- 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