Nozzle painting tutorial for Painter 6

Richard Pope

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Nozzle painting tutorial for Painter 6 Open a new file at 600 X 400 at 72DPI (background color doesn’t matter). In the Tools palette (1), choose the Rectangular Selection tool or you can press the ‘R’ key. Make a selection using the top half of the canvas. I used the RAYFlect 4 Seasons plug-in to create the sky (2). You can paint your own sky. For those who don’t have this plug-in, you can use the Airbrush and the Just Add Water brush to create a very nice sky. To add clouds, use the Image Hose and choose the Cumulus Clouds nozzle. To create the distant mountains select the Lasso tool (top row, middle icon) in the Tools palette (1) or press the ‘L’ key. Draw the shape of your mountains from one edge of the canvas to the other, like this (3). Press the ‘F’ key to access the Layer Adjuster tool (Pointing Finger icon) click inside the selection once. In the Art Materials palette (4) select a dark green as your Primary Color. In the Tools palette (1) select the Paint Bucket icon or press the ‘K’ key to access the Fill tool. Click once to fill the layer. In the Objects palette (5) click on the word Layers to open the Layers palette (6). Double click on Layer 1, or press the ‘Enter’ key, or click on the icon (circled in red) to access the sub-menu (6a); select Layer Attributes and the Layer Attributes dialog box appears; enter Mountains for the name and click OK (7). Located on the Painter 6 CD is the Content folder, it is here ...

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• Publié par: Mafor
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Nozzle painting tutorial for Painter 6

Open a new file at 600 X 400 at 72DPI (background color doesn’t matter).

In the

Tools

palette (

1

), choose the

Rectangular Selection

tool or you can press the ‘

R

’ key.

Make a selection using the top half of the canvas. I used the

RAYFlect 4 Seasons

plug-in to

create the sky (

2

). You can paint your own sky. For those who don’t have this plug-in, you can

use the

Airbrush

and the

Just Add Water

brush to create a very nice sky. To add clouds, use

the

Image Hose

and choose the

Cumulus Clouds

nozzle.

To create the distant mountains select the

Lasso

tool (top row, middle icon) in the

Tools

palette

(

1

) or press the ‘

L

’ key. Draw the shape of your mountains from one edge of the canvas to the

other, like this (

3

). Press the ‘

F

’ key to access the

Layer Adjuster

tool (Pointing Finger icon)

click inside the selection once. In the

Art Materials

palette (

4

) select a dark green as your

Primary Color

. In the

Tools

palette (

1

) select the

Paint Bucket

icon or press the ‘

K

’ key to

access the

Fill

tool. Click once to fill the layer.

In the

Objects

palette (

5

) click on the word

Layers

to open the

Layers

palette (

6

). Double click

the

Art Materials

palette (

8

) click on the word

Nozzles

to access the

Nozzles

palette (

9

). To

.

on

Layer 1

, or press the ‘

Enter

’ key, or click on the icon (circled in red) to access the sub-menu

(

6a

); select

Layer Attributes

and the

Layer Attributes

dialog box appears; enter

Mountains

for

the name and click

OK

(

7

).

Located on the Painter 6 CD is the Content folder, it is here that you will find all the new nozzles

not contained in the default nozzle library. If you have an extra 400Mb’s of hard disc space you

can live without, I suggest you copy these libraries, but, if you don’t, you can always load each

nozzle library as you need it.

In

make your palettes smaller you can drag each section to where you want it (nozzles from last to

2

nd

). You can also shorten the palette by clicking and dragging the bottom right corner of the

palette (

8

). This helps to make some extra room on your screen for the file you are working on

To load a nozzle library click on the

Nozzle Popup

window (

Sushi

) (

9

), choose

Load Library

from the menu (

12

). When the

Open

dialog box appears select

Trees.zip

(your library will look

different than mine because I am renamed the CD libraries). Press the

Open

button to load the

library (

13

). Select

Distant Forest3-0

as your nozzle.

In the

Brushes:

palette (

14

), select the

Image Hose

as your brush. You will notice the brush

variants have changed. Play around with the 20 new default variants and you will be pleasantly

surprised at the outcome. The

Image Hose

is now subject to the same size and angle controls

as any other brush. There is much more to discuss about the new methods of controlling this

brush, but that calls for a tutorial of it’s own. Choose

Linear-Angle/W

as your variant. If you want

a nozzle to behave just like it does in Painter 5/5.5 open both

Size

and

Angle

sections of the

Brush Controls

palette (

15

). Set the

Minimum Size

to

100%

,

Angle

to

0

and

Ang Rng

to

0

.

Paint in your layer until you have something that looks like this (

16

).

wo things probably happened when you began painting. First the image sprayed inside or was

ou

me

id you notice when you created your layer and turned on the

Layer Marquee

that it snuggled

e

T

it outside the layer? Painter 6 defaults with the

Layer Marquee

in the off position so there isn’t

the familiar black and yellow marquee to be seen. You can turn the

Layer Marquee

on by

accessing the menu (

6a

) in the

Layers

section of the

Objects

palette (

6

). Now you can see

where to paint. Try it again. Are you still painting outside the layer? No, because anywhere y

paint the layer adjusts to encompass the new image. The new layer system makes use of a

Preserve Transparency

check box to preserve the original layers integrity. In the

Objects

Palette layers section click on the

Preserve Transparency

check box and paint in the layer

again. It works the way you would expect it to. Painter has done away with the old cumberso

way of creating and working with transparent layers. No more forgetting the To Selection check

box, it’s gone. I like this method much better.

D

right up to the image? No more pressing the

Trim Button

to make the layer size smaller. Using

the

Layer Adjuster

you can click anywhere outside the selected layer and move the layer. But

can’t select any other layer except by using the list in the

Objects/Layers

palette (

6

). To be abl

to select each layer with the

Layer Adjuster

you must first click on the

Auto Select Layer

check

box in the

Controls:Adjuster

palette (

17

). In this mode you can no longer select a layer outside

the marquee area. This is a trade off we can all live with. One more item before we get back to

painting, you can no longer use the

Delete/Backspace

key to get rid of an unwanted layer. You

must use the

Delete

button in the

Objects

/

Layers

palette.

Press the ‘

Alt

’ key, click and drag two copies of the mountain layer. Name one

Far Mountains

and the other

Middle Mountains

. Select the

Middle Mountains

layer, and click

Effects/Orientation /Flip Horizontal

. In the

Control:Adjuster

palette set the

Op

67%

acity

slider to

. Move this layer to the left about 1 inch and up about ½ inch. Select the

Far Mountains

layer then click on

Effects/Orientation/Flip Horizontal

. Click on Click on

Effects/Orientation

/Distort

. Drag the center handle to the right about 2 inches, then move the top-right handle dow

a

n

the

Objects/Layers

palette (

6

) click on the

New

button to create a new layer. Name it

(

19

).

the

Art Materials/Nozzles

palette (

9

) Load the Library you keep the ground nozzles in and

of

bout ½ inch. Click

OK

. Set the

Opacity

slider to

57%

. You should have something that looks

close to this (

18

). Save your painting then play with the Distort and Opacity settings to see how

many different looks you can achieve, you may find one you like better.

In

Ground

. In the

Art Materials

palette click on the word

Colors

to open the

Colors

palette

Click on the

Secondary Color

chip to select it. Choose a dark

Brown

color. In the

Controls:Brush

palette (

20

) set the

Grain

slider to

55%

.

In

select the

Brown-0

nozzle. For the rest of this tutorial when I say to load a nozzle library those

you who haven’t created libraries should load the named nozzle instead.

Paint in a few lines of ground from edge to edge starting at the base of the mountains. Move the

Grain

slider up to

75%

and paint in a few more lines, then mover the slider up to

85%

and paint

some more. Do this until the last few lines are painted at

95%

. You should have something that

looks like this (

21

).

Save your painting after each new step. I occasionally save paintings under 2 or 3 different

names to use in the future for experimental purposes. This way I have plenty of pictures to test

lighting, layers, image floaters, composite methods and different nozzles without spending a lot of

time creating something from scratch.

In the

Objects/Layers

palette (

6

) click on the

New

button to create a new layer. Name it

Far

Grass

. In the

Art Materials/Nozzles

palette (

9

) Load the Library you keep grass nozzles in and

select

Group4-0

nozzle. In the

Controls:Brush

palette (

20

) set the

Size

slider to

8.0

and

Grain

to

100%

. Paint a few lines of grass along the base or the mountains. As you paint towards the

bottom increase the

Size

to

12.0

, paint some more grass, increase the

Size

once more to

17.2%

and paint in some grass so it looks something like this (

22

).

In the

Objects/Layers

palette (

6

) click on the

New

button to create a new layer. Name it

Far

Trees

. Load the Library you keep tree nozzles in and select the

Deciduous Summer-0

nozzle.

In the

Controls:Brush

palette (

20

) set the

Size

slider to

21.7

. Paint some trees 1/3

rd

of the way

across your painting, starting on the left side of the canvas. Increase the

Size

to

29.6

, paint

another 1/3

rd

, increase the

Size

to

43.5

and paint the final 1/3rd so it looks something like this

(

23

).

In the

Objects/Layers

palette select the

Far Grass

layer and move it to the top (or click the

Front

button in the

Contols:Adjuster

palette). You can adjust the layers, using the

Arrow

keys

to position them the way you like. Mine look like this (

24

).

In the

Objects/Layers

palette (

6

) click on the

New

button to create a new layer. Name it

Rock

n

wall

. Load the Library you keep rock nozzles in.

Granite Stones-1

will make a nice rock wall. I

the

Controls:Brush

palette (

20

) set the

Size

slider to

11.7

. Paint in the wall leaving and opening

in the middle. You should have something that looks like this when you are done (

25

).

With the wall selected create a new layer. Select the Painter default nozzle,

English Ivy

. Set the

Size

slider to

3.0

and paint some lines of ivy on the wall. Increase the

Size

to

5.0

and paint in

some more, then increase it to

6.9

and paint a few last leaves here and there. You should have

something that looks similar this (

26

).

In the

Objects/Layers

palette (

6

) click on the

New

button to create a new layer. Name it

Mid

Grass

. Load the

Group4-0

grass nozzle. In the

Controls:Brush

palette (

20

) set the

Size

slide

to

25.4

and paint in some grass so it looks like this (

27

).

r

.

s

In the

Objects/Layers

palette (

6

) click on the

New

button to create a new layer. Name it

Water

The nozzle used to paint this layer is not available on the Painter 6 CD.

The Blue.RIF file can

be downloaded free at

…Paint in your water, set the

Opacity

slider to

45%

; it should look

imilar to this (

28

).

In the

Objects/Layers

palette (

6

), andclick on the

Ground

layer to select it. In the

Brushes:

palette (

14

), choose the

Liquid

brush and the

Smear

variant. In the

Controls:Brush

palett

the

Size

slider to

4.0

e set

. Paint inside the water area to smooth the ground underneath it. Select the

ater

layer and turn the

Opacity

down to

0%

. Begin moving the slider towards 100%, stopping

very so often to see what the water looks like. I stopped at

48%

. Select the

Ground

layer once

ore. In the

Brushes:

palette, choose the

Dry Media

brush and

Square Chalk

for the variant.

the

Controls:Brush

palette set the

Size

slider to

9.0

and

Opacity

to

12%.

Press

Ctrl + D

eys, click once on a dark color of the

Ground

to select it as your

Primary

color. Paint in the

hadows until you have something that looks similar to this (

29

).

W

e

m

In

k

s

To complete this painting you will have to download 6 image layers from this web site,

rapartz.com

. The file to download is

Test.POR

. In the

Objects

palette (

5

) click on the words

Image Portfolio

to open the palette (

30

). Load the

Test.POR

file just like you did the nozzles.

Drag all layers except the 2

Pine Boughs

onto the canvas. Position the layers so they look

similar to this (

31

).

In the

Art

cts/Layers

palette (

6

), and click on the

New

button to create a new layer. Name it

s

s

iew

t s

Materials/Colors

palette

(

19

) Select

White

as your

Primary Color

. In the

Objects/Layers

palette

(

6

), click on the

White

Horse

layer to select it.

In the

Brushes:

palette,

choose the

Airbrush

and

Digital Airbrush

for the

variant. In the

Controls:Brush

palette

set the

Size

slider to

4.0

and

Opacity

to

15%.

In

the

Objects/Layers

palette click on the word

Masks

, when the

Masks

palette (

32

) opens click

once on the

White Horse

Mask

, leave the eye closed. Very lightly draw a line from where the horses mouth meets the

water across the 4 feet of the horse. You want it to look like these are under water. If you make

a mistake just undo it or press the

Ctrl + Z

keys. You will have something close to this (

33

).

In the

Obje

Fore Grass

. In the

Brush

the variant. In the

Control

to where you keep the Gra

the legs of the horse in v

pine boughs onto the righ

but for now it is finished.

es:

palette, choose the

Image Hose

and keep

Linear-Angle/W

for

:Brush

palette set the

Size

slider to

74.5

and

Opacity

to

100%

. Go

s nozzles and load the

Long3-1

nozzle. Paint in some grass leaving

, something like this (

34

). Open the

Image Portfolio

and drag the 2

ide of the canvas. Is there more that I can do to this painting? Yes,