# Goddamn do I love the Paint Node **URL:** \ **Category:** Between Renders\ **Tags:** batch-paint\ **Created:** [September 25, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976 "2026-09-25T18:45:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andy\_dill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/andy_dill/32/15475_2.png) [@andy\_dill](https://forum.logik.tv/u/andy_dill)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/1 "2026-09-25T18:45:54Z")
![Screenshot 2026-09-25 at 2.44.00 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/thedepartmentofexternalservices/original/2X/f/f87efc04bd8ba0df9b250c989fd7f6a7334ffa8e.png) What a wonderful tool. I use it daily to save shots when nothing else will work. It always feels nice to use, gives expected results. Best node. ---
**Author:** ![philm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/philm/32/9286_2.png) [@philm](https://forum.logik.tv/u/philm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/2 "2026-09-25T18:55:46Z")
I vote for pythonic elbows. ---
**Author:** ![hBomb42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bbce88/32.png) [@hBomb42](https://forum.logik.tv/u/hBomb42)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/3 "2026-09-25T19:01:51Z")
Drag brush best brush. ---
**Author:** ![andy\_dill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/andy_dill/32/15475_2.png) [@andy\_dill](https://forum.logik.tv/u/andy_dill)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/4 "2026-09-25T19:05:25Z")
if i got paid a penny per drag brush stroke, I’d be so rich. ---
**Author:** ![ALan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@ALan](https://forum.logik.tv/u/ALan)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/5 "2026-09-25T19:16:27Z")
> [@andy\_dill](#): > > What a wonderful tool. I use it daily to save shots when nothing else will work. It always feels nice to use, gives expected results. Best node. Anamorphic footage enters the room. ---
**Author:** ![Sinan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/sinan/32/155_2.png) [@Sinan](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Sinan)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/6 "2026-09-25T19:20:19Z")
Resize node shoves anamorphic footage to the side… ---
**Author:** ![andy\_dill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/andy_dill/32/15475_2.png) [@andy\_dill](https://forum.logik.tv/u/andy_dill)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/7 "2026-09-25T19:39:14Z")
Anamorphic is working in 2027.1 (insert AI graphic of someone holding up two thousand and twenty seven and one tenth fingers) Used to be Clone worked correctly with nonsquare pixels, but recursive clone did not, but I just tested both and they’re fine. I got a warning when turning on the viewer’s Use Aspect Ratio that my strokes would be scaled incorrectly, but even when I flip it on and off, things are fine. ---
**Author:** ![MLandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@MLandon](https://forum.logik.tv/u/MLandon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/8 "2026-09-26T04:17:54Z")
If you like the paint node, you should really give Silhouette’s paint tool a try. ---
**Author:** ![johnt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/johnt/32/14040_2.png) [@johnt](https://forum.logik.tv/u/johnt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2026, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/9 "2026-09-26T08:46:39Z")
Completely agree @aaaaaaandy With two exceptions: Desktop paint shift button works better to make straight lines Desktop paint doesn’t soften picture as much as batch paint. Other than that, it beats most other paint boxes. That paint restore I just can’t get elsewhere easily. ---
**Author:** ![allklier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/allklier/32/4309_2.png) [@allklier](https://forum.logik.tv/u/allklier)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2026, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/10 "2026-09-26T10:13:08Z")
> [@johnt](#): > > Other than that, it beats most other paint boxes. That paint restore I just can’t get elsewhere easily. Do you mean ‘reveal’? Actually Silhouette does handle a few things better: - Silhouette’s ‘reveal’ is that you can offset your source frame by relative/absolute frame number. No need to capture a still. More flexible. - Silhouette allows you to stabilize the viewer and apply stabilize transform to brush strokes. So you don’t have to stab/unstab the shot with all the downsides of that. - Silhouette can apply exposure and color correction between source and destination when you clone. Also has ‘blemish’ brush with blurs and regrains in one op. - Silhouette can run in frequency separation mode when painting by the click of a button - Silhouette can apply full TRS match moves to paint strokes, not just point tracker - Silhouette now has 3D tracking and projection. You can paint on a projected card with a few simple nodes in the project. Less complicated than Flame’s projection setup. - Silhouette now has head tracking can can unwrap a face for paint. - Silhouette can scale. It’s vector based but uses a cache. So after 10K strokes the performance doesn’t collapse But Flame has the drag brush which is genius. And in Flame it’s easy to change the frame range of a stroke. That’s much more painful in Silhouette. And Flame runs inline of batch. So there is less overhead and less cost than having another app/plugin. So Flame’s paint is great for small inline jobs, or if the drag brush is needed. For anything complex, Silhouette wins. I’m with Andy, Flame’s paint tool is fantastic. Try to use Paint in Nuke or elsewhere. It’s just that Silhouette has set the standard a long time ago. And Boris has super charged it lately with all their 3D tracking. They’re actively innovating and using Silhouette as the app in their line-up where they build most new features first. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/thedepartmentofexternalservices/original/2X/7/7b59bd39cbee8b7ff56e080677dce82bd6441fc3.jpeg "How Head Track ML will change the way you do Beauty Retouch inside Boris FX Silhouette") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78z8pqDV6bw) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/thedepartmentofexternalservices/original/2X/a/acc839c80b2bbd567072a42f9b9f8451b912a4a3.jpeg "Rethink Painting in your Compositing App with Silhouette as a plugin.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iinYo7amcak) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/thedepartmentofexternalservices/original/2X/a/ae74e5b27bceef4b428b2b8b01c978d938aa7e9d.jpeg "Outsmart Perspective Changes with Silhouette as a Plugin") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCUizF5Dv_w) ---
**Author:** ![GPM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/gpm/32/4224_2.png) [@GPM](https://forum.logik.tv/u/GPM)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/11 "2026-09-29T16:05:04Z")
I very well might have missed something, but with batch paint, did we not lose the Save function that was in desktop paint? If I wanted to reveal something from the previous frame, on desktop, I would just go to that frame, click Save, then reveal it. Now, when I want to do something like that, I have to put a MUX node in my batch to the previous frame and freeze it, then reveal to that new layer. Which seems to me kind of goofy. ---
**Author:** ![GPM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/gpm/32/4224_2.png) [@GPM](https://forum.logik.tv/u/GPM)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/12 "2026-09-29T16:06:08Z")
It makes my batches overly complicated with many different frozen MUX’es feeding into a paint node. I think it should be a lot simpler than that. ---
**Author:** ![MLandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@MLandon](https://forum.logik.tv/u/MLandon)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/13 "2026-09-29T16:50:37Z")
> [@allklier](#): > > But Flame has the drag brush which is genius Ummm, Silhouette has a very nice drag brush too. It also has the advantage of utilizing Mocha’s planer tracker to animate strokes that rotate and change perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/jeff/32/9305_2.png) [@Jeff](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/14 "2026-09-29T17:03:30Z")
Hiya Greg- I learned a bit more about the Paint node when I made the video for its update in 2024, and that’s where I learned there is a super simple way to do it, but it comes at the cost of visibility / info. The “Lock” checkbox takes whatever frame you’re on and freezes that frame. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/thedepartmentofexternalservices/original/2X/9/9252d1b773f2d53932b8ae9fee5cea6f78981be6.jpeg) When you move the playhead after, and reveal, you’re revealing that frame that you froze (locked). When you unlock it and lock it again, it freezes a new frame. To my knowledge there’s no indication of which frame is frozen currently or which frame was frozen when you painted on it, so it’s not very clear exactly what has happened if you’re looking back on it, but if your goal is simple, that might be as simple as it gets. ---
**Author:** ![GPM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/gpm/32/4224_2.png) [@GPM](https://forum.logik.tv/u/GPM)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/15 "2026-09-29T17:06:37Z")
Hey thanks very much for this, Jeff. I’ll check it out. ---
**Author:** ![paul\_round](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/paul_round/32/389_2.png) [@paul\_round](https://forum.logik.tv/u/paul_round)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/16 "2026-09-29T17:11:29Z")
> [@GPM](#): > > It makes my batches overly complicated with many different frozen MUX’es feeding into a paint node. I think it should be a lot simpler than that. you can slip an input, but I always use muxes as you then know what frame you’re revealing ---
**Author:** ![TimC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/timc/32/11881_2.png) [@TimC](https://forum.logik.tv/u/TimC)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/17 "2026-09-29T17:35:12Z")
> [@andy\_dill](#): > > What a wonderful tool. I use it daily to save shots when nothing else will work. It always feels nice to use, gives expected results. Best node. I would just like to add in a world of connecting pipes to nodes and (increasingly) prompting, paint is just so nice to work in sometimes. very therapeutic. I don’t care what anyone else says about you @andy_dill this is a good post. ---
**Author:** ![allklier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/allklier/32/4309_2.png) [@allklier](https://forum.logik.tv/u/allklier)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/18 "2026-09-29T17:39:51Z")
> [@MLandon](#): > > Ummm, Silhouette has a very nice drag brush too. It also has the advantage of utilizing Mocha’s planer tracker to animate strokes that rotate and change perspective. Hmm, you’re right. I’ll have to try it again. Does it work as well as the Flame one, or is it more of a smear? Flame’s version seems to be somewhat uniquely good. ---
**Author:** ![Sinan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/sinan/32/155_2.png) [@Sinan](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Sinan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/19 "2026-09-29T20:19:45Z")
> [@GPM](#): > > Hey thanks very much for this, Jeff. I’ll check it out. There’s also the Add Still button which creates the result of your current frame as a source image and connects it to your Paint node as a new layer. ---
**Author:** ![MLandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@MLandon](https://forum.logik.tv/u/MLandon)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976/21 "2026-09-29T22:40:35Z")
> [@allklier](#): > > Hmm, you’re right. I’ll have to try it again. Does it work as well as the Flame one, or is it more of a smear? Personally I like Silhouette’s more than Flame’s. You can adjust the mix, decay, and smoothness of the strokes independently, so you have a lot of control. I also like that it doesn’t bog down your system if you are painting across many frames. [Next page](https://forum.logik.tv/t/goddamn-do-i-love-the-paint-node/14976.md?page=2)