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The Painter X Wow!
The Painter X Wow! Book continues to delight Painter fans with its many exciting, inspiring examples and techniques for creating fine art, photography, graphic design, multimedia, and film. In this new edition, bestselling author and renowned artist Cher Threinen-Pendarvis takes her readers step-by-step through this revolutionary program, revealing
the best practices of numerous digital artists. With her clear, instructive approach, Cher quickly gets beginners up to speed and provides more advanced users with additional insight on the latest creative and productive techniques. New to this edition is coverage of Painter’s latest tools, including the new RealBristle Painting System, Universal Mixer palette, Match Palette effect, Workspace Manager, an enhanced Photo-Painting System, and new composition tools. This invaluable resource gives you:
• Numerous full-color images and illustrative techniques throughout, created by renowned Painter artists worldwide
• Insider knowledge of Painter’s tools, brushes, functions, and preferences from the creator of hundreds of default brushes in Corel Painter
• Step-by-step instructions for creating artwork in a wide range of industries including commercial illustration and design, photography, fine arts, multimedia, Web design, and entertainment
• Coverage of the new RealBristle Painting System, a revolutionary system for replicating the sensation of the interaction between the artist’s brush, the paint, and the canvas
• A CD-ROM containing a trial version of Corel Painter X, stock photos, video clips, a study guide for instructors, and over 100 unique custom brushes, plus new papers, patterns, and lighting effects built by Cher herself
CONTENTS:
Welcome
• Update to describe new features, and x-ref to techniques
1 Getting to Know Painter 4
Painter’s Requirements for Mac and PC, File Size and Resolution, Opening Files, Saving Files, Painter Basics, Customizing Your Workspace, Setting Preferences, Libraries and Movers;
• Following interface explanation, a big new tip for beginners, how to begin a Painter image from scratch or using a photo, will have x-refs to techniques later in the book
• New material on new Workspace features, custom palettes, and the Composition features
• Add technique on building a custom workspace
Gallery
• new images in gallery where possible
2 The Power of Color
Hue, Saturation and Value, Putting HSV to Work, Painting with Multiple Colors, Making Color Adjustments, More Color Tools
• New tip about the new Universal Mixer color palette
• New tip about the new Match Palette feature
• All techniques will be updated for new version
Adding Color and Gradations to Line Art
Coloring a Scanned Illustration
Coloring a Woodcut
Capturing a Color Set
Gallery
• new images in gallery where possible
3 Painting with Brushes
Painting Basics, Continuous-Stroke Brushes, Emulating Traditional Techniques, Painting with Special
Effects, Painting on Layers
• add info about new RealBristle brushes to intro
• add large tip about the Universal Mixer, show examples of various brushes picking up multicolored paint
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Sketching with Pencils
Drawing with Colored Pencils
Making Sketchbook Studies Using Pens
Blending and Feathering with Pastels
A Painter Watercolor Primer
Wet-into-Wet Watercolor
Coloring a Drawing Using Digital Water Color
• new art and technique
Painting with Acrylics
Painting with Gouache
Painting an Expressive Oil Study
Painting with Oils
Painting with the Artists Oils
Glazing with the Artists Oils
Sculpting a Portrait
New RealBristle Primer
• new art and Primer
Painting with RealBristle Brushes
• new art and technique
Cloning and Tracing
Coloring and Cloning
Spontaneous Mixed Media
Applying Scanned Paper Textures
Combining Oil Pastels, Texture and Blending
Applying Rich Textures with Custom Brushes
Brushing Washes Over “Live” Canvas
Working with Thick Paint
A Painter Liquid Ink Primer
Encaustic Painting with Liquid Ink
Gallery
• more image where possible
4 Building Brushes
Intro, dab types, strokes types, Brush Creator, tips for customizing brushes
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Painting with Pastel using Custom Brushes
Digital Watercolor Using Custom Brushes
Sculpting a Portrait
Pastel and Oils using Custom Brushes
Gallery
5 Selections, Shapes and Masks
What is a Selection? What is a Shape? What is a Mask? Creating Outlined-based Selections and Shapes, Moving Selections
and Shapes, Reshaping Selections, Reshaping Shapes, Selecting and Masking by Color, Other Pixel-based Selecting and Masking Options, Feathering, Converting Selections,
Shapes and Masks, Saving Selection
Outlines, Selections at Work, Editing Selections, Masks, Using
the Channels Palette, Calculating and Operating
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Working with Bézier Paths and Selections
Using Selections to Limit Paint
Selections and Airbrush
Working with Hand-drawn Selections
Auto-Masking with Color
Gallery
• new images where possible
6 Using Layers
Working with Image Layers, Working
with Floating Objects, Using Reference Layers, Working with Shapes, Using Dynamic
Layers, Using Text Layers, Working with Media Layers, Organizing with the Layers Palette, Layers and Their Masks, Composite Controls
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Working with Shapes and Layers
Painting on Layers
Collage With Cloning and Brushes
Mixing Media on Layers
Melting Text into Water
Gallery
• new images where possible
7 Enhancing Photos, Montage and Collage
Image-Processing Basics, Advanced Techniques
• all techniques will be updated for new version
•New tip on Cloning tool, Dodge and Burn tools in Toolbox for Retouching
• New tip on Retouching palette
•New info about enhanced photo-painting features
• New tip about the new Match Palette feature, showing matching color and intensity between two images
Selective Coloring
Creating a Sepia-Tone Photo
• new image and updated technique
Hand-Tinting a Photo
• new image and updated technique
Blending and Cloning a Photograph
• new technique, cloning and blending of a photograph
Retouching, Cloning and Painting
Auto-painting from a photo
• new technique
Creating a Woodcut from a Photo
Melting into Watercolor
• new image and technique
Gallery
• new images where possible
8 Exploring Special Effects
Adding Effects with Surface Texture, Adding Dimension with Lighting, Exploring Patterns, Creating Effects with Glass Distortion, Working with Mosaics, Special Effects
Using Dynamic
Layers
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Diving into Distortion
Creating an Impressionist Look
• new image and updated technique
Creating a Seamless Pattern
• new image and updated technique
Applying Patterns
• new image and updated technique
Making an Environment Map
Applying an Environment Map
Building a Terrain Map Building a Clone-Based Mosaic
Creating a Circular Panorama
Draping a Weave
• new image and updated technique
Creating Art for Glass Sculpture
Creating a Color Adjustable Leaf Brush
Gallery
• new images where possible
9 Working with Type in Painter
A Typography Primer, Designing with Painter’s Type Tools
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Setting Text on a Curve
A Spattery Graffiti Glow
Creating Brushed Metal Type
• new image and technique)
Painting with Ice
Gallery
• new images where possible
10 Using Painter with Photoshop
Painter to Photoshop, Photoshop to Painter
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Compositing, Painting and Effects
Illustrating with Soft Pastel
Gallery
• new images where possible
11 Animation and Film with Painter\Working with Scripts, Animating with Frame Stacks, Importing and Exporting
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Animating an Illustration
Making an Animated Comp
Animating a Logo
Automating Movie Effects
• new art and technique
Gallery
• new images where possible
12 Printing and Archival Concerns:
Expanded chapter
Color for Commercial Printing, Fine Art Printing at a Service Bureau, Photographic Imaging Options, Fine Art Printing in the Studio, Experimental Printmaking, Fine Art Editions from Digital Files
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Making an Color-Managed Art Print
• new art and technique
Gallery
• new images where possible
Appendixes
Image Collections, Hardware Information, Resources for Substrates and Inks, Software Information, Fine Art Print Studios and Service Bureaus, Contributing Artists, Reference Materials
Index
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