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vjm3
01-09-2010, 12:41 AM
First off hello everyone! Thank you for any help you may provide me.

I would like to know what are some good settings for my Wacom tablet, so I may get the most realistic and natural look that I can from it while I draw on it.

I own a Wacom Cintiq, and my media is Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended (as well as Adobe Illustrator). I use them solely for illustration and animation work, so I am heavy in outlines and solid lines that look the most like inked pen work and/or sketched pencil work.

Problems in the past consist of using the pen which ends up creating a solid color line that is "blocky" and unnatural looking. Another problem is I make a line that is so light and transparent that I must repeatively sketch over the line to make it anywhere near solid, which as a result it gives the lines a very transparent "ghost" like appearance.

If anyone also has some good Adobe Photoshop color and brush settings I would really appreciate them listed so I may physically apply the changes to where they need to be made.

Thank you all.

Vincent
Jettatore
01-09-2010, 05:07 AM
My preferred settings for digital painting...

Any regular round brush. Hardness between 0 and 15% and spacing between 0 and 25%.

In the presets only leave on smoothing and other dynamics, everything else is off. Inside other dynamics enable both opacity and flow to pen pressure at 0%.

Now outside in the interface with the brush active, up top I set opacity and flow to 75%.

This allows for great blending, and if I need a softer touch I can just turn down the above opacity (or both opac and flow) to a lower extent.

This allows for nice blending while painting, and if you need a softer or harder edge you just fiddle with the brush tips hardness and spacing.
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