Program to make "shiney" colors?

[Waaaaaah!]

I use Paint to get the colors that I want, but I'd like to give them some
luster.

Can this be done with Paint? Or is there a color program that will allow me
to do this?

 

[Michael Laplante]

I use Paint to get the colors that I want, but I'd like to give them some
luster.

Can this be done with Paint? Or is there a color program that will allow
me to do this?

Probably not easily. Look for Photoshop tutorials on metallic finish,
metallic effect, etc and you'll see that it's a fairly easy effect but it
requires tools not available in Paint. Programs such as Irfanview can use
Photoshop filters and there is probably metallic effect filters about but
they would apply the effect to the whole page. You probably want something
that can be applied to specific elements in the photo so you need something
that allows you to apply a mask.

Possibly Photofilter might be able to do this. . . I don't use it but it's
probably the simplest paint program that has the minimum level of
sophistication required.

M

 

[hummingbird]

I use Paint to get the colors that I want, but I'd like to give them some
luster.

Can this be done with Paint? Or is there a color program that will allow me
to do this?

As well as what Michael Laplante has suggested, also try PhotoFiltre.
There may be a mask in there to do it.

 

[PB]

I use Paint to get the colors that I want, but I'd like to give them some
luster.

Can this be done with Paint? Or is there a color program that will allow me
to do this?

Take a look at http://gimp.org/tutorials/Golden_Text/ and see if that's the
sort of effect you're looking for.

 

[Roger Johansson]

I use Paint to get the colors that I want, but I'd like to give them some
luster.

Can this be done with Paint? Or is there a color program that will allow me
to do this?

If you want realistic wet oil painting, with a lot of luster of the wet
oil paint type you can use Deep Paint.

http://www.photo-freeware.net/deep-paint.php

The screenshot there does not show the shiny wet oil colors but they
are available in the program.

It is based on a 3d view of the oil colors, with lighting effects from
a source of light and you can adjust the position of the light.
The wet oil colors are raised up from the canvas, and this gives a 3d
effect of the paint. The wet oil brushes give very shiny colors, which
look very realistic.

I found that the saving to jpg in the program reduced the luster so it
may be better to use copy screen to clipboard to get an optimal result,
so the created painting looks exactly like what you see on screen when
you make the painting.

The wet colors also mix like in real life, when using a brush with wet
paint on other wet paint background.

It can be used in win98 but then you need to save often and avoid
certain operations.
Saving changed brushes often crashed it for me in win98se.

In win2000pro I have used it for hours and it still has not crashed
even once.

 

[Roger Hunt]

If you want realistic wet oil painting, with a lot of luster of the wet
oil paint type you can use Deep Paint.

http://www.photo-freeware.net/deep-paint.php

The screenshot there does not show the shiny wet oil colors but they
are available in the program.

It is based on a 3d view of the oil colors, with lighting effects from
a source of light and you can adjust the position of the light.
The wet oil colors are raised up from the canvas, and this gives a 3d
effect of the paint. The wet oil brushes give very shiny colors, which
look very realistic.

I found that the saving to jpg in the program reduced the luster so it
may be better to use copy screen to clipboard to get an optimal result,
so the created painting looks exactly like what you see on screen when
you make the painting.
The wet colors also mix like in real life, when using a brush with wet
paint on other wet paint background.

It can be used in win98 but then you need to save often and avoid
certain operations.

I will be using it with W98se - what sort of disasters can I expect?

Saving changed brushes often crashed it for me in win98se.
In win2000pro I have used it for hours and it still has not crashed
even once.

This looks really interesting! I will have to wait until Monday to
download though - I'm on dial-up and 58MB would take ages.

Good to see that it runs (after a fashion) on W98.

 

[Roger Johansson]

I will be using it with W98se - what sort of disasters can I expect?

No disaster, it just freezes the program, use a process explorer or the
built in menu after ctrl-alt-del to close/kill the program. No need to
reboot and it does not disturb other programs. It is especially if you
try to change a brush details in certain ways and save the brush it
freezes, otherwise it works pretty well.

You can start it again after it has been killed, but the picture you
were working on will be gone, unless you saved it before the program
froze.

After I wrote the earlier msg I read in a forum the same things as I
said, to save a picture with full luster it can be better to copy the
screen to clipboard using windows functions or a screen capture program
than to use the built-in save to jpg function, it seems to lose part of
the shiny effect.
Somebody else has obviously noted that too.

 

[Roger Hunt]

No disaster, it just freezes the program, use a process explorer or the
built in menu after ctrl-alt-del to close/kill the program. No need to
reboot and it does not disturb other programs. It is especially if you
try to change a brush details in certain ways and save the brush it
freezes, otherwise it works pretty well.

You can start it again after it has been killed, but the picture you
were working on will be gone, unless you saved it before the program
froze.

After I wrote the earlier msg I read in a forum the same things as I
said, to save a picture with full luster it can be better to copy the
screen to clipboard using windows functions or a screen capture program
than to use the built-in save to jpg function, it seems to lose part of
the shiny effect.
Somebody else has obviously noted that too.

Thanks for the info. I will be downloading it tomorrow and look forward
to playing.

Regards

 

[Roger Hunt]

No disaster, it just freezes the program, use a process explorer or the
built in menu after ctrl-alt-del to close/kill the program. No need to
reboot and it does not disturb other programs. It is especially if you
try to change a brush details in certain ways and save the brush it
freezes, otherwise it works pretty well.

You can start it again after it has been killed, but the picture you
were working on will be gone, unless you saved it before the program
froze.

I have downloaded it and I think I'll use it with my little-used
installation of XP.

After I wrote the earlier msg I read in a forum the same things as I
said, to save a picture with full luster it can be better to copy the
screen to clipboard using windows functions or a screen capture program
than to use the built-in save to jpg function, it seems to lose part of
the shiny effect.
Somebody else has obviously noted that too.

I suppose you'd be losing any layer by built-in saving to .jpg. Mind
you, the built-in save function appears to mirror whatever format the
image is. Seems to me the image should be converted to .dp2, worked on,
and then converted to .bmp or some other loss-less format.

(my tuppence-worth, with all of 15 mins experience of the software)