Book description
Whether you are just starting out with Painter, or are a seasoned pro who wants to take your photographs to the next level, you can't go wrong with this essential guide by your side! Covering Painter X, but also applicable to earlier versions and to both PC and Macintosh users, this reader friendly book and DVD package will show you how to get the most out of this powerful program. Uniquely written specifically for photographers, Martin Addison gives a complete overview of the program, showing how to master each exciting tool, including the brand-new RealBristle and Smart Stroke brush libraries. Two all-new portraiture chapters show you how to turn photographs of your family members or professional clients into works of art ideal for framing. You'll be able to give all of your precious photographs the painterly touch in no time!Be sure to visit the accompanying website www.painterforphotographers.co.uk to view even more images and information to get you started!
Pictures by Martin and Doreen Addison can be seen on their website: www.martinanddoreen.co.uk.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
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1 Getting started in Painter
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The Painter X workspace
- The default view
- Toolbox
- Opening a picture in Painter
- Brush Selector
- Picking a color from the Colors palette
- Properties bar
- Correcting mistakes
- Moving around the picture
- Rotating the canvas
- Normal view
- Full screen view
- Keyboard shortcuts for the screen
- Using and organizing palettes
- Creating custom palettes
- Palette menu
- Brush Creator
- Using a graphic tablet
- Saving images
- Default settings
- Setting up preferences
- Painter X – Photoshop
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The Painter X workspace
- 2 First steps in cloning
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3 Choosing brushes
- Quick guide to selecting brushes
- Acrylic brushes
- Airbrushes
- Art Pen Brushes
- Artists’ Oils
- Artists
- Blenders
- Calligraphy
- Chalk
- Charcoal
- Cloners
- Colored Pencils
- Conte
- Crayons
- Digital Watercolor
- Distortion
- Erasers
- F – X
- Felt Pens
- Gouache
- Image Hoze
- Impasto
- Liquid Ink
- Oil Pastels
- Oils
- Palette Knives
- Pastels
- Pattern Pens
- Pencils
- Pens
- Photo
- RealBristle Brushes
- Smart Stroke Brushes
- Sponges
- Sumi-e
- Tinting
- Watercolor
- 4 Customizing Brushes
- 5 Exploring paper textures
- 6 Applying surface texture
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7 Layers and Montage
- The Layers palette
- Layer compatibility
- Layer Composite Method
- Altering tone and color with layers
- Using layers with cloning
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Creating a montage
- Step-by-step montage
- The first layer
- Adding the rock texture
- Using a layer mask to reduce the effect
- Changing the layer composite method
- Changing the color
- Overlaying a texture from another picture
- Adding extra imagery
- Finishing off the picture
- Adjusting the saturation and contrast
- Creative cropping
- Montage using cloning
- Cloning from three images
- 8 Watercolor, oil and pastel
- 9 Mosaics and other clones
- 10 Hand coloring and toning
- 11 Children and young people
- 12 Portraits
- 13 Special effects
- 14 Printing and presentation
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15 Paper libraries
- Painter X default papers
- Assorted textures
- Awesome textures
- Biological textures
- Branched textures
- Contrasty textures
- Crack textures
- Crazy textures
- Drawing Paper textures
- Molecular textures
- Organismal textures
- Painter 5.5 textures
- Painter 6 textures
- Painter 7 textures
- Paper textures
- Relief textures
- Subtle textures
- Textile textures
- Weird textures
- Wild textures
- Last word
- Index
Product information
- Title: Painter X for Photographers
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136104930
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