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In this chapter we look at various ways to make portraits of adults using a range of different brushes and techniques. As always when making portraits in Painter it is for you to decide just how painterly they should appear. The step by step examples included here are all fairly close to the original photographs however this is just a matter of choice and you can decide whether to make any one more impressionistic by increasing the amount of painting.

These techniques are intended to give you the basics and can be taken further depending upon the result you think appropriate.

Also in this chapter are included several ideas for handling pictures ...

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