BRAND NEW!!! NOW AVAILABLE!!
Tutorial DVD-ROM
How to Paint from Photographs
Using Corel Painter X:
Creative Techniques with Jeremy Sutton
Corel Painter Official Magazine Review
What You'll Find in this New DVD
Join me on a real-life case study in which I create a portrait of Michael and Sarisa. You'll witness the whole creative process, from the photo shoot, the choosing of favorite images, to how I work and explore possibilities in Corel Painter X and to delivery of the completed portrait to the client. This goes beyond what I have offered previously on my earlier DVDs in that I share my whole portraiture process, including the photo shoot itself. You'll learn about my approach to creativity using Corel Painter X, see how I organize my workflow, how I choose brushes and colors, how I apply my brush strokes and add grapple with the image, trying variations along the way. The instruction is designed to allow you to easily follow along with me on your own computer, using the tutorial files provided.
This DVD-ROM tutorial is the next best thing to spending a week in my studio looking over my shoulder as I work, available to you for a fraction of the cost of taking one of my week-long studio workshops. Scroll down for detailed descriptions of the video contents and the extra resource disc contents. There is new unique material in this DVD that is quite distinct from, and complementary to, that provided in any of my earlier DVD sets, including the Art of Collage Portraiture DVD set.
Contents
Section 1—Introduction: What You'll Need
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Computer—platform, memory, speed and OS.
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Wacom Tablet & Pens—driver, size, sensitivity, versatility, look and feel.
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Software—Adobe Photoshop, iView Media Pro and Corel Painter X.
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Wacom Control Panel—settings, programming Express Keys and Touch Strips.
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Installing Jeremy Extras—loading into Corel Painter X.
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Project folder system—making a unique, logical, systematically and consistently named, easily located, home for everything.
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File naming system—the Project-Version-Note naming convention.
Section 2—The Photo Shoot: Capturing the Sparkle!
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Pre-shoot Discussion—setting goals and strategy.
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Camera & Lenses—preparing to capture the magic moments.
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Putting clients at ease—building rapport.
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Looking for fresh points of view—experimenting with settings, lighting, location.
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Planning ahead—capturing color and texture shots, as well as subjects.
Section 3 —Initial Computer Set Up: Organization and Optimization
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Loading in extra brushes and art materials.
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Setting up and customizing the Wacom control panel.
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Importing custom workspace into Painter.
Section 4 —Picking Your Faves: Choosing the Image to Paint From
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Workflow using Apple Aperture, Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Corel Painter X.
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Reviewing images—first selections: what to look for and where to save them.
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Choosing THE ONE—deciding factors: shapes, emotion, movement, harmony, positive and negative space, potential.
Section 5 —Preparing for Paint: Composition & File Preparation
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Composing—cropping, adding canvas, changing orientations, applying Divine Proportion overlay.
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Size and resolution—starting with the end in mind.
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Enhancement—increasing contrast and saturation.
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File format—saving as flat RGB TIFF.
Section 6 —Digital Painting: From Abstraction To Refinement
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Cloning—working on clone copies.
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Abstracting—creating loose, bold, energetic “muck up” underpaintings.
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Variations—generating different versions for mixing together.
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Clone technique—bring out main subjects and add non-clone color.
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Layer technique—clone into layers, then apply oily brushes, then drop.
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Brush technique—choices, limitation, mark variation, dabs and strokes.
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Disconnect techniques—upside down painting, Layout grid overlays.
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Color technique—color-tone, color variation, contrasts, picking and mixing.
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Selective detail—bring out key focal points.
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Fine tune—take step back and go for strength of image.
Section 7 —Printing: Preparation, Production and Post-Print Techniques
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Border—preparation for gallery wrap.
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File set up—printing out of Photoshop onto wide format printer.
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Fix—apply fixative to print.
- Paint with acrylic gel medium.
Section 8 —Delivery & Conclusion: The Great Unveiling!
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Hanging the completed painting in the client's home.
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Unveiling the painting to the client.
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Concluding remarks and wrap up.
This is what the portrait subjects, Michael and Sarisa, had to say about the painting:
Michael:
"We are thrilled with the painting! It's fabulous! It really cheers up the house. It's so special because it has both of us and it's the only thing we have up on the walls that reflects our togetherness. And that's incredible. Such a beautiful piece of art. Thank you again."
Sarisa:
"I just wanted to take this opportunity to again tell you how much I love the
painting! When I walk into the living room I am greeted by the vibrant
lovely artwork it just brings a smile to my face!
You are truly a gifted artist and I thank you from the bottom of my heart
for creating this memorable piece of artwork for Michael and myself!"
THIS DVD-ROM INCLUDES ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
Over four hours of in-depth training that guides you through a real-life, complete work flow, case-study from the photo shoot to the unveiling.
28 page full-color Welcome Notes that includes Wacom custom settings "cutouts".
Bonus two hour live presentation of "The Tale of Two Portraits: From Crayon to Computer" at the Oxford Internet Institute (see below) .
Nine hundred and two tutorial images, including many of the original full size RAW files from the photo-shoot.
Ninety wonderful extra brushes, including new unique custom brushes that can not be found on any of my earlier DVDs (e.g. Jeremy's-SumiThicker, Jeremy'sSquigglySargent, Jeremy'sStripeyStippler, splattercomplex, splatterfast, spalttersmooth and Karen's Paint with Texture).
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JeremyGuestFaves4
Forty custom color sets, including the Monet color sets, not included on any earlier DVDs.
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Twenty one extra Image Hose nozzles.
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Twenty five extra paper textures.
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Twenty extra patterns.
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Custom workspaces (five for the Mac and three for the PC) adapted to different screen resolutions (shown below). Each custom workspace includes my Painter preferences and settings, a custom palette arrangement suited to the resolution plus an additional palette arrangement which minimizes palettes to just Color and Size palettes for uninterupted painting, custom brushes, custom art materials (papers, patterns and Image Hose nozzles) loaded and ready for use, and the JeremySupaDoopa4 custom shortcuts palette with handy command and brush variant shortcuts.
JeremyBasic4 custom workspace for the Mac (800 pixels x 600 pixels resolution)
JeremyBasic4 custom workspace for the Mac (1024 pixels x 768 pixels resolution)
JeremyBasic4 custom workspace for the Mac (800 pixels x 900 pixels resolution)
JeremyBasic4 custom workspace for the Mac (2560 pixels x 1600 pixels resolution)
JeremyBasic4 custom workspace for the PC (800 pixels x 600 pixels resolution)
JeremyBasic4 custom workspace for the PC (1024 pixels x 768 pixels resolution)
JeremyBasic4 custom workspace for the PC (1280 pixels x 1024 pixels resolution)
JeremySupaDoopa4 custom palette
Twelve special Wacom "cutouts" designed to assist you in programming the Wacom shortcuts and to act as handy reminders that you can attach to your tablet.
A sample of the Wacom cut-outs supplied with this new DVD set.
The custom workspaces, brushes and art materials supplied with this DVD tutorial have been tested on both Motorola and Intel based Macintosh computers, all running OS X (version 10.4.10), and on HP, Gateway and Dell PCs running Windows XP and Vista.
Added Bonus Video: Oxford University Lecture
This live portrait of Ted Nelson, the computer pioneer who invented "hypertext", was created as part of a presentation, The Tale of Two Portraits: From Crayon to Computer, that I gave at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, in June, 2007. The whole 2 hour lecture-demo, in which I compare painting portraits with traditional and digital media, is included as an added bonus on this new instructional DVD. (Don't miss the unique rendition of "Mack the Knife", the song made famous by Bobby Darin, sung a cappella in German by my portrait subject!)
DVD-ROM versus DVD-Video
The "How to Paint from Photographs Using Corel Painter X: Creative Techniques with Jeremy Sutton" DVD set is a DVD-ROM. A DVD-ROM is a data disc that only plays on a computer (Mac or Windows PC), not on a TV or regular stand alone DVD player. A DVD-Video plays on regular DVD players as well as computers. DVD-ROM offers the benefit of the QuickTime slider that allows you to easily and quickly navigate around each movie, and permits a larger total viewing area (in this case 1024 x 768 pixels, including a custom navigation interface) than a non-HD DVD-Video (the total viewing area of which is typically 720 x 480 pixels).
End User License Agreement
Please note that all educational products offered by Jeremy Sutton, Sutton Studios & Gallery, are subject to your acceptance of the End User License Agreement (click here or view http://www.paintercreativity.com/store/license_agreement.html for details). Please read the terms of this Agreement carefully before licensing, opening or using any of the electronic media Licensed Products of Jeremy Sutton. The terms of this Agreement include the stipulation that the Licensed Product and any extra Painter brushes, art materials or tutorial images associated with it, are for a single user only and not for reproduction, rent, distribution or lease. If, after paying the license fee and receiving the Licensed Product, you decide can not agree to the terms and conditions set forth in this License, you may return the unopened Licensed Product within thirty days of receipt for a refund of the License fee paid.
Internet Access is Needed to Activate This Product
You will need to have internet access to register this product before use. After you register you will be able to use this product on three different computers. This product is for a single user use only and is not to be used for rent or distributed in any way (see End User License Agreement).
What to Buy?
I recommend starting off with my book, Painter X Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, and introductory DVD, Learning Corel Painter X with Jeremy Sutton. The book is a great complement to all my other materials and also serves as the required text book for all my classes. The book goes deeper and broader than any DVD. It also provides covenient step lists for many of the techniques shared on the DVDs. The Learning Corel Painter X DVD gives you a good overview of the software.
Once you are familiar with the basics then I recommend the more advanced DVD sets, How to Paint from Photographs Using Corel Painter X - Creative Techniques with Jeremy Sutton
and Expanding Your Creativity with Jeremy Sutton - The Art of Collage Portraiture. Both these more advanced DVD sets take you through real-life case studies from beginning to end, sharing along the way my work-flow, organizational systems, creative process, decision-making strategies, techniques and tools, plus including extensive extra brushes, art materials, tutorial images and more. In these two DVD sets I share cross-media techniques that show how I work with different programs and apply traditional media onto my prints.
If you are keen to dive in deeply and work through all my materials then I recommend my Ultimate Collection 2007 which includes all the items mentioned above at a discounted price (roughly equivalent to having the Learning Corel Painter X DVD thrown in for free).