If you want to expand your professional and artistic horizons by enhancing your photos with digital drawing and painting, Painter 11 offers you the widest range of options with the greatest depth and versatility.
Space precludes delving further into the thousands of combinations of natural media that Painter 11 emulates so well. Once the auto-painting is done, all you have to do is bring back a bit of detail, such as in the face and eyes, with a Cloner brush. Brush size, stroke length, and pressure can be set to vary dynamically based on the detail in your original. Enlist the Smart Stroke Painting option to apply random paint strokes that vary in type, direction, and pressure while following the forms and shapes in your original photo. If you don’t want to try tracing or drawing yourself, or you are in a studio where you need to increase productivity, Painter 11’s Auto-Painting palette will transform your photo into a painting automatically. Once I had returned the desired detail, I saved the file in both the Photoshop format (for printing for this article) and in the native Painter RIFF format (#13). To bring back the detail, I went back to the Brush Category selector and chose Cloners, then the Soft Cloner brush and used it at various sizes to restore detail to the face, hair, and arms. Once I had sketched over most of Mara’s portrait to create the chalk lines, details in the face and body were largely obscured by brush strokes. If you make a mistake, choose File>Undo (or Cmnd/Ctrl-Z) to revert to the previous state up to 32 times. To enlarge a portion of the picture, you can use the zoom slider at the bottom of the clone image window, or use the Zoom tool which works like the one in Photoshop. Reduce the brush size to paint in smaller details. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Cmnd/Ctrl-T.ĭraw your strokes in the direction of the lines of the subject, or for any effect you want. Click again to turn the tracing paper back on. Now you can see your brushwork over the plain white background. Do this by clicking on the icon at the top right of the clone image window, which looks like overlapping white and black sheets of paper. To increase the color saturation (with oils or other brushes where you’re not at 100 percent), paint over the same area again.Ĭheck your work periodically by switching off the tracing paper.
After setting a brush size of about 10, an opacity of 56, and resat (resaturation) of 100, I made horizontal and diagonal strokes around the edges of the subject, using the tracing paper image of my photo as a guide. For the chalk to create a grainy effect, I then selected Artists Rough paper from the Paper selector. In the Brush Category selector at the upper right of the menu bar, I selected Pastels, then in the adjacent Brush Variant box, Artist Pastel Chalk. In the Colors palette, I clicked on the rubber stamp icon to tell Painter to take the colors from my original photo. Keep the original photo open in the background, but work only on the clone copy. You draw or paint on this tracing paper so you can follow the outlines of the photo. This will create a new “clone” file which is a solid white background with a digital “tracing paper” overlay containing a copy of your photo added on top, at about 25 percent opacity (#12). I set the Painter palettes to their normal positions by choosing Window>Workspace>Default. Although you can do this with a mouse, using a graphics tablet with a pen makes it easier.
All you really need is the ability to trace. If you have any drawing skill at all, I strongly recommend that you try painting some of your photos by hand. Enhanced tilt sensitivity when using the bristle brushes creates more realistic paint and watercolor effects. So you could draw an outline of your photo’s subject, a face for example, with the tip, then tilt the pen to shade the cheeks with the side of the pencil or chalk. A more vertical angle of the pen will create a thin brush stroke, while a slanted angle yields a wider stroke, perfect for shading and textures, and for enlivening a drawn outline. Similarly, for heightened realism, Version 11 is fully responsive to the tilt of the pen on the tablet. If you slow down your drawing, brush strokes get thicker. As you increase the speed of your pen, less ink is applied, resulting in thinner brush strokes. If you use a graphics tablet, Painter 11 gives you new, more realistic velocity control.
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