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Originally Posted by gare After you?ve exhausted the creative possibilities of Painter?s Image Hose Nozzles presets, it?s time to build your own. Yes, you can create a nozzle file in Painter, but because Painter?s masking tools and resizing features aren?t as intuitive as Photoshop?s, I recommend using Photoshop.
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Good suggestions Gare.? I use Photoshop when making my nozzles, and in the ways you've mentioned.
Nozzles can become very sophisticated "paints" that not only render the images they contain, but objects greater than the sum of the images contained in the nozzles, as in trees, forests, gardens and whole landscapes.? Actually, you don't even need nozzles.? You can simply drag and drop layers in PS to produce the same effect.? It's not nearly as intuitive as painting, however, and you lose the kinesthetic of the brush stroke as well.? What's more, Painter let's you control color, opacity and size using a tablet with nozzles, so the differences are substantial.?
I almost posted to the PS and 3D thread above because one of the more popular uses of nozzles is to add foliage to 3D land forms and architectural illustrations in what's called post-processing (painting on layers over the rendered 3D image).? The technique is common to games, film mattes and architectural illustrations, but it's a great way to get print-res landscapes as well.? The point is, nozzles are very versatile and often overlooked as a paint media, probably because PS has never adopted the brush technology.?
With the above in mind, here is a small demonstration version of a winter tree nozzle, (or PSP tubes, Gimp pipes) and a PS file with the trees a layers.? I'll be posting a tutorial on using this same nozzle with a Terragen, Vue, Mojoworld or Bryce render to create images similar to this.? It's a couple of weeks off yet.? In the meantime, people can play with the
tree nozzles and create some of their own landscapes.? Use the
free demonstrations link (the nozzles are linked from a commercial product page, so please be advised in advance.)
Enjoy,
Dennis@DigArts
http://www.gardenhose.com [img width=600 height=308]http://www.gardenhose.com/groups/new_winter.jpg[/img]
The clouds are nozzles too.? Original size is 3000 pixels.