Editorial Reviews:
Book Description
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. Along the way, Cher shows readers how to set up a pressure-sensitive tablet and stylus; use mark-making tools in Photoshop and Painter; create tonal, gestural, and contour drawings with a pressure-sensitive tablet and stylus; incorporate scanned artwork into digital paintings; use photos as a reference for the illustrations; make creative use of color and ideas for composition design; translate traditional color theory to digital color tools; simulate canvas and paper; create mixed media; and more. All the concepts, processes, and projects in this book can be applied to readers' own drawings and paintings, and the lessons and examples demonstrated in this book are designed to work with the most current versions of Painter and Photoshop, as well as most earlier versions of the software. In addition, readers will find brushes, textures, images and other goodies on the book’s companion Web site that they can use as they work through the projects in the book.
Customer Reviews:
Review #1: Just what I needed
2006-11-10 
Excellent book that provides exactly what I needed to learn to use Painter and the tablet.
Review #2: The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book
2006-11-01
I was worried about getting used to my new pen tablet so I purchased this book. I am spoiled to the mouse as many people are so it was difficult to know where to start. This book made it all easy and since I am constantly using my pen tablet, there isn't alot of time to get into the learning process of it except to just jump right in. This book made that possible.
Review #3: So logical, this book should have been done years ago.
2006-08-17
Can you sign your name with a bar of soap? Of course not! So, why are you trying to paint digital images with a mouse? A pen tablet and a program like Photoshop or Corel Painter are the only sensible tools for those times when you're creating an image from scratch or doing brush-oriented retouching or digital airbrushing.
This book shows you the techniques you must master to successfuly excel in digital painting. You'll need some experience with either of the two leading image editors, and some skill at painting, but the author's explanations will help you transfer your capabilities to this new medium. Clearly-written and comprehensive, this book is the only other thing you need.
Review #4: The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book
2006-07-28
This is a great book. As both a Graphic Designer and an Illusrtator, I stradle the fence between commercial and traditional art often. This book has helped me incorporate my traditional painting style into a form I could not accomplish before.
Review #5: Wonderful book for artists!
2006-06-28
As a long-time colleague of Cher's, I have the utmost respect for the dedication with which she crafts her books. Her "Painter WOW! Book" is the industry standard for anyone wanting to learn Painter-- with art collected from the best Painter experts around the world. Now with this "Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book," Cher has taken us into her working studio, to share her own tips and techniques. There are lessons for every level of artist and digital expertise-- all illustrated with her beautiful work. Whether or not you can arrange to take one of Cher's wonderful classes or workshops, this book will provide you with hours of lessons from one of the pioneers who helped develop the world of digital painting. |
