Lynda - Digital Painting: Street Scene

MP4 | AVC 599kbps | English | 960x540 | 15fps | 4 hours | AAC stereo 128kbps | 2.04 GB

Genre: Video Training

Learn to think like a painter and render images from photographs 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 elements of an image with expressive painterly qualities, and also shares the custom brush sets and actions he uses to achieve these results in Photoshop. The course also covers working with filters, layers, effects, and more to add further detail and texture.

Introduction

Welcome

Using the exercise files

Installing custom brushes

1. Photographic Reality vs. Expressive Interpretation

Understanding the visual vocabulary

Using the vocabulary of photography

Using the vocabulary of painting

Looking at reality through a mental painting filter

2. Image Preparation: The Source Photograph

Understanding that resolution is in the brush strokes

Understanding the subject

3. Image Preparation: Lens Distortion Removal

Removing lens distortions

Using the Free Transform tool

Using the Lens Correction filter

Understanding the ACR lens correction profiles

4. Image Preparation: Photographic Color vs. Pigment Color

Working with Vibrance

Using the Match Color command

Understanding the traditional paint color swatch set

5. Image Preparation: Tonal Modification

The eye has a bettor sensor than a camera

Using the Shadow/Highlight filter

Using the HDR Toning filter

Understanding how RAW files provide malleability

6. Image Preparation: Detail Simplification

Working with the Reduce Noise filter

Working with the Surface Blur filter

Using Smart Blur for simplification

Working with the Topaz Simplify plug-in

7. Non-Destructive Layer Painting

NDLP: A creative safety net

Using custom actions

Using the reference layer

Cloning layers

Working with the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer

8. Brushes

Brush categorization

Working with canvas texture

Using Sample All Layers

9. Expressive Interpretation: Underpainting

Being willing to destroy detail

Establishing the painting style

10. Expressive Interpretation: Intermediate Layer

Simplified indication

Understanding color

Introducing texture

11. Expressive Interpretation: Detail Layer

Providing rest areas for the eye

Focusing on the subject through detail

12. Expressive Interpretation: Non-Photographic Addition

Being willing to depart from the original

Creating detail to enhance the artwork

Creating physical surface texture effects

13. Expressive Interpretation: Final Refinements

Waiting a day

Examining your importance hierarchy

Conclusion