Been playing around with Painter 10 recently. I haven't delved too deeply yet but so far I quite like the new RealBristle Brushes. The video demo that they had on the Corel website doesn't really show do it justice though. I certainly wasn't impressed by just the video anyway, but after downloading the trial and playing with it for a while I think the new brushes are great step up for the program.
I am a far cry from a color correction guru but I am looking forward to seeing how the new color accuracy features work out in this version. I was never happy with color correcting in Painter 9 and always had to take my work to Photoshop for the final CMYK output. This may all be due to my own deficiencies and maybe Painter has had the capabilities all along. Ah well, I'll see how things go with a few pieces.
There is another program I'e become a pretty big fan of, ArtRage. Some of its brushes are simply fantastic and I haven't found anything in Painter yet to compare (very well could be in there, Painter does have a deeeeeep toolset after all) ArtRage is still a little underfeatured for most of my work but I am having a good time developing a workflow going back and forth between Painter and ArtRage. ArtRage is only $20 so any digital artists out there should definitely give it a good look. It has a lot of room to grow but I am really happy to see a program like it avialable for so little cost.
OK enough of the advertisements.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Walking into a room
Well, I've just spent the past few days recovering from my trip to NY and the fantastic SCBWI Winter Conference. The winter storm that passed through had me cooped up in the Cleveland Airport for a day but I am finally home and can now begin the process of putting what I've learned into practice.
I didn't have the good fortune to just happen to sit next to any art directors or editors (at least that I know of, they could have been using a false identity for all I know). I did sit at a table that was eventually joined by almost all Canadian writers. That was fun. I brought far too few business cards and ran out before the Art show (which was great) was finished. Ah well. I met up with a few other artists from my rep's group and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. I can't stress enough how good it is to get out and meet the people you've been talking to and working with through the great digital divide.
This will have to suffice as a first post. It's time to start making up some content to justify a second post.
I didn't have the good fortune to just happen to sit next to any art directors or editors (at least that I know of, they could have been using a false identity for all I know). I did sit at a table that was eventually joined by almost all Canadian writers. That was fun. I brought far too few business cards and ran out before the Art show (which was great) was finished. Ah well. I met up with a few other artists from my rep's group and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. I can't stress enough how good it is to get out and meet the people you've been talking to and working with through the great digital divide.
This will have to suffice as a first post. It's time to start making up some content to justify a second post.
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