Hyper Blur Brush?

#1

I was trying out some of the more obscure drawing/painting software out there like Systemax Sai, Open Canvas, Dogwaffle…etc to refresh my impression of the current landscape of 2D apps out there, and I was struck by the fact that Painter didn’t have a blur brush that was similar to the ones in Sai and Open Canvas. The ones in Sai and Open Canvas are basically like Painter’s blur brush on crack–you can very quickly make all traces of brush marks completely disappear into a very soft gradation. I played around in Painter’s brush settings and could not replicate that effect.

Anyone ever tried the blur tools in Sai and Open Canvas? (You can download free trials of both).

#2

Not used those but I did get quite a good blur effect in Painter from using a captured brush with zero saturation. Adds a bit of grain at the same time. I rarely use it but still…

#3

Yes it has the “Just Add Water” brush which just blurs but it’s not as fast as the one in Sai.

#4

Not sure if this is quite what your looking for but under the Tinting category there is a brush called the ‘Softener’.

Adjusting the strength slider seems to give a decent effect, perhaps transposing it with the Just Add Water brush might give a more appealing result.

Luke.

#5

About the PaintTool SAI blur tool, in fact there is nothing comparable in Painter. This tool is really different than a simple blur tool. You can’t control the power of the blur but you can precisely control the size of the effect as you can see here (youtube video).

This tool is in fact the watercolor brush which works as blur tool till you reach a pressure threshold you can set. It has been made primarily for this kind of stuff (youtube video) even if it works for anything else. It is really fast and can blend with only one brush stroke any colors.

#6

Yeah, that’s what I figured as well. The Painter guys really should put in a brush like that (and a Photoshop-like brush while they’re at it since so many people asked over the years).

#7

Did you try SAI playing with dilution on an empty layer?
It is an interesting way to produce hard edged low opacity brush stroke. It works in combination with the button “transfer down layer” (it merges down the content of the layer leaving the current layer empty to continue working on it, so it is like “drying” its content). The logic of this system is simple, working on an new layer is like working with paint on a dry canvas.

Another lack in my opinion is the clipping mask we can use in Photoshop and SAI.

hu, I forget about one of the main issue, a blending engine which works with true transparency

#8

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