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QUESTION: What do you think of Photoshop CS4? Is it worth upgrading to?
ANSWER: Photoshop CS4 has a lot of great new features and provides many useful tools...at least in theory. In my personal experience, everything good about CS4 was too slow to use. I was particularly looking forward to zooming and rotating on the fly, but when I turned on these features I found that painting became really lagged, even with the basic brushes.
Even with my Geforce 8800GTX I could not use any of the Opengl features, so I am assuming that it requires a lot of CPU power. So unless you have a Quadcore CPU I would recommend holding back on CS4 for a while.
QUESTION: I've been following your painting tutorials, but I still have problems adding in the colour. My paintings still look kind of grey and washed out even after I've added the colour. What am I doing wrong?
ANSWER: This is a common problem, but it might reassure you to know that my pictures always look like this to begin with. The problem isn't actually the colour - it's the values. Your painting probably needs darker shading and maybe some stronger highlights. By overpainting in a multiply layer, you can strengthen your shadows and dark areas and it will also lift out some of those colours you've laid down. You can always reduce the opacity if you feel it's too strong.
The strange thing is your image might look great in greyscale, yet appear washed out once you add the colour. It's a trick of the eye that I still don't understand fully myself. I
QUESTION: Where can I find the brushes, layer (or other) tabs in Photoshop?
ANSWER: If you can't see them on screen, go to the pulldown menu titled "Windows" and select whatever you are looking for. A tab should appear on screen. In some versions of Photoshop, you can drag and drop this tab anywhere on screen.
ANSWER: Photoshop CS4 has a lot of great new features and provides many useful tools...at least in theory. In my personal experience, everything good about CS4 was too slow to use. I was particularly looking forward to zooming and rotating on the fly, but when I turned on these features I found that painting became really lagged, even with the basic brushes.
Even with my Geforce 8800GTX I could not use any of the Opengl features, so I am assuming that it requires a lot of CPU power. So unless you have a Quadcore CPU I would recommend holding back on CS4 for a while.
QUESTION: I've been following your painting tutorials, but I still have problems adding in the colour. My paintings still look kind of grey and washed out even after I've added the colour. What am I doing wrong?
ANSWER: This is a common problem, but it might reassure you to know that my pictures always look like this to begin with. The problem isn't actually the colour - it's the values. Your painting probably needs darker shading and maybe some stronger highlights. By overpainting in a multiply layer, you can strengthen your shadows and dark areas and it will also lift out some of those colours you've laid down. You can always reduce the opacity if you feel it's too strong.
The strange thing is your image might look great in greyscale, yet appear washed out once you add the colour. It's a trick of the eye that I still don't understand fully myself. I
QUESTION: Where can I find the brushes, layer (or other) tabs in Photoshop?
ANSWER: If you can't see them on screen, go to the pulldown menu titled "Windows" and select whatever you are looking for. A tab should appear on screen. In some versions of Photoshop, you can drag and drop this tab anywhere on screen.
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