Lynda - Digital Painting: Architecture

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Genre: Video Training

Learn to think like a painter and render images that look like they were created with oils or acrylics, using the latest digital artist's tools. Author and artist John Derry introduces the process of interpreting a photograph into a painted work of art. He begins by explaining his system of visual vocabularies, which describe how to replace the visual characteristics of a photograph with that of expressive painting, and also shares the custom brush sets and actions he uses to achieve these results in Adobe Photoshop. The course also covers working with filters, layers, effects, and more to add further detail and texture.

Introduction

Introduction

Using the exercise files

Installing custom content

Setting up Wacom express keys

Setting Wacom touch ring preferences

Setting Wacom stylus preferences

Division of labor: Image prep and painting

1. Photographic Reality vs. Expressive Interpretation

Visual vocabularies

The vocabulary of photography

The vocabulary of painting

Looking at reality through a mental painting filter

2. Image Preparation: Working with the Source Photograph

Removing lens distortion with the Adaptive Wide Angle filter

Removing distractions

Don't be a slave to the original photograph

Correcting image adjustments

Telling a story with added image elements

3. Image Preparation: Modifying Tones

The eye has a better sensor than a camera

Adding natural shadows with Field Blur

Using the Shadow/Highlight adjustment filter

Using the HDR Toning filter

4. Image Preparation: Modifying Color and Detail

Resolution is in the brushstrokes

Using the Surface Blur filter

Using the Displacement filter to add imperfections

Using the Oil Paint filter

Making tonal and color corrections

5. Using Nondestructive Layer Painting

Nondestructive layer painting (NDLP): Your creative safety net

Setting up the Mixer Brush cloning action

Using cloning layers

Working with adjustment layers

6. Working with Brushes

Using tool presets and not brushes

Categorizing and organizing brushes

Adding canvas texture

Using Sample All Layers

7. Expressive Interpretation: The Underpainting Layer

You must destroy detail

Establishing compositional structure

Determining a style and sticking to it

Painting in progress: Finishing the underpainting layer

8. Expressive Interpretation: The Intermediate Layer

Understanding simplified indication

Understanding color: Warm advances, cool retreats

Painting in progress: Introducing texture to the intermediate layer

9. Expressive Interpretation: The Detail Layer

The play's the thing

Focusing on the subject through detail

Using a traditional paint color swatch set

Painting in progress: Completing the detail layer

Adding surface texture effects

10. Expressive Interpretation: Final Refinements

It pays to wait a day

Adjusting your importance hierarchy

You'll never paint the same thing twice

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