Adobe Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems. Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. Coverage includes information on Adobe Bridge, Camera RAW, masks and layers, painting and retouching, and selections and layers. Jam-packed with information, this book and DVD takes users from the basics through intermediate level topics and helps readers find the information they need in a clear, approachable manner.

Digital Art Tutorials was created with the goal of bringing industry-proven, professional digital art techniques to the masses. Many of our art tutorials are narrated by the very people who developed, or pivotal in the development of, the various workflows and digital art techniques that have become industry standards.

Photoshop tutorials include the fields of the classical (digital painting, digital inking, and even the hyper-popular comic coloring), to powerful 3D tutorials (Poser, SketchUp, ZBrush, and more!), Digital Art Tutorials provides straightforward instruction and priceless inspiration. Our instructors take great pride creating educational tools that are both affordable and accessible to amateur hobbyists, students and seasoned professionals alike. We’re so convinced you will love our products, we offer several free start-to-finish Photoshop tutorials, and previews of all our art tutorials.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop.

Digital artist Bert Monroy invites you into his personal studio in Berkeley, California, to share the inspirations and secrets behind his stunning art using Adobe Photoshop. In this DVD-ROM video, Bert continues to develop the core principles of his book Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy: Digital Painting, dissecting more paintings and taking you even further along on the path of your own creative process.

d'artiste: Matte Painting is the authoritative book dedicated to showcasing and teaching the skills behind the art of digital matte painting. Leading Hollywood matte painters Alp Altiner, Dylan Cole and Chris Stoski bring readers through the matte painting techniques used to create breathtaking, photo-realistic sets and backdrops for film, television and video games.

Corel Painter 11 is the ultimate digital art studio for anyone ready to expand their definition of creativity. Working with the most advanced digital painting and natural media tools available, you can create the art you’ve always envisioned. Expand your creativity with Painter 11, the most inventive digital painting software on the market. By adding Painter to your workflow, you gain a full art studio that gives you the tools to create unprecedented artwork.

Digital art tools let you experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes, without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art. let's meet on Support for the entire Wacom® product line, including industry-leading Cintiq pens and Intuos drawing tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting experience so your hand and brush work fluidly as one. Customizable paper textures give your art added artistic undertones, plus a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting or photo-painting tools can produce. Painter is changing what's possible in art. Now it's your turn.

Free your creativity with Autodesk SketchBook Pro painting and drawing software, offering best-in-class sketching tools for professional designers and artists from all industries. Designed specifically for use with digitized pen tablets and tablet PCs, SketchBook Pro equips you with the tools you need to move easily from pen and paper to a digital environment. Sketchbook Pro drawing software features an artist-friendly, gesture-based user interface that is so fast and intuitive even new users can be productive within minutes. It represents the next generation of digital drawing that focuses on the user, translating technology into a natural drawing experience.

Free your creativity with Autodesk SketchBook Pro painting and drawing software, offering best-in-class sketching tools for professional designers and artists from all industries. Designed specifically for use with digitized pen tablets and tablet PCs, SketchBook Pro equips you with the tools you need to move easily from pen and paper to a digital environment. Sketchbook Pro drawing software features an artist-friendly, gesture-based user interface that is so fast and intuitive even new users can be productive within minutes. It represents the next generation of digital drawing that focuses on the user, translating technology into a natural drawing experience.

As the name implies, SketchBook Pro is literally the digital interpretation of the classic sketchbook. Originally launched in conjunction with the introduction of the Tablet PC, it has always been designed specifically for pen-based interaction. Featuring a streamlined user interface geared to maximizing "flow", the product boasts an environment where new users can become productive within minutes.

Photoshop Top Secret is an Extreme Training Course that teaches you, step by step, how to create cutting-edge graphics and special effects with Adobe Photoshop. This student-friendly home study course includes five DVD-ROMs with over 18 gigabytes of video tutorials and project files. You can look, learn, practice, and master these advanced techniques wherever you may be, without the need for expensive classes or tutors.

Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3 is a brilliantly illustrated, full-color book that combines both the fundamentals of character design and the skills of digital painting. Completely updated using Photoshop CS3 as the primary tool, the book details how to create characters that elicit specific emotions and how to beautifully render those characters by applying conventional painting skills to digital tools. Written for both the seasoned professional and aspiring artist alike, Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3 explores the key principles of design and reveals how to enhance traditional skills and apply them to digital art for use in games, film, animation, and other commercial productions. Using practical tutorials, the book covers basic skills such as value, edges, color, texturing, and light, and then moves on to teach in-depth techniques on specific features including eyes, face, clothing, hair, and fur. Whatever your skill level, you will discover practical ideas and techniques to apply to your craft and to help you improve and create masterful works of digital art! Features: - Presents a completely updated, beautiful, full color guide to character design and computer art using Photoshop. - Provides practical insights into how to master Photoshop CS3 as a powerful painting tool, including how to customize the brushes to achieve the best possible results. - Focuses on learning artistic skills that can be applied to a variety of 2D and 3D programs, with an emphasis on Photoshop CS3. - Teaches how to combine traditional artistic values with today's graphics software. - Includes a CD-ROM with the figures and files for the tutorials in the book, along with a QuickTime movie showing how a painting is created.

Expand your creativity with Painter 11, the most inventive digital painting software on the market. By adding Painter to your workflow, you gain a full art studio that gives you the tools to create unprecedented artwork. Digital art tools let you experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes, without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art. Support for the entire Wacom® product line, including industry-leading Cintiq® pens and Intuos® drawing tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting experience so your hand and brush work fluidly as one. Customizable paper textures give your art added artistic undertones, plus a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting or photo-painting tools can produce. Painter is changing what's possible in art. Now it's your turn.

Corel Painter takes digital design to unprecedented levels with the revolutionary Artists' Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, Quick Clone for photographers, and brushes that perform up to 10 times faster than in previous versions. Corel Painter enables some of the world's most accomplished creative professionals, including commercial designers, artists and photographers to extend their natural talents and techniques to create original works of breathtaking digital art.

Illustration is a dirty word, or at least was until recently. Neither truly accepted by the art establishment nor the design industry, illustration has battled on regardless. Derided as whimsical by artists and arty by designers, illustration had found itself existing in a no-manÕs-land between the two. In education the discipline has fared no better - rarely given more than just studio space, the student illustrator has learnt to bend the rules and break across borders to gain access to facilities and equipment to facilitate their work. So life as an illustrator is not for the faint-hearted, it takes massive determination to face the demands and rigours of a career choice that can feel vastly unsupported, but against these odds the discipline has mounted an impressive return to form. How and why?

According to The National Museum of Illustration in Rhode Island, USA, 'Illustrators combine personal expression with pictorial representation in order to convey ideasÕ - a useful description certainly, but one that falls short of fully capturing the essence of what the subject is or has been about. Describing the 'golden eraÕ, when magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post scoured the studios for great illustrators, Steven Heller the design writer and art director stated that 'Illustration was the peopleÕs artÕ. A sentiment echoed by the National Museum of Illustration - 'illustration serves as a reservoir of our social and cultural historyÕ, even going onto state - 'Illustration is therefore, a significant and enduring art formÕ.

Serif’s Digital Scrapbook Artist offers a unique combination of ease-of-use, traditional scrapbooking techniques, and truly realistic-looking results. Now you can quickly and easily transform your photos and memories into wonderfully personal artwork that you will cherish forever. Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist is just what you've been waiting for – a way to combine your creativity and passion for celebrating and treasuring life’s special moments. At last, novices and accomplished scrapbookers can easily create outstanding photorealistic results that look every bit as lifelike as traditional handcrafted scrapbooks. You will not believe how easy it is to create your own embellishments from scratch. There are tools and materials to use exactly like those you would find in a craft store.

Scrapbook Artist comes with DaisyTrail DigiKits which offer themed Content Packs, the starting point for any themed scrapbook. Each pack is full of layouts, backgrounds, embellishments, materials, photo frames, and decorative letters. Use the layouts as near ready-to-go page templates, then drag and drop items onto your page. Each Content Pack also provides supporting effects, brushes, and colour swatches that uniquely complement the theme.

In addition to using pre-supplied scrapbook content, Scrapbook Artist also lets you design your own scrapbook items. Create decorative lines, shapes, and apply natural or spray brush strokes using easy-to-use comprehensive drawing and painting tools. Photos can be added and image corrected—you can even cut out photo foregrounds or backgrounds! Once you've created your scrapbook masterpiece, you'll want to share it. A diverse and lively web-based scrapbooking community is available for you to share your scrapbook freely or in groups. At www.daisytrail.com, you're more than likely to make some new scrapbooking friends along the way too!

The Easy-to-Use Home Art Studio. Corel® Painter™ Essentials 4 is the simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy for you to sketch, paint and turn your photos into paintings. Two new workspaces put the tools you need at your fingertips, whether you're turning a photo into a painting, or sketching and painting on a blank canvas. Based on the world's most powerful painting and illustration software, Corel® Painter™, it's the ideal way to get started with digital art!

Digital camera users or anyone who uses a camera to capture special moments and express their creativity can find new ways to add unique touches to their photos with Corel Painter Essentials 4. The completely redesigned user interface and the simplified Photo Painting System make it easy to add artistic flair to any project. With the new Smart Stroke™ technology, it's now even easier to turn a photo into a natural and expressive hand-painted work of art.

Working with photos, sketching and painting are some of the hands-on projects enjoyed by scrapbookers and arts & crafts enthusiasts. Corel Painter Essentials 4 makes it simple to transform a photo into a painting, sketch or paint an original image, or add creative elements to any project. It's easy to create stunning images that are perfect for hanging on the wall or for adding an extra personal touch to scrapbooks or other creative projects.

Corel Painter Essentials 4 gives students and teachers a way to explore the visual arts without the costs and mess associated with traditional art supplies. Whether they're working at home or at school, students and teachers can enjoy an ideal learning environment that combines the techniques of classical art training with the unique possibilities offered by digital media.

NeoPaint is a full featured artist's studio for Windows & vista that's easy-to-learn, powerful and affordable! It's simple enough for beginners yet packed with powerful features and advanced tools. Includes an excellent screen capture feature, animated GIF editor, icon editor, special effects, natural media painting tools, and more. NeoPaint makes it easy for business and home users to touch up photographs and create great looking graphics for desktop publishing, presentations and the Internet!

Some of NeoPaint's many powerful features include: support for many popular image formats like JPEG, GIF, PCX, TIFF, BMP and PNG; integrated support for scanners and digital cameras; professional quality output to any Windows compatible black and white or color printer; multiple undo levels; dozens of special effects and textures; custom paint brushes; photo retouch and color correction tools; high quality color and format conversion; masking; red-eye removal; cloning; stamp pad; 3D objects, color separation; Picture Browser with file management tools; built-in NeoGrab Screen Capture; and dozens of other tools and options. NeoPaint also includes some exciting natural media tools including charcoal, crayon, chalk, ink, watercolor, oil paint and more.

In addition, NeoPaint includes powerful built-in Animation Tools for creating and editing animated GIF files, and a built-in Icon Editor for creating and editing Windows icons and cursors. Unlike some basic stand-alone GIF animation utilities and icon editors, NeoPaint's integrated editor provides you with complete access to a full range of powerful painting and editing tools. Good news for users of NeoSoft's NeoBook software: NeoPaint can also be used to create and edit NeoBook's Cartoon (CAR) files. You can even open an Animated GIF and save it as a Cartoon file or vice versa.

You can master Photoshop CS3, faster than you ever thought possible—even if you have no Photoshop or image editing experience at all! In just 24 hands-on, step-by-step lessons, this book will teach you all the core Photoshop skills you need to get great results—in digital photography, graphic design, painting, or anything else!

Learn how to:
* Repair and retouch any black-and-white or color image, from precious family portraits to new digital photos
* Achieve powerful artistry with Photoshop’s filters and effects
* Master digital painting with Photoshop’s paintbrushes and other tools
* Get your colors right, wherever you’re printing your images or displaying them online
* Create super-realistic composites
* Transform your images using tools ranging from Flip to Liquify
* Master professional-level features including layers, channels, and masks
* Add type to your images
* Take advantage of Photoshop CS3’s powerful new features