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zoomed in view needed to work sections of digital art

Section of current digital painting - view  1 pixel hole in center

I started working on a new digital painting this morning. A dreary kind of overcast summer day here - perfect for that sort of thing.

While I was working on it and enlarging the piece close to 400% - I thought it might be interesting to share what that looks like - and therefore a sense of how peculiar it can be to work with this digital medium.

Creating art on a computer can be very quick in some ways. There are tools which can create gradients, complex textures, lines, curves, fills, etc.  However, certain things can be quite tedious.

For the look I want in this particular piece - I must work with the piece enlarged and must go back and forth with the size of the view. Often times even working at the largest level adjusting a single pixel.

It is fun to be able to see from different angles - stepping back, stepping in - but it is also tiring - as I am taking a break to write this.

See Also

• Close Up Working
  Close up image of working current digital painting at 372% its template size - image is 800×600 pixels - resolution of screen I work on
• Salinas Valley 1
  Earlier digital painting - which was created in similar fashion
• Amazing Gradients: a Photoshop tutorial by Janee
  More info on color gradients but for creating in photoshop