{"id":11203,"date":"2006-09-09T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T08:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/09\/optipaint-paint-digitally-with-real-brushes.html"},"modified":"2006-09-09T08:33:38","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T08:33:38","slug":"optipaint_paint_digitally_with_real_brushe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/optipaint_paint_digitally_with_real_brushe\/","title":{"rendered":"OptiPaint: Paint Digitally With Real Brushes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, now here&#8217;s a cool development: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optipaint.com\/\" \/>OptiPaint<\/a> system promises to let users paint with real brushes, sponges, water, and even their fingers, then have the results appear inside Photoshop.  The system consists of a translucent painting surface, tilted slightly towards the user, on which you draw with water while a video camera below captures your movements.  (Graphics.com has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphics.com\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=3355\">a bit more info<\/a>). [Via Marc Pawliger]<br \/>\nThe system is far from cheap ($2495!), and the underlying technology dates back to the mid-80&#8217;s.  That said, I got to play with one for a few minutes at Photoshop World yesterday, and I was surprised at how gratifying it is to work with real, physical art materials, rather than a mouse, trackpad or stylus.  I was struck by a clear sense of &#8220;Yeah, <i>this<\/i> is out things oughtta be.&#8221;<br \/>\nOptiPaint makes me want to learn more about systems that offer rich tactile input. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mis.atr.jp\/past\/sem\/sumi_nagashi.html\">Project Sumi-nagashi<\/a> aims to offer &#8220;touchable fluid digital painting,&#8221; letting users feel the viscosity of digital paint and the texture of the canvas.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mis.atr.jp\/%7Eshun\/suminagashi\/SumiNagashi.mpg\">demo video<\/a>, showing the system&#8217;s linear induction motors moving objects on the surface, is a trip.  And elsewhere SensAble technologies offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensable.com\/industries\/3d_model_group.asp\">variety of systems<\/a> that enable force feedback in 3D space.  It all gets my little wheels turning about ways these technologies could dramatically change the way artists work with Photoshop.  [Via Nelson Chu]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, now here&#8217;s a cool development: the OptiPaint system promises to let users paint with real brushes, sponges, water, and even their fingers, then have the results appear inside Photoshop. The system consists of a translucent painting surface, tilted slightly towards the user, on which you draw with water while a video camera below captures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}