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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

  1. Painter Basics: Getting Started
  2. Painter Empowerment: The Four Guiding Principles
  3. Painting Portraits I: Generating Form
  4. Painting Portraits II: Unleashing the Power of Color
  5. Painting Portraits III: Expressing Personality
  6. Animating Paint: Generating Artistic Transitions
  7. Transforming Photographs I: Achieving a Hand-Painted Look
  8. Transforming Photographs II: Walking On the Wild Side
  9. Creating Collage: Evocative Storytelling

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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).

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Wow...all I can say is WOW...double WOW WOW......I couldn't wait to get your book and I figured I could use two of them and boy was I right! (I can already see that one of them will travel with me and be VERY dogeared and marked up!!).
Jeremy...the book is incredibly AWESOME in information, clearness of delivery of the info and the design is beautiful! You even include so much info for us teaching Painter to make us better teachers of the medium.
This is an achievement worth waiting for and you can be sure I will be selling it's glories to anyone that wants to truly learn Painter!! 
Marilyn Sholin
Miami, Florida, September 2003

I am enjoying my copy of "Painter 8 Creativity" (I think I was probably the first person in Australia to buy it!). I appreciate the way in which you value the creative process with as much importance as the final article. As a professional teacher / illustrator I wholeheartedly agree with this approach. I encourage my students not to cram formulas but to search for ways to solve each problem as it presents itself. Each section of your book is in itself a springboard into an array of new experimentations.
Paul Duff
Australia
December 2003

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