Digital Pet Paintings Using Photoshop

Name: Digital Pet Paintings Using Photoshop
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Learn how to turn ordinary photographs of pets and animals into beautiful painted art pieces.

Created byLori Jill

Last updated 1/2018

English

What you'll learn

Prep your images for a painting
Use and have a better understanding of Photoshop's brushes and brush engine.
Use many of the other tools that you will need in order to paint in Photoshop

Course content

4 sections • 29 lectures • 3h 7m total length

A Personal Hello from Lori Jill1:00
Joe introduces his digital painting course using screen capture and shares his love of photography and Photoshop. He invites questions and notes he is reachable via social media.

Intro to Photoshop's Brush Engine2:37
This section is all about Photoshop's amazing brush engine. It is the one section I consider to be the most important one if you truly wish to master digital painting. The more that you know about the tools, especially the brushes, the easier it is to create anything your mind can dream of.

In this section, I break down everything you will need to know about the brush engine in order to have a sound understand of where things are located and how changing/ controlling certain settings will help with your digital painting process.

Although you may be tempted to want to skip this section, and for some learning the details about how something works might possibly be a bit boring, I have to encourage you to stick with it and spend as much time in this section as you need.
A Drawing Tablet is Highly Suggested - Links to view pricing0:07
Download Your File and Brushes Here0:06
Brush Settings and4:39
Explore the Photoshop brush engine, using regular brushes, the mixer brush, smudge, stamp, history, art history, and eraser. Save, reset, and customize brushes with shortcuts to speed your workflow.
What are the 4 Different Brushes in Photoshop2:44
This lecture will walk you through the static brushes, and the artist's brushes, and if you are in Photoshop CS6 or CC - the erodible tips, and the airbrushes also.
Static Brushes and Artists Brushes10:01
Learn the two main brush types in Photoshop: static brushes and artist brushes. Tune brush tip shape, spacing, pen pressure, shape dynamics, and color dynamics to craft varied strokes.
Air Brushes and Erodible Tip Brushes4:32
Explore airbrushes in Photoshop, including how pressure affects spread and spray, and examine erodible tip brushes with a live preview to monitor tip erosion.
The Mixer Brush in Depth11:37
The mixer brush is by far my favorite digital painting tool. It gives me the most control over all of the settings in order to make my digital paint brush feel and act very much like a real medium art brush.
Creating Your Own Fur Brush9:42
In this lecture I show you how to make a Logo brush but the lecture will also teach you how to make and save your own brushes for Photoshop.
Explanation of The Tool Preset Panel5:52
There are many tools that use Photoshop's brush engine and all can be handy in different situations. This lecture is to help you understand which tools we commonly use for digital painting and where to find the settings for each.
Setting Up Shortcuts Key Strokes, a Painting Work Space and Staying Organized4:30
In order to speed up the digital painting process I highly suggest learning a few short cuts and changing a few things in your work space. The actual brush strokes is time consuming enough and this lecture is dedicated to sharing with you the little bit of time saving techniques I use.

Quickly Transform the Colors to a More Painterly Color Space4:40
Begin by loading a raw image in Adobe Camera Raw to nondestructively adjust clarity, vibrance, and color with selective masking, then prepare a painterly color space for digital pet paintings.
Setting Up to Clone Paint in CS57:03
Before CS6 the clone painting action did not come default with Photoshop, but I show you how in this lecture to create a clone painting set-up in CS5. If you wish to know how the action works and you are working in CS6 or CC then this lecture is still a valuable resource and I recommend viewing it.
Using the Clone Painting Action in Photoshop CS6 and CC4:32
In this lecture I teach you how to locate the clone painting action, run it, and a few tips I have learned to make it work even better for you. Even if you are in an earlier version of Photoshop I still reccommend this lecture for understanding the way clone painting works in Photoshop.
Adding a New Background and Testing Brushes8:54
Add a new background on its own layer with textures and Topaz impressions to refine color. Test mixer brushes on a dedicated test layer, adjusting transparency and wetness before painting.
A Few Extra Steps Before Painting2:26
Save and rename your background for reference, delete the test layer via group contents, keep the background off while painting the under painting layer, and save as a versioned copy.
Under Painting - Part 17:26
Under Painting - Part 25:31
Master under painting for a puppy head in Photoshop by using the reference photo, a rough round brush with low wet settings, and controlled flow to block in color.
Intermediate Strokes13:40
Detail Strokes - Part 18:09
Apply detail strokes on a dedicated layer to shape the nose and eyes, using edge smoothing mixer brushes with tuned flow and wetness. Use a safety net to prevent mistakes.
Detail Strokes - Part 29:41
Duplicate the background, save a copy, and merge visible as you blend the puppy with the background using the clone stamp in darken mode and soft light textures.
Blending It All Together4:40
Darken the bottom half and blend the Baskett into the background using layered edits, masking, and a multiply blend mode in Photoshop, then commit changes to finalize the painting.
Almost Done16:24
Paint puppy fur with custom brushes and multiple layers to build soft texture, highlights, and depth, then refine eyes and edges with smoothing, burn, and dodge.
Final Touches and Completing the Painting12:05
Learn to finish digital pet paintings in Photoshop by applying final touches, painterly highlights, and texture layers with filter gallery and flypaper textures for depth.

Introduction to Painting with the Smudge Tool2:32
Explore painting with the smudge tool in Photoshop, compare it with using an extra brush and the mixer brush, and learn beginner-friendly techniques to turn photographs into digital pet paintings.
Smudge Tool Settings5:19
Explore the smudge tool in Photoshop, adjust brush strength from 50 to 100 percent, and use darken or light modes for selective color blending and fur painting.
Smudge Tool Painting Demo17:12
Use the smudge tool with smoothing and edge brushes to simplify textures while preserving edges, then refine with dodge, burn, and fingerpainting on layers for a painting-like pet portrait.
Download Smudge Tool Presets Here0:06

Requirements

Photoshop CS5 or a newer version
Recommended but not required - a drawing tablet. eg. Bamboo, Wacom, etc..

Description

This course will take you through all of the steps to create unique paintings from your pet photographs. Step by step, I break down all the things you need to know and understand in Photoshop to move your images out of a photographic appearance into a more painterly one.

Although, I do break everything into simple steps a basic understanding of Photoshop is highly suggested. This course is perfect for intermediate to advanced users.

Not an artist? Never painted before? That's OK.

You CAN learn to paint digitally and with a lot less expense and mess!

Whether you are a professional photographer looking to rise above your competition by offering paintings as a unique product to your clients, or you are simply a hobbyist who enjoys editing images creatively, you will find everything you need here to get started and create amazing art. After completing this course you should be able to turn any pet photograph into a digital painting that you will be proud to show your family and friends.

Digital art can be created from just about any image, even low resolution ones from phone cameras. As a matter of fact, there is no requirement at all to even own a camera in order to benefit from this course.

In this course you can watch me paint as I go over everything I'm doing, step by step.

In the supplemental material sections, I have included the image I use throughout the course for you to download and practice along side me, but you will learn the skills needed to create a painting out of ANY pet image.

Enroll today, I'd love to help you learn this fun way to create art!

Who this course is for:

Photographers who wish to do more with their images
Artists who wish to learn how to paint using digital medium
Anyone who wants to learn how to create a digital painting from a photograph
Not recommended for Photoshop beginners

Digital Pet Paintings Using Photoshop

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Course content

Welcome1 lecture • 1min

Learn the Brush Engine in Photoshop11 lectures • 56min

Painting The Saint Bernard Puppy Using Clone Painting Techniques13 lectures • 1hr 45min

Painting Using The Smudge Tool4 lectures • 25min

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