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Digital Painting: Street Scene with John Derry



Learn to think like a painter and render images from photographs that look like they were created with oils or acrylics, using the latest digital artist's tools. Author and artist John Derry introduces the process of interpreting a photograph into a painted work of art. He begins by explaining his system of visual vocabularies, which describe how to replace the elements of an image with expressive painterly qualities, and also shares the custom brush sets and actions he uses to achieve these results in Photoshop. The course also covers working with filters, layers, effects, and more to add further detail and texture.

Level: Intermediate
Length: 4h 0m
Released: August 12, 2011

Topics include:
Understanding that resolution is in the brush strokes
Understanding the subject
Removing lens distortions
Using the traditional paint color swatch set
Making shadow and highlight adjustments
Simplifying details with filters and Smart Blur
Cloning layers
Using custom actions
Working with canvas texture
Creating physical surface texture effects

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