[ambelamba]

Which artist should I get some reference from, beside Craig Mullins?

I haven't been painting for years and I am trying to do some color works with Photoshop. Quite honestly, I am not sure which one is better for me; Painter or Photoshop.

I need some advice for frequently used tools and colors. Do you guys have your own custom palettes and brush sets? If so, can you guys give me the links to custom brushes and palettes? Or you guys can email me at [email protected].
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[Jin]

Hi,

For future clear communication, in Painter, "custom palettes" does not have anything to do with colors. For collections of color swatches, the term you want is Color Sets.

Painter's Custom Palettes are used to hold brush category icons and both main menu and palette menu command buttons to make it easier to access brush variants you use frequently and initiate menu commands used frequently.


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[eyewoo]

Both Painter and Photoshop have their strengths and are coming closer together in the way they work... though they still are quite different. In prcatice, most people simply prefer the one that they know the best. For me that is Photoshop.

One of the key differences between the two arise from their fundamental design. As far as "digital art" is concerned, Photoshop has always been designed as a program that builds upon a graphics package as a digital medium. Painter has been designed as a graphics program to mimic existing mediums, like water color, oil, pastel, etc. Both programs can produce incredible work in the hands of a person who understands the fundamentals of creating visual art.
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[Ranath]

the difference is in surface technique.. you get paintery look with painter by just painting. With Photoshop you need to add it.

Personally I like Photoshop better because it's faster and I'm not too big fan of oil texture etc. and in painter usually try getting rid of it

[Jin]

Ranath,

If you don't want texture in Painter, why use brush variants that paint with texture? There are over 700 brush variants to choose from in Painter IX, for instance, and many of them don't paint with texture.

Not a serious question, just ribbin' you because it seems so obvious.


Jinny

[jfrancis]

Here's my $0.02