Painter X and blocky rendering of watercolours

[workbench]

If it is saved with the file there's really nothing you can do to remove it, you could check the saved scripts and maybe it will playback on a clean, same size and resolution canvas, all the brush strokes you did untill it got corrupted.

[Jinbrown]

Send your problem report directly to the Corel Painter development team with a link to this thread or a link to the demo images.

painterteam@corel.com


Thanks!

[kaifr]

Send your problem report directly to the Corel Painter development team with a link to this thread or a link to the demo images.

painterteam@corel.com (http://forums.cgsociety.org/painterteam@corel.com)


Thanks!

I'll do.

I realize that my pictures are a bit misleading since I got another layer underneath that’s visible. Here are two pictures with only the troublesome layer. In picture two I have dried the whole layer.

[Jinbrown]

Hi,

When we send reports to the Corel Painter development team, part of (probably the most important) is to provide them enough information so they can reproduce the problem and track down the cause, then hopefully fix it.

You've only said you used "watercolor" but your second demo images look more like Digital Watercolor.

Tell them the exact name of the brush category and the exact name of the brush variant. Otherwise, they can only guess what you mean and that won't help them, or help you.


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[kaifr]

It is what I said, watercolor on watercolor layers. I have used different runny and diffuse brushes. Now, it dosn't matter witch brushes I use, I get the same blocky result anyway.

[Xevious]

I justed upgraded from Painter 6 to Painter X. I really don't understand what the difference is between digital watercolor and plain old watercolor (I'm still getting used to the new interface, etc).

[Jinbrown]

Hi,

A brief history of Painter's brush categories that can be used to simulate traditional watercolor:

When Painter 7 was introduced, the Water Color brush technology from Painter 6 was gone and replaced with a new Water Color brush technology, more complex, closer to traditional watercolor, and for most people, more difficult to learn. These brush variants can only be used on Water Color Layers (in later versions, spelled Watercolor Layers) and there are some nice things we can do with Water Color/Watercolor Layers.

In Painter 8, the Digital Water Color brush category was introduced and, like Painter IX and Painter X, it contained all of the brush variants you had in Painter 6. There was a rather important problem, though. Painter 8 Digital Water Color was dried automatically when the file was saved, closed, and reopened whether the artist wanted it dried or not. The Water Color brush category remained so now we had two brush categories to use to simulate traditional watercolor, one simple (Digital Water Color) and the other complex (Water Color).

In Painter IX Corel finally began spelling Watercolor the way it should be spelled, one word instead of two. The problem with unwanted dryng of wet Digital Watercolor paint was solved and the Digital Watercolor brush technology was somewhat improved. The Watercolor brush variants were also somewhat improved and a bit easier to use, though still a challenge for anyone without a traditional watercolor background.

In Painter X, we continue to have both Digital Watercolor and Watercolor and they're still quite different from each other. Both can be fun to use and sometimes artists use both in the same painting.

If you think you're missing your old Painter 6 Water Color variants, you're not. Again, they're all included in the Digital Watercolor brush category.

You'll need to experiment with the Watercolor variants to get a feel for how they work and it may help to read John Derry's Visual Guides for Digital Watercolor and Watercolor before you begin experimenting.

Visual Guides to Water Color, Liquid Ink, Tinting, and Digital Water Color - by John Derry (http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Products/Content&pid=1047022702185&cid=1047022737328)

These Visual Guides were written for Painter 8 but they should still be useful for following Painter versions as the brush technology is basically the same as are the ways these brush variants can be used.


Jin

[workbench]

I justed upgraded from Painter 6 to Painter X. I really don't understand what the difference is between digital watercolor and plain old watercolor (I'm still getting used to the new interface, etc).

I'm still using Painter 6 I simply wasn't capable of adapting to Painter X (IX and 8) interface, it's like a maze with very thick walls, good thing they put out trial versions of these programs.

[kaifr]

I was trying to send the file in an email, however the file was to big for my email system. I tried to crop the file before sending it. Wonders, it made the error disappear. I loaded my picuter in Painter again, croped just a few pixels off the top of the picture, and everything works fine again. I tried to do the reverse, add pixels at the top, it didn't work.

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