{"id":1054,"date":"2012-08-26T23:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T23:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2013-05-08T01:15:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T01:15:59","slug":"drawnblog-frenden-photoshop-doesnt-do-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Viable Photoshop Inking Brush\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-cSDYaMug0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.drawn.ca\/post\/30273786288\/frenden-photoshop-doesnt-do-well-with-light\" target=\"_blank\">drawnblog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/frenden.tumblr.com\/post\/30263876416\/photoshopinker\" target=\"_blank\">frenden<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Photoshop doesn\u2019t do well with light pressure recognition. Making thick-to-thin strokes requires a lot more fidelity than would even be necessary with a proper sable brush and ink in meatspace. It blows out pressure at the low end and makes soft lines blobby as hell.<\/p>\n<p>You can combat this by turning off the lowest pressure settings of your tablet at the driver level, but you shouldn\u2019t have to. I want a brush engine that senses those slight variances and accurately translates them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible. Manga Studio, which I\u2019ve used for inking since about 2006, does a stellar job at light pressure translation. Getting feathered strokes that look like they came from my Raphael 8404 #4 sable brush is no harder than inking in the real world. Painter does a pretty good job of this too. At the very least, both allow you to tweak how the brush engine interprets your strokes on a per-brush-setting basis instead of using a sledgehammer on a finishing nail by leaving you with an only recourse of neutering your full range of pressure sensitivity at the driver level.<\/p>\n<p>Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash all exhibit this problem. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s an interpolation\/smoothing issue or something larger, but I do know that the result is shitty lines.<\/p>\n<p>Since around the time of the Photoshop CS6 Beta, I\u2019ve been attempting to create a brush that combats these shortcomings by dropping out some of the lowest pressure mark-making with a combination of flow and texture settings. The result is a brush that, while not 100% opaque at the lightest marks, provides a hell of a lot more fidelity and control.<\/p>\n<p>This is a quick video of the brush in action. Below is a download link for the latest test version of the brush\u2019s Tool Preset.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/88157\/Downloads\/FRENDEN_experimentalInkerv2.tpl\" target=\"_blank\">DOWNLOAD THE BRUSH TOOL PRESET<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Illustrator Ray Frenden just made your life a lot easier with his Photoshop brush tool presets. Say thank you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There goes Drawn! my favourite blog before tumblr being awesome. Can&#8217;t wait to check this out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>drawnblog: frenden: Photoshop doesn\u2019t do well with light pressure recognition. Making thick-to-thin strokes requires a lot more fidelity than would even be necessary with a proper sable brush and ink in meatspace. It blows out pressure at the low end and makes soft lines blobby as hell. You can combat this by turning off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[608,109,650,646,649,99,526,456,647,648],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adobe","tag-art","tag-blogs","tag-brushes","tag-drawn","tag-favourites","tag-graphic-design","tag-photoshop","tag-tablets","tag-tools","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}