stupid icon!

[Quigleyer]

you guys are gonna make fun of me for this, but for the LIFE of me cannot find a way to get that little icon indicating lighting on there to go away. For the last two days i've just been painting with it on, thinking i'd figure it out.

... ...Well, i haven't.

Sorry, JUST got painter- but damn it's cool.

[BAMartin]

the little blue 'star'??
That would be the impasto effect.

Click that blue star on the right of the canvas window
or to 'flatten' the effect without disabling any future brush strokes, go into menu item
Canvas/clear impasto.

Certain brushes (usually saying 'thick' something or other) will automatically turn impasto on...

Hope that helps...


britt

[Quigleyer]

i guess i should be more specific as to what i'm talking about eh? sorry 'bout that!

not the impasto effect- i only know this because i ran by it like 8 times when trying to turn this off. it looks like a little target right in the middle of the painting and it's making me really angry. luckily it moves with the screen, so i CAN paint around it, but would choose not to. i guess i'm not even sure it if is a lighting icon... i just assumed? weird assumption eh?

sorry! it just looks like a target with something (i'm assuming light?) hitting it in the middle and maybe bouncing off? i don't know how to save screen shots...

[Jin]

Hi,

I'm guessing what you're seeing is the Enhanced Brush Ghost. With a brush variant that has a round dab, it will be round with a line starting in the center and going out to the side. That's the stylus and the display changes depending on the direction in which the stylus tip is pointed (Bearing) and the angle at which the stylus it held (Tilt). Here's an example so you can tell me if that's what you're seeing:

http://www.pixelalley.com/brushes/enhanced_brush_ghost.jpg


If that's it, and if you don't want to see it, go to Preferences > General and uncheck the Enhanced Brush Ghost box.

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[Quigleyer]

no, but once again that fits the description of what i was complaining about :). um.

i believe i've managed to find out how to take a screenshot now... yay technology.

haha. so, after all that here we are.

sorry to be a pain in the ass.

[Improv]

no, but once again that fits the description of what i was complaining about :). um.

i believe i've managed to find out how to take a screenshot now... yay technology.

haha. so, after all that here we are.

sorry to be a pain in the ass.

Did you try disabling brush ghosting as Jin mentioned in her post above? Because that looks like exactly what is in your screen shot that you posted.

[Quigleyer]

i agree... they're similar, but when put next to each other...


i saw someone disable it in class once... but monday is so far and i have so long left this weekend to deal with this slight inconvenience, haha.

thanks in advance to anyone who has any idea how to slay this beast

[Improv]

i agree... they're similar, but when put next to each other...


i saw someone disable it in class once... but monday is so far and i have so long left this weekend to deal with this slight inconvenience, haha.

thanks in advance to anyone who has any idea how to slay this beast

Ok, here's something else that I just noticed. Your canvas is at 16%. Does the problem still happen at 100% canvas?

Also, why in the world are you using a brush size of 749? That's insane! I'm surprised that your system doesn't slow to a crawl! Try a more reasonable brush size like say 50 for a test.

[Quigleyer]

yeah. it happens at all times, i noticed now even when the canvas isn't there. it's not the canvas... it's just painter. I go to VCU for illustration right now and am currently involved in a digital drawing class- when i started using painter. i noticed it there, too, in the labs... so it's probably something you have to turn off and never see again, some have it, some don't, and they show up whenever the tech guys come in and wipe the labs.

i have painter X educational edition.

the brush size was just simply increased to compare the icon with the brush icon.

[Jin]

Hi,

I've never see the "bullseye" shown in your screen print and have no idea what it is, except it might be a display problem.

When it appears, try minimizing, then maximizing the Painter application/program window and see if that makes it go away.

Also, run Painter with other programs closed.


Good luck!

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[Improv]

yeah. it happens at all times, i noticed now even when the canvas isn't there. it's not the canvas... it's just painter. I go to VCU for illustration right now and am currently involved in a digital drawing class- when i started using painter. i noticed it there, too, in the labs... so it's probably something you have to turn off and never see again, some have it, some don't, and they show up whenever the tech guys come in and wipe the labs.

i have painter X educational edition.

the brush size was just simply increased to compare the icon with the brush icon.


Are you running your screen in 16 bit colour quality ? What video card are you using?

[Quigleyer]

ok so i figured out what it is... but how to stop it i have no idea. every time i hit save it takes my brush ghost at whatever angle i currently have it on and whatever size and plops it directly in the middle of my monitor until i quit the program and start it up again.

this was a real problem last night... as i lost roughly.... 4 hours worth of work due to my reluctance to save because I didnt want to restart the program, and yeah-like all programs, painter crashed. At my state of mind late in the night i didn't think to just get rid of the brush ghost...

I'm running painter X educational on a mac, and the macs in the lab at my university show this thing commonly, so i'm guessing it's a problem painter is having with macs? not a real suprise.... i refuse to give up painter OR my mac... so i've reduced myself to giving up the brush ghost!

[tomt]

If this is an artifact from the brush imaging, saving the image should have no effect on the document. It shouldn't be there.
You may be having a problem from a video card. If you want to save the image, try doing an iterative save, where Painter automaticaly gives the file an incremental file name.

You can also turn off the brush ghosting in the preference menu.

[Quigleyer]

yeah. i'm just turning off the brush ghosting for the moment. it doesn't save ON the file, it just displays on my monitor, moving the image does NOT in fact move my problem, the problem stays in the middle of the screen, as if floating above everything i show.

[theFilminator]

I have been using Painter X on my Macs since X was released and I've never seen that before and the same goes for my schools computers, all of which are Macs. I have no idea what that is but if I figure it out I'll be sure to let you know.

[teho]

I think it's a processor issue with this new cross-platform feature... Try to use smaller canvases and work like @ 25% or 33% and try to flip canvas as well. And I see you using color management ON (OP near name of the file), try to turn it off by clicking on the small box at the upper right corner.