Thoughtcast
12-12-2005, 04:56 PM
Hi.
Recently I have been doodling in Painter IX, and have discovered a rather irritating problem.
It seems that the Digital Watercolor brushes tend to burn themselves when applying a specific amount of pressure with the pen. I'm using a Wacom Graphire 3 at school, and an Intuous 3 at home, however, this problem occurs using both, so I strongly doubt that it's hardware-related.
The problem results in strange color artifacts, where the colors suddenly go green, blue, or sometimes red, independent of what color i'm actually painting with. The otherwise painterly edges of my strokes become razor sharp, and this can only be remedied by applying more pressure (overriding the artifact with a darker color), or drying (at which point I need to draw over with an opaque brush to get rid of the jagged edges).
It really bothers me since I loose some flexibility with getting down different values fast (which is what I mainly use the Digital Watercolor for). Maybe I could be using some other brush category, but I can't quite stand the thought of having strange problems occuring whenever I feel like using DW.
I'll throw up some screenshots.
http://webis.sofe.se/lijg04/color_artifact_CPIX_001.jpg
http://webis.sofe.se/lijg04/color_artifact_CPIX_002.jpg
http://webis.sofe.se/lijg04/color_artifact_CPIX_003.jpg
Now, the way I see it; using a slightly orange color on a blue background might produce som green colors when painting with DW, because of how they work (in sort of a multiply-mode), but using a neutral blue color on a blue background probably wouldn't, and using an orange color on orange background ceartainly wouldn't.
I read about and tried manipulating the Bleed and Resaturation values, but they really didn't make a difference when it came to the artifacts. I also thought I might have accidentally applied some Color Variability to my brush, but after having checked, I could see that all three sliders were at 0.
Maybe it could have something to do with the color and gamma settings of my graphics card, but I recently calibrated my monitor using Quickgamma, so I'm fairly sure I get a good representation of colors.
If anyone has any idea or has experienced similar problems, please speak your mind.
Recently I have been doodling in Painter IX, and have discovered a rather irritating problem.
It seems that the Digital Watercolor brushes tend to burn themselves when applying a specific amount of pressure with the pen. I'm using a Wacom Graphire 3 at school, and an Intuous 3 at home, however, this problem occurs using both, so I strongly doubt that it's hardware-related.
The problem results in strange color artifacts, where the colors suddenly go green, blue, or sometimes red, independent of what color i'm actually painting with. The otherwise painterly edges of my strokes become razor sharp, and this can only be remedied by applying more pressure (overriding the artifact with a darker color), or drying (at which point I need to draw over with an opaque brush to get rid of the jagged edges).
It really bothers me since I loose some flexibility with getting down different values fast (which is what I mainly use the Digital Watercolor for). Maybe I could be using some other brush category, but I can't quite stand the thought of having strange problems occuring whenever I feel like using DW.
I'll throw up some screenshots.
http://webis.sofe.se/lijg04/color_artifact_CPIX_001.jpg
http://webis.sofe.se/lijg04/color_artifact_CPIX_002.jpg
http://webis.sofe.se/lijg04/color_artifact_CPIX_003.jpg
Now, the way I see it; using a slightly orange color on a blue background might produce som green colors when painting with DW, because of how they work (in sort of a multiply-mode), but using a neutral blue color on a blue background probably wouldn't, and using an orange color on orange background ceartainly wouldn't.
I read about and tried manipulating the Bleed and Resaturation values, but they really didn't make a difference when it came to the artifacts. I also thought I might have accidentally applied some Color Variability to my brush, but after having checked, I could see that all three sliders were at 0.
Maybe it could have something to do with the color and gamma settings of my graphics card, but I recently calibrated my monitor using Quickgamma, so I'm fairly sure I get a good representation of colors.
If anyone has any idea or has experienced similar problems, please speak your mind.