Favorite brush for comic inking?

Dan Davis wrote:

Anybody have settings for their favorite brush? I’ve been looking for the best Photoshop 7 settings for a brush to emulate a comic book inker’s look. A smooth thick to thin look. For cartoony stuff too so it needs to be very expressive.

Thanks,
Dan Davis

I would be interested if you find any brushes like this. I am always scouring the web for custom brushes for Photoshop, but I haven’t found any yet that are as good as the pencil in Sketchbook Pro. For ink, I sometimes use painter…

I like the scratchboard pen in Painter a LOT! I’d like to find a suitable / similar brush setting for photoshop that will give me the same results/feel. Basically painter wants to add color and increase file size when I don’t need it to. It would be more convenient to just stay in photoshop for me.

Is there any website to find brush settings? Sounds like there isn’t a good source for this from your post.

Dan Davis

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"MArtin Chiselwitt" wrote in message

Dan Davis wrote:

Anybody have settings for their favorite brush? I’ve been looking for

the

best Photoshop 7 settings for a brush to emulate a comic book inker’s

look.

A smooth thick to thin look. For cartoony stuff too so it needs to be

very

expressive.

Thanks,
Dan Davis

I would be interested if you find any brushes like this. I am always scouring the web for custom brushes for Photoshop, but I haven’t found any yet that are as good as the pencil in Sketchbook Pro. For ink, I sometimes use painter…

I have looked high and low for good natural media brushes. The sad fact is, Photoshop just doesn’t do that very well at the moment. Perhaps the next upgrade will incorporate some better painting tools. I think you can get reasonable results from Photoshop as long as you are using a good tablet. Eg, an intuos or such-like.
When I got mine I got a copy of Painter Classic bundled in and this is enough for me to do what i need in there before importing to Pshop. It’s a pretty good combo…

m.c.

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Dan Davis wrote:

I like the scratchboard pen in Painter a LOT! I’d like to find a suitable / similar brush setting for photoshop that will give me the same results/feel. Basically painter wants to add color and increase file size when I don’t need it to. It would be more convenient to just stay in photoshop for me.
Is there any website to find brush settings? Sounds like there isn’t a good source for this from your post.

Dan Davis

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:15:16 -0400, "Dan Davis" wrote:

I like the scratchboard pen in Painter a LOT! I’d like to find a suitable / similar brush setting for photoshop that will give me the same results/feel. Basically painter wants to add color and increase file size when I don’t need it to. It would be more convenient to just stay in photoshop for me.
Is there any website to find brush settings? Sounds like there isn’t a good source for this from your post.

There is nothing in Photoshop that can emulate the flexibility of brushes in Painter. If you have Painter (and if you don’t have v8 upgrade to it) you can adjust the brushes and create absolutely anything you want. Instead of just leaving a brush as it is if it doesn’t suit you, alter it till it does. It’s so *easy*.

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Thanks. I have Painter 8 and really love the brush. I haven’t even adjusted any of them yet, since I’m so pleased with the Scratchboard pen which really works pretty much like a sable brush for inking. The problem with painter is that I’m working with some large page sizes and dpi requirements not set by me and I don’t like Painter adding color info and hence file size that I don’t want. But I’m figuring ways to circumvent it.

I’ll have to check out Painter brush adjustments and hope the next version supports grayscale, or that Photoshop gets better brushes.

Are Photoshop CS brushes any better than V.7?

Dan Davis
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"Hecate" wrote in message

There is nothing in Photoshop that can emulate the flexibility of brushes in Painter. If you have Painter (and if you don’t have v8 upgrade to it) you can adjust the brushes and create absolutely anything you want. Instead of just leaving a brush as it is if it doesn’t suit you, alter it till it does. It’s so *easy*.
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Hecate

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Are Photoshop CS brushes any better than V.7?

Not really…

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:29:44 -0400, "Dan Davis" wrote:

Thanks. I have Painter 8 and really love the brush. I haven’t even adjusted any of them yet, since I’m so pleased with the Scratchboard pen which really works pretty much like a sable brush for inking. The problem with painter is that I’m working with some large page sizes and dpi requirements not set by me and I don’t like Painter adding color info and hence file size that I don’t want. But I’m figuring ways to circumvent it.

I’ll have to check out Painter brush adjustments and hope the next version supports grayscale, or that Photoshop gets better brushes.
Are Photoshop CS brushes any better than V.7?

Nope, not really. PS isn’t really set up to produce original images in the same way that Painter does, or even to turn photographic images into "art" in the same way that Painter does.

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Hecate

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