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Forty step-by-step color demonstrations are presented, showing how to use image-editing software (along with scanners, digital cameras, and printers) to develop and improve drawings and paintings. Demonstrations document the work of some 30 artists who work in watercolor, pastel, acrylics, and oils, showing how they combined photos, moved compositional elements, changed colors to create a computer study as the basis for a drawing or painting. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Artists have used mechanical devices to enhance and refine their work for nearly 300 years. Now there’s an innovative, one-stop guide that demonstrates scores of ways to use imaging-editing software (along with scanners, digital cameras, and printers) to develop drawings and paintings, no matter what the medium.Here are dozens of tested tools and no-fail techniques for working with multiple photos . . . creating moods . . . working with layers . . . zooming in on detail . . . developing an abstract painting from a photograph . . . and much more. Examples from over 40 professional artists, including Ron Ranson, Richard McDaniel, and Penny Soto, cover a variety of mediums, styles, and subjects and clearly detail, step by step, proven ways to experiment with color, composition, value, scale, and proportion. This one-of-a-kind reference offers infinite possibilities!
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