Lynda â€“ Painter 2015 Essential Training with John Derry

Get your creative ideas out of your head and onto your canvas. This course takes everything you love about our Painter training and updates it for the 2015 version of the software. John Derry, one of the original Corel Painter authors, teaches the tools and techniques that will get beginners up and running with Painter and help old hands harness the best new features in Painter 2015.

Learn the basics of painting on a computer, and see how to set up your system (your Painter preferences, tablet and pen, and palettes) so it works best for you. John shows you how to mix and manage color; wield Painter’s expressive brushes with maximum control; work with layers, selections, cloning; and integrate with that other digital-painting powerhouse, Adobe Photoshop. John also covers 2015 features such as the new Particle brushes, Jitter Smoothing, updated brush tracking, and improved custom palette tools. Dive in now and get your creative juices flowing.

Topics include:

Understanding the Painter 2015 interface

Working with a pen tablet

Creating templates and custom palettes

Working with layers and channels

Calibrating brushes for maximum stroke quality

Painting with Jitter brushes

Painting with Digital Watercolor brushes

Painting with particles

Selecting with the Lasso and Magic Wand tools

Preserving transparency in layers

Cloning artwork