Lynda: Photoshop CS5 Painting with the Mixer Brush [HF]

Video Training | HF | 243Mb

Join John Derry, a pioneer in the field of digital painting, as he shows how to master the natural-media painting features introduced in Photoshop CS5 in Photoshop CS5: Painting with the Mixer Brush. This course shows how to use the Mixer Brush, the Bristle Tips feature, and a new mechanism for blending colors in Photoshop to add beautiful, painterly effects to photographs, enhance artwork with paint-like strokes and illustrations, and paint entirely new art from scratch. This course also covers customizing brush characteristics and surface textures, applying keyboard shortcuts to paint smoothly and efficiently, and using a Wacom tablet to get the most out of Photoshop CS5's painting features. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

Understanding the axes of motion with a Wacom tablet

Choosing a brush shape and Bristle Tip

Adjusting brush angle

Loading color and control the behavior of the Mixer Brush

Modifying surface texture

Simulating the texture of canvas

Saving tool presets for brushes

Creating a painting from a photograph

Painting from scratch with the Mixer Brush

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