T0747 - KelbyTraining.com - Paint Like A Master (Photoshop-Painter)

Kelby Training - A Celebration of Art: Paint Like a Master in Photoshop
ISO | 222 minutes |
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" that uses Adobe® Photoshop® and Corel® Painter™X to create beautiful works of art!

In this DVD, you'll learn:
The thought process and special techniques behind Fay's "Sandwich", a quick and easy way to selectively retouch and enhance any digital image using Adobe Photoshop.

To interpret whether your image is "high key" or "low key", and what painting style - oil or watercolor - will make for the best final masterpiece.

How to use Corel Painter to transform each and every pixel of your digital image into a brush stroke, eventually creating a beautiful painting!

Techniques for suggesting motion without literally depicting it, and how to convey mood through color in the same styles as some of history's greatest artists.

Exclusive to this DVD: Fay's Master Workspace with 7 new brush categories, including Cassatt, Degas, The Impressionists, Rockwell, Rembrandt, Sargent, and Portrait Hair Brushes that will help you achieve dramatic results in your digital paintings!

Fay Sirkis is featured in issue 4 of COREL Painter Magazine. (page 22)

Approximate Run Time: 222 minutes

User Feedback

Hello Fay:
"I'd called you several months ago, regarding the soon-to-be-released DVD on Photoshop and Painter X tutorials. At that time, it seemed that your DVD would never come out. Well-- I received it today, and although I'm only on Lesson 5, I am really impressed with the way that you approached this project -- VERY professional. I have already learned enough to say I have my money's worth. I just had to drop you this little note of "thanks" for a job well done!"

Dear Fay:
"Thanks so much for the DVD. I bought it last week and its helped me a lot in just a short period of time."

T0731 - Corel Photo-paint 10 hours tutorial

Corel Photo-paint 10 hours tutorial
Learn Corel PhotoPaint more deeply and discover the power of this program when it work together with CorelDraw.1GB- unpacked ,Flash videos.
This 10 hours training will cover different aspects of photopaint,and will go to apply some examples ,plus you will find some files also to apply what you have learned.

T0459 - VTC Corel Painter X

Corel® Painter X is a natural media emulation tool. It allows users to create digital images and artwork that appear to be created with traditional sketch and painting tools. Painter X has over 400 brushes and 30 mediums to work with. The user can also create their own brushes. Experiment with life-like media such as Digital Water Color and Oils or create sketches from photographs. It's no wonder Painter is considered to be "the ultimate digital sketching tool". Join Painter Professional - Dwayne Ferguson as he teaches this award winning program. Work Files are included.

T0302 - Gnomon Workshop - The Techniques of Puddnhead Volume 1 + 2

Gnomon Workshop - The Techniques of Puddnhead Volume 1 + 2

Puddnhead shows you how to create three different creatures from start to finish, from the abstract design of the character to the finished drawing. Using a mechanical pencil and kneaded eraser, he demon- strates how to develop emotional, three-dimensional and realistic designs. Over the course of the lecture, Puddnhead discusses how to give your characters more life, create original and unique types of characters, draw and render from your imagination, create expression and mood, and develop your focal areas. He explains his entire process, and you see every mark he makes as if you were sitting next to the artist.

The Gnomon Workshop - The Techniques of Puddnhead Volume 1: Creature Design and Drawing

Puddnhead shows you how to create three different creatures from start to finish, from the abstract design of the character to the finished drawing. Using a mechanical pencil and kneaded eraser, he demon- strates how to develop emotional, three-dimensional and realistic designs. Over the course of the lecture, Puddnhead discusses how to give your characters more life, create original and unique types of characters, draw and render from your imagination, create expression and mood, and develop your focal areas. He explains his entire process, and you see every mark he makes as if you were sitting next to the artist.

The Gnomon Workshop - The Techniques of Puddnhead Volume 2: Digital Creature Painting

In this DVD, Puddnhead shows you how to transform a pencil drawing into a digital painting using Corel Painter. He reveals every step of his process, from underpainting to the finished rendering. Puddnhead shows all of his tricks for creating a better glow by combining tools and layering, painting better edges, rendering small details, adding more life to your paintings, implementing advanced lighting, creating mood and emotion, and knowing when a painting is finished.

Over 3 hours of lecture.

T0300 - The Gnomon Workshop - The Techniques of Feng Zhu (Vol.1-3)

When working from a design brief, idea generation is one of the most difficult aspects of the job. This lecture has two main components, each covering an important part of the design process. First, you will see how designs are generated, by watching Feng sketch over forty rough thumbnails and quick silhouettes. The sketches are then critiqued in order to identify the most visually successful. The entire lecture focuses on a single client brief: melee-style gladiator fighting robots of the future.

The Gnomon Workshop - The Techniques of Feng Zhu Volume 1: Design Process - Fighting Robots

When working from a design brief, idea generation is one of the most difficult aspects of the job. This lecture has two main components, each covering an important part of the design process. First, you will see how designs are generated, by watching Feng sketch over forty rough thumbnails and quick silhouettes. The sketches are then critiqued in order to identify the most visually successful. The entire lecture focuses on a single client brief: melee-style gladiator fighting robots of the future.
The software used in this DVD is Corel Painter.

The Gnomon Workshop - The Techniques of Feng Zhu Volume 2: Robot Design Refinement and Rendering

Starting with thumbnail silhouettes chosen from the previous lecture, two distinctive designs are drawn, refined and rendered for client presentation. See how two robots, that follow the same brief, can be given strong visual identities through the use of different form languages. The purpose of this process is to end up with a clear presentation of a solid design.
The software used in this DVD is Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop.

The Gnomon Workshop - The Techniques of Feng Zhu Volume 3: Fundamentals of Shot Design for Environments

This DVD breaks down the individual components necessary to stage a successful environment design. First covered are the basics of perspective, followed by demos explaining the use of scale and composition. Next, the fundamentals of lighting and values are illustrated. Finally, watch Feng sketch out various environments, incorporating all the topics covered above.
The software used in this DVD is Corel Painter.