Photoshop Elements 8 – Intro, Quick Fix, Guided Edit

New class at Digital Art Academy to be taught by Melinda Hartong!

Learn Photoshop Elements 8
Photoshop Elements – jump in and get your feet wet. This “little sister” version of big brother Photoshop has TONS of hidden tricks up her sleeve. In this class, we’ll cover getting started with Quick as well as Guided Edit options.

Never fear, there are a TON of things you can do with this inexpensive photo editing software you never thought possible!
Super-duper possibilities:
•shortcut keys to save you time & effort
•Correct color – fix wrong color balance & skin tones
•Correct contrast – save highlight & shadow details!
•Make Blue skies & colors pop
•Remove Red Eyes, touching up blemishes
•Critical info on saving your photos!
•Sharpening – overdoing it is easy. Subtle is key!
•quick selection tool – breaking it down!
•recompose tool & scene cleaner -

•Web photo galleries

These will totally knock your socks off! So worth the price of admission! Learn Photoshop Elements here.

Digital Paint Magazine on The Ipad

Friend, techno wizard, master painter and overall great guy, John Derry, shared this image with me a few days ago. It has been hectic in the last few days so I havent had the opportunity to get it put up.

John pulled up Digital Paint Magazine on the Ipad and took a quick snap. Looks cool huh?  I gotta have one.

John Derry shows Digital Paint Magazine on the Ipad

Thanks for sharing John!

Top Digital Art Talent to Collaborate with Digital Paint Magazine

Who hoo! How is this for some great news? Along with the changes in design and direction we will have more people bringing you more great content. Digital Art Academy founder and instructor Karen Bonaker, and many-times-published author and educator,  Tim Shelbourne will be blessing us with their talent in 2010.

I will give you a snippet from a bio of Karen and present one from Tim down the road. You are going to love this stuff!

Karen Bonaker Joins the Team at Digital Paint Magazine.

Many of you already know Karen Bonaker. Karen has enjoyed painting since childhood. She painted on anything and everything including the walls of her home.   Karens mother was an artist and provided this young creative with a wall in her room to express herself. How cool is that?

Formal training came from her local college with an emphasis on color and design. Ten years ago Karen discovered the Painter software program and has since been creating art using a Wacom tablet and stylus.

Utilizing the formal training from college is beneficial as the principles of composition, color and design are the same in the digital world as they are with traditional media.

The Digital Art Expo in New York has shown one of Karen’s digital paintings. She has been a regular contributor to Corel Painter Magazine, served on the Beta Team for Corel Painter Essentials 4 and Corel Painter 11 as well as serving on the Corel Advisory Board.

Karen founded the Digital Art Academy. The Digital Art Academy is a venue for individuals to develop their own talents and gifts specific to drawing and painting.  She is a veteran of online training and is an instructor at the Academy.

Tim

Digital Painting with Camel Hair

Digital painting has always had less of the tactile feel that traditional media. What if you could grab the touch and feel of traditional brushes? Believe it or not there is a group working on this. I came across this info in the first part of November. It hit my google reader again today so I thought I would post about it.

Here is a video (with no sound) from you tube and the informational PDF is attached. The article in the PDF is fasinating, it does get into a little geek speek though. In some areas I was bored or got lost as I am an artist not an engineer, but….worth the read to see what is happening in the field. Additioanlly I have seen this referred to as “fluid paint” and “intu paint”. I am not sure which one is the current name.

http://didactiekinf.uhasselt.be/capita/lesmateriaal/02%20-%20DigitalPainting_slides.pdf