Hey guys. Can any please give me a few cons and pros about these programs in regards to digital painting and ease of use. I can use photoshop fluently, but I have heard good things about painter, so I am thinking about have a play around with it... Cheers.

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PS CS4 and WACOM INTUOS 4, FIGHTCLUB

Oh and also can anyone tell me where I can set hot keys for painter, or find out what the hot keys are, ie toggle colours, so I can set my wacom tablet up for it...

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PS CS4 and WACOM INTUOS 4, FIGHTCLUB

Edit>Preferences>Customise keys - very similar to Photoshop.

Painter pro - the brushes emulate real media, therefore, if you are used to traditional painting then Painter is much more intuative than Photoshop. The brushes blow PS out of the water.

Painter con - the colour adjustment, transformations, filters and effects are inferior to PS. They are there, work and can be used but if you are used to PS then you will find yourself laughing in disbelief.

Now the overwhelmingly good news - both programs work wonderfully together if you save as a psd. I'm constantly flipping between the two and therefore I don't have Painter and  Photoshop, I have a hybrid, dual program called "PhotoshopPainterCS311"

Yes, I have noticed that the brushes in painter are excellent. Can you tell me more about the hybrid program? Is it something that you created or is it actually on the market?

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PS CS4 and WACOM INTUOS 4, FIGHTCLUB

He was referring to using both Photoshop and Painter together and thinking of them as one piece of software utilising the best parts of each.

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chuck, you need to take most things here with a pinch of salt, it's joe's very own hybrid, which means he uses painter & photoshop seamlessly, not a special program. And if you weren't being serious ignore this.

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Hahahahaha, yeah I feel a lil silly..lol . Very late here atm...

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PS CS4 and WACOM INTUOS 4, FIGHTCLUB

Could be a very popular program. I think Joe is on to something there!

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Maybe if the brushes from painter could be a plugin for photoshop......

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PS CS4 and WACOM INTUOS 4, FIGHTCLUB

Just note that prior to Painter 11 working to and from Photoshop could cause somewhat... variable results with colours. So if you want to work as Joe does you're going to want Painter 11.

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Trudi Topham.

Troo is correct, I use both (CS2 and Painter 10) and i do notice some degredation, particularly scanned line art, when swapping between the two. I love them both though, two sides of the same coin and all that.

I am so glad I noticed your post Troo, I stopped using Painter with Photoshop because of how much it pissed me off loosing my carefully chosen colours when I moved between the two, does Painter 11 really not have this issue?  I adored the Painter brushes so much, if it didn't have those colour problems I'd have a reason to buy 11!!

If you are having problems with colour matching between Painter and Photoshop X I would recommend setting them up as in this guide by John Derry: http://homepage.mac.com/pixlart/.Public/PDFs/Consistent%20Color.pdf

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joeparis:

Edit>Preferences>Customise keys - very similar to Photoshop.

Painter pro - the brushes emulate real media, therefore, if you are used to traditional painting then Painter is much more intuative than Photoshop. The brushes blow PS out of the water.

Just had to jump in with a little comment.

As one coming from many years traditional media (read oils),I tried Painter think the exact same as you say Joe. For me, nope. The brushes was only bad impersonation of the real thing. I tried to use the program as I would use paint and canvas, but it didn't do it for me. I found that blending (talking about brush use and not the smudge tool)  colors in Photoshop fit my feel of the digtal media better. Course that's what it is; a digital media. So I thought, why try to impersonate real media. This is another and totally different media. And did the thing for me. I could never go back to Painter now. And I have tried. Nope, Photoshop works best for me.

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banjaxedmdt:

If you are having problems with colour matching between Painter and Photoshop X I would recommend setting them up as in this guide by John Derry: http://homepage.mac.com/pixlart/.Public/PDFs/Consistent%20Color.pdf

Fantastic! Cheers, Banj

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Trudi Topham.