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Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook [Paperback]

Jeremy Sutton (Author)
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0240805119 978-0240805115 September 5, 2003
Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook. Thorough. Inspirational. Colorful. Creative. This comprehensive, full-color guide to Corel Painter 8 software helps artists to paint digitally on their computer. This handbook explains everything from the basics of setting up your digital canvas to generating original paintings, painterly animations manipulating and transforming photographic images, and constructing evocative photo-collage. Projects in this book include simple through advanced techniques and creative strategies for all levels.

Painter 8 Creativity gives you, the visual artist, the explanations you need in order to maximize the power of Corel Painter 8, whether you are a digital designer, multimedia artist, photographer, illustrator, animator, or graphic artist. Sutton illustrates how to transfer traditional art skills to the computer. He teaches the animator how to add painterly effects to their work, whether for video, TV, or the Web. He explains how the photographer can transform their images into beautiful artistic paintings and collages using natural-media tools. And, for Adobe Photoshop users, this book will explain the expanded creative potential Painter adds to your work!

Sutton takes a knowledgeable and straightforward approach to this step-by-step project-based book, explaining how each tool is used, every effect achieved, and every topic thoroughly described. The book allows you to build upon your knowledge so that if you're a beginner, you have the chance to become an advanced user; and if you're an advanced user, this is your opportunity to hone and flex your skills while learning additional creative techniques.

This book's companion website offers additional tips and tools! This site, designed by Denise Laurent, the creator of the fabulous Oil Funky Chunky brush, includes links to useful educational Painter and art resources plus: updates, tutorials, tips & tricks, a gallery, and Painter goodies!
www.paintercreativity.com

*CD-ROM includes unique custom brushes and art materials not supplied with Corel Painter 8, plus tutorial images for all projects.
*The perfect way to learn Painter while expanding your creativity. This project-based handbook teaches you powerful creative techniques that you can apply to your photography, design, multimedia, illustration, animation, fine art and more!
*Learn how to use the phenomenal image creation tool, Corel Painter 8, with clear, organized, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions from an internationally recognized computer artist and Painter master! Jeremy Sutton has traveled around the world teaching and creating art with Painter for more than a decade!

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"Painter 8 Creativity has a classroom feel, which makes getting to grips with Painter less intimidating than it might otherwise be."
Computer Arts Projects.

"...it provides a good grounding in the use of Corel's paint app and maintains a friendly, readable pace."
Computer Arts Projects.

Book Description

Creative, full-color guide shows you how to get the best out of Corel's Painter 8!

Product Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Focal Press (September 5, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0240805119
  • ISBN-13: 978-0240805115
  • Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,932,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jeremy Sutton is a world-renowned artist, author, educator, Corel Painter Master and pioneer in the field of digital painting. His background combines art and science. Jeremy, who has drawn since he was three, studied drawing, sculpture and print-making at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, as he earned a degree in Physics. While pursuing a career selling superconducting magnets and cryogenic systems for Physics research, he continued his art studies, learning lithography at the Vrije Academie in The Hague, The Netherlands.

It was after his move to live in the heart of Silicon Valley in the late '80s that Jeremy was first introduced to the powerful combination of the Macintosh computer, pressure-sensitive Wacom graphics tablet and sophisticated paint programs that could emulate natural art media. These tools took Jeremy on a new journey of art exploration that included a career transition into being a full-time professional artist, painting a live digital portrait of British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson on the San Francisco Virgin Atlantic Inaugural and traveling the world teaching and demonstrating digital painting technology at numerous trade shows, conferences, workshops and seminars.

Painter 11 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, is Jeremy's sixth and most recent book. He has also authored and produced instructional videos and DVDs, and founded the online training web site PaintboxJ.com. He runs digital painting workshops in his San Francisco studios.

 

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars bringing out the creative spirit through Painter, September 18, 2003
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Ileana Frometa Grillo (Laguna Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook (Paperback)
I loved the program Painter from the start even though I initially felt intimidated and overwhelmed by it. Confusion turned into excitement after I acquired a set of Painter 4 instructional videos taught by Jeremy Sutton. I enjoyed his no-nonsense, hands-on and fun approach to teaching. He encouraged me to learn without feeling inadequate, to explore different avenues of self-expression and to experience Painter as a enjoyable adventure. Not an easy task to accomplish, but something that Jeremy does extremely well on a consistent basis.
Painter 8 Creativity showcases Jeremy's informative and playful spirit, which truly enhances the learning experience. He places the step-by-step learning process within a larger context, in which Painter becomes a medium that taps into self-discovery and releases the creative juices within us in fun, expressive ways. Painter 8 Creativity is written in clear, easy-to-follow language, with highlighted instructions and illustrated examples to enhance comprehension and allow for quick review and reference.
Through the teaching of Painter 8, Jeremy also addresses issues such as: tackling the working environment in an organized, uncomplicated way; learning the basics of portraiture; utilizing the amazing array of Painter brushes to enhance photographs; and finding ways to keep yourself motivated and inspired. After all is said and done, Jeremy invites you to leave it all behind and to have a ball with the art making process.
Painter 8 creativity stays true to Jeremy's basic rules, established at the beginning of the book:
- There is no such thing as a mistake.
- There is no such thing as a dumb question.
- Be bold and take risks-you won't break the computer!
- Have FUN!
If you have wanted to learn Painter, this book will be the best place to get started. If you think you know all about Painter, you'll be pleasantly surprised to discover that there is still room for learning, for this book demonstrates that creativity has no bounds.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A truly unique book., September 15, 2003
This review is from: Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook (Paperback)
Painter 8 Creativity is a wonderful book for anyone wanting to learn Painter! I received my book the other day and haven't been able to put it down.

First of all this is not just a `how to' book. Reading Painter 8 Creativity is just like being in the classroom with Jeremy and he is a wonderful and motivating teacher. You feel as if he were in the room with you.

All the lessons are based on portraiture and they cover a wide variety of material, from the basics: tips for getting the most out of Painter to the foundations of painting: using line, tone, colour, form and brushwork. He shows you how to paint from life as well as how to work from photographs and covers many different styles and ideas, including oil painting, watercolour, pop art, collage, serigraphy, working with scripts, how to express personality, how to tell a story, expanding your vocabulary and a great deal more.

But what's even more valuable, and makes this book a gem, is Jeremy's passion and enthusiasm, which come across so powerfully. Just reading this book will get you excited about your paintings! He shares much of his philosophy about painting and is truly an inspirational teacher. In very few computer based art books would you find a discussion on overcoming the fear of the blank canvas, of trusting yourself and finding your own creative path. But Jeremy Sutton tackles these issues just as well as how to put brush to canvas. If this book doesn't make you rush to your computer filled with excitement and desperate to start a new painting then nothing will!

This is a truly unique and wonderful book.
Highly recommended!

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Creativity for Everyone, September 5, 2003
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S. Chambless "mathsinger" (Maryland Heights, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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I just received this book and have looked it over thoroughly. It begins with basics, but not just a reiteration of the manual. Jeremy includes his own thoughts about how he works, sets up his workspace, etc. Then it progresses to more advanced ideas -- more advanced techniques in Painter 8 as well as lots of creative ideas for expanding your personal creativity. It looks to be a lot of fun for everybody, newbies to the experienced. It's intended audience is two groups: the individual working alone, and instructors for classes in Painter 8. I think you cannot go wrong with this one.
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Brush Creator, Property Bar, Brush Selector, Creativity Brushes, Digital Airbrush, Apply Surface Texture, Arrange Palettes, Free Transform, Captured Bristle, Creativity Projects, Stroke Designer, Corel Painter, Save Layout, Flemish Rub, Painter Projects, Image Hose, Script Mover, Tonal Control, Brush Tracking, Choose Delete, Choose Don't Save, Jane Conner-ziser, Layer Adjuster, Image Luminance, Script Options
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