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By
Susan Ruddick Bloom, Department Chair and Professor of Art at McDaniel College, MD, USA; Maine Photographic Workshop instructor
Description
Digital Collage and Painting proudly showcases the work of twenty-one talented digital artists. Each artist walks you through the creation
of a piece of their art and lets you in on their secrets about equipment, software, favorite papers, and how their creative process begins.
The artists included are:
Audrey Bernstein
Paul Biddle
Leslye Bloom
Stephen Burns
Luzette Donohue
Katrin Eismann
Paul Elson
Steven
Friedman
Ileana Frometa Grillo
Bill Hall
Julieanne Kost
Rick Lieder
Bobbi Doyle-Maher
Ciro Marchetti
Lou Oates
Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
James G. Respess
Fay Sirkis
Jeremy Sutton
Maggie Taylor
Pep Ventosa
Audience
Photoshop and Corel Painter users looking to explore creatively with mixed mediums: Photographers, digital artists, Designers, graphic
artists, animators, illustrators, astudents in fine arts, new media, and computer graphics programs.
Contents
Table of Contents
Part I Planning & Inspiration
Chapter One:
Concept:
What is a collage, montage, assemblage?
What is a digital
painting?
Thinking it out first, assembling the needed images
What is the intended output size?
Chapter Two:
Important Considerations
Before you Begin
Unifying Factors:
Texture
Color
Contrast
Noise and Grain
Scale:
Tree House Exercise
Gigantic to miniscule – what?s
your choice?
Scaling, rotating, distorting and transforming
Lighting:
Directionality of Light
Quality of Light
Dramatic vs. Subtle
Chapter Three:
Inspiration
Digital Artists and their work:
Paul Biddle
Julieanne Kost
Maggie Taylor
Lou Oates
Katrin Eismann
Stephen
Burns
James G. Respess
Bobbi Doyle-Maher
Cher Threinen- Pendarvis
Ciro Marchetti
Leslye Bloom
Luzette Donohue
Ileana Frometa Grillo
Fay
Sirkis
Jeremy Sutton
Paul Elson
Bill Hall
Steven Friedman
Audrey Bernstein
Rick Lieder
Pep Ventosa
Part II Step-by-Step Painting
Chapter
Four:
Painting in Photoshop with your photos
Photoshop Filters and the History Brush used to create a digital painting
The Art History
Brush used to create a Digital Painting
The Pattern Stamp used to create a Digital Painting
Combining the Art History Brush & Emboss
Filter to create a Textured Digital Painting
Photo Illustration Using Find Edges Filter
Hand Color a Black and White Photo
Edge Effects
for Free
Chapter Five:
Painting in Painter
Simple Cloning Techniques
Impressionist Cloning
Pastel Cloning
Oil Paint Cloning
More
Oil Painting
Bristle Oil Cloning
Combining a Variety of different media into one painting
Adding Texture to your Painting
Old Masters
Inspiration
More Examples
Photo Illustration
Photocopy Inspired Painting
Edges and Cloning
Painterly Edge Effects
Painting for the Artistically
Challenged
Part III Step-by-Step Collaging
Chapter Six:
Assembling a Collage in Photoshop
Simple Collages
Collage with Lighting
Effect
Suspend Reality
Pile on the Layers
Shadow Power
Gridded Collages
Chapter Seven:
Assembling a Collage in Painter
Using
the Image Hose
Using Colored Paper and the Brush Creator
Using Painter?s unique brushes For Texture in a Collage
Combining the Power
of Painter and Photoshop in Collage
Chapter Eight:
The Paradox: The Absolute Truth and the Exquisite Lie – Creating a Panorama
in Photoshop
Basic instructions on taking photographs that will work for you to make that BIG image ( exposure controls, proper overlap,
tripod or not?)
Relying on layer transparency and layer masking
Step-by-step instructions to make a flawless panoramic using collaging
techniques.
Grab Shot Panorama
Faux-Panoramas
Themed Panorama-Style linear images
Hurry-up Panoramas – Using Photoshop?s Photomerge
Fractured
Panoramas
Part IV Artistic Considerations
Chapter Nine:
Filters:
Using all the great filters available in Photoshop
Favorite Filters:
Find Edges,
Isolate and Blur
Motion Blur
Creating a Black and White Pencil Sketch, using Filters
Similar effects in Photoshop and
Painter (Cut-Out and Woodcut)
Third Party Filter plug-ins
Nik Color Efex Pro Filters
Classical SoftF ocus, Monday Morning Sepia, Paper
Toner, Foliage Filter, Polarizer, Blue Gradient, Black and White Tonal Enhancer, Indian Summer Filter, Infrared, Duplex Monochrome
Applying
Filters Selectively
Auto FX Filters
Dream Suite: Deckle, Photo Depth, Cubism, Crease, Mesh,
Mystical Lighting: Mist, Wispy Mist
Photographic
Edges : Acid Edge, Burn
Chapter Ten:
Experimentation:
Traditional Printmaking Processes
Printmaking and Digital Combined
Encaustics
Lazertran
Digital Images transferred to other materials: Marble, Tile, Fabric
InkAid – Making your own inkjet paper,
Japanese Inkjet
Coated Papers
Thinking creatively: Paint it, draw on it, tear it, weave it,glue it and more...
Creative Use of Papers for Books, Portfolios
and Albums
Chapter Eleven:
Projects For you:
Projects to test your skills. Fun assignments that tie in with the skills learned
in this book. Collage & Painting Website contains images used in the tutorials and examples.
Test your new skills with these images
Project 1 - A Structured Collage Using a Grid Project 2 - A Collage achieved with Layer Masks and Transparency
Project 3 - A Panoramic
assembled in Photoshop A Painting in Photoshop
Project 4 - A Painting in Photoshop
Project 5 - A Painting in Painter
Part V Reference
Chapter Twelve:
Essential Photoshop & Painter Techniques to master:
Selection Tools
Transforming for scale
Adjustment Layers
Layer
Masks
Gradients
Art History Brush
Blending Modes
Blending modes, Layer Adjustments and Layer Masks used together
Editing your images:
Retouching, brightening teeth & eyes, cover-girl skin
Painter Basic Papers
Cloning Brushes
Cloning without a Cloning Brush
Chapter
Thirteen:
Resources:
Web sites
Organizations
Sources for materials
Accompanying WebSite contains images used in the tutorials and examples
Index
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Paperback, 608 pages, publication date: JUN-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80705-8
ISBN-10: 0-240-80705-7
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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