"Digital Painting and the Photograph -¾ Figure in Oils" by Maura Dutra This DVD-Rom offers photographers a tool set specifically designed to transform a photograph into a beautiful painted portrait. During her step-by-step demonstration, Maura paints with a collection of custom oil brushes designed to take the guesswork out of digital painting. Her easy-to-follow instruction will empower photographers with the confidence to develop a valuable new skill set. Approximately 2 Hours in duration. Includes a set of twelve custom oil brushes. Find out more Maura Dutra is an award-winning Visual Effects Designer and Painter Master whose work has earned her the highest industry accolades. Visit her website iDC Photography.com

Learning Corel Painter X with Jeremy Sutton DVD-ROM Take a guided tour of Corel Painter X with renowned artist and Painter Master Jeremy Sutton! This indispensable DVD-ROM is the perfect resource to help you learn the tools and techniques of a Master. In this step-by-step video guide, you will learn how to navigate your way through the Corel Painter interface, how the create artistic compositions like the Old Masters, how to sketch, draw and paint using Painter's famous brushes, how to create a painting from a photo and how to create beautiful collages using Corel Painter X.

Karen Sperling's Artistry Tips and Tricks Newsletter
Ever been in the middle of using Painter and had a question come up that you couldn't find the answer to? Those days are gone! Welcome to Artistry Tips and Tricks, a downloadable Acrobat newsletter that answers all your Corel Painter questions. Each month you'll find written tutorials and images about those little snags that you encounter as you work with Painter, but can't figure out how to solve. Don't know what your questions are, but you want to learn to turn photos into paintings in Painter? No problem! Read the step-by-step tutorials in past and present issues of Artistry Tips and Tricks! Think of Artistry Tips and Tricks as an insurance policy against ever getting lost in Painter again! Or think of it as Painter training, for $10 a month--less than it takes to fill your car with gas!

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The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book, by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis As much art book as guide, The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting uses traditional drawing and painting theory exercises, coupled with real-life projects, to show readers how they can use Painter and Photoshop with pressure-sensitive tablets to draw and paint with a computer. Award-winning artist and author Cher Threinen-Pendarvis shares her own drawings and paintings with the readers, sharing her creative thought processes and composition design secrets that she uses in her own work. In this gorgeous, large format, full-color book, Cher takes readers step-by-step through a variety of projects designed to improve their drawing, composition, and conceptual thought processes while exploring different uses of the many brushes available in Painter and Photoshop. Find out more, and download brushes, images, and textures

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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New—The Official Corel Painter Magazine Imagine Publishing Ltd has launched an exciting magazine especially for Corel Painter users. The Official Corel Painter Magazine is a monthly title full of inspirational tutorials, features and interviews aimed at helping you become a better artist. For more information or to subscribe, visit www.paintermagazine.co.uk.

The Painter X Wow!® Book. The classic best-selling book by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, creator of many of the Corel Painter Natural-Media– brushes, continues to inspire and instruct readers in this new edition updated for Corel Painter X. Order your copy today.

Painter X Creativity by Jeremy Sutton Practical, hands-on tutorials and project illustrations that show you every step in image development, including multimedia artist techniques. Includes a CD-ROM packed with unique custom brushes, tutorial images for all projects, and additional art materials not supplied with Corel Painter X. Learn more.

Painter X for Photographers by Martin Addison Learn how to instantly transform your photographs into stunning works of art. Packed with beautiful color images and precise, step-by-step instructions to show you exactly how to recreate effects using brushes, papers and textures. (Includes a DVD) Learn more.

A Celebration of Art: Paint Like A Master by Fay Sirkis Discover how to turn your digital portraits and panoramas into masterpieces that mimic the oil and watercolor styles of Great Masters like Rembrandt, Monet and Norman Rockwell. Join internationally renowned portrait artist, Fay Sirkis as she shares the secrets and techniques behind her signature style of "photo painting." Learn more.

Karen Sperling's Artistry Tips and Tricks E-zine Karen Sperling, who wrote the first several Painter manuals, and whose art is featured in a gallery show in New York, offers Artistry Tips and Tricks, a monthly e-zine featuring art lessons in addition to Painter steps for turning photos into paintings. For information, to subscribe or to order back issues, visit www.artistrymag.com.