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Oil-Based vs. Water-Based Paint for Home Remodeling

Before you begin that paint job for the remodeling of your house, you may need to decide between water-based and oil-based paints. How do you know which is the better choice? Which kind of paint should you use when painting over surfaces already painted? Which paint is best for interior or exterior surfaces?

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued warnings against the adverse health effects of volatile organic compounds found in many paint mixtures. Water-based paints (also called latex paints) have the advantage of emitting fewer volatile compounds than oil-based paints or alkyd paints. Latex paints dry quicker than alkyd paint and provide an elastic, flexible finish that is resistant to cracking. Water-based paints also adhere to surfaces much more neatly and are less likely to retain stroke marks during painting.

When choosing between latex and alkyd paint, you need to consider where the paint will be applied. Latex paint is versatile and dries quickly without giving off toxic fumes, while alkyd paint is best suited for use on doors, cabinets, kitchen surfaces, bathrooms and any surface where a nice, glossy finish is desired.

When painting over any surface that was previously painted with an oil-based paint, make sure that you use paint of the same kind. Latex paint retains moisture and due to its elastic nature is much more likely to expand or contract with changes in the weather. Therefore, if you use a water-based paint to cover an oil-based paint, you run the risk of the undercoat peeling beneath your new
Washington DC painting
job.

Before painting over an exterior surface that has already been painted, be sure to scrub the surface with a piece of sandpaper or wire brush on it. This will roughen up the gloss enough to allow the layer of paint to better bond with the surface. Using multiple coats of oil-based paint can help protect the surface, but be sure to test a small area first. This should help make your
Washington DC remodeling
job less of a hassle.

If you are planning to do a
Washington DC painting
job over an exterior surface that has not yet been painted, then you can go ahead and use a water-based paint. This way, the surface will be able to “breathe”, and the exterior paint can better adapt to severe climate changes.

Whats an easy paint prog. to use to trace photos on your pc, & turn pix into painting,paint water sky grass?

I have MS and in a wheelchar, so I sit here in front of my computer all day. I used to paint w/ acryllics, so I thought I might enjoy painting photos. I tried to find one on the web, but one says "this one" is a good, the next one says it isn't. I'm looking for something I can start painting with that I don't have read a book first to use. That I can trace over a photo, paint it, and then remove it off of the actual photo & print, and not over top of the photo itself.

I found one called Art Weaver, but it'll take me a month or two of research first to use it. Is there an easer one maybe I could download & try out first that's between $20- $75

Art Weaver and forum,

http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version

http://www.artweaver.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=c478a47c142093a15879898e050a9816

from what i'm understanding is either that you want to trace image off screen, to paint with acrylics, no?
... if for this i would suggest a program that converting raster images to vector outlines,
linetracer,

http://linetracer.sourceforge.net/

http://www.wintopo.com/

http://www.masternewmedia.org/2004/02/28/autotracing_how_to_convert_bitmaps.htm

then you could trace or print out then transfer to canvas, note that there may be canvas paper rolls that you can print on and paint on layer,

http://www.image65.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1876

http://www.databazaar.com/Inkjet_Cartridge/Product/Specialty_Paper_EPSSP91220.html

or use the program itself to paint an image over the photo in background, but on a separate layer, correct?
... if this then art weaver would be ok , any program that uses layers, will do, but may not be so easy to manipulate, others you could try are art rage, note demo has no layer option, but you could try it,

http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html

and would be easier to use with wacom type tablets, and now has cintiq, on screen tool, but not cheap yet,

http://www.wacom.com/index2.cfm

there is also gimp and photobie that have layers,

http://www.gimp.org/

http://www.photobie.com/

now what it is with the layers, i'm assuming you want to paint over image on new layer, so with art weaver or other, you would open image, then select all of background photo, copy, then paste over top, or duplicate layer, now with some software there are filter effects, that find outlines or find edges, for art weaver it would be similar to stylize / sketch filter,or using image levels or threshold adjustments, then once you have outlines, you can copy that layer by it self and paste to new image, save for later,

adobe illustrator now has raster to vector ability, yet cost wise, not what you're looking for
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