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

The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting
by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis

The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting
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Author: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-11-26
ISBN: 0321168917
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Peachpit Press

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Book Review: This Book Fills an Empty Niche
Summary: 5 Stars

Cher Threinen-Pendarvis saw a need and has fulfilled it with The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book. The need was for detailed directions in setting up and using one's digital tablet and stylus for use with Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop and continuing instructions on ways to use the stylus and tablet in each new endeavor. The subject is usually treated in a single chapter in other books, but this author weaves ways to adjust and use the digital stylus and tablet to draw and paint in all the exercises in the entire book. I have been studio painting for 23 years and digital painting using Painter and Photoshop for 10 years, yet I have learned something from each chapter in this book.

Pendarvis offers drawing and painting exercises for those new to painting, with information applicable whether painting with traditional media or digitally on the computer. At the same time her expertise with Painter and Photoshop enables her to offer tips and techniques useful for the experienced digital painter.

Exercises include tips and instructons for digital sketching, working on location, painting from photo resources, setting up, sketching, drawing and painting simple still life studies and sketching either on paper and scanned for the computer or sketching directly on the computer. Several sectons cover how to retouch vintage photographs and turn them into paintings. The author details with clear instructons how to use one's traditional or digital sketches as bases for developing paintings in digital watercolor, pastels, chalk, oils, gouache and other media. We learn to customize and use brushes in both Photoshop and Painter as needed for various projects. Pendarvis also shows us how to create a personal color palette for each painting and how to preserve and use this palette while painting on the computer. A section tells how to composite sketches and scans with digital painting from both programs, painting a project from the imagination. Other topics are covered as well. Her tips on using lighting in one's digital works and how to make custom cloning brushes are valuable. A small gallery of the author's own digital paintings is included.

Although I have never met her personally, I credit Cher Threinen-Pendarvis as one artist who taught me (through her Painter Wow! Books) how to apply Painter's enormous resources to digital painting when I was new to both computers and digital painting. This "tablet book" expands that knowledge and further teaches me how to use and customize Photoshop's brushes and how to apply Photoshop's tremendous resources to painting as well as to its more common use as a digital dark room and image editor.

I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in digital painting, but especially to those new to painting on the computer.

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

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.

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