Photoshop question

Photoshop question

Does anyone know if Adobe PhotoShop can work with a pressure sensitive pad?

I've been fighting for the last 2 days with my program (Procreate Painters Classic) and each time I nearly have an eye color just the way I want it, I get booted back to desktop and lose the whole thing. Unfortunately, I haven't figure out a way to save each layer and it says that if I save (which is what I generally would do to keep it from overloading the "buffer") that it will fuse all the layers. Grrrrr.

So, I'm thinking that I might try to get a better program to work with (one which has manuals you can buy that explain things better than the "manual" that comes in PDF form with the game.

 

It gives me a message saying that it will flatten/fuse the layers (which I definitely don't want to do. It says I should save each layer separately but I can't find anything in the "manual" about how to do that.

I do love my graphics pad though. It's the first time that I've felt at home with using a paint program of any kinds. I'm so used to using pens, pencils, pastels and brushes that the mouse just doesn't feel right. With the "pen" like optical "mouse" it feels like I'm using a familiar tool.

And I like the fact that I won't have the same size line no matter how hard or light I press. It translates to something more like a pencil or brush that way.

I got a Wacom in the smallest size they had. It's not the highend professional one (which is *lots* more and only has a small difference in pressure sensitivity. People I talked to who knew both said that it didn't seem to make that much difference to them.) I think the hardest part is remembering to remove the "mouse" instead of resting it on the pad (like I'm used to with the regular mouse mat.)

 

I have the Graphire 4x5. It was $99 at a store called Fries. They had another brand which was less ($60 I think for the same size) but when I looked at the pressure sensitivity part and that it wasn't rated at all for WinXP (and didn't come with any software, whereas the Wacom came with Photoshop Elements, the Procreate Painters Classic and some program for doing things with photographs) I figured it was worth it to get the Wacom.

My cats leave pens and the like alone pretty well. And now that my husband too a sabre saw to my computer desk and fixed it so that my keyboard and mouse are on a better level for me, there isn't a space in front of the monitor for them to stand. The Abyssinian thinks that it's great fun to be right in front of anything mom wants to look at. He also likes "eating" the mouse cursor on the screen. ("Kat, what's that smear in the middle of your monitor?" " Uh, that's just where Ramses was licking the screen...") Fortunately the other two only sit on whatever chair or table top is easy to be next to mom. So, the pens are safe at our house.

 

It certainly could be Frys. The closest one to me is a 45-60 minute drive from my place. I've gotten a lot of good buys on computers and computer components there. Their prices seem to be the same or lower than the other places like CompUSA.

Unfortunately, it's really hard to find a customer service person who knows much about the products they are selling. But I've found that to be the case no matter where I go in terms of physical stores (as opposed to people who do the "build your own" things like Manager Josh.) In the stores I think they hire people who say they know computers, but they just don't know *enough* about some of the specifics.

One "clerk" obviously had no clue what T&L was. He also didn't know the differences between the similar video card products and why some who looked almost the same had such different prices. But the next time I got a clerk who knew about T&L and had a better grasp on video cards, but he sold me an AGP card for my PCi machine because he evidently didn't know te difference or assumed that "everyone has AGP ports" when I had told him which model of computer I had and that I had bought it from them a year before.

I've found that I have to educate myself by asking "dumb" questions (which I know aren't dumb, but which frustrate some of the more "knowledgeable" people on the BBSes) about the various things. I've tried looking online for the information, but when you go to the websites they list all sorts of terms but no where can you find out what those terms mean (unless you ask someone.) So, I ask and then I try to let people know what I've learned (so that they don't have the same problems finding out that I had.)

As to cats, one of their favorite things is sitting in my lap when I'm working on the computer. Fortunately, they don't get in the way as long as they are laying down. It's when they stand up that I get annoyed. They make much better "doors" than "windows." (And their paws tend to dig into soft spots as if they have put all their weight on just that spot.)

 

Try using the "Clone" Pattern Stamp.

 

Check to make sure that the file size has not been compressed.

However, even with Corel Painter (the one I use) sometimes they won't work in BodyShop. I haven't figured out what it is that skews it. It seems to happen most when I've done several things off the same mesh.

The other thing to look at is if you somehow changed the name of the file. The file name has to be exactly the same as it started out, or BodyShop can't read it.

That is frustrating. Especially after you've made something special!

 

No wonder it wouldn't work. The file has to be a .bmp file to work.

After you've dropped all your layers so that it's all one layer, then go to "save as" and save/change it to a .bmp file. That should work fine then.

Move your .psd file into a "saved projects" file until you are sure that it works. I've left my .riff files, which are the Corel equivalent of a .psd in the project file without problems, but I try not to do it deliberately just in case it causes future problems. Once you know it works, then you can either keep the .psd file or delete it (your preference. I like to save some of my interim steps for future reference.)

Whooooeee. I'm glad that it was something easy to fix! (It should be fixed now, anyway!) I hate it when you can't figure out why something doesn't work!

 

Probably what's happening is that when you just colorize or do something simple it doesn't change the file type but leaves it as a .bmp. But when you do something more complicated, especially when doing something with layers, it will change it to its .psd format.

My program does that, although it usually warns me that it's doing it.

 

I'm glad we got you going. Good luck with the BodyShop.

 

Keep in mind that I use Corel Painter 8. However, I do have a Photoshop 5 manual (from when I had it on another computer. Unfortunately, it was only the limited version, not a full one so it didn't work right. So, I never used it.)

According to the manual it says to use the "rubber stamp" tool to create patterns. It says if you highlight the pattern you want to clone, then use the rubberstamp tool, press Alt(Opt).

They list textures but it didn't seem to be about pattern type textures.

Hopefully that will help, because it's just Urdu to me because I can't play with the program directly.