Pastel Drawing in Photoshop

Photoshop's natural-media capabilities are somewhat overshadowed by its photocentric tools.

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Brad Buttry's Virtual Painting tutorial DVDs instruct you how to magically transform your photographic images in a myriad of ways using Adobe Photoshop — the digital counterpart of traditional artists' tools. Now you can learn easy, simple techniques to transform your photographs into beautiful artistic renderings that emulate the look and feel of oils and pastels - prefect for creating magnificent wall portraits of individuals, families, weddings, seniors, children or just having fun creating art from your photos. Beginning with the basics, Brad takes you step-by-step through the process of creating exquisite virtual paintings. Each tutorial allows you to work at your own pace.

In this class I am going to show you how to take your hand painted motifs or paintings and turn them into a repeating pattern using Photoshop. Whether you love to paint with watercolor, oils, acrylic, or soft pastel, Photoshop will allow you to retain all the subtle variation and nuance that makes your particular painting style unique and it will come through in your seamless patterns as well.

Hello! I'm Will Terry. I've received a lot of requests from folks who want to know how I create my artwork. So I have created this video course: Digital Painting in Photoshop.
Children's book illustrator Will Terry demonstrates his digital painting style using photoshop CS5. Whether you currently work in paint, chalk pastel, colored pencil, or something else Will will help you make your own texture to use in Photoshop. In this tutorial you will be shown all of the settings, controls, and the relatively few tools will uses to create digital textual colorful "paintings". You will need a wacom tablet or Cintiq monitor to follow along and take advantage of the painting lessons. This is NOT a general "how to" in Photoshop but the actual way Will Terry uses the program to create full color illustrations.

Melanie Stimmell will lead you step by step through the digital painting process to create a fantasy portrait. Beginning with just a pencil sketch you will learn the basics of painting a face in Photoshop and the special little tricks that make your portrait come to life. From luscious skin tones to flowing hair you will learn all you need to know to take any sketch to a perfect finish. A signature member of the Pastel Society of America and the only women to have won the title Maestro and several gold medals in both Italy and Germany, Melanie Stimmell is an internationally recognized street painter, working with clients in Turkey, Holland, Canada and throughout the U.S.

Learn everything about working with Photographs in this advanced Photo workshop course. Yes! Rather you are a marketer, photographer or designer, now anyone can learn how to use Adobe Photoshop for creating spectacular pieces of art!