Fractal Design Painter 4 Complete [Paperback]

Karen Sperling (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1996

This is an in-depth study, which gives detai led, step-by-step instructions for mastering Fractal Design Painter 3 and achieving brilliant results. '

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Fractal Design Corp.'s Fractal Painter, a bitmap-based painting and editing program, mimics natural media so successfully that it's a real pleasure to use. Of course, you should have a modicum of artistic talent if you're to create something decent-looking. Fractal Design Painter 4 Complete, a guide to Fractal Painter 4.0 for Macintosh and Windows, introduces both dabblers and artists to every feature of the package, explaining exactly how to use each brush tool, and set brush angle and size, to achieve specific effects. One 29-page section shows picture after picture of the same fish drawing with various paintbrush effects applied, which is a really useful reference guide when you want to find the perfect paint effect for your purpose. Sperling also teaches you about Painter's special-effects brushes and advanced painting tools, including paper textures and the Image Hose. She shows various sophisticated images, some of which are presented in full-color plates, and deconstructs the method the artists used to create them. In taking you through several photo-editing and -compositing tasks, Sperling introduces the package's selecting, masking, and cloning tools and special effects for images and type. You also learn how to create cartoons and animations as well as image maps and button bars for Web output. Whether or not you're an artist, you can take advantage of the ample and clear-cut artistic and program-related advice and eventually become a proficient Painter user. A CD includes sample image files, paper textures, and Macintosh and Windows demo versions of Painter 4.

Product Details

• Paperback: 428 pages
• Publisher: Mis Pr (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558284826
• ISBN-13: 978-1558284821
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,530,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Painter Master Karen Sperling is the original Corel Painter expert. She has been writing about and teaching Painter longer than anyone. She demo'd Painter when it debuted at Boston Macworld in August 1991 after having written the first Painter manual. She went on to write the manuals for the next several versions of Painter and wrote several published Painter books. Painting for Photographers is around her 9th Painter book, if you include the manuals.

Karen traditionally published the first printed Painter magazine called Artistry magazine. She currently publishes the first Painter ezine, Artistry Tips and Tricks, containing step-by-step Painter tutorials, in addition to her Artistry tutorials on CDs and as downloadable files. Karen's Painter tutorials have appeared in many publications including SBS Design, PEI magazine, Professional Photographers magazine and Rangefinder.

Karen has taught and demo'd Painter for close to 20 years all over the United States at just about every venue there is, including the national Professional Photographers of America (PPA) convention, local PPA affiliates and PPA schools; WPPI; American Film Institute; Macworld; Seybold; and SIGGRAPH. She has taught Painter at many companies and schools, including Disney, American Greetings and the New School for Social Research in New York.

She currently teaches photographers and hobbyists to turn photos into paintings in Painter at her Artistry Painting for Photographers Retreats.

Karen's commissioned portraits and paintings are held in private collections around the world.

Her abstract art has been exhibited in New York's prestigious Chelsea section, in Los Angeles and during Art Basel Miami.