Creating Digital Paintings
Overview
You can turn your photos into digital paintings. “Creating Digital Paintings” is a revised, updated, and expanded version of the 2019 publication “Photo Painting using Adobe Photoshop.” It’s a hands-on, practical guide that shows you how to create a digital painting from a photograph or freehand.
As a tool for modern artists, “Creating Digital Paintings” shows you the latest Adobe Photoshop Brush Engine changes. Photoshop is an expansive and daunting piece of software. The book’s step-by-step tutorials and insightful exercises educate and inspire painters to build the skills to bring their imaginations to life. “Creating Digital Paintings unleashes endless possibilities with this unique medium.
Audience
“Creating Digital Paintings” is geared to help anyone who wants to learn how to paint using a computer, graphics tablet, and Adobe Photoshop. For a photographer, “Creating Digital Paintings” shows you how to expand your offerings to your customers. If you’re an artist, “Creating Digital Paintings” shows you how to use another tool to implement your creativity.
Contents
- Introduction – what is digital painting?
- Overview of the Adobe Photoshop environment for digital painting
- Create a Digital Painting
- Adobe Photoshop Brush Engine
- Create a Watercolor Digital Painting
- Charcoal – emulating black and white style shading drawing
- Pastel – emulating a chalk-style painting
- Cyanotype – emulating the old-time blue-tinted style
- Fauve Style – emulating the graphic line style
- Output – Sharing your digital images with family and friends
Extra Special Sections:
- Create customized greeting cards with your digital paintings
- How to Add a Watermark
- Digital Painting Portfolio
- List of Reference Sources
Illustrations
“Creating Digital Paintings” is a visual book illustrated with more than 200 digital paintings and print screens.
Author:
Author Peter Smolens, a writer, photographer, and digital painter, has published articles on digital painting in Photoshop Creative Magazine. He has also displayed his digital photo paintings in restaurants, stores, galleries, libraries, corporate offices, and on the streets as banners.
Length
The paperback version of “Creating Digital Paintings” is 220 pages long, and the ebook on my laptop is 221 pages long.
Copyright
“Creating Digital Paintings” manuscript and illustrations (including digital paintings and print screens are copyrighted material. P.B.S. Studios, Digital Art Press, and Peter Smolens reserve all rights.
Formats
“Creating Digital Paintings” is available in the following formats:
- Large (8.5 X 11) Paperback
- Amazon eBook
See a Digital Painting Book Trailer
See a “Creating Digital Paintings” book trailer. It’s an overview of the book with many examples of digital paintings you can create by following the step-by-step instructions within the book.
Creating Digital Paintings Reviews
Thank you to Prince William Living magazine for putting a review of “Creating Digital Painting” on their website. “Creating Digital Paintings” Book Review | Prince William Living. It’s my first review for my new book “Creating Digital Paintings.”
Purchase Creating Digital Paintings
You can purchase “Creating Digital Paintings“ at the following locations:
Autograph Copy
To contact Peter Smolens, the author, use the PBS Studios Contact Form or send an email to psmolens@pbsstudios.com. You can also get an autographed copy of my book, “Creating Digital Paintings.”