Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book, The

Artists today use digital tools that allow them to work as naturally and spontaneously as if they were using traditional artist tools such as pastels, watercolors, oil media, and gouache. With the recent growth of the tablet market, there are more tools and more sophisticated features available now than ever before and an increased desire by artists to learn how to use them. As much art book as guide, The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book uses traditional drawing and painting theory exercises, coupled with reallife projects, to show readers how they can use Painter and Photoshop with pressure-sensitive tablets for beautiful results.Award-winning artist and author Cher Threinen-Pendarvis takes readers through a variety of projects designed to improve their drawing, composition, and conceptual thought processes while exploring different uses of the many brushes available in Painter and Photoshop.Among many valuable concepts and techniques you'll learn to:

1 The Digital Art Studio Setting Up the Digital Art Studio The Power of Color Pixels and Image Resolution Fine Art Printmaking in the Studio 2 Art with the iPad Overview of iPad painting tools, finger-painting vs. stylus and favorite paint apps Warming up, doodling and sketching Making a study with Brushes Drawing and painting with ArtStudio Sketching and painting with Sketchbook Express and Sketchbook Pro Tips about touch apps from Adobe (Photoshop Touch) and Corel. 3 Photoshop, Painter, and Tablet Basics for Artists Introduction Anatomy of a Tablet and Stylus Getting Started with Your Tablet Getting Comfortable with Your Tablet Drawing and Navigating with the Stylus Choosing Your Settings for Your Stylus Customizing the Stylus Buttons Customizing Buttons on an Intuos5 Tablet Using the Airbrush Stylus Photoshop Basics for Painters Customizing Brushes Customizing Your Photoshop Workspace Painter Basics for Artists Customizing Brushes Customizing Your Painter Workspace 4 Assembling Brushes and Paint Exploring Brushes and Paint in Photoshop Exploring Brushes and Paint in Painter 5 Drawing and Tablet Exercises Warming Up and Sketching Sketching in Photoshop 6 The Illusion of Volume Sketching a Cube Drawing a Textured Round Object Drawing Rounded Forms Drawing a Hollow Rounded Form 7 Sensitive Tone and Modeling Using Sensitive Tone and Blending Using Interesting Strokes to Build Tonal Variations 8 A Sense of Atmosphere Building Atmosphere Using Hatching Achieving Sparkling Light 9 Starting with a Scanned Drawing Scanning a Pencil Drawing Using Photoshop to Work Over a Pencil Drawing Using Painter to Work Over a Pencil Drawing Adding Washes to a Drawing Using Painter Adding Washes to a Drawing Using Photoshop 10 Using a Photo Reference for Painting Using a Photo Reference While Painting Making Brushes for Sketching and Painting Using Painter's "Digital Lightbox" 11 Designing the Focal Point Strengthening the Focal Point in a Painting 12 Simulating Paper and Canvas Creating a Painter Image that Has Rich Texture Embossing Texture on an Image Using Distortion and Surface Texture Achieving Texture in a Photoshop Image Adding Texture with the Texturizer Filter Adding Texture with the Lighting Effects Filter 13 Retouching, Tinting, and Painting Retouching and Adding a Vignette Painting with History in Photoshop Working Over a Portrait with Chalk Building a Rich Paper Surface Painting a Portrait Using the Artist's Oils 14 Composing from the Imagination Compositing Sketches and Scans in Photoshop Adding Colored Brushwork in Painter Enhancing Lighting Resources Appendix 1. Reference materials (supplemental reading and web sites) 2. Vendors (hardware and software, and substrates such archival papers and canvas) Index