Tutorial DVD-ROM
Learning Corel Painter X
with Jeremy Sutton
(inlcudes tutorial images)
This DVD is a thorough introduction to Corel Painter X, providing an overview of the interface, highlighting major new features, and including a sampling of easy to follow techniques for creating paintings and collages from your photographs. Tutorial images are included in the DVD. I recommend this for anyone new to Painter and also as a preliminary DVD before working through my more in-depth The Art of Collage Portraiture and Painter IX Simplified for Photographers DVD sets.
You will find below a summary of the contents of the DVD plus user reviews.
Contents
1) Introduction
2) What's New a) Overview
b) Real Bristle Brushes
c) Divine Proportion
d) Workspace Manager
3) Graphics Tablet a) Choosing a Tablet
b) Pens
c) Control Panel
4) Welcome Book a) Documents & Templates
b) Gallery & Resources
c) Color Management
d) Brush Tracking
e) Quick Tips
5) Interface Tour a) Default Interface & Brush Selector
b) Layer Adjuster c) Selection Tools
d) Shape Tools & Selection Portfolio
e) Text, Dodge & Burn Tools
f) Layout Tools
g) Cloner & Eraser Tools
h) Dropper, Bucket & Grabber Tools
i) Color Selector
j) Library Selectors
k) Document Window Buttons
6) Optimizing Preferences a) Opening & Saving New Documents b) General & Enhanced Brush Ghost
c) Customize Keys, Undo & Shapes
d) Save Preferences
e) Palettes UI & Memory
f) Creating a Custom Palette
g) Creating Brush Shortcuts
h) Importing & Exporting Palettes
7) Real Bristle Brushes a) Roundness & Bristle Length
b) Profile & Fanning
c) Friction & Height
d) Dynamic Plugins
8) Photopainting a) Image Size & Resolution
b) Image Enhancements
c) Quick Clone & Tracing Paper
d) Sketching The Photo
e) Creating a Chalk Underpainting
f) Cloning, Layer masks & Iterative Save
g) Adding Texture & Blending
h) Refining the Photopainting
9) Autopainting a) Autopainting
b) Refining the Autopainting
c) Color Sets
10) Underpainting Ideas a) Woodcut Effect
b) Recording Brush Strokes
c) Freehand
11) Collage a) Creating Collage Layers
b) Introduction to Paper Textures
c) Creating Textures & Paper Libraries
d) Working with Layers
12) Conclusion
13) Meet Jeremy (Studio Tour)
User Comments
Subject: Just bought Painter X with your video! Awesome!
Hello Jeremy,
I just want to thank you for your absolutely wonderful learning video that came with my recent purchase of Corel Painter X. While I've been an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop and have taught all levels of digital imaging since 1999, I really aspire to one day do presentations and master this program, as you have done. I'm thoroughly impressed with you, your art, your instruction, presentation, personality....AND your dancing! Wonderful!
Warmest Regards,
Mama Shan
Hi Jeremy!
Congrats on the excellent X tutorial DVD! Well produced and extremely well outlined and presented (what else could one expect from you aye!). Everyone who upgrades should invest and have a look at it -and you can quote me on that! Kudos, Well Dones and Snoopy Dancing Feet all around!
Jane Conner-ziser
Hi Jeremy,
I just finished watching the Painter X intro DVD... I was most impressed with the instruction and by the quality of your work. Thanks for making it!
Max Bailey
DVD-ROM versus DVD-Video
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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 or using any of the electronic media Licensed Products of Jeremy Sutton. The terms of this Agreement include the stipulation that the Licensed Product, including any extra Painter brushes and art materials, is 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 for a refund of the License fee paid.
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).