Painter 8 creativity - Digital artist's handbool

• CD-ROM includes unique custom brushes and art materials not supplied with Corel Painter 8, plus tutorial images for all projects.
• The perfect way to learn Painter while expanding your creativity. This project-based handbook teaches you powerful creative techniques that you can apply to your photography, design, multimedia, illustration, animation, fine art and more!
• Learn how to use the phenomenal image creation tool, Corel Painter 8, with clear, organized, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions from an internationally recognized computer artist and Painter master! Jeremy Sutton has traveled around the world teaching and creating art with Painter for more than a decade!

Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook. Thorough. Inspirational. Colorful. Creative. This comprehensive, full-color guide to Corel Painter 8 software helps artists to paint digitally on their computer. This handbook explains everything from the basics of setting up your digital canvas to generating original paintings, painterly animations manipulating and transforming photographic images, and constructing evocative photo-collage. Projects in this book include simple through advanced techniques and creative strategies for all levels.

Painter 8 Creativity gives you, the visual artist, the explanations you need in order to maximize the power of Corel Painter 8, whether you are a digital designer, multimedia artist, photographer, illustrator, animator, or graphic artist. Sutton illustrates how to transfer traditional art skills to the computer. He teaches the animator how to add painterly effects to their work, whether for video, TV, or the Web. He explains how the photographer can transform their images into beautiful artistic paintings and collages using natural-media tools. And, for Adobe Photoshop users, this book will explain the expanded creative potential Painter adds to your 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 you to build upon your knowledge so that if you're a beginner, you have the chance to become an advanced user; and if you're an advanced user, this is your opportunity to hone and flex your skills while learning additional creative techniques.

This book's companion website offers additional tips and tools! This site, designed by Denise Laurent, the creator of the fabulous Oil Funky Chunky brush, includes links to useful educational Painter and art resources plus: updates, tutorials, tips & tricks, a gallery, and Painter goodies!

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 wilder side
• Creating collage : evocative storytelling
• Appendices
• Index
• About your instructor
• Contributors