[byRo]

DP is amazing. Every corner you turn there's something new!

I had never seen the Clone option that comes with the Oil Painting brushes.

Thanks for the links PM. We had been saying that DP-2D is a discontinued program, forgetting that really it is all still there inside DP-3D.

So now off hunting more DP-3D tut's.

Rô

[Ken45140]

PM: thanks. Since I last posted, I have done a lot more reading (both the help file (every word) and the PDF on the 3D model). Further experimentation has also helped. In spite of this, there is still a LOT of trial and error learning ahead. I hope to return to the Pelican picture and painting soon and see if I can get something more reasonable than my first try. I have also decided to concentrate my learning time on Deep Paint and set aside, at least for now, my copies of Painter Essentials, ArtRage, TwistedBrush, Dogwaffle, et al. I may have missed it, but I believe DP encompasses the capabilities of all of those others, and then some.

Ken

[Bob Mc]

After see the results that PhotoMaster got with this program I thought I'd give it a try - as a plug-in to PSP9 and not my Photoshop 7.

I believe there are three ways for Paint Shop Pro to find the plug-in
- placing the plug in directly into Paint Shop Pro's plug-in folder
- placing a shortcut (to a different DP location) into the Paint Shop Pro plug-in folder
folder
- as Craig said - using the Paint Shop Pro file >preferences > file locations > plugins - to specify the location of the DP plug-in

I decided on the plug-in and Paint Shop Pro because of the various concerns about getting into and out of Photoshop.

I put a 17.7 meg .psd image into Paint Shop Pro 9 and exported it into Deep Paint thru the plug-in transfer. - worked perfectly.

I then did some cloning and saved it into several formats from Deep Paint.
- saved as a project (native format for DP) resulting in 21 files - 22.3 meg)
- saved as a .psd file - 35.4 meg - no lighting effects
- saved as a .tif file - 9.2 meg
- saved as a .tga file - 9.2 meg
- saved as a .png file 6.1 meg

the only format that indicated no lighting effects would be saved was the .psd file.

Transferring back into Paint Shop Pro...
- the .psd file arrived with three layers - outline, clone and source
- the other files arrived with the outline and clone combined into one layer.

While my clone effort really wasn't worth saving - what I seemed to discover was that the .tif , .tga and .png files were large enough to return plenty of detail. Also that Paint Shop Pro 9 and the DP plug-in seem to work well together.

What I can't tell is if lighting effects were included.

Hope this info helps someone

Bob Mc

[Photomaster]

To retain the lighting and texture effects of a painting done in Deep Paint, when saving as a jpg, first save the file in Photoshop format (psd) then immediately save it as a jpg file. Presto, all lighting and texture effects are there. Try it and see if it works for you.
If you try saving as a jpg first you will get a message saying that lighting effects will not be preserved. You can delete the photoshop file since it will not have these effects, however, the psd file will have all the layers intact. This can be useful for creating some interesting effects in Photoshop.