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Extensive new artists galleries, tutorials and a thorough editing to reflect new changes to Painter X make The Painter X WOW! Book educational and inspiring!

Written to help traditional artists transition to building art digitally, The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book continues to receive rave reviews.

In addition to writing books and articles for magazines and websites, Cher has travelled extensively to train graphics and art professionals in many different fields, including art faculty, video editors, and print illustrators.

Write Cher to inquire about having Cher personally train your staff or group in your own production facilities or school.

Graphics Software

Before I go to software, there is one piece of hardware artists simply can not overlook if they're going to be serious about creating work in the digital environment. Please, you simply must have a tablet to utilize the full power of Painter and Photoshop. There isn't any substitute! The standard for digital tablets is Wacom.

WACOM
Digitizing Tablets

There's always the obvious: Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter, but that's the tip of the iceberg. Smaller software companies contribute so much to the graphics industry, so along with the larger, here are a few more to consider:

AutoFX
Photoshop Plug-ins

AlienSkin
Photoshop Plug-ins

Extensis
Font Management and Assets Management

Flaming Pear
Photoshop Plug-ins

Andromeda
Photoshop Plug-ins

Panopticum
Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects Plug-ins

Redfield
Photoshop Plug-ins

The Imaging Factory
Photoshop Plug-ins

onOne Software
Photoshop Plug-ins

Nik Software
Photoshop Plug-ins

Red Giant Software
After-Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop

Human Software
Photoshop Plug-ins

Corel
Applications for Graphics and Business

Adobe
Graphics Application