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

Average customer rating: 4.5

A good book if you know Painter already
High Recommendation from a Digital Artist
Great for Beginners
Pretty decent Book
Just what I needed

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The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting
Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Product Group: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0321168917

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As much art book as guide, <b>The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting</b> 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.

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Customer Reviews:

A good book if you know Painter already.......2007-05-07

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.

High Recommendation from a Digital Artist.......2007-02-15

One of the most valuable things about, "The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book" is that Cher gives us a variety of projects we can do that will help us master digital painting.

Not only are we guided through how to use a graphics tablet and stylus in combination with Photoshop and Painter software; but through some of the basics of drawing and composition, as well. Plus, each project is accompanied by step-by-step examples that are refreshingly original and clear.

So, whether someone is new to the medium or has a decade of experience with digital painting like I do, Cher provides projects we can all learn from. Because of that, this book is a welcomed addition to my creative library and one that I highly recommend.

Great for Beginners.......2007-01-18

I was disappointed in the book cause its more oriented for beginners, i was hoping to learn new techniques as i am more toward advanced. But the book itself is great for beginners and made a great gift for a friend of mine.

Pretty decent Book.......2006-12-15

The book takes an approach through modern or fine art, so if you're one of those "anime artists/comic book/cartoon pop art" you'll probably find this book boring. I wanted to mention this because certain types of illustrators and cartoonists want to draw pretty pictures and not understand the basics of producing artwork.

Having said that it's actually NOT a blast at the book itself, as an artist that enjoys all types of work, the book is helpful in making me realize how to create strokes and apply it to those types of illustrations I mentioned above. Learning the basics and exercises as such is a GOOD thing.

I was originally using an intuos 2 to practice the exercises, and I think now that I upgraded my tablet I'll try again with my intuos 3 and enjoy the exercises more so.

Doing the exercises also helps you get used to your tablet and figuring out how you need to adjust your strokes in producing artwork, so it's very much worth the try.

Just what I needed.......2006-11-10

Excellent book that provides exactly what I needed to learn to use Painter and the tablet.

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