Author: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Publisher: Addison Wesley
ISBN: 9780201696516
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Book Description
Painter users of all levels will benefit from this hands-on guide to MetaCreations' award-winning program. Beginners will love the step-by-step instructions, which assume no prior knowledge of Painter. Intermediate and advanced users will gain valuable insight from the author's explanations of a wide variety of advanced techniques.
Author: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Publisher: Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0132826046
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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[NOTE: This book covers Painter 12] As Painter reaches a milestone twentieth anniversary, The Painter Wow! Book, now in its tenth edition, continues to be an inspiration to Painter fans everywhere, novice and pros alike. Author and renowned artist Cher Threinen-Pendarvis uses her clear, instructive approach to get beginners up to speed and provides more advanced users with additional insight on a variety of cool, creative, and productive techniques. New to this edition is coverage of Painter’s latest tools and the completely redesigned interface, including new media library management, the new Navigator panel and new Clone Source panel, enhanced workspace features, new Real Wet Watercolor and Real Wet Oil painting media, Symmetry features including Kaleidoscope and Mirror painting modes, improved support for Photoshop users, and much more. This invaluable resource for professionals and artists at all levels offers: 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 Corel’s brushes Step-by-step instructions for creating artwork in a wide range of industries including commercial illustration and design, photography, fine arts, multimedia, and entertainment A CD-ROM containing stock photos, video clips, a study guide for instructors, unique custom brushes, plus papers, patterns, and other Wow! goodies built by Cher herself [NOTE: This book covers Painter 12] All of Peachpit's eBooks contain the same content as the print edition. You will find a link in the last few pages of your eBook that directs you to the media files. Helpful tips: - If you are able to search the book, search for "Where are the lesson files?" - Go to the very last page of the book and scroll backwards. - You will need a web-enabled device or computer in order to access the media files that accompany this ebook. Entering the URL supplied into a computer with web access will allow you to get to the files. - Depending on your device, it is possible that your display settings will cut off part of the URL. To make sure this is not the case, try reducing your font size and turning your device to a landscape view. This should cause the full URL to appear.
Author: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321903358
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Book Description
Provides instructions for blending traditional drawing and painting skills with technological advances to create digital art.
Author: Karen Sperling
Publisher: Mis Press
ISBN: 9781558285583
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 541
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Book Description
This in-depth look at Fractal Design Painter covers the tools, features and functions of the program''s l atest version as well as providing a host of hints and tips. The CD-ROM includes demo versions for both Mac and Windows 95, and a gallery of images '
Author: Sharon Steuer
Publisher: Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0321168925
Category : Adobe Illustrator (Computer file)
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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Book Description
Designed to dazzle and inspire but not leave you in the dust, this beautifully designed volume lets you follow along as it dissects real-world projects from some of today's top Illustrator artists. In the process it teaches you how to use Illustrator in ever more creative ways for your own projects. Best-selling author and award-winning artist Sharon Steuer uses four-color pictures of real Illustrator projects to show what's possible and then employs simple, step-by-step instructions to explain the techniques that will produce those effects. You'll find comprehensive ground-up coverage of all of Illustrator CS' most important capabilities. Veteran users will be grateful to explore Illustrator CS' new features: powerful new tools for creating 3D graphics on the fly, a new Scribble Effect that lets you add a loose, hand-drawn look to your artwork, a redesigned text engine, enhanced PDF support, and more. On the CD, you'll find artwork from the book, technical documents, third-party software, clip art, and more.
Author: Sharon Steuer
Publisher: Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0133928772
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Book Description
For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this expanded edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you’ll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from top Illustrator artists. You’ll learn to use new features, discover exciting ways to create complex effects, and find fresh ways to use venerable old tools and¿speed up your workflow. This edition includes coverage of the 2014 release and is loaded with and lessons with stunning new artwork that feature: Painting and generating objects with raster brushes Harnessing Live Corners, Live Rectangles, and new ways to reshape paths Manipulating live type characters with the Touch Type tool Creating airbrush and neon effects with gradients on strokes Building complex styles with multiple lines, fills, and effects Composing complex repeating patterns Auto-generating corners for pattern brushes Incorporating transparency into mesh and gradients Building and modifying scenes in perspective and 3D Transforming raster art to Illustrator vectors Preparing artwork for animation and the web Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop and other apps Creating photorealism in Illustrator WOW! ONLINE Register the book at peachpit.com/register to access artwork to pick apart and special PDFs from artists to you. Keep up with tips on the latest Illustrator features at WOWartist.com.
Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385352085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the national bestselling author of The River and The Dog Stars comes a "carefully composed story about one man’s downward turning life in the American West” (The Boston Globe). After having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet life ... until the day that he comes across a hunting guide beating a small horse, and a brutal act of new violence rips his quiet life right open. Pursued by men dead set on retribution, Jim is left with no choice but to return to New Mexico and the high-profile life he left behind, where he’ll reckon with past deeds and the dark shadows in his own heart. Look for Peter Heller's new novel, The Last Ranger, coming soon!
Author: Jeremy Sutton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136110534
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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Book Description
Jeremy Sutton is one of the world's premier Painter artists (www.JeremySutton.com and www.PaintboxJ.com), and in this brand new edition of his best-selling Painter Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, he shows you the methods and techniques he's developed over the years to perfect his art and earn him the title of Corel Painter Master. This edition has been completely revamped to cover all of the new features in Corel Painter 11 and the Wacom Intuos4 pen-tablet, including: *The new Hard Media brushes *Complete visual summary of all brushes, new and old, in Painter 11 *Revised and updated command shortcuts *New way of creating and controlling Reference Layers (formerly Free Transform) *Programming suggestions for new Intuos4 Express Keys and Touch Ring *And much more! Inside, you'll find comprehensive coverage of the way that Jeremy uses the Painter 11 brushes and the Wacom Intuos4 pen-tablet for drawing and painting. You'll learn how to paint from scratch as well as a loose expressionistic approach to painting from photographs as you follow the clear step-by-step instructions throughout the book. Focused, in-depth case studies provide you with the expertise and guidance you'll need to become your own master of this wonderful world of digital painting. Jeremy balances technical instruction with artistic advice, including a whole chapter on going for it with color. In addition to Jeremy's own works of art, you'll find a gallery of images created by painters who have studied his methods, showing you examples of how you can apply his teaching to your own style and subject matter. Finally, be sure to check out the downloadable resources for valuable supplemental content such as four QuickTime movies as well as custom brushes, art materials and a new Painter workspace.
Author: Margaret Shepherd
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 082308230X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Book Description
Learn World Calligraphy has something for everyone. Whether you want scholarly insight, artistic inspiration, classroom projects, or a theme for your next party, this comprehensive, unparalleled full-color book will guide you on a virtual trip around the globe. Covering nearly all of the world’s writing systems—from African to Arabic, Chinese to Greek, Hebrew to Russian, and beyond—Learn World Calligraphy offers a unique glimpse of scripts worldwide and the calligraphers who write them. Lushly illustrated with gorgeous examples of both historical and modern calligraphic designs, this book is filled with practical instruction for how key aspects of each exotic script can be applied to the English alphabet, generating calligraphic hybrids with a distinctly foreign flair. Like a new cuisine that you can’t wait to cook at home, the scripts you meet in this book are sure to infuse your own calligraphy with the flavor of abroad. Bon voyage!
Author: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780321685797
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Book Description
Learn and be inspired by this beautiful, full-color revision of the best-selling book on Corel Painter. * *Insider knowledge of Painter's tools, brushes, and functions from the creator of hundreds of Corel's brushes. *Coverage on Painter's new dry media in the RealBristle Painting System, customizable controls for hard media, better selection tools, much-improved support for Photoshop users, and more. *Companion CD-ROM loaded with custom brushes, video clips, filters, photos, and more! Cher's long-term love affair with Painter has resulted in a wealth of invaluable instruction for both expressive-media neophytes and seasoned veterans alike.' - from the foreword by John Derry, one of the original developers of Painter. The Painter 11 Wow! Book continues to delight Painter fans with its many exciting inspirations and techniques for creating fine art, photography, graphic design, multimedia, and film. In this new edition of The Painter Wow! Book, bestselling author and renowned artist Cher Threinen-Pendarvis takes her readers, step-by-step, through this revolutionary program, guiding them across the bridge from traditional media to electronic art. With her clear, instructive approach, Cher quickly gets beginners up to speed, providing more advanced users with additional insight on a variety of cool, creative, and productive techniques. New to this edition is coverage of Painter's latest tools, including the new dry media (marker, pen, pencil, and chalk) found in the RealBristle Painting System, a hard-media palette for fine-tuned adjustments, a virtual palette for mixing colors, support for Photoshop layers and color profiles, and much more. A CD-ROM containing numerous 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, makes this an invaluable resource for professionals and artists at all levels.
