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This is how it looks like when it's seen from far away! Oh how pretty! Yay! JOY! :>



But this is how it looks like when it's viewed in actual pixels. :<


It bugs me, but should I really pay a lot of attention to it? It's not like I'm going to show people on the internet the actual size. Then again, if I printed it out, will it come out more?

This was done in Photoshop. If I do something like this in Corel Painter. The lines wouldn't look so.. Eh. They would be more straight and smoother.
Corel Painter has brush tracking. Photoshop doesn't. Corel Painter allows you to turn the canvas in 360 degrees, so you can draw at the right angle if needed. Forget doing that in Photoshop. It doesn't seem to have it.

I used to have this lovely 30-day trial of the latest version of Corel Painter, but it was only 30 days. Now I'm stuck with Corel Painter Essentials 2, and a pirated-by-someone-else Photoshop CS2. I can't make Corel Essen. 2 images jpeg, and then open them in Photoshop CS2 without messing it up. So forget that.

I also used to have a lovely trial of Open Canvas, but, again, that's a trial. I'm 16. I don't have a job, and I don't want my parents to spend nearly a hundred dollars on something like Open Canvas. If I even mentioned the price of something like Corel Painter or Photoshop, they would instantly say no.

I'm not exactly sure how to pirate programs, and I really want to avoid going down that path.

I'm kind of stuck with this I guess. Any suggestions? Comments? You can critique the image as much as you please, even insult it, but I think it would be better if I can hear suggestions about programs and sensitivity and stuff.

God, I can't believe I typed that much.

Maybe I over-reacted?

If you have a slow processor, photoshop tracks tablets pretty poorly.

I'd suggest that you can probably ignore the line quality for the most part; that is why you draw so big in the first place. You may find it somewhat more noticible, but the crispness that a good printjob brings will probably offset it.

i do a lot of ink work within photoshop, and it works pretty well if you're prepared to spend time in refining lines (like with most things anyways). if you're not familiar with the pen tool and wanna do it the brush-and-eraser way (this is the method i use), it's good to zoom in and out a lot. making a copy of your preliminary line layer and then lowering the opacity to like 25% and then doing your refine line work on a new layer on top is another good way to go if you want clean lines.



in all honesty, i think just working with it more would help a lot. sometimes working with a hard round brush at 100 opacity with the shape dynamics selected can help (if you haven't done so...looks you are though).