DAP café

Intaglio / Intaglio Fine

Rocambole — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:42:25 +0000

I don’t remember who created these two fine AOPs since they didn’t come with any informative help files. They were originally published in the old and long gone forum and the creator seems to have left us. But I suppose he or she doesn’t mind them being distributed one more time.

Intaglio

Intaglio Fine

Cracked Wall Canvas

Mary Warner — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:04:25 +0000

This canvas provides an interesting background for a DAP painting. For diversity, you can also emboss this picture and invert it (or not). This is a 100% crop from a painting showing the effect. You can either load it into your DAP canvas directory (and it should work for either DAP x64 Pro or the original version) or you can add it as a layer in your graphics editing program with an overlay blend, which will give you a bit more control over sizing and opacity. Right-click and choose “save target as” to download: Cracked Wall Canvas

Brushstrokes Canvas

Mary Warner — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:54:29 +0000

This embossed brushstrokes canvas can be used to emulate thicker paint brushstrokes on a DAP painting. It was created from some of the strokes in the new DAP GoghHD template. This is a 100% crop from a painting showing the effect. You can either load it into your DAP canvas directory (and it should work for either DAP x64 Pro or the original version) or you can add it as a layer in your graphics editing program with an overlay blend, which will give you a bit more control over sizing and opacity. Right-click and choose “save target as” to download: Brushstrokes Canvas

New Simplified Way of Distributing user templates

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:29:41 +0000

Beginning version 2.5.4 DAP has new build-in way of archiving templates for distribution as a single DPK file and also correctly installing those archives from the created dpk archive.
This should avoid the confusion what files go where for users trying to install the template and also make easier to collect all the files when distributing.

Those two options are in the menu Tools.

Archive Template, make sure the template is running in your DAP the exact way you want it, including the Help files.
A summary of a good template files:
1. Create your template the normal way with Make AOP, this will create the correct files, op, ao2, pal, grf… for example test.aop etc.
2. Create thumbnail which will appear in the Template box in DAP instead of generic icon, which is named same way as your template but with jpg extension for exampletest.jpg, The thumbnails are tiny jpeg files 54×32 and you place it in the \DAPainter\objectpacks folder (where is the *.aop file)
3. Help file, that will appear when user select the template, it is HTML file with extension *.htm (NOT *.html) and with the name same as your template for exampletest.htm
The htm file and any of the images it uses are in the \DAPainter\Help\ folder.
4. Your Help file can have a larger preview image that is no more than 175 pixels wide, it can be gif or jpg named the same way as the htm file for example test.jpg and it is in the Help folder (same as step.3), just load an example like benson.htm in your web editor and you will see the correct bg color and formatting – use it as a guide.

So this will make your template run fine on your computer. To pack it and distribute it, go to Tools: Archive template and use button Load AOP to load your new template (test.aop), this should load all other associated files automatically (if you use more images/files in help you can add them manually)

You can load an Artwork image that could be a sample of the painting and it will appear before installation so user can have idea what it does. (For the image above I really just used first file I found, try to make it better, a crop would probably be better to see brush strokes…)
Press Archive, This will create a single *.dpk file that you can now distribute.

To install the DPK file use the Install Template, the example above will look like this:

If you have permissions set the files and help will be extracted to the correct place.
If you don’t have permission, you need to set ‘Run as Administrator’, When DAP is closed, Right click the DAP icon, select Properties, look under tab Compatibility (some windows version have it in Security tab) and check ‘Run this program as an Administrator’. This is the Vista/ W7 famous UAC that prevents normal users from writing files to Program Files but I really don’t like the Windows way to have important files for a single program scattered all over the computer in some obscure folders I can’t even remember how they are called, so I try to keep for now everything for DAP in the DAPainter folder. Now this may change in the future so the DAP from now on, will always take care where to put the files.

This is the way all templates should be distributed from now on as the DAP will take care of putting the files always in the correct place.

As a test I altered Rocambole post Classic AOP and added a DPK file to the end of the post so you may try it out.

At this moment the dpk extension is not registered with DAP, so the only way to install the dpk is through menu Tools: Install Template. Later this will be made simpler with just doubleclicking on dpk file.

Deep Forest

Rocambole — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:15:56 +0000

In the beginning this AOP seemed only suited for forest paintings and was therefore named Deep Forest. It was primarily meant for paintings with large, rough strokes but in the end I also made a version with thinner strokes. It now has several palettes and is hopefully also usable for other motives than trees.

Its 12 palettes are made of six different colour sets, each with rough and fine brushes. The brush size is locked to make the paintings more like real paintings. The difference between rough and fine is the size and shape of the detail brushes. The large and medium brushes are the same in all 12 palettes.

Landscape rough and fine
Palette based on the Landscape 2 palette.
History rough and fine
Colours from a colour chart over traditional house colours in rural Norway.
Milkwood rough and fine
Most of the colours on a colour chart from paint producer Milkwood.
Hopper rough and fine
Colours extracted from some of Edward Hopper’s paintings.
Munch rough and fine
Colours extracted from Edvard Munch’s Scream.
Pino rough and fine
Colours inspired by some of Pino Daeni’s paintings.

I usually run an Unsharp Mask filter on the finished painting to make the brush strokes slightly more prominent.

Examples with rough brushes:

Examples with fine brushes:

Download here:

Deep Forest

Classics AOP

Rocambole — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:05:18 +0000

During creation of new AOPs I make lots of brush strokes and colour palettes that I don’t use. But sometimes I find out that one certain set of strokes works better with another palette than the one it was meant for. Classics is a collection of four different styles made of previusly unused combinations of colour palettes and brush strokes.

The Academic palette makes very traditional paintings. It is like Landscape 2 but with less distinct brush strokes.

The Synthetism palette makes paintings with less details than Academic. Synthetism is a term used by post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work from Impressionism.

The Fresco palette makes soft paintings with a texture that reminds of cement plaster.

The Expressionism palette has few but very strong colours:

I hope you like them! Download here:

Classics

Changed Fresco palette August 4th 2011.

Classics DPK (DAP 2.5.4 and newer) – added by Oscar as a test of the new DPK installation system in DAP 2.5.4 (see menu Tools: Install Template…)

Gruppe_wc

ghealy — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:20:30 +0000

Gruppe_wc was created by Vitaly (also known as Piker77). I have no blurb’ to post along with this AOP. I can say it is one of my favourite AOPs, I particularly like Palette #8 on water scenes as seen in the example on the left. FWIW, the sample was run at defaults with no additional processing.

My thanks to Vitaly for creating this AOP and for giving me permission to upload it to the Cafe.

Download:

gruppe_wc

Automatic AOP

ghealy — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:33:53 +0000

The AOP was created by Automotion

Automotion wrote this about the AOP:

“A very versatile AOP, just needing a bit of contrast work in post processing”

“The early stages can give interesting results. (strokes 2000 to 5000).
If you don’t mind letting it run for 50-60k strokes, you can remove the dry reveal.”

“Have fun!”

Here’s the download file: Automatic

FunkyOils

ghealy — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:31:21 +0000

AOP created by Mary Warner and uploaded to the Cafe with her permission.

Mary wrote the following about this AOP:

“This AOP is a fun attempt at imitating simple oil brush strokes and duplicating the colors in the underlying photo. There is no effort to mimic any known painter’s style. Works well with landscapes, animals, flowers and some portraits. Default/recommended settings are 50%/50% Expressive / Realistic, 90% Wet, 50%/50% Faithful / Impress, 100% Real. Experiment with the Wet / Dry setting for a slightly different look. Dry reveal does not run unless you create a mask. Use your mouse to bring out more detail.”

“There are 3 palettes which all use virtually the same colors. However, each has a different “brush” texture. Experiment to see which one works best on a particular painting. “Paper” canvas is used by default; try “oil” or a custom canvas for interesting variations.”

The AOP can be downloaded from here:

FunkyOils.zip

TexturedPaint AOP revisited

ghealy — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:13:01 +0000

Back in October 2009, Mary Warner posted this AOP. Unfortunately, the files were in the old forum and the links no longer work. Mary has been quite busy and hasn’t been able to edit her original post. As we can only edit our own posts, I’ve decided to upload my copies so any who would like to download this AOP can do so.

Mary's sample image created from this AOP

The file size prevents me from uploading the AOP into the Cafe. So instead, I’ve placed them on my account at Mediafire

The AOP files are in two parts:

The AOP itself which goes into the objectpack directory

TexturePaint.zip

The Help files which go into the Help directory

TexturedPaintHelp.zip