Digital watercolor issue of Painter 9

[Jinbrown]

Hi Altaf,

I'm afraid there's no way to avoid having wet Digital Watercolor dried when we use the Collapse command.

You can highlight the Layers and use the Group command to get them out of the way, when you're not working them.

You'll still be able to move the Grouped Layers around, though I discovered today that I couldn't move Grouped Layers containing wet Digital Watercolor using the Layer Adjuster tool, only by using the up, down, left, and right arrow keys to nudge those Layers. This was true whether or not I tried to move the Layers individually with the Group expanded or as a Group with the Group contracted. That seems very odd because I created another new Layer, painted on it with a custom brush variant (not Digital Watercolor) and was able to move that Layer using the Layer Adjuster tool with no problem! I don't recall this happening before and Painter IX has been acting up today so it may just be a temporary problem (hope so!).

You'll also be able to highlight the individual Layers in the Group and align them (Effects > Objects > Align).

Most of the Layers palette menu commands will work, too, while the Layers are Grouped.

Sorry I couldn't give you a happier answer.

Good luck!

[Altaf Damudi]

Hi, Jinbrown.
I can sense your eagerness to help me out. I and you can do nothing except hoping to find the missing option in the next edition of Painter. My problem is not of managing the layers. My idea was to retain the wet mode while keeping the quantity of layers under limit, driven by a fear of file corruption due to file oversize. (Corel Painter is well known for this, as all of us know).Not only that. Also I was hoping to get a special color and textural quality with washes on separate layers first then merging and then again painting wet in wet. I have noticed that painting wet over wet has a different effect than painting wet over dry (Much like natural watercolor painting). Moreover, however you plan your painting in advance, you can never say that you will no more need to regain the wetness until completion of the art work. Retaining wetness could be crucial in the absence of option to rewet after drying. I wish some one jumps in and say there is such an option in Corel Painter.

[Altaf Damudi]

No one responded so far except jinbrown. Any one has no answer for resolving the difficulty or rather not interested in the preserving aspect of wetness of Digital Watercolor. What about Corel Painter developers’ team. Do they bother to peep in the forum looking for noteworthy suggestions? Or are they too tied up now in figuring out yet another classic label for their forthcoming edition? Hello Corel, never mind ten fingered hand this time for Painter 10 after nine fingers for Painter 9. But please try to give us the genuinely required features and options.

[Jinbrown]

Altaf,

No one's answering because you already have the answer.

If you want Corel to read your suggestion, there are two ways, the first of which is the fastest since people from Corel may not read this forum's threads every day.

E-mail Corel Painter Program Manager Rick Champagne at:

rick.champagne@corel.com

AND....

Post your request in the Sticky thread at the top of this forum, named:

Wishlist for upcoming Painter IX patch (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=208276)


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