Hello Everyone,

I'll try to chronicle some Painter 6 experiments here. This is really geared toward beginners but. . . who knows.

  1. Gradient Pen Experiment
    <LI>start a new painter document, go to Pens and select the Gradient Pen

    <LI>http://www.nol.net/~athena/paintutor1/brushes1.gif

    <LI>Open the Art Materials and click on Gradients

    <LI>http://www.nol.net/~athena/paintutor...tmaterial1.jpg

    <LI>For the image at the bottom, I used Night Sky and Sunset

    <LI>For your own experiment, I would suggest taking some time and doodling with the Gradient Pen. Change the gradients if you want . . . just get the feel of the pen.

    <LI>your doodles can be controlled (just one gradient)
    http://www.nol.net/~athena/paintutor...roldoodle1.gif

    <LI>or uncontrolled (test all the gradients)

    http://www.nol.net/~athena/paintutor...roldoodle1.jpg

    <LI>in my case, the uncontrolled doodling with all sorts of gradients brought the Sunset gradient to my attention and the "lion head" came into form (your own doodling will provide different results )

    <LI>To salvage your cool doodle, I found that it is easiest on my computer resources if I save my original doodle, then clone my doodle file <ul>
    <LI>File --> Clone
    <LI>Set Clone source to Original Doodle
    <LI>in clone of doodle, Select All
    <LI>in clone of doodle, Edit -- > Clear (this allows you to see the original doodle)


<LI>at this point, pick up the Paint Bucket tool http://www.nol.net/~athena/paintutor1/paintbucket1.gif

<LI>place your background gradient down first. It doesn't matter because you're using the clone feature to make the gradient transparent enough to see the doodle underneath[/list]

<LI>Pick the Gradient Pen and trace the doodle that you have chosen

<LI>On my computer, I found that adding even one layer seemed to slow my pen's response time (and adding two or more layers was getting very difficult to use). But by using the trace feature of Painter, you can avoid slowing down your pen's response time

<LI>Possibly, you could even brute force your way by making numerous cloned images that you could reassemble in another program like Corel PhotoPaint or Adobe PhotoShop as layers[/list]

Final image:

http://www.nol.net/~athena/paintutor1/tahlion1.jpg

Happy Doodling!

Athena
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PS if the images are missing, it is because my server is down not because of InfoPop or I-US

[This message was edited by T. Athena Hatton on September 08, 2000 at 05:09 AM.

[This message was edited by T. Athena Hatton on September 08, 2000 at 05:11 AM.]