Books & DVD's
Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook
by Jeremy Sutton
Painter
Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook is a comprehensive creative, full
color guide to Corel's Painter software, which allows artists to "paint"
digitally using a mouse or an electronic stylus and tablet. It explains
the basics of setting up, understanding, customizing, and applying Painter
to create original works, paintings, generating painterly animations,
manipulating and transforming photographic images, and constructing evocative
photo-collage. The projects include advanced techniques and creative strategies
for all levels.
Painter X Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook gives visual artists, digital designers, multimedia artists, photographers, illustrators, animators, and graphic artists, the explanations they need in order to maximize the sophisticated, creative Painter tool.
The book teaches the artist how to transfer traditional art skills and techniques to the computer. It teaches the animator how to add painterly effects to their work, whether for video, TV, or the web. It explains how photographers can transform and collage their images with natural-media tools. For Adobe Photoshop users this book explains the expanded creative potential Painter lends to their work.
Sutton takes a knowledgeable and straightforward approach to this step-by-step project-based book, explaining how each tool is used, every effect achieved, and every topic thoroughly described. The book allows readers to build upon their knowledge so that beginners have the chance to become advanced users, and advanced users have an opportunity to hone their skills and adopt new techniques.
Key Features:
- A creative handbook for visual artists working in the digital media industry
- The only Painter workbook that addresses both creativity and technical proficiency
- Teaches creative techniques to be adapted by all visual artists -especially photographers, designers, and illustrators
Table of Contents
- Painter Basics: Getting Started
- Painter Empowerment: The Four Guiding Principles
- Painting Portraits I: Generating Form
- Painting Portraits II: Unleashing the Power of Color
- Painting Portraits III: Expressing Personality
- Animating Paint: Generating Artistic Transitions
- Transforming Photographs I: Achieving a Hand-Painted Look
- Transforming Photographs II: Walking On the Wild Side
- Creating Collage: Evocative Storytelling
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Online Training
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The interface has not changed significantly between Painter X and Painter 11 so you can easily apply the lessons from all my earlier materials when using Corel Painter 11. Likewise my PaintboxJ Painter 11 tutorials can all be easily applied in earlier versions of Painter. I do strongly recommend upgrading to Painter 11 if you currently have an earlier version. The newest Painter is the best yet. It is significantly faster than earlier versions and includes a whole new class of wonderful brushes (the Hard Media brushes).
Hands-on Training
There's no substitute for hand-on training. Take a class and enjoy
the fastest and most effective way to learn Painter and develop your artistic
and creative skills.