First time go at Corel painter

[Cazzie]

Hi Guys!
I've never tried anything like this before... So please be Gentle LOL
I got painter today and tried this...
Thanks for any help
Cazzie
storm paint copy.jpg

storm.jpg

hope i did this right ?

[palms]

Originally Posted by Cazzie

Hi Guys!
I've never tried anything like this before... So please be Gentle LOL
I got painter today and tried this...
Thanks for any help
Cazzie
Attachment 57514

Attachment 57515

hope i did this right ?

HI and welcome cazzie, your images are a bit too small for us to see them properly so can you repost them ( if you need any help look here http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/ima...ed-images.html
)

from the little i can see it looks as if you are of to a flying start with painter

Palms

[Cazzie]

Hi Palms
Thanks will try again
hope this is better

[Janet Petty]

I love the dog and the treatment you have him/her. Even the dog's expression says to me, "Hey, I'm just slightly frazzled today. And don't mention the hair. It's just a bad hair day."

Wonderful smudge job.

Welcome to RTP,

Janet

[DannyRaphael]

Hi Cazzie... Welcome aboard. Great job for first time with Painter.

For portrait-type pics (animal, people) you might consider replacing the background with a neutral pattern or isolate the subject somehow. Doing so results in less distraction.

[palms]

Originally Posted by Cazzie

Hi Palms
Thanks will try again
hope this is better

Yep he can be seen better now and as i said earlier you are off to a flying start with painter, and love the look on the dogs face, which breed is he ?

Palms

[Cazzie]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

I love the dog and the treatment you have him/her. Even the dog's expression says to me, "Hey, I'm just slightly frazzled today. And don't mention the hair. It's just a bad hair day."

Wonderful smudge job.

Welcome to RetouchPRO,

Janet

Thank you Janet
She had just had a bath lol yup bad hair day!!

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Hi Cazzie... Welcome aboard. Great job for first time with Painter.

For portrait-type pics (animal, people) you might consider replacing the background with a neutral pattern or isolate the subject somehow. Doing so results in less distraction.

Thank you Danny!!

I will give that a go Thanks !!

Originally Posted by palms1

Yep he can be seen better now and as i said earlier you are off to a flying start with painter, and love the look on the dogs face, which breed is he ?

Palms

Thanks Palms!
She was my grey Newfoundland puppy ... unfortunatly I lost her at 7mths old last year ...so i would love to be able to do a good painting as a tribute to her!!

[Dorma McKenna]

Oh you did a wonderful painting. Not way over the top, just right. Is this the Painter X version? It sounds as hard or harder than Photoshop, I'm told. I am looking for something far easier & mild. The program Corel 4 (?) I'm not sure, tutorials seem to do it all for you in like three steps or such without your own input or control and comes out looking all alike. Am I right on this? Are there any other programs out there for what I'm looking for?
Xz. Dorma

[plugsnpixels]

Painter 11 was just released. There's a demo at Corel's website.

[Algarve Images]

I just heard painter 11 is out, yet another learning curve, hanen't got to grips with X yet lol

[sonoferin]

I like the dog picture Carrie
I am at the moment studying Painter 10
I have ordered 11..It is a phenomenal program.
It depends on the brushes and how you tweak them for Dogs hair. This dog was my 2nd attempt at hair on a dog. The eyes were painted in Photoshop.

Sonoferin

http://www.starlightdigitalstudios.c...-Paint-Sml.jpg

[sonoferin]

For Corma,
There is also a smaller version of Painter called "Painter Essentials", although much simpler than Painter X almost as powerful. I think it is a great starting place to make Photo's into art.It even has videos to guide you through some techniques. I have studied under 4 different teachers online, the fastest and easiest way to start into this, is to first let the auto painting feature take over the photo, then go back into the photo and add your own brushstrokes..there are some nice effects to be had.
I actually use Photoshop and Painter hand in hand. The eyes in the cocker spaniel picture above took 1 hr to complete and had 13 layers to get the eyes to look natural.
I use filters prior to painter on some photos, such as flowers or trees. With these types of photos I use a filter that reduces the photo to a more painterly look before I even start on the artistic look. One of my all time favorites is called Buzz Pro.

Hope this helps

Sonoferin