Beyond Digital Photography

The book helps you transform your photos into fine art with Photoshop and Painter. Digital cameras, advances in color painting and software tools have changed the landscape of photography forever.

Beyond Digital Photography: Transforming Photos into Fine Art with Photoshop and Painter brings these once separated disciplines together in one instructive book that uses time-honored design principles and basic drawing and painting skills and applies them to digital photography. The easy-to-follow steps allow you to practice a variety of Photoshop and Painter techniques and gives you the confidence to achieve your own expressive goals with great results.

In this unique book, you’ll learn to transform your photos into works of art:

• Shoot and select photos with good composition and lighting for painting.
• Emulate the look of pop art, woodcuts and dry media texture.
• Create old masters-style oil paintings and abstract art.
• Add edge treatments and textured borders with brushwork.
• Experiment with the different artistic types, such as portrait, landscape and still life paintings.
• Use a pressure-sensitive tablet for gestural expressive paintings.