Digital Painting Techniques Using Corel Painter 2016
Wallace Jackson
Language: English
Pages: 213
ISBN: 1484217357
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Learn the foundational concepts of vector graphics and raster imaging, including what new media formats are best for use with Android Studio, Java and JavaFX, iOS, Kindle and HTML5, as well as key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization is important. Digital Painting Techniques covers concepts central to digital painting using the Inkscape 0.91 open source software package as well as the Corel Painter 2016 professional digital painting software package.
What you’ll learn
The terminology of digital painting
What comprises a digital painting 2D modeling and rendering pipeline
Concepts and principles behind digital painting content production
How to install and utilize 64-bit Inkscape 0.91 and Corel Painter 2016
Concepts behind curves, strokes, fills, patterns, rendering and physics
Digital painting data formats and data footprint optimization
Who this book is for
Digital artists, illustrators, painters, user interface designers, digital signage content developers, e-learning content creators, ebook cover artists, album cover artists
Secondary: Android developers, iOS developers, website developers, Flash developers, multimedia producers, rich internet application (RIA) programmers, game designers, teachers, educators.
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allow some portion (from 0 to 255, or all of that pixel’s color) of the color data to bleed through to (or to blend with) layers below. Next, let’s take a close look at what alpha channels do. Alpha Channels: Defining the Transparency for Each Pixel Let’s take a look at how alpha channels define digital image pixel transparency values, and how they can be utilized to composite digital painting compositions. Alpha channel data provides transparency inside of a digital painting compositing
to add digital imagery to the fills for your 2D vector illustration shapes in Inkscape and Painter. Inkscape can also perform strokes using these patterns as well, as covered in my Digital Illustration Fundamentals (Apress, 2015) title. We looked at the work process for using the GIMP digital image compositing software package to create tiles to use as bitmap patterns, as well as at the work process for importing and applying them inside of Inkscape; and using patterns, gradients, and weaves in
Nozzles are used. As you can see in Figure 6-14, the hearts are now varied enough in both color and orientation, and they are on their own separate layers, so you can now turn these layers into a group because a Painter Nozzle uses a layer group to hold its element collection. The work process for doing this involved selecting three layers at one time and then using a Layers ➤ Group Layers menu sequence to turn the multi-selected layers into a Group Layer. The way that you multi-select layers
see how the two layers work in conjunction with each other. The result can be seen in Figure 10-15, and we’re making steady progress toward creating a compelling digital painting composite image. The next thing I am going to do is to colorize the paint layer (ReflectionOnlyPaint) and then show you how to use “blending modes” to make the chromic reflection created by the glass distortion dynamic plug-in layer an order of magnitude more impressive. I am trying to cover as many of these advanced
Direction, or even Random. As you can see, I set Position Jitter to 75%, I selected Randomize Chaos, and I set Flow Map Edge Enhancement to 10% and Flow Map Brightness Enhancement to 10%. I didn’t set Expression as I am doing things using just the mouse to cover all readers. Spring Particle Brush: Multiple Interconnected Spring Brush Tips Spring particle brushes simulate webs of spring-connected brush tip particles, which “attach” back to the center of the spring brush “emitter.” You can