Don't worry about Painter 10: it's not out yet. Ver 9.0 is the most recent.
Scroll down near the bottom of this thread for some Painter tutorials:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3244
re: Scripts in Painter
These are completely different than scripts in Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop. In Painter the scripts record brush strokes, not menu commands.
So if you have the scripting function on it allows you to recreate a painting. This comes in handy if you create the prototype at 8"x12". You can then increase the canvas to 30"x40" and play the script. Supposedly it will scale the strokes accordingly. A 30"x40" piece would take a LONG time to recreate manually. With a script, you just launch it and come back in a couple hours (or however long it takes to complete.)
I suppose you could download scripts others have created, but I'm not aware of anyone doing that.
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A Yahoo group that might be of intest to you:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Painte...guid=137926070
It's not real active in terms of message traffic, but there seem to be some real sharp people who participate and answer questions.
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Check
www.WetCanvas.com
Some real serious Painter users frequent that forum.
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Jinny Brown: One of the best.
http://www.pixelalley.com/pixelalley...ons-pages.html http://www.pixelalley.com/painter-ef...o-India-6.html http://www.pixelalley.com/tutorials/tuthome.html
Now, if this doesn't keep you awake, NOTHING will! (LOL)
~Danny~