Painter and scanned artwork pbs.

#1

Hi there)
For the few last days i decided to try painter to change a bit from the photoshop routine. Halas, i ve encountered some problems, especially with the use of scanned artwork in painter. Everytime i try to open a penciled sketch in painter, the artworked seems extremely pixelated, no matter what res, mode, format it s been saved in. To illustrate my problem, here is a screenshot i took.

On the left, the sketch (saved in jpg at 200 dpi) opened in photoshop. Look normal, even if it s not cleaned yet. On the right, the same image open in painter. It s the same with every scanned stuff (and some colored artwork done in photoshop) i open in painter and it really bother me since i d like to keep the lineart on some art work.

Does anyone have an idea to get around this troublesome stuff?
Thx in advance)

Ps : sorry for the broken english)

#2

I have a similar problem and would also like help. I figures I may as well post in here instead of making a new topic if you don’t mind topic creator. My scanned artwork opens up and features fine on the canvas, but certain brush strokes are choppy compared to a blank default canvas. I know the sizings and resolution are different but even when I play around with the canvas settings on the scanned piece, the brushstrokes are still choppy.

#3

Glad i m not the only one to get this problem)

#4

Looks like you are saving to GIF or some other low colour count format before opening in Painter.

#5

Actually they re both saved and opened in jpg. I m pretty sure there is an option to check (or uncheck) somewhere, but i can t find at all.

#6

Save in psd, not in jpeg. Check your color management workflow (the interface has changed in Painter 11 but the essentials apply)
That is not usual at all; I work on Painter and PS all the time and have not seen that issue. By the way, you got great pencils in Painter. Try them out.
Cheers

#7

I havn’t seen your problem. You might want to set your scanner to a higher resolution. By default I have mine running at 600 PPI. You can always scale back the image after you have it in Painter.

#8

It s the same if it is scanned at a higher res. Unless the artwork is displayed at 100% in painter, i always get that pixeleted look. When displayed at 100%, the drawing looks normal. When zoomed in or out, i have this problem.

#9

You must display it at 100% if you want to see these thick lines well. No mystery, that´s all. You ought to start explaining that before, because it´s the way Painter works, like or not. Quite a waste of explanations.
You wrongly assume that everything has to work like PS CS 4… Painter does not make use of accelerated graphics, like PS didn´t until CS4 came out. Zoom in and out in CS3 and tell what happens… jeez.

#10

My post wasn t a rant against painter, Miguimau, there is nothing to be mad about (well i think). I m just totally new to painter, and it seemed very wierd to me. Actually, in cs3 (and in most of the previous version) you picture will not lose any screen quality if you stay in the “whole number” reduction. An image will appear the “same” reduced from 100 to 50% percent per exemple. I though there was an option in painter to allow this. If it s not possible, all my appologies)

#11

No problem even if your post were “anti-painter” :wink: It´s just that we were trying to figure our what happened and it was rather simple. Zoom +shift/alt to jump from 100% to 150, 200 etc and viceversa but it will appear pixilated, anyway (I think)
Excuse me if I sounded rude…

You will find help in the Painter Factory, as well.
Happy painting.

#12

Thx a lot for your kind answer! I will try to see what an i do with that software) A lot of stuff looks very exiting.

#13

> zoom

Ah, that makes sense. There is a “use area averaging” button on the general options tab which may or may not make a difference for you.

#14

Just for the record… remember that these jagged lines are only an issue with zoomed thick ones.
Painter is brilliant in natural media painting but don´t expect Painter to be comparable to PS in others areas. Or you will suffer a frustrating experience instead of a productive and fascinating one. :wink:
Here in CGtalk you wil find truly experts. And rarely blind fanboys, ask what you need!
And some other stuff here:
http://apps.corel.com/painterix_uk/product/index.html

http://apps.corel.com/painterx/us/index.html

Happy painting.

#15

Thx a lot! It worked (for me at least).

#16

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