How long does/should it take to Auto Paint?

#1

After many tries to auto paint without much luck I came across Karen Sperling’s YouTube tutorial (many thanks Karen) I selected the Artists Sargent Brush - smart stroke and smart settings 23 hours later it is still painting, is this normal?

While I was experimenting I discovered that while auto painting If I clicked my mouse anywhere it would stop painting no multi tasking at all, can’t check email, browse the web, text edit nothing, I can move the mouse around but if I click anywhere auto painting stops, is this normal?

Using Painter 11, a new macbook duo core 4gb it is running alone nothing else in the background haven’t touched it. I am Painting a family portrait 6 people from the waist up with a mostly black background 4080 pixels x 4080 pixels. I have read and done my best to set preferences, turn off enhanced ghost turn back undo etc.

Fortunately I have a pc to browse the web and ask this question I want to finish my painting but I also want my mac back :slight_smile:

Please help

Any other newbies out there the 3 part tutorial from Karen is great easy to follow, just wish my computer would paint a little faster!

#2

Hi Rod

My guess is your image is too large. You don’t say what ppi you’ve chosen. Either make your image smaller (maybe around 20 cm x 20cm instead of over 30cm x 30cm) or make the resolution smaller, ie no higher than 300 ppi. If 300 is still too slow try 200 or 150. You may be able to get away with a larger image size with a 150 ppi. After it’s finished auto painting you can try to resize it, then perhaps give a little sharpening to the image. Not ideal but better than nothing.

#3

Which settings do you have selected in the auto painting palette? If you dont have the smart(s) selected it will paint forever…

Rob

#4

Thank you for the replies.

As explained on another board ppi is irrelevant, the photo I was working on is 17"x17" at 240 ppi which = 4080x4080 pixels a 30cmx30cm at 300ppi = 3544x3544 pixels.

I was using the sargent brush auto-painting with smart settings selected.

I wouldn’t think this was a very large photo, I finally stopped it this morning after running for 35 hours and it still doesn’t look close to being finished.

This makes no since to me.

Still wondering should I be able to multi-task on my macbook while auto-painting if I click the mouse anywhere, do anything whatsoever with it the auto painting stops, it sat there for 35 hours untouched and still painting enough is enough :buttrock:

#5

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We have been testing to see if we have the same issues. I have the same size image (roughly) and I can get Painter to autopaint reasonably quick. http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1153321224268?pid=1234450613802
Let me know if that helps.
Rob

#6

Thanks for the reply and testing, I haven’t used painter much since posting (got side tracked). I installed the update the day it came out and haven’t noticed much difference, but haven’t used it enough before or after to be a good judge. Still wondering if I should be able to multi-task while auto painting? I can’t do this on mac or pc is there a way around this?

Thanks
Rod

#7

No and no.

#8

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