Creative Computer Tools for Artists

This manual demonstrates different ways to use image-editing software, along with scanners, digital cameras and printers, to develop drawings and paintings no matter what the medium. The author offers tested tools and techniques, and there are examples from over 40 professional artists.

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This manual demonstrates different ways to use image-editing software, along with scanners, digital cameras and printers, to develop drawings and paintings no matter what the medium. The author offers tested tools and techniques for working with multiple photographs, creating moods, working with layers, zooming in on detail, developing an abstract painting from a photograph, and more. There are examples from over 40 professional artists, including Ron Ranson, Richard McDaniel and Penny Soto, which illustrate a variety of mediums, styles and subjects and detail, step-by-step, ways to experiment with colour, composition, value, scale and proportion.