[Thomas Mandelid]

OK, I must be allowd one newbie post in this forum, so I`ll try to collect all my (stupid) newbie questions in this single post, and promise to never do it again...

I have been using photoshop for several years now, but have only used it to produce very simple web designs and interfaces. I have just baught myself a wacom tablet, and after finding this site (someone talked about it at a 3d site called maxforums, a 3d studio max forum) I was blown away at what can be accomplished with this program...

Now on to the questions :

1. I noticed a tutorial on this site, and have tried to follow it as best I can, but I was wondering if there are any more high quality tutorials out there on how to create tradisjonal artworks on a computer...

2. Is Painter any good, or should I just stick with Photoshop???

3. Is there any way of creating different styles of paper in Photoshop???? Is this possible in Painter????

Damn, I can`t think of anything else at this moment...guess I`m gonna have to post more newbie questions later then...


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Thomas Mandelid

[Matt Elder]

G'day Thomas! Welcome to the forum. A couple of short responses:

1) I'm not 100% sure what you mean by 'tradisjonal' artworks. I found Dhabin tutorial to be really useful but to get the maximum benefit out of it, you need to give yourself some time to work through it, experiment, see what works and what doesn't. Apparently their are some good tuts on 3dpallette.com (or something like that). Otherwise do a search on this forum for Tutorials and I'm sure you'll find heaps.

2)Painter vs PhotoShop. If you want to strictly paint, Painter. If you want to do other things, PhotoShop. PhotoShop, from my experience (I haven't used painter a great deal) is much more versatile and is compatible with more programs.

3) No simple one's like Painter (ie you specify a paper). You can try filling a page with a background colour and then using one of the artistic filters and/or using the various blending modes of layers and you might start to get close.

PhotoShop is quite powerful when it comes to 'painting' (you only have to look on this forum for examples) but it does take some practice and experimentation.

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See ya on da flip side
Matt
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