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This makes it especially good for blending skin tones, where a little bit of speckled grain gives the skin texture. It blends pretty well, picks up every color around it, but gives you some grain as well.

The Smudge brush is probably my favorite. The first set of brushes here can all be found in your Brush Selector bar under “Blenders.” There are quite a few options there, but these are my top picks.

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Feel free to bust out your copy of Painter and play along. What I’ve done here is a roundup of some of my favorite blending brushes. But the sheer number of blending options (or perhaps the fact that they’re not as obvious as the smear brush in PS), seems to confuse people who’ve recently made the switch. This is one of several areas where I feel like Painter really shines over PS. While it has its uses, too many beginners rely on it heavily instead of searching for better blending options, and more often than not it makes a painting look blurry, distorted, and amateurish. If you’re used to Photoshop, you’re more than likely very familiar with the Smudge/Smear brush. One of the questions I get asked most often is about blending. Sadly, there’s a severe shortage of Painter tutorials out there. I’m not a Painter “Master” by any stretch of the imagination, and pretty much everything I know about the program I’ve picked up on my own. I use Photoshop mainly for color touchups, resizing images, and scanning traditional media. I’d say about 99.9% of any of my digital artwork is created in Corel Painter IX. I switched over from Photoshop about three years ago, and (for the most part) haven’t looked back.

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She has also given seminars and demo’s of Painter at American Film Institute, Macworld, Seybold, the Professional Photographers of America and SIGGRAPH.I confess, I’m a Painter addict. Karen has taught Painter since its debut to everyone from free-lance artists and photographers to staff artists and designers at major motion picture and greeting card companies.

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The original Painter expert, Karen Sperling wrote the first several Painter manuals starting when the program debuted in 1991, in addition to the Painter Complete series of books. Discounts are being offered for ordering the CD along with the other Artistry tutorials that are available for Painter IX, including a CD with the first six months of the Artistry Tips and Tricks newsletter and an Artistry Beginners CD. The Artistry Painting for Photographers tutorials are available in Acrobat format, downloadable from the Artistry web site at and also on CD. But there’s that much interest in the subject that people can’t get enough information about it.” After all, there are lots of Painter tutorials and books out there nowadays, in addition to Painter classes. “I’d like to think it’s because I’m so much in demand, but the truth is, it’s the subject that gets people excited. “I’ve been getting emails begging me for the update,” says Karen. It’s in this atmosphere of excitement that Karen Sperling is happy to announce that she has completed updating her Artistry Painting for Photographers tutorials for Painter IX. The practice spans many creative fields, too, from traditional artists who use the photo as a springboard for their art to professional photographers who sell painted portraits of their photographs to their clients.Īnd today, with the popularity of digital cameras and archival inkjet prints, more people than ever are getting into turning photographs into paintings. This includes everything from adding painterly touches to a photo to completely transforming the photo into a painting in Painter.

So it isn’t that surprising that one of the most popular uses of Corel Painter today is using photos as the basis of paintings. Others have gone so far as to project a photo against a wall and to draw on paper or canvas, following the projection as a template. Some artists attach a photo to their easel as they paint. For decades, artists have used photographs as reference sources for their paintings.