[Fabrys]

Hi Sijun community.
I'm quite new here. The quality of the pictures posted here is really amazing.
I'm used to work with photoshop as comics' color maker (see my work here -> Sijun topic : Color making with Photoshop
Now, I'd like to try Painter. I've managed to buy the 6th version of this soft which I really don't know.
Here is the sketch that I want to use as my first try :

I'd like to work with more materials than with Photoshop (I'm too lazy to use my acrylics... actually those are very old and unuseless).
Here are my fisrt shoot of questions, I expect that you would help me :
1- How to work in CMYK space ? I don't find it... (who asked "Is he a newbie" ? )
2- Each time that I want to draw on a new layer, a dialog box tells me that "no pixels are selected"... well, I don't care to select damn pixels, just want to put some on the screen, see ? (who replied to the first one : "you're right, he is" ?)
3- Is there any way to hide the panels ? I don't like to work with those on the screen. Any shortkey as Tab on photoshop ?
Thanks

[ur0b0r0s]

You can hide/unhide all the panels with Ctrl+H.

I'm pretty sure CMYK color is supported only in Painter 7.

The "no pixels selected" thingy is odd, I can't really suggest anything at this point.

However, I don't want to sound negative here but I think in general you'll find Painter's layer-system to be way inferior to PhotoShop's in pretty much every aspect...

I hope this helps.

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[Fabrys]

I already find the Painter's layer-system inferior to the Photoshop's one but, even in its future 7th version, Photoshop still stays late in Natural Media.
Looks funny (well... is "funny" the right word :confused that a such a soft as Painter hasn't discover CMYK space before the #7
Anyway, thanks for your help, ur0b0r0s.

[Hunago]

about the new layer and "no pixels are selected" message. because in Painter you can't simply paint on transparent layers.

Go to the Brushes palette, You need to change the brush Method to 'Plug-in', and make sure the Subcategory is 'Transparent Layer Brush'. it's a pain having to do this every time, but you can go to 'Variant:save varient', then that brush will easier to access.

[Fabrys]

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Originally posted by Hunago:
about the new layer and "no pixels are selected" message. because in Painter you can't simply paint on transparent layers.

Go to the Brushes palette, You need to change the brush Method to 'Plug-in', and make sure the Subcategory is 'Transparent Layer Brush'. it's a pain having to do this every time, but you can go to 'Variant:save varient', then that brush will easier to access.

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Thanks !!

[BooMSticK]

maybe you should go and look into this thread... Some cool stuff there on how to switch from Photoshop to Painter...

http://www.sijun.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=002604

I believe that Painter's native colormangement is RGB mode. You can save a CMYK version in .psd or .tiff and likewise open a CMYK image in Painter. But even after opening a CMYK photoshop file Painter will handle the document in RGB mode. I'm not 100% sure about this, though. If someone knows better they are welcome to correct me!
,Boom

[Fabrys]

So... I'm reading the pdf Painter's book to know more about the soft because, just trying as I do is not the good way.
Thanks Boomstick