Bad Morning...
So I did this whole painting of a monster and then realized, yet again, what I thought I was painting on the cintiq, was in fact a disaster when I saw it on the laptop. Seems like the cintiq is crushing all my heavy black gradients together, making it pretty much like I'm always painting blind when it comes to darks. Even with the Dindle paintings, I find I have to mess with the contrast and saturation just to salvage a little of what I first intended. It's really frustrating, considering how crazy expensive the cintiq was and that I'm using the cintiq's own colour calibration settings. I've messed with the contrast and brightness and all the buttons I can find on it to no avail.Okay rant done :) Had to sketch something quick so I could still have a post for today.
*update*
So I called Wacom support and they sent me a new colour profile that didn't really change anything, so I think I have concocted a solution myself by hooking up my old Intuos tablet to the laptop side. This way, I can drag the paintings back and forth between screens to make sure my darks are all pretty and edit them on either screen. Cleaned up my monster painting from this morning... and don't worry, he doesn't eat babies. He just steals them away to the forest, sings them a lullaby of his own invention, then carefully carries them back home.
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aoucchhh...
so..you're using a cintiq..
I was wondering about that actually..
hmmmm..
I love the drawing area on the cintiq, it's like a big giant sketchbook. But yeah, it's lack of portability is big drawback :(
Careful. My TabletPC seriously crushes my blacks AND whites. Bottom 20% maybe top 10%. And the angle has to be dead on.
Can you use a calibration spider thing on a cintiq? Is that maybe an issue?
Im such a fan boy of your designs. The dindle story is comin along wonderfully! Look forward to seein how the story turns out.
frustrating technical difficulties. i keep going to the tablet more and more, but i prefer the "real" mediums any day.
Pickler
I do have to say that I had a tablet PC for a while. It was a fliptop laptop by Toshiba, it was a good idea but ended up being pretty flakey. After a while it seemed to forget where the pen was.
Anyway, good luck with it.
:)=
Maybe it is better to have the two screens. At least I can check them against each other. I do prefer real paint too.... but I do like the infinite nitpicking I can do digitally :)
Andrew, I've tried and don't recommend crayons, they just don't come off the LCD screen.
And hey Rich! I do miss my CRT. It's actually under my desk at my feet. Wonder if I can hook up three monitors... that would probably make my graphics card explode.
Best to calibrate both to be consistent to your output device, whatever that may be. I use a EyeOne calibrator on all my monitors, from the Cintiq to a NEC CRT to my Macbook and there is very little variance from one to another.