In Painter 11 Essential Training, John Derry, one of the original Painter authors, demonstrates basic and advanced creative techniques that can get beginners up and running. He also shows old hands the new features that can get a creative vision out of the head and onto the canvas. John demonstrates how to establish an easy workflow in Painter by using a Wacom tablet, and he explains how to create, edit, and publish projects. Exercise files accompany the course.

Year: 2009
Duration: 8 hours. 40 min.
Language: English
Exercise files: there
GUI shell: No
Video codec: QuickTime
Video: avc1 880x660 15 fps
Audio: mp4a 1ch 44100 16 705 kB/s
Size: 2.1 Gb

Contents:
Introduction
Welcome / demo 0:54 13.3 MB
Using the exercise files 0:55 0.7 MB

1. Painting on the Computer
What Painter can do 1:15 3.9 MB
Let's paint! 2:30 2.7 MB

2. File Basics
Starting Painter for the first time 6:39 53.9 MB
Creating, opening, and saving files 4:52 5.8 MB
Sizing image resolution for output 6:16 6.5 MB
Extending the canvas 2:36 2.7 MB
Creating and using templates 2:53 3.0 MB

3. Painter's Interface
Navigating Painter 8:46 70.4 MB
Rotating the canvas 3:03 4.7 MB
Using the Tool palette and Property bar 6:41 5.8 MB
Understanding Tool palette selectors 8:58 10.2 MB
The Brush Selector bar: an art store in a palette 4:02 6.9 MB
Configuring palettes 6:16 6.5 MB

4. Color Your World
Accessing and controlling color with the Color palette 8:27 48.6 MB
Mixing color in the Mixer palette 10:41 15.0 MB
Color sets: choose 'n' use color 9:29 13.4 MB

5. The Wacom Tablet: A Must-Have Item
Understanding the six axes of motion 3:19 50.0 MB
Introducing tablets: Intuos3 and Intuos4 8:06 86.5 MB
Introducing tablets: Cintiq 7:49 83.5 MB
Customizing your Wacom tablet: part 1 4:57 4.5 MB
Customizing your Wacom tablet: part 2 9:25 9.3 MB
Maximizing your tablet's pressure response 3:37 20.0 MB

6. Selection
Understanding the selection tools 2:16 17.0 MB
Making selections using the Lasso tool 3:20 10.8 MB
Making polygonal selections 2:51 11.4 MB
Making selections using the Magic Wand tool 6:29 10.3 MB

7. Layers
Understanding layers 8:01 57.2 MB
Using the Preserve Transparency control 2:50 3.8 MB
Using the Pick Up Underlying Color control 4:36 7.8 MB
Resizing and rotating layers using the Transform tool 5:45 10.0 MB
Making selections using channels 4:23 7.5 MB
Working with layer masks 9:52 25.8 MB
Adding text 7:07 7.6 MB

8. The Brush Creator
Understanding the Brush Creator workspace 6:11 48.2 MB
Exploring brush properties using the Randomizer 8:15 10.9 MB
Exploring brush properties using the Transposer 4:45 6.2 MB
Using the Stroke Designer to create custom brushes 9:39 12.8 MB
Managing brush variants 8:50 9.4 MB

9. Brush Mechanics
Adjusting brush size: three techniques 3:03 25.2 MB
Fine-tuning your stroke in the Brush Controls palette 5:12 7.3 MB
Working with texture-aware media 8:59 16.3 MB
Painting with Artists' Oils brushes 10:45 13.6 MB
Painting with RealBristle brushes 3:39 27.6 MB
Working with hard media 4:57 5.7 MB
Painting with markers 1:49 2.6 MB

10. The Image Hose
Understanding the Image Hose 3:26 25.6 MB
Controlling the Image Hose 8:32 15.7 MB
Creating a nozzle file 8:23 13.1 MB

11. Painting from Scratch
Warmup exercises 7:54 59.9 MB
Draftsmanship: drawing media 10:56 17.0 MB
Doodling 0:43 0.8 MB
Creating outline sketches utilizing the conceptual squint 2:38 2.8 MB

12. Cloning Techniques
Understanding cloning 3:01 9.4 MB
Tracing a clone's source using Tracing Paper 3:27 5.5 MB
Painting a cloned image 5:55 9.7 MB
Creating a Quick Clone 2:46 8.8 MB
In-document cloning 2:19 2.6 MB

13. Visual Vocabularies of Painting with a Photograph
Understanding the vocabularies of paint photography 8:51 69.6 MB
You must destroy detail 6:20 4.1 MB
Focusing on the subject 4:01 5.3 MB
Adapting color in a photograph for photo painting 6:39 21.8 MB

14. The Photo-Painting Palettes
Under-painting 6:26 51.6 MB
Auto-painting 5:25 6.7 MB
Using manual controls for auto-painting 11:53 16.6 MB
Restoring detail using the Restoration palette 4:32 5.9 MB

15. Nondestructive Layer Painting
The photo as wet oil paint 6:47 59.1 MB
Cloning the canvas and building detail with multiple layers 11:57 41.7 MB

16. Effects
Applying surface texture 6:53 51.3 MB
Matching the color palette between two images 4:10 11.4 MB
Marbling 9:27 18.3 MB
Exploring the Growth effect 5:27 7.4 MB

17. Animation: Let's Make Movies
Understanding frame-by-frame animation 2:09 16.1 MB
Creating an animation with onion-skinning 11:51 14.3 MB
Using a movie clone source 11:10 18.9 MB

18. Painter and Photoshop
Using each application for its strengths 4:24 35.0 MB
Working with Photoshop's PSD file format in Painter and Photoshop 4:52 3.0 MB
Configuring color management 8:31 12.0 MB

19. Customizing Painter
Setting preferences 7:37 62.4 MB
Customizing keyboard shortcuts 5:05 5.1 MB
Saving and restoring palette layouts 4:03 5.1 MB
Creating custom palettes 3:36 4.0 MB
Accessing favorite brushes using the Tracker palette 5:55 8.5 MB
Organizing custom workspaces 7:09 8.0 MB

20. Working with a Safety Net
Undo, undo, undo 3:33 27.4 MB
Painting on layers 1:57 1.9 MB
Save often, save early 2:47 20.8 MB

21. When Things Go Wrong
Resetting brushes: Painter's panic button 2:00 16.4 MB
Resetting workspaces with the Shift key restart 6:12 5.9 MB
Troubleshooting brushes with the brush checklist 1:55 2.2 MB

Conclusion
Goodbye 0:16 0.3 MB

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