Description:
This full-color guide gives intermediate and advanced users excellent guidance and ideas for creating artwork in MetaCreations' Painter 5 for Windows and Macintosh, the natural-media paint program. Throughout the book, the authors present works by contributing artists and show how those artists achieved various effects through both discussion and step-by-step instruction. First, the authors review the elements of the Painter interface and go through examples that show you how to make best use of Painter's palettes, masks, floaters, shapes, and Image Hose. The bulk of the book discusses how to use Painter's tools together to produce sophisticated results. The guide teaches you about painting and compositing techniques, type effects, special effects, and multimedia and Web animation. Painter 5 Studio Secrets also gives you ideas for using Painter with 3-D modeling programs such as 3D Studio Max, drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator, and photo editors such as Photoshop. The Painter Gallery at the end of the book features images by several contributing artists. The companion CD-ROM includes a demo version of Painter 5, animated tutorials for Painter 5, tutorial images, Image Hose nozzles, patterns, and textures. -- Kathleen Caster
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