line drawing not clear? p8

[unknown]

hi guys nice work !!!!

I am having a problem with painter 8 [ trial ]...

when i have a new page and i make it match an A4 page or higher// resolution at 72 or higher //.

when i use the pencil or pen tool to sketch the lines are not clear. they seem dotted unless i zoom into it at 100%, but then i cannot view the page. i have a 17inch monitor and screen resolution 1024X786.

This is very irritating as the whole canvas is not visible and i cannot draw:(.

you can imagine trying to draw something that would fill the whole page as in real life.

thanx for any help in advance :)

[Jin]

Not much can be done about your small monitor but you can learn to clear the Painter screen so you have more room to work.

Create Custom Palettes to hold most used brush category icons, main menu command buttons, and palette menu command buttons. You can place icons for several brush libraries in your Custom Palette and one click on a brush category icon loads its brush library instantly. Custom Palettes can be configured horizontally or vertically, so you could arrange yours vertically and put it off to one side of the Painter screen.

Use Ctrl/Command+H to hide or show all palettes.

Use the G key to activate the Grabber tool so you can move the image around on the screen to see parts that may be off the screen.

Can't think of anything else right now, but maybe someone else will.

[unknown]

i think i solved the problem?

I use resolution 72 and lines come out great now.

now is that the right resolution? I am thinking if i did a detail image and if i went to print it then would i have to increase the reso to about 300dpi?


thanx

[funshark]

well...
you do not have to modify the dpi parameter.
Just think with pixel*pixel and work on larger resolution.

If you want to match an A4, look with photoshop ( for example ) what's the resolution ( px*px ) at 300 dpi and copy it :
A4 > 2480*3508 > you have to enter these values in painter.

o/

[Jin]

Hi,

When you set up your image, if you intend to print it, you need to understand the relationship between the dimensions in pixels and the PPI number.

That will determine the printed size of your image in inches and the quality of the print.

If you work at 72 ppi on an image for which the dimensions are, for instance..

1200 x 1200 pixels at 72 ppi

.. the printed image will be..

16.667 x 16.667 inches at 72 ppi and the image quality will be low, very likely with pixelated edges along curves and angles and a somewhat blurry look.

If you begin your image at....

1200 x 1200 pixels, 300 ppi..

.. the printed image will be..

4 x 4 inches at 300 ppi and the image quality will be high with no pixelated edges, sharp details, and smooth color transitions.

Understanding this before you set up your image will help a lot as generally speaking it's not a good idea to complete your image, then resize it from 72 ppi to 300 ppi after the fact. Your software then has to guess what colors to make the extra pixels.

By the way, "DPI" is not the correct term to use in ralation to digital images. It's a term used in relation to printing that means Dots Per Inch.

The correct term to use with digital images is PPI, or Pixels Per Inch.

No matter how many people use DPI interchangably with PPI, it's not accurate to do so and can in some cases lead to unnecessary confusion.