Painter 5 Studio Secrets [Paperback]

Adele Droblas (Author), Seth Greenberg (Author), Adele Droblas Greenberg (Author)

Book Description

Series: Secrets | Publication Date: March 1998

Fractal Design Painter is a painting tool for digital artists and designers renowned for its "natural media" output. This book/CD-ROM package for users features techniques and tips for creating digital art and special effects and includes advice on preparing art projects, maximizing drawing techniques, interface design special effects, type effects, animation and multimedia and outputting images for the Web. The attached CD-ROM contains tuturials, stock images, artwork from the book and other software.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

This full-color guide gives intermediate and advanced users excellent guidance and ideas for creating artwork in MetaCreations' Painter 5 for Windows and Macintosh, the natural-media paint program. Throughout the book, the authors present works by contributing artists and show how those artists achieved various effects through both discussion and step-by-step instruction.

First, the authors review the elements of the Painter interface and go through examples that show you how to make best use of Painter's palettes, masks, floaters, shapes, and Image Hose. The bulk of the book discusses how to use Painter's tools together to produce sophisticated results. The guide teaches you about painting and compositing techniques, type effects, special effects, and multimedia and Web animation. Painter 5 Studio Secrets also gives you ideas for using Painter with 3-D modeling programs such as 3D Studio Max, drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator, and photo editors such as Photoshop. The Painter Gallery at the end of the book features images by several contributing artists. The companion CD-ROM includes a demo version of Painter 5, animated tutorials for Painter 5, tutorial images, Image Hose nozzles, patterns, and textures. -- Kathleen Caster

Product Details

• Paperback: 235 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers) (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764540386
• ISBN-13: 978-0764540387
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,132,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!!!, March 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Painter 5 Studio Secrets (Paperback)

It's an incredible book! A must-have for all Painter users. The book contains step by step instructions to create amazing effects seen on fully colored pictures.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this one if you use Painter 5, 6 or 7, December 30, 2001

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Wayne Smith (Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Painter 5 Studio Secrets (Paperback)

This book is very useful, in that the ideas and follow-through presented will get you well into capable use of the software. The organization, quality and content are top-notch.
Job Well Done!

Wayne D
Arizona-where art is everywhere!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, great photos, nice tutorials on cd, May 2, 2000

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Angel Lee "Liocorno Amethyst Moonstone" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Painter 5 Studio Secrets (Paperback)

I found this book very helpful in learning to use all of Painter's features effectively. It was easy to read & has lots of good photos. My only wish is that it had more accurate instructions on using the CD.

My favorite section was on the Painter pallets. It shows example pictures for each "brush" & it's variants. Sample photos also showed the various options available in the gradient box. These made it far easier to know what tool to use.

Other sections of the book covered masking, image hose use, painting & composite techniques, special effects, working with type, enhancing & outputting images, animation & web application, and using Painter with other programs.

The CD contains some good movies on making blobs, creating an image hose from a floater, building and editing floaters maps and making mosaic or patterned type. It also includes tutorials on making movies & working with color.