Chapter 9. Advanced Painting Techniques

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Digital paint is so much easier to work with than the real kind. It doesn’t smell, it never spills on the table, and there are no messy brushes to wash out when you’re done. It doesn’t get all over you and you don’t even have to wait for it to dry. In Photoshop, you can either paint a picture from scratch, starting with a blank page and using it as if it were any other graphics program, or you can take an existing image and convert it into a painting. In the course of this hour, you’ll explore both ways of working.

When I talk about “paint” in ...

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