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New free online parking game by ArcadeGamePlace.com Do you park well in the city? Then test your skills working as a parker at the factory that produces expensive cars. It is impossible to slow down the factory conveyer that’s why you have limited time to park every new car. Thus do not hit obstacles and other cars, avoid robots and collect bonuses. There are realistic driving and great gameplay in this bright and addictive game.
Game Controls : Use mouse to play.

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Where have all my palettes gone…? Working with Multiple ...

Friday, March 30, 2012 9:24 AM Caroline

Hello Painter People :-D

I’ve been watching you…  and I can’t help but notice that you’re having trouble finding your palettes in Painter whenever you switch resolutions.  Remember that demo you did?  Where you wanted to show your client / boss / friends your work in Painter?  You plugged your laptop into a projector only to discover that all of your palettes had vanished or moved to weird places?  Then everyone in the room chimed in with an idea…  “Launch with Shift!”, “Reset Your Workspace!”, “Reboot your system!”  

It’s my goal to help you avoid the kind of situation where you feel like you need to reset Painter in order to regain control your palettes.  Now I should start by saying, this post applies to single monitor configurations only…  dual monitor configurations I’ll save for separate post.  

Let’s start with some insider info…

When Painter detects a change in resolution, it will try to reposition your palettes for you at the new resolution.  It does this by trying to maintain the same proportional positions on screen while trying to keep room for your canvas.  The problem with this is when you make a significant jump… doing this can create a lot more clutter than you would like...  

For example, here is what my instance of Painter looks like at two different resolutions…

Larger Resolution: 1600x1200

Smaller Resolution: 1024x768

As you can see, Painter positioned all of the palettes “on screen” and this caused a good deal of collisions in my palette layout.  

Let’s pause here for a moment… because that’s assuming that Painter detected the resolution change in the first place.  For the most part, Painter is informed of resolution changes and is able to respond.  There are rare occasions when it doesn’t actually “get the message” from the OS that the resolution has changed… which might hide your palettes off-screen.  If this happens, I would suggest that you re-launch your application… or if you want to be kind to Painter, make sure that you have made the resolution change before launching Painter in the first place.  It’s also worth noting that “connecting to a different monitor” (for instance a projector) constitutes a change in resolution.

Now, back to our problem with the palette collisions from above… 

While Painter faithfully tried to make sure that the palettes would all appear on screen… the collapsed layout at the smaller resolution is not usable… and let’s face it, looks crummy.  If I start to move my palettes around, in an effort to adjust the position at the smaller resolution, I risk ending up with the reverse problem when I return to my larger resolution.  So here I hid some palettes, merged and moved others…  then when I moved from the smaller resolution to the bigger resolution.

Smaller Resolution: 1024x768

Larger Resolution: 1600x1200

So, rather than constantly readjust my palette layout in Painter…  I want to be able to specify which palettes will be displayed and where at different resolutions.

Now, I know what you are thinking… how can I anticipate the different resolutions that I will encounter?  The short answer is that you really don’t have to… it’s reasonably sufficient for you to sort out a palette layout for “small”, “medium” and “large” resolutions.

Creating a palette layout couldn’t be more straightforward.  Once you have Painter launched on a system with the desired resolution, position the palettes that you would like visible for that resolution.  Once you have a configuration that you like, go to Window -> Arrange Palettes -> Save Layout… and name the layout to whatever you like.  You can even force these different resolutions on the same system to create palette layouts in anticipation of different displays.  Personally, I have palette layouts for the following scenarios…

“small” (1024 x768) – good for projectors

“medium” (1440x900) – good for my laptop

“large” (1600x1200) – good my 22 inch monitor

So the next time you find yourself in the situation where you are looking for your palettes because of a change in screen resolution, I hope that you’ll impress your colleagues by smoothly switching to your preferred palette layout rather than blowing away all your preferences or rebooting your system.

Until next time… happy painting :-D

In peace,

Caroline

Painting-Factory - Yes

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Painting-Factory: Painting-Factory - Yes

Glashütte timepieces factory is situated close to Dresden, not possible to separate the upper and decrease its fame inside the worldwide arena and Mason porcelain. starting in 1998, the two are producing quintessence-class level of quality and world-famous German factory started out a cooperation: Glashutte created by Mason porcelain factory light painted dial, particularly with the the Glashutte exclusive manufacture of restricted edition watches.

Glashutte 2007 Only watches. The dial within the theme belonging to the palace belonging to the Prince of Monaco. It could be the perform belonging to the Mason painted the master duplicate Canaletto. 1747, a 26-year-old Venetian painter Bernardo Bellotto, named Canaletto, (1721-1780), towards the Duchy of Saxony, he is wonderful at meticulous landscape, making use of a painting method named digital camera obscura inside the draw really precise landscape painting. A complete draw of 17 within the landscape of Dresden, probably the most well-known a single is named Canalettoblick, figure Elbe, observed through the Church of Our Lady, the Augustus Bridge, elegant Palace as properly as the Queen’s Cathedral (now Cathedral).
Generated by high-temperature kiln light painted dial carries a tough and powerful texture, the colour continues to be long-lasting features, texture like smooth light tallow. light painted dial Mason Glashutte created good and delicate, exceptional style, the excellent expression belonging to the numerous sorts of artwork styles, the two Horrocks Stewart design style figures, there Kakiemon design tiger and plum other topics.

Mason opaline dial and painted enamel dial carries a really large artistic value. The planet can generate painted enamel dial belonging to the timepieces factory there are many producing the opaline dial only Mason porcelain factory one. Mason porcelain factory following an additional restricted edition Glashütte timepieces factory dial of the quantity of numerous topics. The themes of those dial Schulz, the Codex like a template.

Schultz manuscript is typically a Horrocks Stewart painted pattern arranged of style manuscripts, every single manuscript, which includes pieces of comprehensive design. Horrocks Stewart could be the founder belonging to the 18th century Mason porcelain. Draw within the qualities belonging to the etchings, handbook depicting well-known paintings to porcelain, as properly as the development of the exceptional Mason porcelain Horrocks Stewart style. Horrocks Stewart design painted the picture belonging to the theme lively and vivid, multi-colored and gorgeous patterns with the primary features. Horrocks Stewart design influenced a technology of porcelain painting teacher.

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Painting-Factory: Painting-Factory - Yes

So today i went to the chace center art gallary. There were installations and sculpture by some graduate students at RISD. Most of the works, in my view, are really bizzare and pointless(or maybe my sense of appreication in art isn't up the level yet). However there was this one installation that really provoked my thoughts. It was conprised of three oil paintings which looked almost exactly the same. At my first glance of them, I thought they were same paintings done three times and was confused about the artist's intention. Then I noticed colors at some places were slightly different and such. It's not until after I joined the discussion at the gallary did I realize that they have different levels of details. These three paintings, as the artist introduced, were ordered from a painting factory in Xiamen, China and their costs are $60. $70 and $90 respectively. A lot of the people present at the gallary were shocked that such good paintings cost so little even including shipping and materials.
Now the intention of the artist is clear. I can't help wonder: Do ppl who works in the painting factory consider themselves artists or just workers? Later I searched about the factory online and found out the words the factory use to describe the painters-"Most of our oil painters were strictly trained and cultivated when they were in schools and colleges, this helps us handle all classic style commissions easily, not only Chinese oil painting."
This lead to a larger issue-the art education in China.
China has a very different system of art college admission from the US. In the US, art schools generally require porfolios and home tests from the students in addition to the regular application materials such as the standalized test results, essays and recommendations. In China, the admission is usually based on a specific entrance examination during which you draw and paint in an exam room with other students. There are two assignments: an acrylic painting of stilllife and an pencil drawing of a portrait. Both of them are done from photograghs. You might have noticed that these tests have greatly restricted students' art talents in various forms of art and art mediums. The restriction becomes even more terrible when some students, in order to pass the exams, only practice what are required for the tests and ignore anything else. Art is not just about drawing portraits and painting stilllifes. Art is not simple duplication of things.
Talents are ruined. I can see people lose their initiative and creativeness even before they go to art colleges and become drawing and painting machines. Yes, they have brilliant techniques, yet aren't they just being human cameras? Why do we need artists when we have cameras and DVs and all these high-tech devices that can dupicate things exactly as they are in one second? They are incredbly pathetic. As has been said, true artists never see things as they really are. Artists don't dupilicate. Artists create. Artists are the ones that change the world around.(i know this sounds really self-centered. btw, engineers say they are the ones that change the world around too).
The current chinese art college admission system is greatly flawed and really need a change.
Though I am not entirely certain about the qualities of art college eduation in China, which I am very interested in finding out. I will not be surprised, however, if they suck. They are where the painters in those painting factories are from. What a shame.
Overall, the flawed chinese art education including the admission process and the education itself and a whole bunch of other reasons such as the increasing numbers of art college graduates who can't find jobs that can sustain their creative works, the interfering of some business companies in the chinese art industry that caused the decrease of prices of innovative artworks, and the impact of the global manufactoring of almost everything(art is no exception).
I really hope i can do something in the future to make a change to this. I can feel the responsibilities on my shoulders.

I am lucky enough to go to RISD where I learn A LOT. But i truly hope what i have learned could be passed on to every art student in China.

Painting-Factory: Painting-Factory - Yes

So today i went to the chace center art gallary. There were installations and sculpture by some graduate students at RISD. Most of the works, in my view, are really bizzare and pointless(or maybe my sense of appreication in art isn't up the level yet). However there was this one installation that really provoked my thoughts. It was conprised of three oil paintings which looked almost exactly the same. At my first glance of them, I thought they were same paintings done three times and was confused about the artist's intention. Then I noticed colors at some places were slightly different and such. It's not until after I joined the discussion at the gallary did I realize that they have different levels of details. These three paintings, as the artist introduced, were ordered from a painting factory in Xiamen, China and their costs are $60. $70 and $90 respectively. A lot of the people present at the gallary were shocked that such good paintings cost so little even including shipping and materials.
Now the intention of the artist is clear. I can't help wonder: Do ppl who works in the painting factory consider themselves artists or just workers? Later I searched about the factory online and found out the words the factory use to describe the painters-"Most of our oil painters were strictly trained and cultivated when they were in schools and colleges, this helps us handle all classic style commissions easily, not only Chinese oil painting."
This lead to a larger issue-the art education in China.
China has a very different system of art college admission from the US. In the US, art schools generally require porfolios and home tests from the students in addition to the regular application materials such as the standalized test results, essays and recommendations. In China, the admission is usually based on a specific entrance examination during which you draw and paint in an exam room with other students. There are two assignments: an acrylic painting of stilllife and an pencil drawing of a portrait. Both of them are done from photograghs. You might have noticed that these tests have greatly restricted students' art talents in various forms of art and art mediums. The restriction becomes even more terrible when some students, in order to pass the exams, only practice what are required for the tests and ignore anything else. Art is not just about drawing portraits and painting stilllifes. Art is not simple duplication of things.
Talents are ruined. I can see people lose their initiative and creativeness even before they go to art colleges and become drawing and painting machines. Yes, they have brilliant techniques, yet aren't they just being human cameras? Why do we need artists when we have cameras and DVs and all these high-tech devices that can dupicate things exactly as they are in one second? They are incredbly pathetic. As has been said, true artists never see things as they really are. Artists don't dupilicate. Artists create. Artists are the ones that change the world around.(i know this sounds really self-centered. btw, engineers say they are the ones that change the world around too).
The current chinese art college admission system is greatly flawed and really need a change.
Though I am not entirely certain about the qualities of art college eduation in China, which I am very interested in finding out. I will not be surprised, however, if they suck. They are where the painters in those painting factories are from. What a shame.
Overall, the flawed chinese art education including the admission process and the education itself and a whole bunch of other reasons such as the increasing numbers of art college graduates who can't find jobs that can sustain their creative works, the interfering of some business companies in the chinese art industry that caused the decrease of prices of innovative artworks, and the impact of the global manufactoring of almost everything(art is no exception).
I really hope i can do something in the future to make a change to this. I can feel the responsibilities on my shoulders.

I am lucky enough to go to RISD where I learn A LOT. But i truly hope what i have learned could be passed on to every art student in China.

Coming Soon: John's Smart Brushes for Corel Painter - John Derry's ...

Coming Soon: John's Smart Brushes for Corel Painter

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I've been working on a set of brushes for use with Painter's Auto-painting palette. I was never impressed with the default Smart Brushes library, so I created John's Smart Brushes.

I expect to have the complete package ready for sale by the end of the month (April '12). There are 15 brushes, providing a wide variety of possibilities. A set of video tutorials will be included to ensure that you will get the most out of these brushes.

John's Smart Brushes —which are compatible with Painter X, 11, and 12— will be available for $24.95.

Watch this blog for the release!