Painter IX for Photographers: Creating Painterly Images Step by Step [With CDROM]

by Martin Addison

Book Overview

. Get up to speed fast with Corel's Painter and learn how to create imaginative artwork from your own photographs . Highly illustrated throughout with beautiful color images and a CD packed full of photographs to help you practise your new skills . Written for Painter version IX, but relevant for previous versions of this powerful creative software package Discover how to get the most out of Painter and turn your photographs into exquisite works of art with this user-friendly, accessible book and CD package. With clear, concise explanations of all the tools and techniques you need to take your skills further and covering all the brushes, papers and textures - Painter IX for Photographers will help expand your photographic and artistic horizons. Discover and master each tool with inspirational color illustrations showing you just what you can achieve at every stage. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all the image files needed to complete the step-by-step examples in the book. Also included are 30 day trial versions of Corel Painter IX for both Windows and Macintosh and a gallery of pictures by photographic artists using Painter. Whether you're a complete digital imaging novice or already use Photoshop, Elements or Paint Shop Pro and want to extend your artistic capabilities with Painter - this is the book for you! The website that accompanies the book www.painterforphotographers.co.uk provides even more images and information to ensure you get the most from this exciting, creative package.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240519825
• ISBN13: 9780240519821
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Focal Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Renders Painter IX comprehensible

Painter has long confused me. I'm not an "artist", just a photography hobbyist interested in new ways of expression. Painter always seemed just too tough, too steep a learning curve for the casual user. This book makes Painter to easy to understand and use for the photographer. The book is useful to users of Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Paint Shop Pro. Addision moves at a comfortable pace, exploring one tool after another. His projects and exercises are not demanding, but are very instructive. Many examples are provided on the accompanying CD-ROM. Overall, this is a great way for any photographer wanting to expand their capabilities to learn Painter. I wish there more books like this for other difficult to master programs. I recommend it highly. Jerry

Excellent Painter IX resource

I have been using Painter since version 6 and have many books on the application. My interest is in photography and post processing images in an "artistic" fashion. The book has helped me enormously to make the most of Painter from a photographer's perspective. This book is the one that is always by my side when working in Painter IX. I particularly like the Chapter 5 portion on the brushes. For me, this chapter alone made the book well worth its purchase. It's great having a single resource, which shows the many brush variant and examples of what they can produce.

Author goes the extra mile.

Although I have been using Photoshop for years, I'm new to Painter. In fact, I purchased Addison's book to decide, if I wanted to buy Painter IX.5. The photos in his book are outstanding, because they give you an instant comparison when using different papers and paint brush styles and sizes. As a beginner, I also appreciated the step by step cookbook style to accomplish a task in some of the chapters. Once I learn Painter, the cookbook section will be a good quick reference to obtain an effect. Normally, I would not have written a review, but I had a question, sent the author an email, and he answered the question. Now, that's extra value!

The title says it all

I first purchased Painter Ver 6 and discovered that no matter what book I purchased, I still had to be an artist to use the program. When I saw Martin Addison's book I figured I would try again with Painter IX. This book is actually for photographers! The book deals mainly with cloning techniques. His instructions are easy to follow. The images in the book are great and all are in color. If you use PhotoShop, this book is for you. This book should be required reading for anyone that is going to write a training manual. Addison shows how to do it!

First 2 chapters alone are worth the price

Purchased a few weeks ago and set it aside as I've been heavily involved in work projects. Picked it up a few days ago and realized I had misplaced the CD which comes with the book. I e-mailed Martin, the author and the same day he responds saying he will send me a new CD. Unbelievable service! In the meantime, I apply the tutorial in chapter 2 to a picture of my house(instead of the castle which is on the CD) and the results are so amazing we are going to order an enlarged print to hang in the den. This is not like those photoshop books that you have to painfully slog through. You will be able to make great pictures almost immediately.