Lesson 2

Customising your Wacom Tablet for Painter

Very good suggestions on the Wacom Intuos 3 Tablet. And, I agree with you that disabling one of the control panels is nearly a necessity because of the inadvertent scrolling/resizing that happened because I was always hitting it while working. However, I now have the Intuos 4 Wireless and like it so much better than the 3! I didn't have to assign anything to buttons to try to remember (I always forgot what they were)because the choices for functions are accessible on the screen of your monitor with the push of a button. My favorites are the circle which I can use to resize brushes just by turning it and the Hand move tool by pressing a button that it is always ready.

Tracker Palette

I had never looked at the Tracker Palette before and now see it could be convenient. Knowing it tracks the variations I may have put on a brush, I found it to be a reallly quick way to get back to some earlier settings on a brush...in this case, the Watercolor Coarse Mop Brush where we changed Grain, Diffusion and Wet Fringe.

It might be me, but, just as with the Stepping, I was not able to notice much of a difference in the stroke when I changed the Wet Fringe setting.

Custom Palette

This is the star of this lesson! It is most convenient and every aspect of it was well explained. I will now always use a Custom Palette! I added some extra tools and commands because the whole thing makes sense...everything you need for a project in the same container, ready to be clicked!

I added undo, an eraser and New Layer command.

Digital Watercolor

My sketching was a bit shaky, thickish lines and so I didn't keep it as part of the image. It certainly has room for improvement and, if I should get the time, will do another watercolor.

I had not really understood the reasoning behind the iterative save and am really happy to understand it. Good explanation and exercise to reenforce it.

 

Custom Palettes and the Iterative Save are the 2 main ideas for me in Week 2.