Corel Painter line and colour

I dug out my copy of Corel Painter for a bit of arty fun. I had taken this photo of some glass paperweights in my recently constructed cheapo light tent.

When I opened the jpeg in Painter, the program threw up an error code. Something it didn't like. Maybe possibly wasn't happy with a sRGB jpeg as opposed to an AdobeRGB one. These pixellated artifacts appeared in the image. Woah! Cool! I'll try and repeat this later using sRGB and AdobeRGB images and see what's up.

And the pixellation became more obvious when I enhanced the image using High Pass.

Then I ran that image through the Sketch filter. The lines were not quite as meaty as I would have liked but I knew I could sort that in Photoshop.

So I then opened the High Pass version in Photoshop and the Sketch version, dragged the Sketch version ontop of the High Pass layer ... holding down the shift key to align it smack center. The Sketch version is a black and white image, and using Photoshop cartoonist's trick, set the layer mode to Multiply. The white disappears but the linework remains. I duplicated that layer to beef up the line.

Next I opened the original photo in Painter and created a traditional letterpress halftone line effect. I loaded up a paper texture called Simple Textures, which I think was part of a Goodies folder on the Painter 5 disc. Ok, so I loaded a 50 degree line texture and used the Express Texture filter, which turns it black and white and then you can tweak the line effect to ones satisfaction. Depending on the overall tone of the original image, you may get some darker areas going solid black whereas the lighter tones are just right. The thing to do is make two versions and combine the best parts.

Print a folders contents in Mac OS X

In Mac OS 9 this was very easy. In Mac OS X the way to do it is ... look in your Utilities folder, in your Applications folder, and launch Terminal.

Right after the prompt type ls -lhTR . Next type a space, then drag the closed folder that you want to print, onto the Terminal window, and like magic the path to that folder appears in the Terminal window.

Ok, then type a right facing arrow > , and then a space, and a quotation mark " , and then the name of your file with a .txt file extension, like myFolderContents.txt and finally another quotation mark " . Your Teminal window should look something like this:
[yourname:~] yournam% ls -lhTR /Users/yourname/Documents > "myFolderContents.txt" Now press return. ... and nothing much happens, besides the Terminal window now reads something like [yourname:~] yournam% followed by the prompt.

Go and look in your Home folder and you'll find it there. If not do a search. If you just want the file names and not all the other info regarding the files, just type ls rather than ls -lhTR.