the canvas then you can handle files just as large.

[Jinbrown]

Thanks, Don, for your input.

It's reassuring to hear it from someone whose word and experience we can count on, that it's possible to create printed images that large using Painter.

I like your "eyelashes" example. It makes the point, clearly. ;)


Jin

[LittleFenris]

So start the painting at a lower res and block in just the basic colors and shading, then up-res to the final size for the details? Won't you lose some quality up-resing the picture? I guess thats why you say to do that in the initial blocking period.

Thanks

[tyan]

Painter documents have an incredible amount of natural detail at a very fine level due to the nature of the brushes, as compared to for instance photoshop paintings which tend to not have as much detail in the strokes, and because of this they can be scaled up very well. A typical painter document can be scaled up as much as 50% for print and the quality will remain very similar and in some cases even improve since ultra fine details that were not visible before become more aparent. In my opinion 200-250dpi is quite ok for a painter document, just rez it up to 300 in photoshop before printing, though I also tend to increase resolution as I detail as well.

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