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Caution! Wet Digital Paint
Painter is an mind blowing program. It is such an empowering feeling just messing around in it with a Wacom Table. It can be as entertaining as any new video game. Here is a quick pencil sketch that I played with the water color brushes. This was created 100% digitally in Painter. Painter is one of the programs that made me want to create computer graphics. Was listening to some TATU mp3s at the time so I guess It is sort of a sketch of one of them but it isn't a portrait of anything. Some people make photo blogs, I now have my Wacom tablet back and should do a lot more sketches.
There really is no competition for what it does and for creation of texture maps there is just no contest. Photoshop and Gimp are great but the painting tools are just pathetic when compared to the sophistication of Painter.
Jake at February 8, 2003 
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I guess that they both have thier strengths,,,,,you cant use painter like photoshop and vise - versa.........
I think that painter must be really cool for texturing in 3DsMAX an whatnot. Creating CUSTOM tiles and stuff for usage in L33t G4MXZ05Z!!!
Posted by: pete at February 8, 2003 9:58 PM
I had a grayscale version of painter (called Sketcher!) some years back. I liked it!
Posted by: Anita Rowland at February 9, 2003 12:20 AM
That's pretty cool. It looks like one of my cousins. I've never heard of Painter... have to look into that.
Posted by: Judy at February 9, 2003 5:44 AM
When I first started reading this, I thought you were talking about MS Paint ... I thought, "surely he must be joking." Then I realized it wasn't Paint, but PaintER
Posted by: tj at February 9, 2003 11:31 AM
Jammy sod.
You have a tablet AND you can draw. :p
Posted by: l33t k1w1 at February 9, 2003 8:44 PM
Well I hope that all that money I spent at Art school on tuitions didn't go to waste. I have been drawing with a Wacom tables for about 10 years now and to me drawing with a mouse is like trying to draw with a brick of soap.
Posted by: Jake at February 9, 2003 9:04 PM
