Painter 8 Wow! Book

Award-winning Corel Painter has long been a favorite among fine artists and illustrators, who love the way it emulates the experience of working with traditional media such as watercolor, pastel, pencil, and ink-yet with all the advantages of a digital technology. Whether you're an experienced digital artist or an artist who needs a bridge from traditional media to electronic art, there's no better way to learn Painter than from longtime Painter artist and instructor, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis. The Painter 8 Wow! Book has something to spark every reader's creativity. Beginners will love the clear, step-by-step instructions, which assume no prior knowledge of the program. Intermediate and advanced users will gain valuable insight from the author's savvy explanations of a wide variety of cool, creative, and productive techniques, and inspiration from the example artwork that graces the book throughout. Inside this book, Cher gives you:<>- Inside knowledge on Painter's tools, functions, and preferences, including Painter 8's exciting new brushes, its ability to blend paint interactively, and its faster, easier-to-use interface.<>- Dazzling images and inspiring techniques by renowned Painter artists worldwide.<>- Step-by-step descriptions of ways that prominent professionals use painter in commercial illustration, fine art, design, photography, mulitimedia, film, and on the Web.<>- A guide to tools, images, and other resources that will let you take better advantage of Painter's power and efficiency.<>- A CD-ROM containing a demo version of Corel Painter 8, stock photos, video clips, recorded scripts, a study guide for instructors, and over 100 new custom brushes, plus new papers, patterns, and lighting effects built by Cher herself.Threinen-Pendarvis, Cher is the author of 'Painter 8 Wow! Book' with ISBN 9780321200075 and ISBN 0321200071.