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Ten Ways to Paint Digital

Best Digital Painting Programs Digital painting has a large niche market of artists, photographers and hobbyists. There are many different kinds of programs available both as stand alone or plugins to other programs. Here is an updated list of the ones that [...]

Using Photoshop Brushes in Postworkshop Pro Edition

New Video Lesson Postworkshop Pro Edition Amazing that any abr (Photoshop) brushes can be installed easily into Postworkshop and then it brings up all kinds of options for creativity. Watch how easy it is!   Link to Postworkshop HERE Kays Brushes I [...]

12 FREE Styles for Postworkshop

Art from Photographs with Postworkshop I totally admit I am addicted to taking an image and then recreating it from top to bottom. There are lessons I have been posting here on Postworkshop but that was just the beginning. Now I have learned how to create my [...]

Postworkshop Art Lesson Five

Postworkshop Lesson Five  Here is a video showing how to use HISTORY and LAYER MASKS in Postworkshop. The last 50 paintings done are saved in history as a "style". This enables us to in an instant reuse the style. If you think about the Style as an [...]

Postworkshop Art Lesson Four

Another Lesson in using Postworkshop for Digital Painting I'm still amazed at the depth of this software. I'm playing with it now on portraits and it leaves so many options. Watch this lesson and see if you don't' agree how fast it is. A free trial is [...]

Postworkshop Art Lesson Three

Postworkshop Art Lesson Two

Another Video Lesson on Postworkshop Pro I am truly enjoying learning this software and sharing the lessons. Every time I play with this I find out something new. Please enjoy this video.   You can find out more about this program HERE Remember to [...]

Intro to Postworkshop Digital Art Software

Introduction to POSTWORKSHOP Digital Painting Software Ever since I posted my DIGITAL TOY BOX post I have had a lot of questions about this particuliar software. I decided that it would be good to get you all started with the basics of this software so [...]

Painter12 Quick Tip Painting Cheeks

Quick Tip for Painting Cheeks in Corel Painter12   [...]

Portrait Retouching / Tools for Removing Spots

Portrait Retouching / Removing Spots from Skin  Jane Conner-ziser Retouching Skin isn’t a global operation. Some things need to be removed, other things should be softened and reshaped, but other things should be left alone. Take wrinkles, for [...]

Corel Painter 12 Is a Must Have

Corel has released Painter 12 A major overhaul of Corel Painter has moved it to a new level. It is available for Mac OS X and Windows. This is a much anticipated release and having been on the beta team I have had the opportunity for months to play [...]

The 5 Lights of Nature

Aloha! We are interjecting in our retouching series this article on lighting. It's an important but simple tutorial that will help you create depth, drama and polish to your photography, retouching and painting. The Five Lights of Nature are values that [...]

Portrait Retouching / Wacom Tablet and Pen Exercises

Mastering the Wacom Pen The Wacom tablet is a MUST HAVE for anyone who seriously wants to do retouching or digital painting. It’s the difference between creating art with a pen or a potato and I am serious when I say that if I didn’t have my tablet [...]

Art Software On the iPad

iPad Art Crazy I have to admit it. I didn't want to buy an iPad. Really and seriously. As of last June I was definitely going to wait to get one, until I went to a blogging conference here in Asheville,NC last June. All around me were iPads and everyone was on [...]

Super Secret Painting Software

Secrets of Digital Artists They don't talk about it much, but there are some fantastic painting programs out there that when used correctly will do some amazing artwork. While the power of Corel Painter is my primary painting software, it has become bigger and [...]