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	Books, CDs and DVDs Corel Painter IX Interactive Training from lynda.com Getting Started with Corel Painter with Lynda Weinman is a CD-ROM workshop that includes video clip tutorials developed for Corel® Painter™ beginners, as well as returning Corel Painter users who want to understand the latest features. The Painter 8 Wow! Book, by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis The Painter 8 Wow! Book showcases dazzling, original artwork from renowned Corel® Painter™ artists, with thorough, step-by-step instructions and time-saving tips for using these techniques in your own fine art, design, photography, multimedia and film projects. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis is a designer, fine artist, author and educator based in San Diego, California. She has worked with both traditional and electronic tools for nearly 30 years. Find out more Buy The Painter 8 Wow! Book today Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, by Jeremy Sutton Thorough. Inspirational. Colorful. Creative. This comprehensive, full-color guide to Corel® Painter™ 8 helps artists to paint digitally on their computers. Projects include techniques and creative strategies for all levels, from simple through advanced. Join Jeremy Sutton, internationally renowned portrait artist and educator, as he shares the latest tips and techniques for using Corel Painter 8. Find out more Buy Painter Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook today Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artists, by Jeremy Sutton and Daryl Wise This unique book showcases a collection of almost 50 diverse and beautiful digital artworks—encompassing photographic-based, painterly and graphic imagery. The featured artworks won recent contests sponsored by Macworld Expo, Seybold Seminars, Siggraph and other international organizations. For each work, the artist explains his or her creative process, shares fascinating insights into the story behind the artwork, and shows you step-by-step how to reconstruct a distinctive visual effect. Filled with stunning imagery as well as unusual techniques for Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Painter™ and other graphics software, Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artists is a great source of inspiration and know-how. Find out more Buy Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artists today Painter Creativity for Wedding & Portrait Photographers, by Jeremy Sutton 4-DVD Tutorial Series The Painter Creativity for Wedding & Portrait Photographers 4-DVD Tutorial Series includes Resource Companion CD (PhotoVision), more than six hours of clear instruction based on procreate™ Painter 7™, as well as a companion CD featuring tutorial images. All techniques can be applied in Corel Painter 8 or higher versions. No prior experience with Corel Painter is needed. This tutorial explains everything from the ground up and makes no assumptions about your prior knowledge of the software. Learn easy techniques that will help you to transform your photographs into beautiful watercolors and oils—perfect for your top-of-the-line product wall portraits of individuals, families and weddings. Also learn quick ways to create wild, fun and dramatic pop art effects—ideal for high-school seniors and children. Contents include: DVD 1 – Introduction to Painter, Setting Up Painter DVD 2 – Watercolor Impressionism, Traditional Watercolor, Expressive Watercolor DVD 3 – Oil Masterpiece, Luscious Expressionism DVD 4 – Pop Art Dynamism, Creative Experiments Find out more Buy Painter Creativity for Wedding & Portrait Photographers 4-DVD Tutorial Series today Digital Character Design and Painting, by Don Seegmiller Digital Character Design and Painting is really two books in one: it teaches the fundamentals of character design as well as the skills, tools and techniques needed to master digital painting. Using a variety of practical Corel Painter tutorials, artists learn how to apply traditional painting techniques with digital tools and beautifully illustrate their own life-like or fantasy characters for games, movies or other commercial productions. Don Seegmiller is a teacher and writer. He's also a regular speaker at the Game Developer Conference and is art director for Saffire, a major video game developer. Find out more Buy Digital Character Design and Painting today The Techniques of Ryan Church – Volume 1, by Ryan Church The skills required to dramatically, accurately and quickly depict aircraft and spacecraft are of immense value to any concept designer. In this demonstration, a digital illustration is created from start to finish and is accompanied by insightful commentary on such subjects as digital sketching, aircraft and ship design, and a wide variety of rendering techniques. The demo documents the entire process, as one of the industry's top concept artists starts with a rough sketch and takes the viewer through to the final aircraft painting. Ryan Church is Concept Design Supervisor at Skywalker Ranch, and a Senior Art Director at Industrial Light + Magic. He's currently working on Star Wars Episode 3. Find out more Buy The Techniques of Ryan Church – Volume 1 today d'artiste: Digital Painting d'artiste: Digital Painting showcases the work and technical skills of Linda Bergkvist, John Wallin, Philip Straub and Robert Chang. Each Master Artist presents his or her digital painting techniques through a series of tutorials, which start with the original concept and step through the painting process to completion. d'artiste: Digital Painting is broken into four sections, each based around a Master Artist. Artists' sections include a personal gallery, the artist's work and thoughts in their own words, a 20-page tutorial section, and an invited artist gallery featuring over 20 digital paintings from some of the most talented digital artists in the world. Featuring step-by-step techniques—including Face painting, Telling a Story, Stream of Consciousness painting, Using the Block Model Technique, Color/Shape/Form painting, Two for One painting, Formal Portrait painting, Rendering and Hair painting. The community – The d'artiste series is the next step in Ballistic Media's path to helping build the digital arts community by raising the profile of leading artists and also publishing the work from the community from which they come. In addition to their Master Class material, each artist will choose a range of work submitted by the community that inspires or illustrates a technique of interest to them. This makes the d'artiste series unique in that it combines the technical insights of top artists with a glimpse of leading work from the digital illustration community. Find out more Buy d'artiste:Digital Painting today MONSTRUO: The Art of Carlos Huante Carlos Huante was born in east L.A. in 1965. From the very get out of the womb, the arts were in him. Besides chilaquiles and Yerba Buena (mint tea), Carlos grew up on stop-motion monster movies. Since that time he has pursued his passion for the arts by creating some of the most innovative monsters and characters, for both film and animation, that the world has ever seen. MONSTRUO is a collection of Carlos' personal, original work. With more than 150 illustrations, it features a wonderful range of monster and character designs, from simple pencil sketches that magically capture the gesture of his subjects, to full-color digital and traditional media paintings. Carlos began his career designing creatures for the Ghostbusters animated series and is currently part of the creature development team at Lucas Digital, having designed monsters and creatures for Men in Black, Men in Black 2, Mighty Joe Young, Hellboy, Blade 3 and Van Helsing. Find out more Buy MONSTRUO: The Art of Carlos Huante today Painter Educational DVDs, by Helen Yancy No other American artist or photographer has received as many international honors or more professional acclaim than Helen Yancy. She earned much of this commendation through her leadership as the foremost instructor to photographers throughout the world about the new world of digital techniques available through Adobe® Photoshop® and Corel® Painter™ applications. Her teaching expertise was recognized when she was named the ninth recipient of Professional Photographer of America's Gerhard Bakker Award for lifetime achievement and service through education in the field of photography and visual communications. Helen was the first photographer to receive the ASP Fellowship for portraits all completed in Corel Painter; she created beautiful paintings from her photographs. Now you can absorb Helen's techniques at your own pace through her new CD/DVD sets, designed to take you step-by-step through the process of creating exquisite virtual paintings created in the Helen Yancy style. Set 1 – Watercolor Virtual Painting Portrait Retouching and Enhancing the Face Creating a Virtual Painting Set 2 – Virtual Oil Painting Learn how to create an oil painting, stroke by stroke Find out more Buy Helen Yancy's Painter DVDs today The Artistry 'Painting for Photographers' CD, by Karen Sperling Wondering how to turn photographs into drawings and paintings in Corel® Painter™? Interested in creating Corel Painter images that look like paintings and not just colored photographs? Wish you had time for art classes? Want to add painterly backgrounds to portraits? See how to create paintings and drawings from your photographs using traditional art techniques translated for the tools and brushes in Corel Painter. These tutorials are compatible with procreate™ Painter 7™, Corel Painter 8 and higher, and are available either on CD or as a downloadable Adobe® Acrobat® file. The CD contains all of the images described in the tutorials, including images showing interim steps. Also available from Karen Sperling: Artistry Watercolor Techniques Artistry Painting in Painter Tutorials Artistry Line Art Tutorials The Artistry Beginners CD Find out more Buy The Artistry �Painting for Photographers' CD today Painter 8 Book and CD, by Marilyn Sholin Learn how to create a painting from a photograph! These in-depth tutorials and gorgeous full-color book make it easy to understand how to use Corel® Painter™ effectively and efficiently. This CD includes 12 specific lessons for using Corel Painter. Find out more Buy Marilyn Sholin's Book and CD today VTC Corel Painter 8 Tutorials, by Ronda Grossman Join Painter professional Rhoda Grossman as she teaches every aspect, feature and palette of the award-winning Corel® Painter™ program. Never has it been so easy to learn Corel Painter 8—simply learn from your own desk at a pace that suits you. Use a unique training method that makes learning easy, no matter what your learning style. This comprehensive DVD includes nine hours of content. Free movies are available now! Find out more Buy VTC Corel Painter Tutorials today Corel Painter 8 Fast & Easy, by Eric Grebler Corel Painter 8 Fast & Easy puts you on the fast track to mastering Corel Painter 8. Through step-by-step instructions and screen shots, you'll learn a variety of techniques and creative tricks to create artwork quickly and make your work stand out from the crowd. Use your imagination and create masterpieces that go beyond the capabilities of a traditional canvas and brush! 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