{"id":310,"date":"2011-08-19T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:03:45","slug":"playing-around-with-digital-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Playing Around With Digital Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been playing around with a Wacom Intuos 4 and Corel Painter Sketch Pad.<\/a><\/p>\n

The North American verson of the Intuos4 comes with a choice of two from the following Autodesk\u00ae SketchBook\u00ae Express 2010, Adobe\u00ae Photoshop\u00ae Elements 8, or Corel\u00ae Painter\u2122 Sketch Pad.<\/p>\n

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The software comes as a digital download, and you only get one chance to make your choice. Since I’m not familiar with any of the software I’m downloading the trials first before I make my decisions.<\/p>\n

So far I’m liking SketchBook. The only problem I have is now it just hangs when I try to run it. Not sure what happened, more thought required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been playing around with a Wacom Intuos 4 and Corel Painter Sketch Pad. The North American verson of the Intuos4 comes with a choice of two from the following Autodesk\u00ae SketchBook\u00ae Express 2010, Adobe\u00ae Photoshop\u00ae Elements 8, or Corel\u00ae Painter\u2122 Sketch Pad. %%wppa%% %%photo=1%% %%size=640%% The software comes as a digital download, and you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,23],"tags":[25,10,3,24],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art_blog","category-digital_art","tag-intuos4","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-wacom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?fit=1009%2C991&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUgG3-50","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":526,"url":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=526","url_meta":{"origin":310,"position":0},"title":"Self Portrait 4\/12\/12","author":"db","date":"May 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Playing around with the old computer and dashed off a quick self portrait\u00a0using\u00a0 the \"charcoal\" brush in Corel Painter. 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