What is PD Particles?
PD Particles is a software program for sketching, doodling, painting and drawing with particles. In addition it's also a natural painting program, just like his big brother PD Pro but with less features. Its a natural painting program because it's lets you copy the effects of traditional materials like and oil paint, watercolor but also charcoal, tempera or pastels.
Click here to read the complete review for PD Particles by Bernard Dumaine.
This tutorial explains how I created my images "Somewhere" and "Beach" in PD Particles, with a little help of PD Pro/ Project Dogwaffle.
step 1.
I first opened a blank image (800x 600) in PD Pro/ Project Dogwaffle, to get a sky picture. Select render from the Filter menu and then select Sky. I rotated this image twice 90° clockwise, saved it and opened it in PD Particles.
A similar sky image can be created in PD Particles by filling your image with a gradient and using an airbrush to create clouds.
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click image for larger view - sky |
Step 2.
I applied some "earth parts" directly on the sky image. The Earth parts are painted with the airbrushes. I used various shapes and colours to get the right look.
Step 3.
To finish the landscape, I added presets from the Particles menu: There are many different particles presets to choose form. I used various types of grass: baddy grass and Dogwillow, among some others.
I went rather fast doing this and I discovered later that I could have get some different harmonies on the grass if I had used the powerful "gradient index" menu, which offers a wide range of colours with each specific particle brush.
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Somewhere |
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Beach - click image for larger view |
Click here to read the complete review for PD Particles by Bernard Dumaine.
Availability & Pricing
PD Particles is available as a download of 7 MB and costs only $19 USD.
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