Corel Painter and Pricing of digital art

Before you begin though, do a couple of pieces; see how long it takes to create something you can sell. Do one as a 16x20 and another as a 32x40. Your speed and quality will give you a hint of where you fit. Don't make the mistake of pricing it to low. This is not the arena to be giving your hard earned talent away.

A thing to remember is that wherever you start, it is just that, a start. You should have regular price increases to keep moving yourself up the scale. This approach will also insure you keep up with the learning of new and better techniques, both because you can afford to and because you'll need to.

There are a few overall things I noticed, all the artists had a minimum size, which most often was 16x20. Next, the base seemed never lower than an additional $1,000 on top of the price for your best product. The last thing was it is not cut and dried. The pricing reflects the complexity of the art piece, both in the medium, (which was typically oil or water color) and in the subject matter (number of people, detail rendered in background.)

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Guide on Wacom Pen Tablet with Corel Painter

Have you done much with corel painter lately? I hope so, because I havent. I felt to update this blog today, so I wanted to share this great video I saw today. This is just what you want to learn if you just bought a Wacom pen tablet. I hope you learn something good from this. Have a good weekend all. =)

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Speed Painting in Corel Painter

I watched this video today, about this guy speed painting eyes. A very talented person indeed. I wish I was that good with painting eyes, its not what Im best at, and I need more practice in that area.

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Photoshop and Corel Painter, Advantages to these software’s

Let’s first look at Photoshop and the CS package and what it has to offer on advantages.

The CS Advantage..

The new Adobe Creative Suite combines Adobe's graphics applications and an efficient workflow that answers the needs of nearly every creative professional, from conceptualization to implementation, from print to Web. Whats great about this pack of programs is that not only do designers get one program at a time; rather, a whole suite of the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive software.

The Creative Suite is Adobe's attempt to bind the applications together. Now, Adobe's creative products use not only the same graphics engine but also the same type and color-management engines. Files that are created in one application can open easily in others with all their features intact. With a consistent user interface, moving from one application to another is easy.

And holding it all together is the new file-management and version-tracking technology Version Cue. The Version Cue lets you create and publish content for print and the Web faster, more easily, and more affordably. That's why Adobe is introducing this one whole package as "the complete design environment for print and Web publishing".

Adobe Photoshop for image editing- easily manage your images with the improved File Browser, quickly share design variations with Layer Comps, and instantly improve contrast with Shadow/Highlight correction; perform more precise editing and retouching with expanded support for 16-bit images and monitor changes to your image in the Histogram palette, which dynamically updates as you make adjustments.

Adobe Illustrator for drawing and vector graphics- with powerful new 3D features, advanced typographical controls, and a host of groundbreaking new design tools, this powerful upgrade from Illustrator 10 delivers the performance you need to make the most of your creativity; import Photoshop image compositions directly to Illustrator- or create drawings in Illustrator and import them directly into Photoshop; create native Adobe Portable Document Format files using settings and options consistent with Adobe Acrobat Distiller software and get fast, consistent print results with features like Fit to Page, Print Preview, and support for Print Settings.

Adobe InDesign for page layout and design, and Adobe GoLive for Web layout- import your native vector and bitmap artwork directly into InDesign CS software for sophisticated print layouts or into Adobe GoLive CS software for powerful web pages. With the support of Adobe PDF and XML, you can easily output your pages to both print and the Web.

The Corel Advantage…

With the introduction of Corel Painter IX, commercial designers, photographers, and professional artists are able to use their natural talents and techniques to create breathtaking works of art. Corel ensures that the new program is a must-have software for creative professionals, whether they're in film making, game development, commercial design, illustration, photography, or even fine arts.

With regards to performance and productivity, the Corel Painter IX boasts of significantly improved speed, new and enhanced Brush Control Palettes, Frames-per-Second Control, and Customizable Shortcut Keys. Professional users can extend their creative possibilities with new enhancements that include Artists' Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, improved Digital Watercolor, and Quick Clone.

What is exciting about this new software is that the Corel Painter IX is more compatible with other professional technologies, providing enhanced support to Adobe Photoshop, Wacom (including the Wacom Intuos3), and Color Management.

What's more, getting started is easier than ever. Corel has provided various support guides to help end-users control their fear of tackling a seemingly intricate world of softwares and programs. Corel has provided a revitalized User Guide, the Painter IX Handbook that includes tutorials from leading creative professionals, access to free training videos, and academic courseware specifically designed for educators.

With powerful applications such as the Adobe CS and Corel, artists and designers alike can now combine both worlds of traditional art and sophisticated technology. The intricate tones of traditional art skills and techniques they've developed during their formation years as artists can be integrated with the incredible benefits that digital media can provide. Every creation can now be worthy of the exaltations and awe reserved for those found in galleries and exhibits. In addition, these art forms are now made at a faster and quicker rate than their original counterparts.

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Top 5 Imaging Programs You Will Like

Imaging programs are basically tools for graphic designers, and in this article I will list 5 top Imaging programs I like and why. Whats great of these types of software’s is that even the non-professional people can make use of imaging programs to create the simplest designs for their projects.

Everyone who is into computer design for fun or for a living can appreciate how imaging programs can help make their tasks easier. With imaging programs, one can easily edit photos; create graphics, computer-aided designs and similar projects.

Image editors are among the most popular and commonly used imaging programs which help designers create images virtually from scratch. It offers various painting tools which are very much like the basic painting tools, albeit computer-based. This allows you to enhance photos and retouch them as well. Using this application will classify your saved photo or scanned image as a bitmap. Bitmap images are very convenient for retouching because you can get a lot of detail. However, you may have a problem with the image's pixel resolution.

Now for the list of 5 top imaging programs you can tinker with if you are like graphic design and computer-aided graphic projects like myself.

1. Corel Painter
This imaging program is now available both in Windows and Macintosh. Designers can make use of the program to create images that are natural-looking with its freehand feature. The user can also choose from several effects like oil paints and watercolor and print the output in canvas or paper.

2. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo

This is an imaging program for bitmap graphics editing and vector graphics editing. Rights to the program were originally owned by Jasc Software of Minneapolis. The rights to distribute the program now belong to Corel Corporation after it purchased Jasc Software in 2004. The program, which is more popularly known as Paint Shop and as Adobe Photoshop's competitor, can be downloaded as shareware. Adobe Photoshop is more popular than this imaging program because the former has versions for Microsoft and Apple Macintosh.


3. Adobe Photoshop

This imaging program was developed by Adobe Systems and is considered a market favorite in terms of graphics editing, image manipulation and bitmap images. The newest version of Adobe is Photoshop CS3 Extended which was released only this year. This is the third version since Adobe renamed the Photoshop products. It boasts of new tools, non-destructive filters, 3D and scientific imaging.

4. Corel Photo-Paint

This imaging program is bundled with the Corel Draw Graphics Suite. It can create graphics and manipulate images. It also allows users to remove redeye in photos. The program can be downloaded from the website of Corel as a freeware.

5. Microsoft Paint

This imaging program used to be known as Paintbrush for Windows and can be found bundled with Microsoft Windows. Users can experiment with color mixtures as the program allows simultaneous picking up of three colors. There are a lot of functions which the user can practice to improve his craft.

Imaging programs are not that expensive (some are even available for free) especially if you think of the benefits one can get from the special effects that these programs offer. However, the choice of which imaging program is best for you depends on your requirements and projects.

Some More Corel Painter Tips and Tricks

I hope you have painted much fantastic artwork with Corel Painter lately, I have been too busy with other things myself these lasts weeks. Been on a business trip and such, so havent been painting at all I must admit.
Anyway, I stumbled across some good painter tutorials that I think are good for beginners to look at. Here they are:
Creating a Custom Workspace Palette in Corel Painter X

This is very important to do, if you want to become efficent, and make more art faster.

Sketching & Painting, by Stephanie Reese

Her you will need to download some small files, and unzip them using winzip, or windows vista if you have that (I sure do, and I cant complain).

You WILL need a wacom or an other tablet to create great art work. If youre a REAL beginner, dont fool yourself into thinking you can do without. Here is a tutorial for those using a wacom tablet. Better brushstrokes with the Enhanced Brush Ghost

Thats it for now, hope you had fun in April, now MAY is right around the corner ;)

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Getting to know Corel Painter X

If you are artistically inclined and would like to create breathtaking digital artworks, then the new Corel Painter X is a must-have software for you. This new version of the Painter series offers increased speed, stability, and performance and several new creative tools all suited for the digital artist in you.

Speed has always been a factor in selecting a graphic program and with that fact in mind, Corel Painter X has been endowed with brushes that can go up to ten times faster than version VIII. This is an important feature that all designers are sure to be grateful of.

A new Rotate/Flip command for the canvas has been added with customizable shortcut keys function that is sure to help speed up your work. An enhancement to the brush tracker feature is present called the "Iterative save.” This is comparable to Adobe Photoshop’s layer comp feature. Users can now use a "snap to path" painting tool that can really add some speed to drawing while using shapes, and paths.

There is new category of natural media brushes, called Artists' Oils, which act more like traditional oil paints enabling the digital artist create artworks in the manner that natural painters make theirs. With textured surfaces, brushes, and tools, you can mimic painting and drawing with chalk, pastels, watercolors, oils, crayons, pencil, felt pens, ink, and more.

The Digital Watercolor now features paint that remains "wet" between sessions enabling the artist to play with the brushes even after he has painted the strokes.

The inclusion of cloning tool called the Quick Clone helps in making the cloning process faster and simple. You will only have to click on the menu and you are now set make clones.

Version X has even included a total of 7 KPT filters namely Gel, Goo, LensFlare, Lightning, Pyramid Paint, Reaction, and ShapeShifter which are good effects that the artist can play with.

Painter has even gone to address compatibility issues with Adobe Photoshop enabling itself to open images in PSD format complete with layer masks, channels and layer sets maintained. It has also included support for Wacom Intuos3.

A few recommended Totally Free Digital Photography programs

Corel Painter will of course always be superior to any other digital painting software out there. It does come with a price, and I guess the main question you have to ask before buying corel painter is just how serious you are. If you are going to do some professional painting jobs, then corel painter is the perfect program for you. But if you just want to mess around and have some fun, then here are some free programs to try out:

1. GIMP


2. FastStone Image Viewer

3. Paint NET 3.22

4. ArtRage 2.5

What is digital art? The future of digital art, and some corel painter tips.

I originally wanted to write an article on the definition of digital art, and now I finally made myself write it. Digital art is art created with the help of a computer. This can be done in many different ways. A picture can be modelled in 3D and rendered, or art painted in the traditional sense with the aid of a tablet, or even a simple mouse (I really hope everyone reading this are sitting on a tablet though hehe). Pictures can also entirely be generated of the computer like with a program called “Apophysis”. This program can also help you with creativity in Corel Painter, if you are struggling on getting inspiration. It basically automatically creates shapes of colors with a click of a button. I have used it myself many times before painting pictures in corel painter.

With the computer's position in the life of all modern people, it has increasingly become more and more common to make digital art. 3D-graphics is conventionally used in many film productions. Digital photo editing has become standard in soon all said activities that process photographs. Vector graphic is standard for everyone logos and similar graphical design, and digital paintings occupy also an increasingly significant role in the society.

Digital request of pictures can be divided into three main categories. Pixel based graphic, Vector graphic and 3D-graphic.

Pixel based graphic builds on that the pictures are to be presented in a large number of pixel units, were all the pixels make up the picture with color information and everything. Most used software for pixel based graphic is of course Adobe Photoshop, but luckily Corel Painter has become a large competitor now.

Vector based graphic is that the images are made from mathematical calculations. This is a loss free kind of information, were the pictures can be peeled and translated without loss of information. That is why this type of technology is ideal for graphical design and logo creation. The most used software for this purpose is Adobe Illustrator.

3D-graphic builds on that the pictures are created as three-dimensional items that are stored with the aid of mathematical calculations. These pictures are usually made up from polygons or nurbs. Pretended light sources shine afterwards up on the objects you make, and the computer calculates how the items would be visible from someone’s obvious angle. 3D-graphic can today be done hugely realistic, and is used often within film and the compute game industry. I have played around with probably the most used graphic program of them all “3d studio max”, and I have to say it’s a lot of fun. I recommend everyone to at least try it once in your life. Very fun program but also extremely complicated and not for everyone. Remember it could be a cool idea to make something in a 3d program, and take it into a picture in corel painter and make something stunning!

Although the digital art already today is dominating within all practical applications: graphical design, commercial photo, film industry, gaming industry, and also illustration, it still hasn’t been fully accepted as adequate art form, in the traditional art world. This can to a large extent depend on inadequate understanding for the medium, common is the faith that it is the computer that do the entire job and that the creativity is undermined of the technology. The computer is however only a tool among others, brushes, carbons, clay. However I truly believe it’s only a matter of time, before it becomes a fully accepted art form around the world, from the group of people that today represents traditional art. Keep working on becoming a specialist on corel painter and you will become successful whatever your goals are.

Learning Corel Painter and the RealBristle Brushes

I watched this video that other day, as I was surfing around on corel painter related sites. Wanted to get some inspiration for some new art work. Then I found this video, and it really got me exited about the RealBristle Brushes. It is so cool and flexible, you can really create some cool things with this. Real bristle brushes can give you some nice variations and effects, that mainly should be used for spreading paint over large areas. Like putting in the color of the ground, sea, or sky. So what are you waiting for, you should begin right away to experiment yourself with this great feature in corel painter! Who knows maybe it will become your favorite tool soon ;)

corel painter download - you wont be disappointed & corel painter gallery

Many people ask me why I use corel painter rather than Photoshop. I'm sure many other painter users gets asked this as well. I always answer short and simple to those people if they have tried corel painter, and sadly the answer is usually "no". Then i follow up with giving them a link to download it and try it out for themselves. I have always wondered why photoshop has become such a popular program, when corel painter exists. In my opinion photoshop should be used for photo editing, and not for painting, as it cant simulate real life brushes as well. The new version of corel painter is really a brilliant piece of software people, and is strongly recommended. Also I recommend going to the corel painter gallery, to get inspired by the possibilities that are within corel painter.