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Painter X Creativity

The Digital Artist's Handbook

By Jeremy Sutton

Painter X Creativity

ISBN: 9780240809298

Publication Date: August 15, 2007

Price: $49.95

Format: Paperback with CD

Pages: 320

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Key Features

  • Clear explanations with colorful screen grabs and inspiring artworks that lead you through the sophisticated and creative Painter tools
  • Practical, hands-on tutorials, and project illustrations that show you every step in image development, including multimedia artist techniques
  • Chapter endings with quizzes and questions to cement learning
  • A CD-ROM packed with unique custom brushes, tutorial images for all projects, and additional art materials not supplied with Painter X

Description

Fully updated for Painter X and the new Wacom graphics tablet, this indispensable guide allows you to experiment with creative ideas and techniques that you can adapt to your own style. New timesaving tips, visual galleries, and keyboard short cuts allow you to quickly transform your work with natural-media tools. From expressive paintings to evocative collages, montages, classic oil realism in landscapes, live portrait paintings, and painterly effects for video, television, and the Web, you'll find everything that you need in this essential guide to create your own stunning works of art.

Reviews

"If you are starting, or are already on your own creative odyssey, you couldn’t be in better hands."
-- John Derry, pioneer of digital painting and an original author of Corel Painter

"An exceptional handbook for learning and mastering Corel Painter X."
-- Nick Davies, General Manager, Graphics, Corel Corp.

Contents

Preface
Introduction to using Painter creatively
Breaking out of the Box
Going for It with Color
Live Portrait Painting
The Beauty of Collage
Adding Physical Media to your Prints