[JohnC]

Well, I am getting ready to start my first Painter painting and Im wondering what size I should make it? I will be doing a fantasy painting of a monster. Also what resolution should I work in?

I have a 667 PIII with 256k ram pc.

Thanks

[sfr]

I make mine about 2000 pixels wide usually (on an Athlon 550 with 256M). I can't use much higher resolutions because the rendered dabs in Painter 6 are so slow and also they have fixed hair size, so the cute texture would get lost in downscaling.

Saffron / Sunflower

[shahar2k]

256K of ram? wow!
... you must be running Windows CE

I have an 800 Mhz Athelon, with 128 MB now, my computer can't handle anything bigger than say... 1000*1000 without major slowdown, is it the ram?

[McSteed]

I prefer to work in AU's or Astronomical Units, A unit of length used in measuring astronomical distances within the solar system equal to the mean distance from Earth to the sun, approximately 150 million kilometers (93 million miles).

I do my images at .00005x.00008 Au

Chris the Great www.mcsteed.com

[aNoah]

You use painter?
Is that any better than photoshop for doing work like this. I have never tried it. I use Photoshop 5.5 on a Piii450 with 256 Ram.

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[AKIRA_x]

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Originally posted by aNoah:
You use painter?
Is that any better than photoshop for doing work like this. I have never tried it. I use Photoshop 5.5 on a Piii450 with 256 Ram.

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What do you mean...for doing this? If you can make great art with Paint for Windows 3.1...use it. The tools dosent make the art, you do. Would you make a better house if you had a hammer that cost twice as much?....when you dont even know how to build a house.

People in here use a myriad of tools....but many of us use alot of the same: Painter, Photoshop, Illustrator, 3D studio MAX. And we use them with each other..make some characters in Painter, make a montage of it in Photoshop..make layout in Illustrator...and put it all in an animation in MAX.

AKIRA

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Whos ya dady!!

[Ko]

I usually work at a minimum of 2000x2000 pixels...
Depending on what it's for.
For posters you might have to hit the 10000 pixel barrier.

Go for atleast 260dpi at your desired image size. This is enough for quality print output!

Ko