In the previous video, I showed you how the Color palette, which we're looking at over here on the right side of the screen, is a very intuitive way to get at color. Wouldn't it be great if instead of having to come over here and select color, I could just be in an image painting, and be able to access the Color Wheel right where I'm painting? Well, in Painter 12 you can, with the new Temporal Color palette, and I am going to call it up here just to show it to you. So there's my Color palette, and just like in the Color panel, I can make the same selections and go back to painting with a different color.
So this is a very nice way to be able to be working and access color without even having to have this visible, and that's a good thing because one of the things that you can run into, as we've done on this display, is this does take up space in the interface. And if I don't have to have it, or if I'd rather have say the Mixer palette, which we'll talk about shortly, it would be nice to be able to have this displayed all the time. So by now having this Temporal Color palette, we can now paint and not even have to worry about moving over.
It just improves your productivity to have this instantly available right at your cursor. The way that it's set up by default is you use the Option or Alt, Command or Ctrl, and the 1 key. So it's a three-finger shortcut, which I find to be a bit daunting. When I'm working, I don't want to have to be arranging my fingers into some magical constellation in order to be able to bring this up. So what I've done using keyboard shortcuts is assign this to a single key, and if you refer to our video on keyboard shortcuts, you can do the same thing, and I find it to be a much more easy way to use this particular palette.
And when you use whatever your keyboard shortcut is, the key press will bring up the palette and allow me to use it. And I can either use the keyboard press to dismiss it, or another way to do it is I can simply start painting outside of the area of the Color palette itself, and it will dismiss it. Another thing you can do when it's up is, if you click in any of the clear regions of it, you can pick this up and move it. So where it comes up may not be suitable for addressing a particular color that you want to get to, and so being able to move it to where you want to pair it to a color that's already on the screen, is a nice addition to the way the palette works.
So the Temporal Color palette basically functions the same as the Color panel, it's just now you have it actually on- site right where you're working without having to make that extra move to go over to another area of the screen and that is going to improve your workflow.
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2/15/2012- Exploring the changes in the Painter 12 interface
- Customizing brushes and selecting painting styles
- Laying out the optimal workspace
- Controlling color with the color palettes
- Adjusting brush size and stroke attributes
- Working with texture-aware media
- Quick cloning with the Clone Source panel
- Auto-Painting with the Underpainting, Smart Stroke, and Restoration palettes
- Preserving transparency in layers
- Creating layer masks
- Painting with symmetry
- Working with the Image Hose
- Integrating Painter projects with Photoshop
- Troubleshooting brushes and other issues
Skill Level Beginner
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Q: When I double-click the John's Smart Brushes.brushcategory file as shown in the Chapter 8 movie "Understanding the Underpainting palette," the brushes do not install. Instead I get the message "There is no application set to open this document."
A: This is because your operating system does not recognize the .brushcategory file type. This can be circumvented by selecting the file, right-clicking, and choosing "Open With…".
If Painter 12 is not in the list, use "Other…" to locate and select Painter 12.
The file will be read by Painter and the brush category will be installed.
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Introduction
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Introduction41s
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1. Painting on the Computer
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Let's paint!3m 19s
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2. File Basics
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Working with templates3m 12s
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3. Painter's New Interface
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Using media selectors3m 43s
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Navigating Painter5m 1s
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4. Customizing Painter's Interface
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Setting preferences6m 59s
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Arranging palettes1m 28s
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Creating custom palettes6m 30s
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Understanding workspaces3m 52s
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5. Color
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Working with color sets7m 22s
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6. Brush Basics
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Exploring brush controls17m 44s
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Working with Impasto8m 10s
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7. Cloning Techniques
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Understanding Quick Clone3m 58s
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8. Auto-Painting
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9. Working with Selections
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Using the Lasso tool3m 26s
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The Channels palette4m 50s
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10. Working with Layers
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Working with layer masks7m 54s
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11. Effects: Adding Visual Spice
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Painting with symmetry9m 6s
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Understanding Smart Blur4m 43s
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Working with seamless patterns10m 14s
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12. The Image Hose
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Working with nozzle files12m 59s
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13. Using Painter and Photoshop Effectively
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14. Safety Nets
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Your best friend: Undo1m 50s
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Painting on layers1m 55s
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Save often, save early3m 15s
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15. When Things Go Wrong
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The panic button2m 13s
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Re-importing a workspace4m 4s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye3m 20s
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