Well I joined another forum yesterday. It is called PainterTalk and is for digital artists using Corel Painter and other tools for creative activities.
I have had a warm welcome and hope to learn some more about using my Painter 8 program.
I also downloaded Pixxara's TwistedBrush Open Studio while I was online. I wanted to experiment with another free painter program.
I created the textured background for today's image with it. I have an image I did in ArtRage, another free painter program, that I opened in Painter.NET, yet another free program, and used the Effects> Artistic> Ink Sketch> filter on the image. Copying to the clipboard I pasted it in PhotoPaint where I already had the new background opened.
I stretched to fix the 1024 x 768 texture and used the object property Multiply to add it to the piece. I added some paint splatters and Grunge fonts for interest. Oh yes, I did use the Image> Adjust> Tone Curve to darken the texture I made in TwistedBrush.
All this changing of programs may be unnecessary for others but it stimulates my imagination and I find it a challenge to use the different programs for their strengths.
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Now playing on Windows Media Player: Metric - Love is a Place
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It sounds like you have a lot of fun with your art AND with the various software programs you use. I found your blog from the Painter Talk forum, and welcome you there. (I also blog, and so appreciate and visit others' blogs whenever I have a spare minute.)I really love your collage art...
ReplyDeleteBarb,
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting and your kind comment. I really appreciate your input. It's always a treat to hear from other bloggers.
Kirk