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The Painter X WOW! Book

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!

The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book

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

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The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting

This beautiful four-color book instructs digital artists (illustrators, designers, photographers, graphic artists, and others) at all levels of expertise how to push their skills farther using a pressure-sensitive tablet, Photoshop and Painter.

This is the first book of its kind that explores using Photoshop, Painter and tablet together by highlighting their technical features in relation to important drawing, composition and conceptual processes. It's also unique in that many concepts are explained through step-by-step projects, allowing readers to see the processes in action. For example, there are exercises on modeling forms using tone and value, projects on enhancing the focal point in a painting, lessons on creating mixed media techniques for simulating canvas and paper, and much more. And although this book has been written for those using Painter IX and Photoshop CS, the lessons are all presented in a way that makes them immediately useful to those using Painter X and Photoshop CS2 or CS3.

As much art book as guide, The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting uses traditional exercises in drawing and painting theory exercises, coupled with real-life projects, to show readers how they can use Painter and Photoshop with pressure-sensitive tablets to draw and paint with a computer. In this gorgeous, large format, full-color book, readers move step-by-step through a variety of projects designed to improve their drawing, composition, and conceptual thought processes while exploring different uses of the many brushes available in Painter and Photoshop. Along the way, readers are shown how to set up a pressure-sensitive tablet and stylus; use mark-making tools in Photoshop and Painter; create tonal, gestural and contour drawings with a pressure-sensitive tablet and stylus; incorporate scanned artwork into digital paintings; use photos as a reference for illustrations; make creative use of color and ideas for composition design; translate traditional color theory to digital color tools; simulate canvas and paper; create mixed media; and more. All the concepts, processes, and projects in this book can be applied to readers' own drawings and paintings

Readers looking for extra inspiration can visit the book's web site to download additional brushes, images, and textures.

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