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The Painter X Wow! Book

Author: Cher Threinen Pendarvis

The Painter X Wow! Book continues to delight and inspire Painter fans with its many exciting techniques for creating fine art, photography, graphic design, multimedia, and film. In this new edition of The Painter Wow! Book, bestselling author and renowned artist Cher Threinen-Pendarvis takes her readers, step-by-step, through this revolutionary program, guiding them across the bridge from traditional media to electronic art. With her clear, instructive approach, Cher quickly gets beginners up to speed, providing more advanced users with additional insight on a variety of cool, creative, and productive techniques. New to this edition is coverage of Painter’s latest exciting tools, including the RealBristle Painting System, Photo-Painting System, Universal Mixer palette, Match Palette effect, and composition tools. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a demo version of Corel Painter X, stock photos, video clips, a study guide for instructors, and over 100 unique custom brushes, plus new papers, patterns, and lighting effects built by Cher herself. The numerous full-color images and illustrative techniques throughout make this an invaluable resource for professionals and artists at all levels.

Table of Contents:

Welcome
• Update to describe new features, and x-ref to techniques

1 Getting to Know Painter 4
Painter’s Requirements for Mac and PC, File Size and Resolution, Opening Files, Saving Files, Painter Basics, Customizing Your Workspace, Setting Preferences, Libraries and Movers;
• Following interface explanation, a big new tip for beginners, how to begin a Painter image from scratch or using a photo, will have x-refs to techniques later in the book
• New material on new Workspace features, custom palettes, and the Composition features
• Add technique on building a custom workspace
Gallery
• new images in gallery where possible

2 The Power of Color
Hue, Saturation and Value, Putting HSV to Work, Painting with Multiple Colors, Making Color Adjustments, More Color Tools
• New tip about the new Universal Mixer color palette
• New tip about the new Match Palette feature
• All techniques will be updated for new version
Adding Color and Gradations to Line Art
Coloring a Scanned Illustration
Coloring a Woodcut
Capturing a Color Set
Gallery
• new images in gallery where possible

3 Painting with Brushes
Painting Basics, Continuous-Stroke Brushes, Emulating Traditional Techniques, Painting with Special
Effects, Painting on Layers
• add info about new RealBristle brushes to intro
• add large tip about the Universal Mixer, show examples of various brushes picking up multicolored paint
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Sketching with Pencils
Drawingwith Colored Pencils
Making Sketchbook Studies Using Pens
Blending and Feathering with Pastels
A Painter Watercolor Primer
Wet-into-Wet Watercolor
Coloring a Drawing Using Digital Water Color
• new art and technique
Painting with Acrylics
Painting with Gouache
Painting an Expressive Oil Study
Painting with Oils
Painting with the Artists Oils
Glazing with the Artists Oils
Sculpting a Portrait
New RealBristle Primer
• new art and Primer
Painting with RealBristle Brushes
• new art and technique
Cloning and Tracing
Coloring and Cloning
Spontaneous Mixed Media
Applying Scanned Paper Textures
Combining Oil Pastels, Texture and Blending
Applying Rich Textures with Custom Brushes
Brushing Washes Over “Live” Canvas
Working with Thick Paint
A Painter Liquid Ink Primer
Encaustic Painting with Liquid Ink
Gallery
• more image where possible

4 Building Brushes
Intro, dab types, strokes types, Brush Creator, tips for customizing brushes
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Painting with Pastel using Custom Brushes
Digital Watercolor Using Custom Brushes
Sculpting a Portrait
Pastel and Oils using Custom Brushes
Gallery

5 Selections, Shapes and Masks
What is a Selection? What is a Shape? What is a Mask? Creating Outlined-based Selections and Shapes, Moving Selections
and Shapes, Reshaping Selections, Reshaping Shapes, Selecting and Masking by Color, Other Pixel-based Selecting and Masking Options, Feathering, Converting Selections,
Shapes and Masks, Saving Selection
Outlines, Selections at Work, Editing Selections, Masks, Using
the Channels Palette, Calculating and Operating
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Working with Bézier Paths and Selections
Using Selections to Limit Paint
Selections and Airbrush
Working with Hand-drawn Selections
Auto-Masking with Color
Gallery
• new images where possible

6 Using Layers
Working with Image Layers, Working
with Floating Objects, Using Reference Layers, Working with Shapes, Using Dynamic
Layers, Using Text Layers, Working with Media Layers, Organizing with the Layers Palette, Layers and Their Masks, Composite Controls
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Working with Shapes and Layers
Painting on Layers
Collage With Cloning and Brushes
Mixing Media on Layers
Melting Text into Water
Gallery
• new images where possible

7 Enhancing Photos, Montage and Collage
Image-Processing Basics, Advanced Techniques
• all techniques will be updated for new version
•New tip on Cloning tool, Dodge and Burn tools in Toolbox for Retouching
• New tip on Retouching palette
•New info about enhanced photo-painting features
• New tip about the new Match Palette feature, showing matching color and intensity between two images
Selective Coloring
Creating a Sepia-Tone Photo
• new image and updated technique
Hand-Tinting a Photo
• new image and updated technique
Blending and Cloning a Photograph
• new technique, cloning and blending of a photograph
Retouching, Cloning and Painting
Auto-painting from a photo
• new technique
Creating a Woodcut from a Photo
Melting into Watercolor
• new image and technique
Gallery
• new images where possible

8 Exploring Special Effects
Adding Effects with Surface Texture, Adding Dimension with Lighting, Exploring Patterns, Creating Effects with Glass Distortion, Working with Mosaics, Special Effects
Using Dynamic
Layers
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Diving into Distortion
Creating an Impressionist Look
• new image and updated technique
Creating a Seamless Pattern
• new image and updated technique
Applying Patterns
• new image and updated technique
Making an Environment Map
Applying an Environment Map
Building a Terrain Map Building a Clone-Based Mosaic
Creating a Circular Panorama
Draping a Weave
• new image and updated technique
Creating Art for Glass Sculpture
Creating a Color Adjustable Leaf Brush
Gallery
• new images where possible

9 Working with Type in Painter
A Typography Primer, Designing with Painter’s Type Tools
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Setting Text on a Curve
A Spattery Graffiti Glow
Creating Brushed Metal Type
• new image and technique)
Painting with Ice
Gallery
• new images where possible

10 Using Painter with Photoshop
Painter to Photoshop, Photoshop to Painter
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Compositing, Painting and Effects
Illustrating with Soft Pastel
Gallery
• new images where possible

11 Animation and Film with PainterWorking with Scripts, Animating with Frame Stacks, Importing and Exporting
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Animating an Illustration
Making an Animated Comp
Animating a Logo
Automating Movie Effects
• new art and technique
Gallery
• new images where possible

12 Printing and Archival Concerns:
Expanded chapter
Color for Commercial Printing, Fine Art Printing at a Service Bureau, Photographic Imaging Options, Fine Art Printing in the Studio, Experimental Printmaking, Fine Art Editions from Digital Files
• all techniques will be updated for new version
Making an Color-Managed Art Print
• new art and technique
Gallery
• new images where possible

Appendixes
Image Collections, Hardware Information, Resources for Substrates and Inks, Software Information, Fine Art Print Studios and Service Bureaus, Contributing Artists, Reference Materials

Index

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