Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Despite its fame as an image-editing tool, Photoshop has never been about painting—that is, not until recently. With a new paint engine, however, Photoshop 7 is now about editing, compositing, effects, and painting—and award-winning artist and author Cher Threinen-Pendarvis is here to show you how you can use both Photoshop and Painter with pressure-sensitive tablets to improve your drawing skills and open your mind to new artistic possibilities. In this volume—which is as much art book as guide—the author of the Painter Wow! series steps you through a variety of real-life projects designed to improve your drawing, composition, and conceptual skills while exploring different digital tools. Along the way, you'll learn how to set up a pressure-sensitive tablet and stylus; use mark-making tools in Photoshop and Painter; create tonal, gestural, and contour drawings; and more. Best of all, in addition to helpful screen shots, you'll find beautiful, full-color, progressive views of the art being produced. Anyone who wants to use these tools to improve their drawing skills and enhance creativity will find all the instruction and inspiration they need in these pages.
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Customer Reviews Read 29 more reviews...
Works for me . . . September 1, 2008
Gman (Lost in the Midwest)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very nice place to start if you're trying to expand Photoshop skills into traditional art techniques.
Not for the serious artist December 14, 2007
J. A. Buhrer
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book has mediocre instruction, and the example art is very very bad. I was very let down by the poor quality of both the instruction and sample art. I would say that both are not quite high school level, so I personally would hesitate to recommend this book to any adult that has any serious interest in art at all. The only difference between this book and a high school level art textbook is that this book also covers very, VERY basic software information you can easily learn from many free sources or through a few hours of tinkering. It would probably be a good gift for a kid or perhaps someone who is undertaking digital art as a very casual hobby. If you are more serious than that about learning digital painting, I would recommend Don Seegmiller's book instead.
Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet September 5, 2007
Sue Stiltz (Salt Lake City, Utah USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting
While I was not overly impressed with the art illustrations in this book I am very impressed with instruction. It explains the A-Z's of setting up your computer for Digital Artwork for both original art and photos. This includes setting up your pallates, naming/saving files, backup, etc.
Would recommend for newbies and experienced alike.
Painters Book June 26, 2007
Arthur E. Brush (So Calif. USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a great guide to using the painters tablet with photoshop software. Very good reference.
A good book if you know Painter already May 7, 2007
J. Hardin (Marietta, GA USA)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
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.
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