Digital Painting Techniques

1. Front Matter

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2. Digital Painting Software: Corel Painter and Inkscape

   • Wallace Jackson

   Pages 1-11

3. The Terminology of Digital Painting: Vector and Raster

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   Pages 13-24

4. The Foundation of Digital Painting: Canvas and Brush

   • Wallace Jackson

   Pages 25-35

5. Digital Painting with Image Tiles: Patterns and Weaves

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   Pages 37-52

6. The Hardware of Digital Painting: Tablet and Stylus

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   Pages 53-61

7. Digital Painting with Image Objects: Using Nozzles

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   Pages 63-78

8. The Mimicry of Digital Painting: Using Quick Clone

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   Pages 79-91

9. The Algorithms of Digital Painting: Plug-In Filters

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   Pages 93-103

10. The Selection of Digital Painting: Pulling Masks

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    Pages 105-118

11. The Compositing of Digital Painting: Using Layers

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    Pages 119-134

12. The Refinement of Digital Painting: Photo-Retouching

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    Pages 135-145

13. The Coloring Book of Digital Painting: Sketching

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    Pages 147-159

14. The Animation of Digital Painting: Physics Engines

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    Pages 161-172

15. The Customization of Digital Painting: Brush Design

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    Pages 173-187

16. The Automation of Digital Painting: Programming

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    Pages 189-202

17. Publishing Digital Painting: Content Delivery Platforms

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    Pages 203-210

18. Back Matter

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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.

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 utilize64-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.

• digital
• painting
• corel
• painter
• techniques
• multimedia
• wallace jackson

Wallace Jackson has been writing for leading multimedia publications about his work in new media content development since the advent of Multimedia Producer Magazine nearly two decades ago, when he wrote about computer processor architectures for centerfolds (removable "mini-issue" insert) distributed at SIGGRAPH. Since then, Wallace has written for several other publications about his work in interactive 3D and new media advertising campaign design, including 3D Artist,Desktop Publishers Journal, CrossMedia, AVvideo and Kiosk Magazine.

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