WEBVTT 00:00.860 --> 00:05.020 Welcome to a painting in the image ed in this video. 00:05.020 --> 00:10.690 You will create your own image using blender become more familiar with the image editor. 00:10.820 --> 00:17.060 We're about to use it quite a bit in the upcoming lectures will realize Blender's limitations when it 00:17.060 --> 00:24.240 comes to image editing and I understand that you may have to use external packages for better control. 00:24.260 --> 00:33.440 This isn't as powerful as Photoshop nor gimp or any of those other type of packages but it does still 00:33.440 --> 00:36.170 have some great versatility. 00:36.470 --> 00:40.670 So let's go explore this now and start painting over in blender. 00:41.120 --> 00:48.770 Okay so before we go and hop into the image editor and start work out want to show you this set up but 00:48.770 --> 00:54.890 I've got at the moment now I don't have a whack stylus or a cinti or anything fancy like that. 00:54.890 --> 01:01.640 I do however have an iPad and a Mac which means I can use a program called ashtray pad to use the iPad 01:01.970 --> 01:03.800 as a second screen. 01:03.800 --> 01:10.130 Now when I do that I can literally start doing things on the screen itself and it's just mirroring the 01:10.130 --> 01:10.720 other screen. 01:10.730 --> 01:14.910 And this is going to become quite useful for me when I'm sketching now. 01:14.990 --> 01:21.740 By all means you do not need a stylus in order to do any form of graphical art on a computer but it 01:21.740 --> 01:24.260 does make it a lot lot easier. 01:24.260 --> 01:31.670 A bit like having a three button dormouse have make Splender and the 3D viewport so much easier to use 01:31.670 --> 01:35.820 than trying to use a trackpad or a lot of other control interfaces. 01:35.840 --> 01:40.040 My stylus by the way is not pressure sensitive or anything along those lines so I'm not going to be 01:40.040 --> 01:44.810 able to do some of the fancy tricks where if you press harder the lying gets wide or something like 01:44.810 --> 01:45.250 that. 01:45.410 --> 01:49.410 So let's now hop into the image editor and start doing some painting. 01:51.830 --> 01:58.690 Okay so I've just changed my 3D editor to a movie image editor and this is what it looks like. 01:58.700 --> 02:01.410 Pretty boring so far and not much to do. 02:01.550 --> 02:04.880 So let's go ahead straightaway and add a new image. 02:04.880 --> 02:08.750 Now you can do that in the image menu using the shortcut keys. 02:08.750 --> 02:15.620 Oulton n or of course hitting the big new button there and it gives us a couple of options so I'm going 02:15.620 --> 02:22.180 to give my image that I am about to create a name and I'm going to call it test image. 02:23.310 --> 02:30.250 Underneath we have width height colour Alpher blank and 32 bit floats. 02:30.360 --> 02:31.730 Well the width and height. 02:31.740 --> 02:34.970 I'm going to leave those as the phone I suggest you do too. 02:35.010 --> 02:36.220 At the moment. 02:36.330 --> 02:43.740 Later on we'll go in to texture resolutions and what size to pick on where to pick them etc. and what 02:43.740 --> 02:45.810 size to pick them as well. 02:45.810 --> 02:50.280 The colour will just be the cut the base colour that appears in this case it's going to be black I can 02:50.280 --> 02:55.880 say that anything I want and not really important at this point in time either the generated type but 02:55.890 --> 03:00.900 it gives us 3 different types who got blank which is just that solid colour you v grid and colour grid 03:01.230 --> 03:03.540 and we just want it left on blank and click. 03:03.540 --> 03:12.570 Okay now you will see that image now has a star against it which means that it's not saved. 03:12.570 --> 03:18.690 But before we go ahead and save this image I just want to have a look at the properties of the image 03:18.720 --> 03:19.120 editor. 03:19.130 --> 03:21.960 Someone hit the N key to bring up the properties tab. 03:21.990 --> 03:25.770 Now this gives us an option up here to rename our image. 03:26.070 --> 03:33.300 Change the type of image is et cetera et cetera it allows us to change what aspect ratio we've picked 03:33.930 --> 03:37.350 so we can go ahead and change the x and y coordinates. 03:37.350 --> 03:40.400 Now do bear in mind if you do an alter any of. 03:41.610 --> 03:47.730 Do bear in mind if you go and edit any of those after you've started doing some paint with the image. 03:47.800 --> 03:53.080 It will wipe the image because you're essentially overwriting your default settings for the image and 03:53.080 --> 03:57.270 therefore everything will go that you've done and there's no one do that. 03:57.280 --> 04:02.470 Here we have the unique grid and colour grid that we could have selected before and the colour down 04:02.470 --> 04:03.030 here. 04:03.130 --> 04:10.320 We can go ahead and pick any colour we choose on the colour well that's all we going to do in the properties 04:10.330 --> 04:12.200 for the moment some of them are closed down. 04:12.340 --> 04:17.200 I'm going to go and open up the tool shelf because we're going to be using that lots in a few moments 04:17.560 --> 04:23.260 now at the moment we cannot actually do any thing painting wise because we're not in the paint mode 04:23.260 --> 04:29.170 so we need to switch the image editor to paint mode and I'm going to do that where it says view. 04:29.200 --> 04:30.480 I'm going to change that. 04:30.520 --> 04:31.920 Not this view over here. 04:32.080 --> 04:38.200 Keep going all the way over here for the mode selection so much like you've got edit mode sculped mode 04:38.260 --> 04:41.170 and object mode in the 3D editor. 04:41.170 --> 04:43.200 There are three modes here. 04:43.300 --> 04:47.370 We've got view paint a mask we want to switch it to paint. 04:47.800 --> 04:49.310 Okay now we've done that. 04:49.360 --> 04:52.710 We still haven't saved our image so let's go ahead and do that. 04:52.930 --> 04:59.470 Now the first time you save the image you're not going to be able to quick save it as you can and once 04:59.470 --> 05:07.600 it has safe because at the moment it doesn't really exist anywhere except in a blender which is dangerous 05:07.630 --> 05:12.380 because it blender crashes your work that you've been doing will go. 05:12.380 --> 05:18.340 So make sure we off that to a place on our hard disk straight away so I'm going to save azimi And I'm 05:18.340 --> 05:21.360 going to use test image and click save. 05:21.460 --> 05:28.060 Now that this star has gone it's been saved if I make any other changes to this file so I'm going to 05:28.060 --> 05:30.850 literally click and draw something on here. 05:30.940 --> 05:36.850 We see that it's got the star there and I can now use the shortcut key Oulton S and that will save the 05:36.850 --> 05:42.190 file and once the asterisk is gone it means that it is safely stored on the hard drive. 05:42.220 --> 05:43.440 That change I've made. 05:43.440 --> 05:48.410 I can now pick up the file and use it in any other program including blender. 05:48.550 --> 05:54.000 So let's go through the tool shelf now and we're going to focus only on this paint section. 05:54.010 --> 05:56.610 There are a couple of other sections and we'll get to those later on. 05:56.610 --> 05:59.620 But just this top paint section for the moment. 05:59.770 --> 06:00.680 Firstly. 06:01.560 --> 06:08.910 The top one is the brush type and when you click on that you'll see six brushes and wonder why are we 06:08.910 --> 06:11.670 trying to do anything with only six brushes. 06:11.670 --> 06:18.960 Well they're quite versatile brushes and they can be edited and changed quite significantly. 06:18.960 --> 06:21.300 So much like most things in blender. 06:21.510 --> 06:28.310 We've currently got text draw and if we click the two next to it that will create a unique rush. 06:28.330 --> 06:30.570 And now I can call that my brush. 06:30.570 --> 06:33.880 Now the problem with the name mind brushes it means nothing. 06:33.900 --> 06:39.840 So of course you would want to name your brushes appropriately based upon what they do at this point. 06:39.840 --> 06:43.980 It's a demonstration brush so my brush is absolutely fine. 06:43.980 --> 06:49.890 Underneath we have a colour wheel and we can go and move this little white dot around and basically 06:49.890 --> 06:52.150 pick any colour that we want. 06:52.170 --> 06:57.530 There's a little slider to the right of it which enables us to make the colour lighter or darker. 06:57.650 --> 07:02.610 Now you will notice that the left hand little panel underneath the colour wheel is the only one that's 07:02.610 --> 07:03.540 changing. 07:03.630 --> 07:08.260 So these are your two colours that you could pick from very quickly. 07:08.310 --> 07:11.720 So we got our brush colour there and our secondary colour. 07:11.730 --> 07:13.540 That's what blender calls them. 07:13.560 --> 07:20.270 Now you can switch between them very quickly using these double headed arrow buttons just here. 07:20.280 --> 07:26.070 In fact it says when we hover over the foreground and background brush covers that's what you will see 07:26.070 --> 07:29.200 in a lot of image editing packages as well. 07:29.310 --> 07:35.940 Now we've played with radiosonde strength before when we were weight painting the particle system over 07:35.940 --> 07:42.180 in the bunny and that basically is the same here so we've got radius and strength and we can control 07:42.180 --> 07:48.840 those with EF 4 the radius can shift an F for the strength with it being stronger when you move towards 07:48.840 --> 07:50.180 the centre. 07:50.810 --> 07:57.000 Okay so underneath we've got a blend and there are lots of different options and are not going to go 07:57.000 --> 08:02.550 through them at the moment they basically change when you lay things on top of one and other colours 08:03.090 --> 08:10.470 how they mixed together and accumulate is something that is very important under certain circumstances. 08:10.490 --> 08:14.320 If I set the strength down to let's set it to point two. 08:14.610 --> 08:21.450 If I said it's a point to start drawing because accumulate is off until I decide to click again or start 08:21.450 --> 08:23.360 drawing over the same. 08:24.160 --> 08:27.970 Part of the image but starting a new stroke. 08:28.830 --> 08:30.480 Only then does it apply. 08:30.480 --> 08:32.560 The next level of. 08:33.700 --> 08:38.290 Colour if accumulate is turned on. 08:38.290 --> 08:41.890 It doesn't matter if I stay over the same place it goes. 08:41.890 --> 08:48.210 White Very quickly because whites the colour I've got we're not gonna use use gradient at the moment 08:48.210 --> 08:54.330 does it change lots of the different options that you have here is very powerful but were not going 08:54.330 --> 08:56.940 to use it at this early stage. 08:56.980 --> 09:03.940 Now this is possibly the most powerful feature of all and actual palates because at the moment you've 09:03.940 --> 09:09.760 got no way of storing your colours after you've selected them. 09:09.760 --> 09:16.870 Sure you can click on the let's say the foreground colour here and go to the little pet and go and pick 09:16.870 --> 09:17.140 up. 09:17.140 --> 09:23.360 Let's say this lighter mauve at the top pair or purple or pinky colour whatever it is and that's great. 09:23.380 --> 09:25.700 We've picked that up again and we start painting with it. 09:25.840 --> 09:32.380 But that wasn't the original colour that cause that whatever the original colour was was a lot stronger 09:32.380 --> 09:36.340 than that and we were just painting with it at 20 percent. 09:36.340 --> 09:38.800 So we would want to store that colour. 09:38.800 --> 09:39.790 And how do we do that. 09:39.790 --> 09:46.540 Well with a palette so I can go ahead here and under the new option go ahead and click that and we get 09:46.600 --> 09:49.860 a plus and minus symbol appear next to the colour wheel. 09:50.470 --> 09:57.160 If we go ahead and click the plus it adds the currently selected colour to a palette. 09:57.220 --> 09:59.220 If we hit the minus it removes it. 09:59.230 --> 10:01.380 If it was the one that was selected. 10:01.420 --> 10:09.790 Now if I go ahead and name this palette warm and let's say go in add some warm colours so yellow is 10:09.790 --> 10:14.150 just going to be orange and red and things like that. 10:17.220 --> 10:24.710 So I've now got four colours there that I can use and go back to at any point and continue using. 10:24.750 --> 10:30.510 And the great thing about building up a palette like this that has a style to it like whether it's warm 10:30.570 --> 10:39.840 or cold or nature or water or whatever you've decided to build up it means that you can then access 10:39.840 --> 10:41.760 that colour palette from another blend file. 10:41.750 --> 10:44.490 So this is a way to block some of these brushes. 10:44.550 --> 10:49.510 So if you linked this data block in a new blend file. 10:49.680 --> 10:58.410 When we went to this drop down here we would see that there would be zero L. warm at the moment in this 10:58.410 --> 11:04.200 particular blend far as say f warm if you appended it it would just probably say zero warm. 11:04.260 --> 11:10.620 Of course if you don't do anything with it at that point you will end up with it being lost when you 11:10.920 --> 11:13.990 saved your file of course and you can do the same. 11:13.990 --> 11:20.930 Here we see that all of these got f next to them because if they didn't the moment we so saved blender 11:20.970 --> 11:22.480 and shut it down and reopened it. 11:22.590 --> 11:23.890 All of them would disappear. 11:24.120 --> 11:29.190 So there are more options underneath here as well but they're more advanced than we're not going to 11:29.190 --> 11:31.280 touch them at this moment in time. 11:31.320 --> 11:35.450 But I do have a bit of a painting challenge for you guys. 11:36.430 --> 11:40.300 I would like you to create a quick image. 11:40.300 --> 11:45.640 Remember to have some fun paint a couple of simple pictures. 11:45.640 --> 11:48.710 I'm not asking you to be artists at this point. 11:48.760 --> 11:51.100 I'm asking for some simple pictures. 11:51.160 --> 11:58.210 Like very very early on in this course you remember when I was asking you to draw things like simple 11:58.210 --> 12:04.930 cups and simple planes in there a picture of a boat and they're not real in terms of how they're asking 12:04.930 --> 12:07.900 you to be a super artist at this point. 12:07.900 --> 12:11.170 And it also does not have to be related to the current project. 12:11.200 --> 12:17.710 It's more important at this point this is to make sure you're familiar with how the image editor works 12:17.950 --> 12:20.620 when we are going about painting. 12:20.620 --> 12:24.090 So have some fun scansion things simple things. 12:24.090 --> 12:29.570 As I said depending on your skill level and make sure you're having fun as you do it. 12:29.730 --> 12:32.470 Balls a video now and give that a go. 12:35.310 --> 12:36.810 Okay guys welcome back. 12:36.990 --> 12:40.010 Let's go create a quick image over in blender. 12:41.470 --> 12:47.230 Okay so in front of us I've got something that's not that great at the moment. 12:47.230 --> 12:49.710 Let's see what we can do with it. 12:49.750 --> 12:54.160 So I'm going to zoom in just a little bit more so I can work on my image. 12:54.190 --> 12:57.830 I am going to probably clear this down. 12:57.850 --> 13:03.430 And one of the quick ways that I can do that is clicking any of these colours and dragging it over the 13:03.430 --> 13:06.640 top it will actually replace everything if I do that. 13:06.640 --> 13:09.040 So let's click here and drag and drop. 13:09.040 --> 13:09.500 There we go. 13:09.520 --> 13:12.260 What are white canvas to start with. 13:12.460 --> 13:16.380 So I am going to do something really dull probably. 13:16.390 --> 13:17.540 But here we go. 13:17.560 --> 13:25.090 So I've got a radius I'm going to increase that and in the sky I'm actually not using my stylus at the 13:25.090 --> 13:27.110 moment I'm using the mouse. 13:28.310 --> 13:34.850 Turns out when I'm recording it's actually more awkward to use the stylus because it's well it's in 13:34.850 --> 13:44.030 the way it's I'm tryna look at something that's directly beneath a microphone which is quite difficult 13:44.030 --> 13:44.790 to do. 13:44.990 --> 13:51.150 So there we go we've got some basic stuff in there and let's do that. 13:51.170 --> 13:57.350 I am going to do a house I think so let's make this radius a lot smaller not too small. 13:57.350 --> 14:03.800 Yeah about fair and let's have an orange house I might as well utilize what I've got there and then 14:03.800 --> 14:04.730 zoom in. 14:04.740 --> 14:12.190 Zooming is very important because it does allow us to have some more control over what we're doing. 14:13.230 --> 14:19.470 Now at this point in time I need to increase the strength of that brush well undo the stroke for I just 14:19.470 --> 14:22.380 did and just do that again. 14:22.380 --> 14:23.070 There we go. 14:23.080 --> 14:25.020 That's much better. 14:25.110 --> 14:27.060 I'm using the stylus for that square. 14:27.060 --> 14:27.990 By the way. 14:28.470 --> 14:29.550 Oh okay. 14:29.550 --> 14:31.420 I thought I zoomed in a lot more than that. 14:31.440 --> 14:32.030 Okay. 14:32.070 --> 14:35.730 Losing reference with the rest of the image can be quite critical. 14:35.730 --> 14:36.420 So there we go. 14:36.420 --> 14:42.530 I will put a roof on my house that's not too great. 14:42.540 --> 14:47.480 I'm going to change my fill time brush to a fill type. 14:47.490 --> 14:53.820 Oh only to select for colour that I want only a slight The slightly lighter orange and using a couple 14:53.820 --> 14:55.220 of different brushes. 14:56.520 --> 14:58.870 There we go it's looking pretty good. 14:59.750 --> 15:01.920 Even if I do say so myself. 15:02.690 --> 15:03.950 What else can we do here. 15:03.950 --> 15:09.700 Let's give this house a car swap that's a round. 15:09.860 --> 15:12.020 And I was going to draw a. 15:12.960 --> 15:14.100 Carb there. 15:14.110 --> 15:16.210 Nice simple can't like oh. 15:16.230 --> 15:17.750 My children a. 15:18.080 --> 15:25.710 Now obviously joking aside here if you spend the time you can actually get some really nice images going 15:25.710 --> 15:26.370 here. 15:26.370 --> 15:31.810 I'm being as simple and as straightforward as possible with my drawings here. 15:31.830 --> 15:39.030 I hope you are having fun doing yours remember to share your work in the discussions and of course there 15:39.050 --> 15:40.350 goes and smoke. 15:40.410 --> 15:43.630 I will see you guys in the next lecture.