The Painter 8 Wow! Book, w. CD-ROM (One-Click Wow) - Softcover

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Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, award-winning designer, fine artist, and educator, has influenced thousands of digital artists in her many years of teaching and writing about electronic design tools. Her digital paintings and photography have been exhibited worldwide, and her work is featured in numerous books and periodicals. Cher teaches the use of digital tools in various workshops around the United States and in Europe, and is often a featured speaker at graphics conferences.

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Award-winning Corel Painter has long been a favorite among fine artists and illustrators, who love the way it emulates the experience of working with traditional media such as watercolor, pastel, pencil, and ink-yet with all the advantages of a digital technology. Whether you're an experienced digital artist or an artist who needs a bridge from traditional media to electronic art, there's no better way to learn Painter than from longtime Painter artist and instructor, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis. The Painter 8 Wow! Book has something to spark every reader's creativity. Beginners will love the clear, step-by-step instructions, which assume no prior knowledge of the program. Intermediate and advanced users will gain valuable insight from the author's savvy explanations of a wide variety of cool, creative, and productive techniques, and inspiration from the example artwork that graces the book throughout. Inside this book, Cher gives you:

• Inside knowledge on Painter's tools, functions, and preferences, including Painter 8's exciting new brushes, its ability to blend paint interactively, and its faster, easier-to-use interface.
• Dazzling images and inspiring techniques by renowned Painter artists worldwide.
• Step-by-step descriptions of ways that prominent professionals use painter in commercial illustration, fine art, design, photography, mulitimedia, film, and on the Web.
• A guide to tools, images, and other resources that will let you take better advantage of Painter's power and efficiency.
• A CD-ROM containing a demo version of Corel Painter 8, stock photos, video clips, recorded scripts, a study guide for instructors, and over 100 new custom brushes, plus new papers, patterns, and lighting effects built by Cher herself.