Stroke Auto Playback - too fast!!!!

[dicky_mac]

Just a quick one; can the speed of the 'stoke auto playback' be changed?

Cheers
Richard

[Jinny Brown]

I'm afraid not, but you can play back one stroke at a time by clicking the Brush Selector menu command Playback, then clicking on the image as many times and in as many places as you want.

Or, if you have Painter X or X.1 you can use the Auto-Painting palette and control the speed along with several other ways the brush stroke is applied.

1. Record your stroke, then in the Brush Selector menu, choose Save Stroke and give it a name.

2. In the Auto-Painting palette, choose your saved stroke from the Stroke drop down list.

3. Adjust the sliders as needed.

4. Click the Play button.

5. If you don't like the result, Undo, adjust the sliders, and click the Play button again.

[dicky_mac]

Hi Jinney!

This is getting silly!! I seem to be thanking you all the time

Well I have found your site now, so got it saved in Fav and I spend some time there...

All the best and Happy Painting
Richard

[Jinny Brown]

Hi Richard,

You're welcome!

By the way, my name is Jinny, not Jinney.

[dicky_mac]

Firstly, sorry for calling you Jinney, Jinny!

Secondly, I have found that Auto Playback speed can be adjusted!!

I noticed that the resolution and ppi of the image you are working on has a direct affect on Auto Playback......
I tried a 8"x 10" image at 300ppi and the Auto Playback moved at a pace that I could work with

I would like others to try this and see if it is the image size that's the key?

All the best and Happy Painting!
Richard

[Jinny Brown]

Hi Richard,

I just did a test with a fairly simple brush variant, the Pen's Scratchboard Tool.

Opened an 8-1/2 x 11 inch 300 ppi Canvas.

Recorded a squiggly stroke.

Clicked Auto Playback and the stroke was applied reasonably slowly, or slowly enough to allow me to stop it before too many strokes were applied.

Then I opened a 650 x 650 pixel 300 ppi Canvas, clicked Auto Playback, and the strokes were applied too quickly to allow me to stop the process before too many strokes were applied (too many being whatever the user thinks is too many).

In any case, there was a very big difference in speed of stroke application.

I haven't tried with other brush variants but expect the more complex variants might take even longer to be applied and that could make the resulting difference.... different.

Thanks for pointing out that's a way to slow things down. Even if we didn't want such a large Canvas, it could be cropped down to the size we want after the strokes are applied.

Good one, Richard!

Smacking my forehead! Why didn't I think of that?