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Good mornin’

it seems that there is a minimum of Corel Painter (specially on v9) tutorials on Internet. Otherwise, I am searching at the wrong places and under the wrong names. No search machine appears to be very lenient with tutorials there on.

While knowing this is of the subject for this ng, I do ask the question here ’cause many PS users (of which I am one) also make use of Corel Painter for the sake of different effects.
Although CS2 is truly a wonderful program,
it’s a known fact that Corel is still ahead re painting possibilities. I am also searching in the bookshops for a relative tutorial book without finding what I am looking for. Maybe a Internet order will be the answer.

The search is for ideas on different brushes and basically tutorials on changing photos into paintings by using
Corel Painter IX. Any help (links) will be appreciated.

Dave

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Good mornin’

it seems that there is a minimum of Corel Painter (specially on v9) tutorials on Internet. Otherwise, I am searching at the wrong places and under the wrong names. No search machine appears to be very lenient with tutorials there on.

While knowing this is of the subject for this ng, I do ask the question here ’cause many PS users (of which I am one) also make use of Corel Painter for the sake of different effects.
Although CS2 is truly a wonderful program,
it’s a known fact that Corel is still ahead re painting possibilities. I am also searching in the bookshops for a relative tutorial book without finding what I am looking for. Maybe a Internet order will be the answer.

The search is for ideas on different brushes and basically tutorials on changing photos into paintings by using
Corel Painter IX. Any help (links) will be appreciated.

Dave

Dave,

You are correct about a dearth of Painter stuff on the Web, or Usenet. There were two NGs for Painter, but they are long since dead – people claimed that Corel killed them, because they wanted folk to go to their Web fora for all things Painter.

You might start with http://www.artistrymag.com/docs/classes.html, to look into Painter stuff. This is the URL for Karen Sperling’s "retreats," but I’ll bet you can navigate to her tutorials from it. She’s done several good Painter books over the years, and also training CD/DVD’s. Years ago, I got one of her earliest Painter books (~v3) and the CD was MAC only. She kindly replaced that CD with the PC ver and pointed out that the publisher just messed up, as the CDs were supposed to be X-platform, not MAC-only. She knows her stuff, and cares about her readers and Painter users.

Hunt

The search is for ideas on different brushes and basically tutorials on changing photos into paintings by using
Corel Painter IX. Any help (links) will be appreciated.

Dave wrote in news:0e4vr1hjho7e0dd5mjcaq4f729gqha91m0@
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The search is for ideas on different brushes and basically tutorials on changing photos into paintings by using
Corel Painter IX. Any help (links) will be appreciated.

Take a look at Corel’s Painter Essentials. It’s specifically designed to turn digital photos into paintings.
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Produ cts/Display&pfid= 1047024307407&pid=1047025757941
At $69 for the download version, may be a good place to start learning Painter.

And how do you start learning if tutorials is as scarce as chicken teeth? (wonder whether you know the saying:-)
Thanks Laura, I spoiled myself with version IX.

You might also want to look at this book: The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis. The main focus is on using Wacom tablets with both programs, but there are good examples and tutorials on various techniques.

Cheers Lee .

Dave wrote in news:un80s1dfrfi7hr9n337doc98lgv6l0ghii@
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And how do you start learning if tutorials is as scarce as chicken teeth? (wonder whether you know the saying:-)
Thanks Laura, I spoiled myself with version IX.

I did a Google search on Painter IX Tutorials and turned up many pages of tutorials for it.
There are also quite a few Painter IX tutorials on the Corel website. http://www.corel.com/painterix/training/index.html
as well as books and CDs.
Painter Essentials 3 includes tutorials in the program. You can download a free trial from Corel’s website.

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:23:13 GMT, Laura K
wrote:

All Don Seegmiller’s tutorials & tips is on my harddrive. And I question the ‘many pages of tutorials for it’.
My searchmachine includes 10 searhmachines (Speed Search v 5) and none of these 10 turned up many pages of tutorials on IX. Wonder if anyone else would try it:-)

Right after PS CS2 became available, I bought 3 books on it. Adobe Photoshop for Photographers – Martin Evening
How to do everything
and Classroom in a book.
I have some of these versions for CS(1) as well.
Now, Cyberspace is flooded with tutorials on CS2.
Maybe I should not be in such a hurry buying the same on Painter.
And maybe I should start a news group on Corel Painter.

Dave

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On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:23:13 GMT, Laura K
wrote:

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All Don Seegmiller’s tutorials & tips is on my harddrive. And I question the ‘many pages of tutorials for it’.
My searchmachine includes 10 searhmachines (Speed Search v 5) and none of these 10 turned up many pages of tutorials on IX. Wonder if anyone else would try it:-)

Right after PS CS2 became available, I bought 3 books on it. Adobe Photoshop for Photographers – Martin Evening
How to do everything
and Classroom in a book.
I have some of these versions for CS(1) as well.
Now, Cyberspace is flooded with tutorials on CS2.
Maybe I should not be in such a hurry buying the same on Painter.
And maybe I should start a news group on Corel Painter.

Dave

Unfortunately, Painter, all the way back to Fractal Design (is that the originator? Does’t seem to sound quite right!) has been a "poor-step-child" and not enough has been written about it. It’s a wonderful program, and just keeps getting better. I would not be without it. Even the major interface changes wrought by Corel didn’t really hurt it, and with IX, it has developed into a closer fit with PS. For every 100 books on PS, I’d guess that there has been 1 for Painter. Some of the old "Painter WOW" books are still viable, though one has to inturpret between the mechanics of the older ver and IX ( whatever).

If you do NOT have a tablet, do youself a major favor, and get a Wacom. You will not be disappointed.

Hunt

For every 100 books on PS, I’d guess that there has
been 1 for Painter. Some of the old "Painter WOW" books are still viable, though one has to inturpret between the mechanics of the older ver and IX ( whatever).

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For every 100 books on PS, I’d guess that there has
been 1 for Painter. Some of the old "Painter WOW" books are still viable, though one has to inturpret between the mechanics of the older ver and IX ( whatever).

The Painter IX WoW book was published in May of 2005, according to the Corel site which has it for sale, along with other books and training materials. http://www.corel.com/painterix/training/books.html

A search on Google turns up at least 10 pages of Painter IX tutorials: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=painter+IX+tutorial s&btnG=Google+Search

That is the first 5.

Good mornin’

it seems that there is a minimum of Corel Painter (specially on v9) tutorials on Internet. Otherwise, I am searching at the wrong places and under the wrong names. No search machine appears to be very lenient with tutorials there on.

While knowing this is of the subject for this ng, I do ask the question here ’cause many PS users (of which I am one) also make use of Corel Painter for the sake of different effects.
Although CS2 is truly a wonderful program,
it’s a known fact that Corel is still ahead re painting possibilities. I am also searching in the bookshops for a relative tutorial book without finding what I am looking for. Maybe a Internet order will be the answer.

The search is for ideas on different brushes and basically tutorials on changing photos into paintings by using
Corel Painter IX. Any help (links) will be appreciated.

Dave

In article , Dave says…

Good mornin’

it seems that there is a minimum of Corel Painter (specially on v9) tutorials on Internet. Otherwise, I am searching at the wrong places and under the wrong names. No search machine appears to be very lenient with tutorials there on.

While knowing this is of the subject for this ng, I do ask the question here ’cause many PS users (of which I am one) also make use of Corel Painter for the sake of different effects.
Although CS2 is truly a wonderful program,
it’s a known fact that Corel is still ahead re painting possibilities. I am also searching in the bookshops for a relative tutorial book without finding what I am looking for. Maybe a Internet order will be the answer.

The search is for ideas on different brushes and basically tutorials on changing photos into paintings by using
Corel Painter IX. Any help (links) will be appreciated.

Dave

Hi Dave.

Did you already check the guides by www.lynda.com?
I receive her guide for Painter 8 with a bundle by AutoFX, and now I saw that she also wrote a new guide for Painter IX.
You can see some samples here:

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?id=124

Hope this helps.

Regards

Socius