Comments on: Painter X Inking Video & Brush Settings

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:02:54 +0000

It’s super simple. Drag a file you want traced into the application.

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:16:28 +0000

I just downloaded CocoaPotrace anyone know how to use it? I am on a MAC and right now I am beyond the point of frustration. I have clicked on every icon/file possible and still nothing. I am really starting to think it wasn’t meant to work at all. I have to ask how on earth did you get it to work Ray?

HELP!!!!!!

By: doris

doris — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:43:18 +0000

thanks a lot for those explanation!! it will help me a lot !!

By: Sam Cufevi

Sam Cufevi — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:15:20 +0000

Thanks for the response. Much appreciated, alas, though, it just doesn’t seem to want to know. I use a wacom pen partner on cs3. The pen pressure works on the wacom setup page but not on photoshop.
Thanks anyway.
Sam.

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:05:28 +0000

Yes. It’d be a simple, hard-edged round brush with size set to pressure sensitivity.

By: Sam Cufevi

Sam Cufevi — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:46:09 +0000

Great work. Is it possible, do you know, to create a similar brush in photoshop?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:04:51 +0000

Hello Ray,
Being a newbie using a tablet and Painter Essentials I enjoyed your video showing your brush adjustments, etc., but I have a real case of “I don’t know enough to know what I don’t know”. I’ve dabbled a bit tracing images in PE and am getting results similar to yours, but I don’t understand the purpose or need for Cocoapotrace. I’ve downloaded it, played with it and I see what it does but I don’t get where it fits into the tracing process or your workflow. Also, how can I learn about those various pre-process and algorithm adjustments and how to use them?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:22:47 +0000

Hi Ray!
My settings just go with still some not perfect problems…. Maybe it’s about the tablet version I use. Mine is the antique wacom tablet “graphire (4.78) “. Besides, it’s a small one. My brush seems can’t do very well in changing from thin to thick very smoothly. It suddenly grows thick, and suddenly becom thin. (I chose Acrylics-Opaque Detail Brush 3 to apply your settings). But what weird is that, I can have a jsut fine result in Photoshop (I mean to change from thin to thick smoothly). So it makes me confused if it is really the problem about the tablet? If you got time, please help me about this~ Thanks A LOT. And thanks for the tutorial, too. Really awesome!

By: mscott

mscott — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:35:55 +0000

Here is the windows version of Potrace for PC. It’s called CR8 and has a gui.

http://www.cr8.netfirms.com/tracer.html

By: FRENDEN

FRENDEN — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:32:32 +0000

Randy, Potrace is the windows equivalent to CocoaPotrace!