Digital Collage and Painting: Using Photoshop and Painter to Create Fine Art

ISBN-13: 9780240811758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 584 str.

Susan Ruddick Bloom

Opis

The world of digital art has exploded in recent years, with amateur and professional artists alike taking the notion of "fine art" to creative levels never before imagined. In this practical yet wholly inspiring, beautiful book, Susan Ruddick Bloom highlights her own work as well as that of her masterful contemporaries to show just what can be possible when artists take their work a few steps further. Focusing on collage, painting, panoramic, and sketching as well as several other artistic methods, this book's uniqueness comes from a thorough discussion of using both Photoshop and Painter to create stunning digital effects. Advanced artists will be able to dive right in, while less experienced artists can get a refresher on each program's basics in the "Essential Painter and Photoshop Techniques" chapter. Suggested projects as well as downloadable practice images from the book provide the reader with all of the knowledge necessary to emulate the work of some of the industry's best.

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Contents

Dedication ix

Part I Planning and Inspiration

Chapter One Concept

What is a Collage, Montage, or Assemblage?

What is a Digital Painting?

Think it Out First, Assembling the Needed Images

Are You Drowning in Digital Files?

What is the Intended Output Size?

Chapter Two Important Considerations Before you Begin

Unifying Factors

Texture

Color

Contrast

Noise and Grain

Scale

Tree House Exercise

Rotating, Distorting, and Transforming

Lighting

Directionality of Light

Quality of Light

Dramatic vs. Subtle

Projects: Places That Never Were

Australian Boulder

Hawaiian Waterfall

Menace in Venice

Chapter Three Inspiration

Digital Artists and Their Work

Dorothy Simpson Krause

Susi Lawson

Mary L. Taylor

Eric Scala

John Derry

Theresa Airey

Martin Addison

Alexander Kruglov (Shurelo)

Ad Van Bokhoven

Karin Schminke

Tony Sweet

Jason Seiler

Huntington Witherill

Cynthia Brody and Thomas Morris

Mike Thompson

Alex Jansson

Bruno Mallart

Cliff Cramp

Claudia Salguero

Janet Stoppee

Part II Step-by-Step Painting

Chapter Four Painting in Photoshop with Your Photos

How to Use Photoshop Filters and the History Brush to Create a Digital Painting

Using the Art History Brush to Create a Digital Painting

Using the Pattern Stamp to Create a Digital Painting

Using the Art History Brush and Emboss Filter to Create a Textured Digital Painting

Photo Illustration Using the Find Edges Filter

A Glorious Use for the Glowing Edges Filter as an Oil Painting Tool

Edge Effects for FREE!

Scanner Edge Effects

Film/Photo Edge Effects

New Photoshop Mixer Brush

Using John Derry's Third-Party Brushes

Chapter Five Painting in Painter

Simple Cloning Techniques

Impressionist Cloner

Pastel Cloning

Oil Paint Cloning

More Oil Painting

Bristle Oil Cloner

Combining a Variety of Mediums into One Painting

Adding Texture to Your Painting

Old Masters Inspiration

Photo Illustration

Photocopy-Inspired Painting

Auto Painting - Painting in a Hurry

Smart Stroke Painting

Make Virtually Any Brush a Cloner

Illustrative Sketch Technique

Painting Approach with Blenders

Edges and Cloning

Painterly Edge Effects

Chapter Six Assembling a Collage in Photoshop

My Scanner is a Camera

Simple Cloning Techniques

Simple Collages

Collage with Lighting Effect

Suspend True Scale

Themed Collages

Suspend Reality

Pile on the Layers

Combining Diverse Objects with Blending Modes

Shadow Power

Gridded Collages

Collage Possibilities for Wedding Photography

Look to History

Simple Kaleidoscope Collage

Gradient Tool for Smooth Blending

Allow Yourself to be Flexible in the Creative Process

Chapter Seven Assembling a Collage in Painter

Using Painter's Image Hose

Using Painter's Unique Brushes for Texture in a Collage

Using Colored Paper and Lighting Effects

Combining the Power of Painter and Photoshop in a Collage

Chapter Eight The Paradox: The Absolute Truth and the Exquisite Lie-Creating a Panorama in Photoshop

Concept and Preparation

Exposure Controls, Proper Overlap, Tripod or Not?

Relying on Layer Transparency and Layer Masking

Step-By-Step Panorama Instructions Using Collaging Techniques

"Grab Shot" Panoramas

Faux Panoramas

Themed Panorama-Style Linear Collages

Mirror-Images in Panoramic Format

Hurry-Up Panoramas-Using Photoshop's Photomerge

Auto-Align and Auto-Blend

Printing Panoramas

Fractured Panoramas

Precision Oriented Panoramics

Auto Pan

GigaPan

Pano Sweep Technology

Part III Artistic Considerations

Chapter Nine Filters

Using All the Great Filters Available in Photoshop

Favorite Photoshop Filters

Find Edges

Isolate and Blur

Photoshop Photo Filters

Motion Blur

Creating a Black and White Pencil Sketch Effect Using Filters

Similar Effects in Photoshop and Painter

Third-Party Filter Plug-Ins

nik Color Efex Pro Filters

Applying Filters Selectively

Lucis Pro 6

Craig's Actions

Totally Rad Action Mix

Combining Filters and Actions

Topaz Filters: Adjust 3, Simplify, Clean 2

Totally Rad Dirty Pictures

Alien Skin's Snap Art

Bokeh

Exposure 3

Chapter Ten Experimentation

Combining Traditional Media with Digital

Printmaking: Woodcuts, Intaglio and Lithography, and Silk-Screening

Overprinting and Collaging

Encaustics

Lazertran onto Marble, Glass, Tile, Fabric, and Silk

InkAID-Making Your Own Inkjet Paper

Japanese Inkjet Coated Papers

Thinking Creatively: Paint It, Draw Oh It, Tear It, Glue It, and More

Combining Drawing and Photography

PhotoTex

Creative Use of Papers for Albums

IPhoto Books

Epson Story Teller Photo Book Creator Kits

Kolo Albums

Blurb Books

Art Leather Books

HP Photo Book

Other Album/Book Possibilities

Chapter Eleven Projects for You

Project 1: Gridded Collage Exercise

Project 2: Masks and Transparency Exercise

Project 3: Panorama Exercise

Project 4: Painting in Photoshop

Project 5: Painting in Painter

Chapter Twelve Essential Photoshop and Painter Techniques to Master

Photoshop Selection Tools

Photoshop: Transforming for Scale

Photoshop: Layer Adjustments

Photoshop: Layer Masks

Photoshop: Art History Brush

Build Your Own Brush

Photoshop: Blending Modes

Screen

Multiply

Color

Overlay

Photoshop: Using Layer Adjustments, Layer Masks, and Blending Modes Together

Editing Your Images: Retouching-Cover-Girl Skin, Brightening Teeth and Eyes

Painter Basic Papers

Painter Cloning Brushes

Cloning Without a Cloning Brush

Chapter Thirteen Resources

Suppliers: Equipment, Software, Tools, and Artist Materials

Digital Collage and Painting Web Site

Index

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Susan Ruddick Bloom is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at McDaniel College in Maryland. She has a BFA and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is well known for both her traditional wet darkroom alternative processes and her digital darkroom work. Sue has been teaching digital classes since the beginning of Photoshop and has used a Mac from the very first one on the market (128K, with a screen the size of an index card). Trained in drawing, painting, and printmaking, she was at one time a courtroom artist for television and newspapers. Her painterly skills enhance her photographic ones, and her images frequently combine techniques. Sue's work has been exhibited and collected widely.