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[I wish I had a more creative title for this, but Dr. Watson, I Presume? simply wouldn't do.]

Dr. James Dewey Watson, American molecular biologist and co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins) for "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material." (While I still think that Rosalind Franklin 's name should've been up there as well, she was dead by the time the three got their Nobel Prize...) If you're in the field of biology and have never heard of him, you will please find a mallet and hit yourself over the head with it.

Had the pleasure of being an usher at Dr. Watson's talk many years back when I was in high school. (So you could say he's the only famous scientist I've ever been within speaking distance of). We tried getting his autograph, but security wouldn't let us near him -

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If this painting looks massively different compared to everything else I've done - blame it on Corel Painter Essentials 3.

I've had the damn programme for yonks, dating back to when I got my Wacom Graphire 4 (and then got another copy when I got my Intuos 3 last year). It became a yearly ritual for me to install the programme onto my computer, valiantly try to paint something, anything with the goddamn thing, fail epically... and then, finally, in an apoplectic fit, uninstall it again and swear I never want to touch it again. (And then the next year I'd go and do the same thing all over again...).

This time around, I swore that, come hell or high water, I was going to flog it until something came out.

The first two hours were spent utterly confusing the PE3 shortcuts with PhotoPaint's, and muttering things like, "I wonder what this doesohshitohshitohshitnononoNONONONO!" Once I managed to get the brushes working (more or less), it actually got pretty fun. They still feel kind of weird, and I have no idea how to adjust the fade, so it's all very short dabby strokes (and I cut short my original plan to add more stuff to it), but I rather like it that you can actually paint it very thick and have the layers show - something that's utterly impossible on PP. So yeah, I may actually get around to dabbling with it a little more in the near future.

If you use Painter/Painter Essentials, I would be grateful if you could tell me:

1. What the hell is this "underpainting/auto-painting/restoration" palette crap? (I know what a traditional underpainting is; I want to know what the damn thing is in PE3).
2. Why do I get these noisy white strokes all over the place? Is the programme supposed to simulate a photographed traditional painting, that bounces light back at you? And
3. Is there some kind of palette where you can save your mixed colours, so you can keep track of what you've used, like in other painting programmes? I couldn't find one.

Cheers.

Description
[I wish I had a more creative title for this, but Dr. Watson, I Presume? simply wouldn't do.]

Dr. James Dewey Watson, American molecular biologist and co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins) for "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material." (While I still think that Rosalind Franklin 's name should've been up there as well, she was dead by the time the three got their Nobel Prize...) If you're in the field of biology and have never heard of him, you will please find a mallet and hit yourself over the head with it.

Had the pleasure of being an usher at Dr. Watson's talk many years back when I was in high school. (So you could say he's the only famous scientist I've ever been within speaking distance of). We tried getting his autograph, but security wouldn't let us near him -

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If this painting looks massively different compared to everything else I've done - blame it on Corel Painter Essentials 3.

I've had the damn programme for yonks, dating back to when I got my Wacom Graphire 4 (and then got another copy when I got my Intuos 3 last year). It became a yearly ritual for me to install the programme onto my computer, valiantly try to paint something, anything with the goddamn thing, fail epically... and then, finally, in an apoplectic fit, uninstall it again and swear I never want to touch it again. (And then the next year I'd go and do the same thing all over again...).

This time around, I swore that, come hell or high water, I was going to flog it until something came out.

The first two hours were spent utterly confusing the PE3 shortcuts with PhotoPaint's, and muttering things like, "I wonder what this doesohshitohshitohshitnononoNONONONO!" Once I managed to get the brushes working (more or less), it actually got pretty fun. They still feel kind of weird, and I have no idea how to adjust the fade, so it's all very short dabby strokes (and I cut short my original plan to add more stuff to it), but I rather like it that you can actually paint it very thick and have the layers show - something that's utterly impossible on PP. So yeah, I may actually get around to dabbling with it a little more in the near future.

If you use Painter/Painter Essentials, I would be grateful if you could tell me:

1. What the hell is this "underpainting/auto-painting/restoration" palette crap? (I know what a traditional underpainting is; I want to know what the damn thing is in PE3).
2. Why do I get these noisy white strokes all over the place? Is the programme supposed to simulate a photographed traditional painting, that bounces light back at you? And
3. Is there some kind of palette where you can save your mixed colours, so you can keep track of what you've used, like in other painting programmes? I couldn't find one.

Cheers.