Digital Painting Techniques: Masters Collection: 01 (Digital Art Masters Series)

5 Reviews For This Product

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   Rated 4 out of 5

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   by Ryan September 5, 2023

   Got the book. taught me a few new things about Photoshop. For example. i now know how to make custom brushes, a must for the digital artist! Currently in uni. if you are and are on the fence about whether to get this, then ask your self this? does the libary at uni have this book in stock? Mine does as i discovered after buying this book. still my version is in much better quality and i don’t have to keep renewing it. IN SHORT get this book if u want to improve photoshop work. if you want to get a book that will improve your drawing skills i recommend Anatomy for Fantasy Artists by Glen Fabry. im gonna be checking this book in and out for a long time!

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   Rated 5 out of 5

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   by Stein Opdahl September 9, 2023

   I purchased this book for my son at his 22nd birthday, and this is what he told me to
   write as a review:

   “Even after just a month with this book at hand, I have made immense improvements to
   my technique. It contains vivid explanations and tutorials to learn and improve
   basic Photoshop skills, drawing techniques and methods, but can also take you to the
   next and more professional level. The tutorials feature a number of different
   artists and illustrators, so finding the ones that work for you is easy, should you
   be looking for speed painting, creature design, humans or environments. When you’ve
   done some, you’ll want to do the other ones too for learning. The tutorials are easy
   to follow loosely while working on your own illustrations, or you can even download
   brushes and other files to get you started.

   To be short, I love this book. The Art teacher at my school saw me with this book, I
   let him look through it and he has now ordered one for himself and the other
   students to use, even the highly skilled ones. I’d say this book works great as well
   for beginners as it does for professionals, whether for learning basic skills or
   just looking through for inspiration.”

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   Rated 5 out of 5

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   by M. D. Harris September 15, 2023

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    Digital Painting Techniques is exactly what I’d hoped it would be, a book packed with practical and genuinely useful tips and tricks on how to paint in a natural media style within Photoshop.

   It’s densely illustrated in colour throughout with various artists demonstrating their preferred techniques. The layout and presentation is more like a magazine than reference book with shortish, easy to follow articles, showing not just how to create a brush [for example], but why you would want to do so and how it’s used within the image. It’s certainly not a rigid rule book and is more like someone informally passing on handy tips, rather than standing over your shoulder instructing you to do it the ‘correct’ way.

   Although the book is generally laid out in a step-by-step format, it is not a how to use Photoshop (or how to paint) book. As such complete novices are likely to find this book goes over their heads. In fairness the assumption that the reader is already pretty familiar with Photoshop and drawing tablets is useful, as it means the book gets straight to the heart of the subject, rather than wasting half the book explaining menus and the like. Besides, if you’re after a “How to use Photoshop” book there are plenty of books already available that will get you started, before moving onto this.

   My only minor criticism would be that the some of the reference images are occasionally laid out in an counter intuitive sequence, other than that this is a excellent book on practical digital painting and is worth every penny.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

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   by Matt September 30, 2023

   As a physical object, this thing is poorly made. I’ve bought 2, about a year apart. The first time I bought one it started to fall apart almost instantly. I never thought of it as a big deal as long as I kept the pages, and the other volumes in this series were fine, so whatever I dealt with it. However, recently I thought ‘hey I’ll buy it again because, why not, I might as well have a copy with no missing pages that won’t fall apart just because I’m carfully opening it (Honestly I’m opening these pages extremely delicately and I can see the seams seperating, hence the reason I’m trying to be stupidly careful)
   I can’t really be bothered to send it back still for a refund, but other people might, so if you’re reading this and you’re thinking about getting the hard copy, please consider the following; I might be a lot more clumsy than I think – IT’s just a coincidence and I got two rarely badly made copies – These are badly made, at least this volume and it will fall apart without more care than you’d normally need to direct to a book.

   Now, as far as the content inside the book, it’s amazing, instructions are perfectly clear, if you practice each point, in a way, it unlocks a slightly new part of your level of skill and you’re suddenly able to do the thing it’s instructing, after a few times, you’ll be able to do it well, and by the time you’ve gotten through the book, following all the instructions and practicing regularly and constantly, you will improve greatly. And then you can move onto the next volumes….(You should also be aware that people learn things differently, for me this is perfect because it tells me what to do and I do it, other people might need something else, but I think even for those other people this book will become useful as a reference to self improvement.)

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   Rated 3 out of 5

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   by BusyG November 2, 2023

   This looked like a great gift for my teen daughter who creates lots of digital artwork to help develop her skills, but both copies I’ve ordered have been in a terrible condition with creased cover and bumped/scuffed pages. Too shabby to gift. Second was in worse state than first.