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.

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.

The Photoshop Secrets - Special FX Video CD-ROM from PhotoshopCafe includes tutorials for 19 stunning effects that will give your images a stunning and fresh appearance. You'll learn the secrets of the pros in plain English with a warm conversational style, without the technical jargon that can be so confusing. The fast loading CD ROM contains almost 2 hours of sharp 800 x 600 video with crisp, clear sound, and the advanced interface allows you to instantly jump to any of the 19 lessons with complete control over the playback. The CD-ROM also includes many unflattened Photoshop files (.psd format) so you can understand how the images are assembled, and easily duplicate the results. The CD-ROM is compatible with Windows and Macintosh Systems.

Fluid Mask 3 is the professionals’ choice. Fluid Mask 2 established itself as the market leader in still image cutting-out – Fluid Mask 3 takes masking to the next level. Quick to pick up and intuitive to use, Fluid Mask 3 gets professional results fast. Now professional results are more possible than ever before. Make super fine mask selections using new sampling and selecting tools. Check out the new edge blending algorithms. And the new complex hair blending that automatically gets great results from multi-colored whispy hair. No longer should hair be the cutting-out nightmare it is today.

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.

Chapter 1: Illustrator Basics
Section 1: The Illustrator Interface
Section 2: Setting Up a New Document
Section 3: Working with Files
Section 4: Document Display Options

Chapter 2: Working with Objects in Illustrator
Section 5: Drawing in Illustrator
Section 6: Painting and Using Brushes
Section 7: Selecting Objects
Section 8: Editing Paths
Section 9: Organizing Objects
Section 10: Transforming Objects
Section 11: Color, Gradients, Patterns and Transparency

Chapter 3: Text in Illustrator
Section 12: Working with Type

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Format: QuickTime (.MOV), 768 x 576
Quality: MPEG-4 AAC LC, 44100Hz 128 kb/s tot , stereo (2/0)

Chapter 1: Part 1
Section 1: Interface Overview
Section 3: Using Bridge — Overview
Section 4: Creating New Documents
Section 5: Selection Tools
Section 6: Crop and Straighten
Section 7: Moving Pixels Around
Section 8: Layer Basics
Section 9: Painting Tools

Chapter 2: Part 2
Section 10: Gradient Tools
Section 11: Erasers
Section 12: Tool Presets
Section 13: Using Strokes
Section 14: Using Fills
Section 15: Working with Patterns
Section 16: Pattern Stamp Tool
Section 17: The History Panel

Chapter 3: Part 3
Section 18: Creative Editing Tricks
Section 19: Advanced Brush Controls
Section 20: Advanced Selection Techniques
Section 21: More Layer Techniques
Section 22: Working with Filters

It includes:
1. Integrate 3D images into Dynamic scene.doc
2. Interplay of Abstract Light Streaks.doc
3. Matrix Tutorial.doc
4. Shattering Effects on Face.doc
5. Reborn_Brushes.abr(needed for one of the tutorials)..

Adobe Illustrator CS3 allows for the addition of vibrant colors to electronic artwork. Users can now employ numerous Live Color tools and techniques to enhance the color of their Illustrator images with immediate and interactive results. Various brushing styles and tools add elaborate and colorful strokes to existing images. This course introduces color and brush techniques in Illustrator CS3. In this course, you will learn how to add customized colors, as well as complex color gradients and patterns, to fills and strokes in your artwork. You will use Illustrator CS3's Swatch and Color panels, Live Color and Live Paint tools to recolor artwork quickly according to preset harmony rules or customized settings. This course will also introduce Calligraphic, Art, Scatter, and Pattern brushes, demonstrating how to create brushes and apply brush techniques.

Fluid Mask 3 is the professionals’ choice. Fluid Mask 2 established itself as the market leader in still image cutting-out – Fluid Mask 3 takes masking to the next level. Quick to pick up and intuitive to use, Fluid Mask 3 gets professional results fast. Now professional results are more possible than ever before. Make super fine mask selections using new sampling and selecting tools. Check out the new edge blending algorithms. And the new complex hair blending that automatically gets great results from multi-colored whispy hair. No longer should hair be the cutting-out nightmare it is today.

Not only is image processing time dramatically reduced but we have concentrated on speeding up workflow. Check out features like saving your workspace settings from one image to the next for runs of studio shots; and our new Patch technology with its intuitive tool-set for working on those difficult problem areas with compression artefact, poor edges and complicated backgrounds. Fluid Mask 3 benefits from a simplified interface and masses of on-application help to make picking it up easy and fun. Don't leech from kopona.net. For the professional user there are new features such as selecting areas for local detailed edge finding and blending that make masking challenges simple to overcome.

New features:
- Localized edge detection and blending – for faster workflow
- Faster initial image processing – up to 40%
- Better edge blending
- New look application – full screen / no desktop visible

Unleash the full power behind every icon in the Photoshop toolbar

130 pages of easy-to-follow tutorials and expert advice to help develop your Adobe Photoshop skills! Full of projects and tips on how to use Photoshop easily and how to get the best out of one of the best photo imaging programs out there.

TwistedBrush - digital paint software with complete natural art tools - oils, acrylics, pastel, charcoal etc. Software for artists without the complexity of other art programs. TwistedBrush - creating art the way it should be, simple and fun!
Simplicity without sacrifice, powerful enough for the professional artist yet simply enough for the novice. TwistedBrush has one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence, yet it was designed from day one to be easy to use. TwistedBrush has more than 3,000 brushes, along with all the features that artists love to use: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic palettes and a whole lot more. Best of all, feature updates are frequent!

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!

Features:
This release of Corel Painter Essentials 4 offers a completely redesigned workspace that improves color selection and helps you discover different brushes, media and paper. With the new video tutorials and companion user guide, getting started has never been easier.

Photo Painting:
• NEW! Redesigned Photo Painting workspace: provides a tailored environment that includes all the tools you need to paint your photos
• NEW! Smart Stroke™ Technology: preset styles paint with intelligent brushstrokes that follow the forms of the original photo when autopainting
• NEW! Updated File format: Corel Painter Essentials 4 now saves the source image with your painting, making it easier to return to a project for further editing

Drawing and Painting: • NEW! Brush Drawer: selecting a brush easier is than ever before with brush stroke examples for each brush
• NEW! Mixer palette: helps you get the exact color you want
• NEW! Colors palette: lets you pick a color with a single click
• NEW! Tablet Support: the redesigned workspaces feature larger icons, buttons and sliders that are easier to navigate with a tablet