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"All these subjects are presented as Basics sections, Primers, techniques, tips, galleries and appendixes. It is therefore easy to work through each exercise. The book comes with a CD with extra libraries of Wow: Brushes, Patterns, Scripts, and Textures. I tried out the brushes called Knives and Scrapers with just a blank canvas and was delighted with the result." -- Babette Bloch, Golden Gate Computer Society
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The Painter 11 Wow! Book continues to delight Painter fans with its many exciting inspirations and techniques for creating fine art, photography, graphic design, multimedia, and film. In this new edition of The Painter Wow! Book, bestselling author and renowned artist Cher Threinen-Pendarvis takes her readers, step-by-step, through this revolutionary program, guiding them across the bridge from traditional media to electronic art.
With her clear, instructive approach, Cher quickly gets beginners up to speed, providing more advanced users with additional insight on a variety of cool, creative, and productive techniques. New to this edition is coverage of Painter's latest tools, including the new dry media (marker, pen, pencil, and chalk) found in the RealBristle Painting System, a hard-media palette for fine-tuned adjustments, a virtual palette for mixing colors, support for Photoshop layers and color profiles, and much more. A CD-ROM containing numerous stock photos, video clips, a study guide for instructors, and over 100 unique custom brushes, plus new papers, patterns, and lighting effects built by Cher herself, makes this an invaluable resource for professionals and artists at all levels.
With her clear, instructive approach, Cher quickly gets beginners up to speed, providing more advanced users with additional insight on a variety of cool, creative, and productive techniques. New to this edition is coverage of Painter's latest tools, including the new dry media (marker, pen, pencil, and chalk) found in the RealBristle Painting System, a hard-media palette for fine-tuned adjustments, a virtual palette for mixing colors, support for Photoshop layers and color profiles, and much more. A CD-ROM containing numerous stock photos, video clips, a study guide for instructors, and over 100 unique custom brushes, plus new papers, patterns, and lighting effects built by Cher herself, makes this an invaluable resource for professionals and artists at all levels.
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If you are new to Painter and have Painter 11, then this is a good book!
However, if you are like me and use Painter and have Painter X Wow! or any of the others, then don't bother!!
Very disapointed.... contians much of the same content, down to the same words and pictures.... basically the same old book with a few bits added and a nice a new cover!
However, if you are like me and use Painter and have Painter X Wow! or any of the others, then don't bother!!
Very disapointed.... contians much of the same content, down to the same words and pictures.... basically the same old book with a few bits added and a nice a new cover!
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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quite a good book for learning the ropes in using corel painter 11. Iv'e previously bought the photoshop wow series. but after recently converting to painter. this is really good for helping me find the way around doing things i'm used to in photoshop. Iv'e always been biased towards photoshop. but painter is way ahead of photoshop in what i can do. and its less than half the price. I'm glad i moved over.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Essential Resource
7 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback
I have worked through each aspect of this book and it is perfect for both creativity and down to earth hard core Painter usage. By the time I was done, I had a thorough knowledge of the program, a repertoire of new techniques and a resource that I could refer to again and again. Cher has authored yet another excellent book with her typical beauty and finesse.
I would recommend this to both seasoned Painter users as well as beginners in the program. In fact I have an extra copy just to give away to colleagues.
I would recommend this to both seasoned Painter users as well as beginners in the program. In fact I have an extra copy just to give away to colleagues.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Great instructional book
14 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback
This is a fully illustrated - easy to understand - and exciting book on the Painter 11 program. Painter is an easy to use program for the digital painter, but like Photoshop, has much power and depth that the user might not be aware of unless they purchase Painter11 Wow. It breaks down the functions of the software into specific tasks and then shows how to accomplish each of them. Then - and this is key - Ms Pendarvis gives examples created by various artists using one or more of these techniques.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
The Painter 11 WOW! Book -- an excellent "Rosetta Stone" for Painter
19 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback
I have been using Painter since 1994. I routinely use many other graphics applications, but Painter remains the backbone of my medical illustration work.
Painter is so feature rich, it would be easy to overlook many of the things it can do. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, with the newest edition of her Painter WOW! series -- The Painter 11 WOW! Book -- has once again created a beautifully designed and easily accessible roadmap to unleashing the power of Painter.
I recommend this book for Painter beginners, as well as for longtime users.
A methodical chapter-by-chapter reading will take the Painter user through a logical, delightful journey of discovery. And yet, a random opening to any page is likely to reveal a gem of unexpected serendipity and insight.
Chapter 8, "Exploring Special Effects," is a terrific resource. It includes valuable how-to's on creating mosaics, fractal patterns, glass distortion, "dynamic layers" effects (which remain changeable after they're created), realistic-looking weave patterns on fabric folds, and other effects. The special effects of how to make an "environmental map," a "a terrain map," a "circular panorama" and "seamless patterns" are ones of which I've made excellent use -- exporting them into my 3D Animation application as texture maps, environmental maps, and bump maps.
I'm most grateful to the author for putting together this compendium of information, and that I have at my fingertips such a valuable resource.
Disclosure: I am one of the artists included in the book. But I receive no monetary compensation for inclusion in the book, or for this review.
Painter is so feature rich, it would be easy to overlook many of the things it can do. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, with the newest edition of her Painter WOW! series -- The Painter 11 WOW! Book -- has once again created a beautifully designed and easily accessible roadmap to unleashing the power of Painter.
I recommend this book for Painter beginners, as well as for longtime users.
A methodical chapter-by-chapter reading will take the Painter user through a logical, delightful journey of discovery. And yet, a random opening to any page is likely to reveal a gem of unexpected serendipity and insight.
Chapter 8, "Exploring Special Effects," is a terrific resource. It includes valuable how-to's on creating mosaics, fractal patterns, glass distortion, "dynamic layers" effects (which remain changeable after they're created), realistic-looking weave patterns on fabric folds, and other effects. The special effects of how to make an "environmental map," a "a terrain map," a "circular panorama" and "seamless patterns" are ones of which I've made excellent use -- exporting them into my 3D Animation application as texture maps, environmental maps, and bump maps.
I'm most grateful to the author for putting together this compendium of information, and that I have at my fingertips such a valuable resource.
Disclosure: I am one of the artists included in the book. But I receive no monetary compensation for inclusion in the book, or for this review.
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