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Tutorial: Use Corel Painter’s Papers for Texture
Explore Corel Painter’s paper textures as a way to build complex surfaces into a painting. This archived lesson introduces paper libraries, inversion and scale, contrast and brightness controls before putting the textures to use.
How to Handle Backgrounds in Fantasy Portraits
Choose a fantasy portrait background by first deciding what the picture is about. This archived article distinguishes a portrait from a figure in a landscape and considers how the setting can support the subject or the story.
Beginning Digital Painting with Photoshop
An archived introduction to painting in Photoshop from the perspective of an experienced Corel Painter user. Compare the behaviour of the two applications’ brushes and explore examples and learning resources that helped bridge the transition.
Tutorial: Nebula Inside a Glass Ball
Place a colourful fractal nebula inside an imagined glass globe. This archived Photoshop tutorial combines a circular selection with layered effects to turn an abstract source image into a luminous, rounded object.
Increase Print Sales with Corel Painter Part 1
Trace the appeal of hand-painted photographs through Wallace Nutting’s print business. This archived first installment considers what that history suggested for portrait studios interested in offering digitally painted images and distinctive finished prints.
Increase Print Sales with Corel Painter Part 2
An archived case study of collaboration between portrait photographers and digital painters. Part two looks at how a commissioned painting can grow from a photograph, continuing the older tradition of offering clients hand-finished portrait artwork.
Tutorial: How to Create an Anne Geddes Baby Portrait
Combine a sleeping baby photograph with a tulip to create a fantasy portrait inspired by Anne Geddes. This archived tutorial follows colour adjustments, subject preparation, placement and finishing touches that help the separate images belong together.
Tutorial: Painting Curly Hair in Corel Painter
Simplify curly hair into light, middle and dark values before tackling individual detail. This archived Corel Painter tutorial builds the major shapes first, then blends and refines them to make a complicated subject more manageable.
Creating Mosaics and Stained Glass with Digital Tools
Explore ways to turn photographs into mosaic and stained-glass designs using Photoshop and Corel Painter. This archived tutorial compares tools for creating flat areas of colour, strong outlines and the appearance of individual tiles or glass pieces.
Tools: Getting Texturized
An archived exploration of digital texture creation, from layered Photoshop brushwork to Filter Forge. The article considers ways to build worn surfaces, grunge effects and generated materials rather than relying only on ready-made background images.
Inspiration: Dominic Davison
An archived profile of Dominic Davison’s digitally created landscapes. The article connects his use of Vue and Photoshop with Dutch Romantic painting, concentrating on composition, light and the artistic decisions behind the finished scenes.
Tutorial: Create a Photo Backdrop in Seconds with Photoshop
Create a textured studio-style portrait backdrop with Photoshop’s Clouds filter. This archived tutorial explores colour choices and variations that can give a background its own mood while keeping it suited to the portrait.
