Painter8 Workshop - Paper making.

[davi]

Welcome to the Painter8 workshop.

Making paper really isn't that hard... it's making a paper that works, here's an example of one that does.

The best type of paper in my opinion comes from a microphotography photo, organic and detailed.

example: http://www.microscopyu.com/smallworld/gallery/contests/2003/4thlarge2003.html

Now in painter, take that photo and crop off the white edges around the edge, make sure there is only one layer(drop all)
Then go to EFFECTS: Tonal control> adjust colors.
Then turn the saturation down to -139%(max)
Then select the full image by pressing CTRL+A
Now make sure you have the paper window open, if not press go to WINDOW and scroll down to "show papers".

Now in that window go to the grey box with the PAPERS text on it and go to the right and find the arrow pointing right >
click it and hit capture paper, once it is captured a box will come up asking for you to save it, do so and i suggest keeping the threshold the same.

now you can select it from the list of already made papers.

now if you don't know how to use a paper, you must pick a brush with the grain option, the lower the grain the better the paper will show up. the more grain you have the less it will show. So fiddle with the paper and fiddle with the grain level on the brush.

I really hope that makes sense to all of you, and best of luck.

Questions and links to paper ideas are very welcome in this post.

[davi]

http://www.microscopyu.com/smallworld/gallery/contests/2003/index2003.html

btw this is a link with a ton more micro photography pictures, i wish they were large photos but they do just fine

[davi]

this is another perfect example

http://www.microscopyu.com/smallworld/gallery/contests/2003/images/10th2003large.jpg

for this one, i upped the threshold to 40

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/trees/images/americanbasswoodtransverse.jpg

[davi]

If you need to delete a paper because it just doesn't work or you want to try again with a different threshold...


go to that little arrow > and then go to papermover,

it's an annoying system in my mind, but the last paper you made is at the very bottom. you can click it and delete it.

ALSO this is where you can make a .pap for all of your own papers by hitting NEW and naming and saving and then moving all the papers you made into the right side of the screen. You can later load the paper library by going to the same arrow and then going down to open library.

[davi]

these you will have to do yourself:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/sunspot_detail_021113.html

http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/gallery.htm (bottom of page)

http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/bemf/microangela/

http://mse.iastate.edu/microscopy/plants.html

[I.was.ink]

Wow Davi. I have always wanted to use the papers, but never new how.

This really helps out a lot man!

Thanks

[Schlo-mo]

haha I messed around with it today, awesome.

[davi]

bumped cause i am cool