Photoshop: Quick & Easy Digital Painting Like a Professional

Create professional-looking digital paintings using powerful brush tools in Photoshop, even if you "can't draw."

Created by: Kristen Palana
Bestselling Instructor, Artist, Nomad Professor

What Will I Learn?

• Create powerful digital images that can be displayed online or in print, presented as unique gifts, or as part of your own freelance design business.
• Harness the power of intelligent brush and eraser tools to mimic the unique qualities of paint on the computer.
• Understand how to create effective images that use original or copyright-free photographs as a starting point.
• Gain intermediate to advanced illustration skills based on simple tools and easy to learn techniques
• Have a solid undertsanding of basic digital painting methods to create images used as stills or later in multimedia and animated projects.

Requirements

• Bring an open mind, a willingness to learn new tricks, and a copy of Photoshop. Free trial versions are also available at Adobe's site.

Target audience

• This course is for anyone looking to add new tricks and techniques to their artmaking toolbelt.
• This course is for traditional artists who would like to learn to make digital work, illustrators, as well as so-called "non-creatives" who think they "can't draw."
• This is NOT an in-depth Photoshop course. A selection of tools and techniques are discussed in depth for creating digital paintings but this course doesn't cover EVERY feature available in Photoshop.