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Digital Painting in Photoshop: Industry Techniques for Beginners

Digital Painting in Photoshop: Industry Techniques for Beginners

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Inside this comprehensive manual is everything the budding digital painter needs to know about the customizable Photoshop interface, its efficient tools, essential painting brushes, and complex layers and masks. Explore the endless possibilities of digital painting through three highly detailed step-by-step tutorials which look in depth at key processes and professional techniques. Discover how to subtly integrate photo textures, create custom brushes, and generate impressive effects to develop your own incredible artworks.

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Learn how to paint digitally in Adobe Photoshop, the key professional software for illustrators, video game artists, and the CG industry.


With a line-up of world-class contributors, this book is the essential guide for newcomers, students, and anyone who wants to learn more about how to harness the tremendous power of Photoshop as a painting tool.
- Learn the fundamentals of Photoshop’s tools and functions.
- Discover powerful photo manipulation techniques.
- Develop a digital painting from a hand-drawn image.
- Paint astounding special effects Gain valuable industry insight from the professionals.

Product details
Softback 288 pages
Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm
Paper quality: Full-color premium paper pages
ISBN: 978-1-909414-76-1

Contents and contributors

Introduction to digital painting by Markus Lovadina

 

 

What is digital painting?

Hardware guide

Software guide


Introduction to Photoshop by Markus Lovadina

 

The Photoshop interface

Tools

Brushes

Layers

Photoshop in action


Fantasy landscape by James Wolf Strehle

 

Key skills:

Setting up a canvas

Using layers

Custom brushes

Layer masks

Value structure

Atmospheric lighting

Refining details

Magic effects


Alien crash site by Matt Tkocz

 

Key skills:

Adding photos

Manipulating assets

Blending photos into paintings

Using channels

Saturation and desaturation

Color adjustment

Transform tools

Managing layers structures


Steampunk explorer by Daria Rashev

 

Key skills:

Using hand-drawn sketches

Using selections

Clipping masks

Layer blending modes

Merging layers

Sampling layers

Match Color adjustments

Creating reflections


Basic functions by Markus Lovadina

 


Glossary

 


Index

 


Acknowledgments

 

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