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GMX-PhotoPainter Manual

This is one of the most interesting things done with Gertrudis that I’ve ever heard of.
This tutorial was sent to me in the beginning of the 2007, but I never had enough time to edit, and publish. It was sent by Zeljko Grujicic.

While this tutorial was prepared with Gertrudis Pro, it’s perfectly applicable with GMX-PhotoPainter. By that time Gertrudis Pro version 2.5 had an error exporting to tiff, and the tutorial has some extra steps to correct this error, it also references a quality problem saving to JPG, this problem is now solved too.
Here comes the tutorial:

I’ve prepared complete preview of making reproductions
by your program Gertrudis, Photoshop and machine for flatbed digital printing BUSJET.

I have opened a picture with GertrudisPro.
Original dimensions of the picture is 40,5×30,5 cm, resolution of 300 dpi.

I’ve kept the original dimensions (reset to original).

I’ve chosen the smallest density of a brush, vectorial stroke, saturation -128 and the thinnest line.

“apply to the whole image” set to 7500 steps.

That kind of the picture I’ve saved as a .tiff, because your .jpeg compression is too high and results with low quality of the picture.

Painting technique and the brush were chosen by my taste.

In the Photoshop I’ve opened both pictures done in the Gertrudis.

Original picture has 300 dpi resolution.

Gertrudis picture has 200 dpi with modified dimensions.

I was forced to return the resolution into the original one (300 dpi).

For the efect that is needed, I’ve created new picture with identical dimensions.

Pics. from Gertrudis were copied to the new one as layers.
Paint layer with the transparency of 15%.

Line layer is multiply.

Then I’ve flattened the image.

It was saved as the best quality .jpeg.

The canvas was prepared with the special type of paint.

On the canvas prepared like that I’ve printed the picture prepared in the Photoshop.

This is how canvas looks like after the printing.
Lines you can see are the lines which Gertrudis uses for the brush.
Background with 15% transparency is needed so I can see the edges of the objects.

By following the lines Gertrudis had done, I can make relief, which is in the end going to look like real
paintbrush moves.

This is what it looks like when the object is filled with paint.

Here you can see the whole painting with the background.

After drying, canvas is being printed with the Gertrudis’s final picture.

On these pictures you can see relief, which in the combination with Gertrudis’s picture gives complete imitation
of the oil-painting.

Gertrudis is very usefull program.
It is pretty good for both amateur and
professional users (can be handled for
short time).
Also, it has quite a few painting
techniques, so there great varietes.

Some of my friends, which are
professional painters, were shocked by
the quality of paintings and possibilities of the Gertrudis.

Here is a GMX-PhotoPainter presentation done by Philippe (thanks!)

See the result

Reese Witherspoon

Jennifer Aniston

Sandra Bullock

Salma Hayek

Natalie Portman

Alicia Silverstone

Catherine Z. Jones

Both version comes with a Built-in “Check For Updates” option.

New Gertrudis Pro 3.4

• Built-in “Check For Updates” option
• The Stroke Renderer Engine has been enhanced

Free Upgrade for Gertrudis Pro 3.0, 3.2 and 3.3 users. To access this upgrade you just need to login in to your Personal Control Panel.
If this is the first time you access the control panel, use the ‘Forgot Password’ option, using the email you used to purchase your product, and follow the instructions which will be emailed to you.

New Gertrudis MX

• Built-in “Check For Updates” option
• The File Open option has been enhanced

[The download is not available anymore]

In the last 2 Weeks this site experimented continuous problems related with the Web-hosting.
Now I hope all these problems won’t happen again.
During this time, some e-mails may be bounced, also there exists the possibility that the Activation Process failed, and some post and drawings has been lost.

I apologize for these problems.
Please Contact me:

if you had some trouble during the activation process, or if do you have some unanswered question.

Gertrudis MX New beta!

Please, download it from:
[The Download is not available anymore]
If you have a previous install, before installing it, create a backup of your Gertrudis MX folder.

New Features

• Save Brushes Option in the Brushes Window. You won’t have to close GMX to get all your Brushes saved
• “Don’t Show Again” Dialog box while importing brushes.
• The styles using “Bristle Brushes” are much faster than before.

Fixes

• The Option: “Apply to the Whole Image” didn’t work properly. Problem Fixed.
• High Memory Usage: Now the problem is fixed.
• Sometimes the style manager freezed or disabled the preview, by showing the preview of a previous style or no preview at all. Now Fixed.
• The master size didn’t scale the width of the brushtroke. Now Fixed.
• Small memory leaks. Removed.
• The save at different size fails if the drawing is using some Pen&Ink Brush. Now Fixed.
• Style Manager, Exclusive modes: If Bristle Brush is selected, then many options in the style manager have no meaning, so this options should appear disabled. The same situation with the Pen and Ink brushes. Implemented.

Me Again!,

There is a new beta!

[THE DOWNLOAD of this BETA IS NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE]

Before installing it, create a backup of your Gertrudis MX folder.

What’s new

• Basic Brush preview in the left panel. (shape, transparency, with and length)
• New option to help organize styles and the styles bar in the top of the window:
  Enter using: File > Configure Styles Folder
  Changing the order of the styles, will change the order of the styles shown in the top bar.

Bugs Fixed

• As Marcel suggested the preview button is on the top bar now.
• The bristle brush, had problems over white areas, it showed small stains. FIXED.
• Using some of the Marcel brushes, enhanced the Oil Styles. Please, help adding some standard styles to the basic distribution.
• When a user clicks on a pattern, the pattern tool it’s automatically selected.
• The maximum value of the preview quality was increased from 100 to 500
• On the application startup, the autosketch tool it’s automatically selected.
• The Pen&Ink mode had a problem when a user selected Frequency = 255 / Smooth = 128.

Knwon Bugs / Problems Issues

• Style Manager: In the style manager, under some circumstances the style preview gets disabled. ¿Could you help me to determine that circumstances/conditions? Use the forum to post and discuss Gertrudis MX Beta
• The save at different size fails if the drawing is using some Pen&Ink Brush.
• Style Manager, Exclusive modes: If Bristle Brush is selected, then many options in the style manager have no meaning, so this options should appear disabled. The same situation with the Pen and Ink brushes.
• Bristle Brushes Icon: It is awful, please help me in replacing it.
• ¿Preview Button near the basic controls (width, length, and alpha) in the left panel?