Before the era of photography, artists used many techniques to try to capture the moment. Most of these included working with light, color, tone, and composition. When photography came on to the scene and did a good job of capturing reality, traditional artists moved toward impressionism and other more abstract movements. As both art forms have now entered the world of digital expression, these worlds are colliding and giving artists many more venues of expression.
To compose and create a photograph feels easy to most people, but when it comes to creating traditional artwork, most photographers feel that to paint from photographs, you must have a specialized talent. Like the book Painting For Photographers, the goal of this DVD to show that anyone who can photograph can paint using photos. The same visual sense that drew you to photography can also help you turn your photographs into digital art work. The first three lessons are the bulk of this training with the remainder a set of bonus features that show you how to work with the Corel Painter Image Hose.
Lesson 1, "Part I: Portraits - Introduction (17:38 min)," begins with an introduction to painting by looking at how you use light and dark tones to paint an image, how to work with the various tonal controls, the color choices you should make when approaching a painting, and how to work with color schemes.
In this lesson, as with all of the following ones, you will work with both Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. In this lesson you will examine some of the basic operations such as opening and saving files. You will also learn some specifics you need when working with Corel Painter 11 such as the dialog boxes, using brushes, and working with tracing paper.
Lesson 2, "Part II: Portraits - Painting Eyes and Lips (17:58 min)," begins with what many call the window to the soul — the eyes. Here you will see how to determine the light source so you can make sure to show the catch light You will see the steps for painting eyes, learn quite a few shortcuts that you can use to lift a color, undo, resize, show and hide a color pallet, and more.
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