Digital Painting in Photoshop: Industry Techniques for Beginners

Inside this comprehensive manual is everything the budding digital painter needs to know about the customizable Photoshop interface, its efficient tools, essential painting brushes, and complex layers and masks. Explore the endless possibilities of digital painting through three highly detailed step-by-step tutorials which look in depth at key processes and professional techniques. Discover how to subtly integrate photo textures, create custom brushes, and generate impressive effects to develop your own incredible artworks.

Learn how to paint digitally in Adobe Photoshop, the key professional software for illustrators, video game artists, and the CG industry.

With a line-up of world-class contributors, this book is the essential guide for newcomers, students, and anyone who wants to learn more about how to harness the tremendous power of Photoshop as a painting tool.

- Learn the fundamentals of Photoshop’s tools and functions.
- Discover powerful photo manipulation techniques.
- Develop a digital painting from a hand-drawn image.
- Paint astounding special effects Gain valuable industry insight from the professionals.

Contents List:

Introduction to digital painting by Markus Lovadina
What is digital painting?

Hardware guide
Software guide
Introduction to Photoshop by Markus Lovadina

The Photoshop interface
Tools
Brushes
Layers
Photoshop in action
Fantasy landscape by James Wolf Strehle

Key skills:
Setting up a canvas
Using layers
Custom brushes
Layer masks
Value structure
Atmospheric lighting
Refining details
Magic effects

Alien crash site by Matt Tkocz

Key skills:
Adding photos
Manipulating assets
Blending photos into paintings
Using channels
Saturation and desaturation
Color adjustment
Transform tools
Managing layers structures

Steampunk explorer by Daria Rashev

Key skills:
Using hand-drawn sketches
Using selections
Clipping masks
Layer blending modes
Merging layers
Sampling layers
Match Color adjustments
Creating reflections

Basic functions by Markus Lovadina

Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements

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