» The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting
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The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Details
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 006.6869
EAN: 9780321168917
ISBN: 0321168917
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2004-11-26
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Studio: Peachpit Press
The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Reviews
Customer Rating:Summary: Works for me . . .
Comment: A very nice place to start if you're trying to expand Photoshop skills into traditional art techniques.
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Summary: Not for the serious artist
Comment: This book has mediocre instruction, and the example art is very very bad. I was very let down by the poor quality of both the instruction and sample art. I would say that both are not quite high school level, so I would not recommend this book to any even semi-serious artist over the age of 15 or so. The only difference between this book and a middle school level art textbook is that this book also covers very, VERY basic software information you can easily learn from many free sources or through a few hours of tinkering. It would probably be a good gift for a kid or perhaps someone who is undertaking digital art as a very casual hobby. If you are more serious than that about learning digital painting, I would recommend Don Seegmiller's book instead.
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Summary: Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet
Comment: The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting
While I was not overly impressed with the art illustrations in this book I am very impressed with instruction. It explains the A-Z's of setting up your computer for Digital Artwork for both original art and photos. This includes setting up your pallates, naming/saving files, backup, etc.
Would recommend for newbies and experienced alike.
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Summary: Painters Book
Comment: This book is a great guide to using the painters tablet with photoshop software. Very good reference.
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Summary: A good book if you know Painter already
Comment: This is a small book that I bought in a bundle with my Wacom Tablet. The book is pretty good about showing you how to paint in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop, but you need to already know the software. There is no real "introduction" to the software. The book just assumes that you already know how to choose brushes and such, and takes you right into the painting methods. I like the book, but I don't recommend it to anyone who doesn't already know a bit about Corel Painter or Photoshop.
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As much art book as guide, The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting uses traditional 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. Award-winning artist and author Cher Threinen-Pendarvis shares her own drawings and paintings with the readers, sharing her creative thought processes and composition design secrets that she uses in her own work. In this gorgeous, large format, full-color book, Cher takes readers 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, Cher shows readers 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 the 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, and the lessons and examples demonstrated in this book are designed to work with the most current versions of Painter and Photoshop, as well as most earlier versions of the software. In addition, readers will find brushes, textures, images and other goodies on the book’s companion Web site that they can use as they work through the projects in the book.
