“Creating Digital Paintings” Book” is Available

Today, Digital Art Press announces the publication of “Creating Digital Paintings, a new paperback and e-book by Peter Smolens. It’s a revised, updated, and expanded version of the 2019 publication of “Digital Photo Painting using Adobe Photoshop.” It’s a hands-on, practical guide showing how to create digital paintings using your computer, a graphics tablet, and Adobe Photoshop. The book is available at Amazon.com

Written for the beginner to advanced painter, you learn how to create digital paints using Adobe Photoshop, the tool of the modern artist. “Creating Digital Paintings” incorporates the latest Adobe Photoshop Brush Engine changes to educate and inspire painters.

Photoshop is an expansive and daunting piece of software. Use the step-by-step tutorials in the book and insightful exercises to build up the skills you need to bring your imagination to life as digital paintings unleash the endless possibilities for this unique medium. “Creating Digital Paintings” Contains more than 200 illustrations, including print screens and original digital paintings.

What is inside

“Create Digital Paintings” shows how to create digital paintings in the following to create specific digital paintings in styles such as:

Understand the Photoshop environment and Brush Engine.
Create a Digital Painting Portrait
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 (Chapter 10) – emulating the graphic line style

Create digital images you can share with family and friends. Upload to social media, print digital paintings suitable for framing, and create customized greeting cards with your digital paintings.

Author Peter Smolens, a writer, photographer, and digital painter, is the author of “Creating Digital Paintings” and “Digital Photo-Painting using Adobe Photoshop,” both published by Digital Art Press. He has published digital painting articles in Photoshop Creative. His digital photo paintings have been displayed in restaurants, stores, galleries, libraries, corporate offices, and on the streets as banners.

“Creating Digital Paintings,” published by Digital Art Press, is his second book. To see examples of his work, check out the Digital Painting Gallery on his website, P.B.S Studios.