This online digital painting course assumes that you have taken Introduction to Photoshop CC or have the equivalent experience. While you do not need to be an advanced Photoshop expert, you need to be familiar with Photoshop, its tools, layering, the basics of photo editing and how Photoshop works. This digital painting course is designed for someone who is generally familiar with Photoshop and would like to expand on their abilities, specifically emphasizing the features that paint.
During your training lessons, you will get an introduction to digital painting, including the tools and panels used to create and apply color to images. Next, dive into the world of hand-painting images, where you will work with creating complementary sets of colors, adding gradients to an image, and then hand-painting to colorize existing images. Closing this chapter with a thorough overview of Photoshop's brush tool, layers, and layer blending modes to add or change color—and how to give realism to images using the Burn and the Dodge tools.
Your lessons will include advanced brush techniques, including some of the Kyle Webster special effects and dry media brushes. The digital painting course will also cover an overview of Photoshop's most advanced painting tools, where you can apply the mixing brush and the art history brush to realistically paint in different styles of paint such as wet media watercolor and other styles.
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
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Lesson 1
Introduction to Digital Painting
Before you begin working with painting, it's important to have a good foundation in how color works both in paint and with a computer on screen and in print.
You will also learn the tools and panels used to create and apply color to images. In this lesson you will use selections and masks along with adjustment layers to recolor an image.
Hand-Painting Images
In this lesson, you'll work with creating complementary sets of colors, adding gradients to an image, and then hand painting to colorize existing images. You will work extensively with Photoshop's brush tool, layers and especially Photoshop's layer blending modes to convincingly add or change color. Lastly, the lesson will wrap up with applying small details to an image to give it realism such as with the Burn and the Dodge tools.
Working with Brushes
In this lesson, you will start to use some of the more advanced brush techniques including some of the Kyle Webster special effects brushes as well as learning to use dry media brushes. This lesson will work through detailed projects applying advanced color techniques to an image to create a realistic painted subject.
Mixing and Painting
In this lesson, you'll really roll up your sleeves and start painting with some of Photoshop's most advanced painting tools. You'll use the mixing brush and the art history brush to very realistically paint in different styles of paint such as wet media watercolor and other styles. You'll also be able to make use of the history panel to draw from previous versions of the image and paint them into the current version. You will also add to Photoshop's existing set of brushes by downloading and installing many advanced brushes for your painting needs.
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