digital painting

Masters Collection: Volume 1, Digital Painting Techniques

Author: 
3DTotal.com LTD
Publisher: 
Focal Press
Published Date: 
2010
ISBN: 
978-0-240-52174-9
Pages: 
300
Rating: 
5

I recently won the book, Masters Collection: Volume 1, Digital Painting Techniques published by Focal Press at the Digital Media Arts Group monthly raffle.  I was really thrilled that I won this book because I wanted to learn more about digital painting and using my Wacom Tablet.  Focal Press has published an entire series of books devoted to the art of digital painting.  This volume is the first in a series.

Pulling from the realm of artists from all over the world, Focal Press has collected the best of the best to cover a wide variety of topics in art and digital painting.  Focal Press, as many other publishers do, has made a good group of resources available for download for you to use when following along in the book.

The book covers eight chapters:

Digital Painting in Photoshop

Author: 
Susan Ruddick Bloom
Publisher: 
Focal Press / Elsevier
Published Date: 
2009
ISBN: 
978-0-240-81114-7
Pages: 
236
Rating: 
4

Digital Painting in Photoshop is a great book for anyone who is interested in turning their digital images into classical works of art. As a proficient Photoshop user, I thought this book was very well written and very easy to read. At 236 pages, it goes into significant detail without dragging things out. The author has included easy to follow instructions and plenty of screenshots to show readers the way.

The first chapters cover the brush and pattern tool in great detail and explain how to go about creating your own. It goes on to explain the different paper textures that are available by default and how to create new textures. The book covers a variety of wet and dry media techniques such as pastel, graphite, oil and watercolor. All of which can be achieved primarily though the use of Photoshop's textures and brushes.

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