/art/ - Art & Creative

>>2737

Apparently I should have updated my system to Windows 8.1 and/or update my graphics drivers... Meh, it's easier to stick to my SketchBook Pro.

>>2121

What makes Manga Studio better for lineart? I tried it but didn't see any reason to use it over Photoshop or SAI for lineart. I don't need stabilizers or anything like it.

i use krita because it isn't proprietary garbage and it's designed for painting specifically unlike gimp.

I really liked working with Photoshop but a bug popped up several months ago (CS6) where brush strokes after a few strokes would turn into a series of straight lines locked to vertical and horizontal only, so I couldn't draw shit in it.

Now, I tried Krita and it's wonderful, brush strokes work fine (and they also work fine in Sai and even in fucking Paint, it is definitely a problem with Photoshop, not with the tablet) and it has some really handy tools like easy tiling.

Problem is, Krita can't handle large files. I do stylistic cartography and files will often go up to a couple dozen thousand pixels length and width, with multiple layers. Photoshop can handle this, and it makes good use of a separate scratch drive as well. But Photoshop as mentioned before has THAT FUCKING BRUSH PROBLEM I've spent days googling that shit and looking at people's questions about it and seeing dumb fucking Photoshop fanboys insist it's a tablet problem. Whereas Krita will crash if I try to do a large file.

Does /art/ have any recommendations for any other drawing software?

I mean if all else fails I guess I can just draw map elements in Krita and then put them into Photoshop, but I'd rather stick to one program if I can.

>>2894

>brush strokes after a few strokes would turn into a series of straight lines locked to vertical and horizontal only

Sounds like your shift key is fucked somehow, because that's a brush functionality in photoshop for when you hold shift.

If you're not on laptop, try temporarily disconnecting your keyboard and see if that fixes it.

There's manga studio, but it's not so good with large brushes, and presumably not with large canvas either. Unfortunately Photoshop seems to be the only program that handles large scale well, because it's designed for image manipulation rather than painting.

Oh and Corel Painter is pretty cool, you could give that a try. It doesn't have advanced image manipulation features though if I recall right, so it's not good as an all around program.

>>2917

>Sounds like your shift key is fucked somehow, because that's a brush functionality in photoshop for when you hold shift.

That would seem strange, because the first three or four brush strokes are smooth, then the fourth or fifth is fairly jagged, and then it gets really bad. And then when I alt tab out and back in, it's smooth again.

Also, that's not brush strokes on canvas - if I do a stroke, undo, do again, undo, etc, the fourth or fifth one I do, even if it's the only one on canvas, will be jagged.

>>2894

I had the a similar problem to you, except it was just the odd line that came out as if I had pressed the shift key. inb4 I was just pressing the shift key, I wasn't

Don't know what caused it but it seems to have stopped for me now.

Does anyone here use an older version of Photoshop?

I had "Creative Cloud" installed but it was a slow, buggy piece of shit with a weird interface. Wondering if any of the older versions are less bloated.

can i get an opinion about open canvas, other than my own?

>>2938

I don't know what's supposedly wrong with CC, but I use CS5 and it's fine.

Maybe you got a bad torrent.