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Hopefully your patience will be rewarded, Byrdie.
I am enjoying this bundle more and more.
Below is another attempt to create a painting from the image in Painter 2019.
An old attempt of mine (extract of a bigger image for detail). From my experience: one tool is not enough you get best results with combination and with adding you manual touch to "break" the automatic result
Definitely. Already, I find I like to use the non-cloned colours on things and blending brushes for a softer look. I still don't know much about painting, but the software makes me want to learn
Very nice, DigiDotz. I have no idea, how you did it, though.
I guess, I need to search for the tutorials about how to use the non-cloned colours on things and blending brushes for a softer look.
it was a very special, complex, in depth technique. In other words..i don't really know what I did or how i did it
i think i need to take notes!
But I do know I was using a lot of layers, that's why it looks a bit like one of those pictures where the eyes are cut out and someone's looking through the holes LOL
I picked up the bundle to see what this Corel stuff was all about and thus far I must say that I am not impressed.
Painter install: Unlike the single large mac install, the windows installer is downloaded and dumped in a temp directory using a separate application... But only if your firewall is turned off... Each instance of the downloader shows up as a new entry in my firewall, meaning I could never actually set it to allow a connection through beforehand. In the end, I had to run the installer-downloader on another machine, go into the windows temp folders to grab the installer files and move them to my main computer via USB. What a PITA.
I've yet to give it a go with my Huion monitor so I can't comment on the brush/paint handling. I doubt it'll hold up to Rebelle's watercolor physics, but we'll see...
PSP: Pic-to-painting is lackluster at best, IMO. I'm definitely going to stick to Dynamic Auto Painter for this type of effect. At least DAP actually has settings for the user to adjust. Heck, even Filter Forge can do better than this plugin.
I haven't played around with the various pieces of Corel's software too much yet, so it may be that I'm missing something... But my initial impressions have me thinking that there isn't any reason for me to keep on with Corel when I have the complete Affinity suite, Rebelle, FF and DAP.
Of course, your mileage may vary :p
I used Painter essentials on this and not that I think the picture is much good, as I'm a total painting noob, I think it's much closer to what I want than I could get from DAP although I like that a lot too. My main problem so far is loosing too much detail but it's still early days
I adjusted the levels in my old photoshop as I'm not used to PSP yet
I have quickly made a scene and rendered it. If you have a spare time, grab it and improve it in Corel Painter or any other program.
Below is my edit in Corel Painter 2019.
Then edits in Corel PaintShop Pro 2020 Ultimate with Pic to Painting
Slumber preset:
Studio preset:
Vintage charm preset:
Shades of blue preset:
Then, I have tried DAP.
Watercolor preset:
Realism preset:
Pastels preset:
Neo Raphaelites preset:
I had the same issue.@Byrdie. What OS are you running? Below is the initial reponse I received from Corel after filing a ticket. After getting this response, when I asked why then was I presented with the chance to download/install the plugin from within PSP2020, he told me to download an executable from some random, unrelated website (not Corel) in order to gather system information and send the resulting report to him. Needless to say I didn't. Whatever lol.
Interestingly enough given his response, it should be noted that in reading other info online, there were references about this plugin only working in 32-bit versions of PSP. I've installed both but have still been unsuccessful (still get the same buttons that don't do anything like you describe). I asked twice for a link to download the plugin and bypass their in-app garbage, but I'm not holdoing my breath.
- Greg
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Ibrahim Niyamath (Corel)
Sep 29, 16:27 EDT
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Corel Customer Support. My name is Ibrahim and I have been assigned to your ticket.
In reference to your query, I would like to inform that Pic to Painting is not available for PaintShop Pro 2020 and It is not supported by windows 7.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any further questions.
Regards,
Ibrahim
Corel Customer Support Services
I saw this bundle being mentioned in a couple of places and I went for it eagerly - primarily for Corel Paint (I bought Essentials a while ago).
So I want to thank anyone who made it known to the rest of us that the offer existed. I'm now aiming to use my hardly-touched Wacom tablet for at least an hour a day - on paper I can sketch fairly well but am going to need a ton of practice with the tablet - right now I'm utterly useless.
@artini: I'm glad to see you get so much out of image filters and to see your work. There is a free program called fotosketcher which is a small download and very easy to get to grips with but which offers amazing transformations of images to oil, watercolour, etc. etc.
Interesting but opposite my experience. I only had the option to download and install Pic to Painting in the 64 bit version of PSP 2020 and not in the 32 bit version where I was able to download and install Pic to Painting for free; and once installed it appears to work normally. I am using Windows 10 Pro.
For those wanting a bit more clarity or detail when using the auto painter, duplicate a layer and use a blend brush to basically unerase the detail back in. Setting opacity/blend to about 80% seems to work well. Corel has great(free) tutorials on their educational site.
https://learn.corel.com/painting-tutorials/ is the main branch for most versions of the software in the bundle.
BTW THREE days left to get it all for $25 AND help out a charity.
I am using Paint Shop Pro 2020 Ultimate 64bit from the bundle on Windows 7 64bit and Pic to Painting works for me, so far.
Thanks for the warning from Corel, though.
If they say, that the plugin is not supported on Windows 7, I will think twice, before attempt to install any upgrade from them.
Thanks and yes, I know about fotosketcher and I use it from time to time.
Rendering and playing with different graphic programs is my hobby and I have only certain amount of time to spend on it.
Just a simple scene with primitives in Daz Studio, rendered with iray.
I am still puzzled, how this Pic to Painting works in PSP, so I have processed the above render with every preset available in Pic to Painting.
... and more ...
... and yet more ...
... and the last preset - totally 13 presets are available.
I started with Corel and then a handful of others after that. I finally decided to purchase SnapArt from Exposure Software as it gave me the most realistic painting effects. I usually gravitate toward the impasto mode and make adjustments from there. They have a free demo available.
Nice. I did not know about it.
For me Corel programs are the easiest so far to understand and use.
Since I do not know, how to paint myself and it is only the hobby for me, I will stick with Corel programs for now.
It will be nice, if you could post some sample of SnapArt created image from Daz Studio render, though.
The Pic To Painting Watercolor filter is pretty cool. If you set the results to Black and White afterward it looks a lot like a sketch. I then put the original version over top the black and white version, and set it to Color so it's basically colored pencils.
Very nice, Crescent. Always something new to learn for me.
DS render on left, no postwork. SnapArt Impasto treatment on right.
Ok, thanks for posting.
I have tried Crescent workflow and came up with this (on the left). DS render of Ellithia 8 on the right