Digital Art Summit is going live next week

What the heck is the Digital Art Summit? Great question, a few days ago I was not sure either. Here is the what and why of the summit.

I was trying to find ways to bridge the summer gap at Digital Art Academy. Classes are finishing up tomorrow from this session and the new session doesn’t start until the end of August. That seems like a long time, for an ADD guy that is like a lifetime.

My friend and the founder of Digital Art Academy Karen Bonaker suggested putting together some webinars. That got me thinking, dangerous I know but it happens on rare occasions. Who haven’t I heard from in awhile? Who have I been talking to recently? Who would other digital artists like to hear from? I began compiling a list and making phone calls to stir the pot. The overall call or email post was something like this, “Hey Jeremy this is Tim, I am putting together some webinars this summer would you have any interest in teaching?”

A bunch of people said yes I would love to but I am booked, another bunch of people said shoot yes I am in. On a few rare occasions I still have not heard because of vacations or other stuff. The bottom line is we have an incredible line up of people lined up to share their digital painting prowess via webinar with you. Some FREE and others very inexpensive.

Odwin Rensen Digital Painting

It all starts July 22nd with a FREE webinar from Kirk Nelson. You will learn about the new painting features in CS5. How cool is that?

I wont spill all the beans yet because details and behind the scenes planning are happening as we speak. Some other speakers that you may hear from are….drum roll please……..Odwin Rensen, Darrell Chitty, Heather Michelle, Karen Sperling, Woody Walters, Michael Campbell and yours truly. That is not all though. There are more invites out there, pending. People you know and some you may not know. One thing for sure…you don’t want to miss this.

As I mentioned some webinars are free and the other pricing information will be forthcoming. You can find out through various social media sites or this blog. The best and quickest way to keep a eye peeled is to be on the list. If you have already filled out the form for Digital Paint Magazine you are good to go. Early notification will go to that list first, about 12 hours before the blog post hits. The reason that is important is that we are limited to 100 people on each webinar. Some will definitely sell out.

See ya in a few!

Some Tutorial Effects Are Simple, Grunge Type Is One Of The Easy Ones!

Following is a short video that will show you one quick and easy method to come up with some cool looking grunge type.

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This video is available for streaming only. Book mark us to come back often and if you like the post share it via tweet or bookmarks. Also be sure and comment, I would be interested in hearing what tutorial effects or other info you might want to see.

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.

Excellent Horse Paintings by Artist Mary Herbert

As I was researching equine artists I ran across some very cool speed paintings by Artist Mart Herbert. Mary is a traditional media artist and these works are in pastel. If horse portraits are your passion you will like this. Enjoy.

You can see more of her work at horse portraits

Thanks for Sharing Mary!

Digital Painting Base: 12 Sites For FREE High Resolution Photos

I have friends that make their living as stock photographers so I am sure I will take some heat for this post. As I look at it this is 12 reasons not to be a stock photographer. In the 80′s I sold a lot of stock, it was difficult then to try to stand out from the crowd, now it is virtually impossible.

Like many things in our new digital age much splintering in the market place has occurred so a laser focus in a specialty area is about the only way to survive. There are literally 100′s of thousands of very gifted photographers out there and only a handful are making a living selling stock imagery. The following list is small as there are well over 100 sites that have high resolution photos for free or for very small fees.

The few sites listed are a combination of free and royalty free. Those terms are not interchangeable. Royalty free images may cost money but only once, you don’t need to pay a royalty each time the image is used. Free is no cost. Some images are in the public domain and some are under the creative commons license.

Be sure to check out the terms of use at each of these locations. Click on the text underneath or beside the company logos.

If you love this post TWEET IT or book mark it. That helps out all of the contributors here at magazine. Thank-you!

e-cobo.com/stockphotos/

public-domain-photos.com/

f11digital.com/4images

morguefile.com/

123rf.com/

Free high resolution travel photos

dreamstime.com/

crestock.com/

shutterstock.com/

fotolia.com/

studio7designs.com/stock-photography/

freeimages.co.uk/

Resources for free and premium wood textures.

For many of you that have seen my work, bought a DVD or been to a workshop you know that I am a big believer in building a large organized stock file of textures. In most cases I prefer to shoot my own because it is fun and I get to pick and choose which ones to give away, which ones to sell and which one to keep in the private secret stash.

Where do I go though when I cant seem to find that exact texture I am looking for? Well I have been debating about this for quite awhile but in the next few months I am going to be giving away the resources that I visit when I need a stock photo, texture, royalty music piece (maybe) or other asset to complete a project in a minimum amount of time. Many of these resources are quite popular and known to many people but we will stash them here for one easy place to grab the URL’s when you are in a hurry. So first we will begin with wood textures.

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Free wood texture pack from MirceAdrian at DeviantArt Thanks Mirce!

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Another pack from Deviant LunaNYXstock

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3R Stock Wood Textures from NEOkeitaro

Thanks to all of the contributors at Deviant. Hope you enjoy the new textures. By the way just as a reminder, each artist who has graciously given us these resources have different requirements tied to their use. Please read the requirements on their download pages and when you use be sure to post back to let them know. Also show us some of your work here as well.

Digital Paint Magazine July Issue is Here, Pet portraits abound!

This is an awesome issue. Probably the best yet. This is the issue to read if you want some terrific tutorials on painting pet portraits. Inside this issue are gobs of articles starting with Scott Deardorff’s article and tutorial, The Evolution of an Animal Portrait”.

Barb Hartsook’s Brush and Pen Column this month is Painting Our Pets and takes a nice peek into eyes. Cat eyes. Skip at Right Click brings us an awesome piece titled, The Journey. Skip ends up with a nice water color pet portrait of his best friend Corey. Skips classes can be found at Digital Art Academy.

Guest author and artist Diana Dillion shares some words and paintings in her article aptly titled Pet Portraits. (Also see Diana’s upcoming pet portrait classes at Digital Art Academy.)

Karen Bonaker gives us some great tips on composition and using some of painters tools to help control where you place your viewer in your image.

If you have been reading DPM very long you may be like most people and really look forward to Victor Lunn-Rockliffe’s zany cartoons…you wont be disappointed.

You will notice there is one thing missing….you, the reader. The readers gallery in empty this month. Shoot us your images and share your talent with the world. Sent them to readersgallery@digitalpaintmagazine.com

Grab your massive Pet portrait information with this months download.

Click here for July Issue

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

PS-Looks like the links are hard to read. Click on “Pet Portrait Information” or at the top on the title, “Digital Paint Magazine July issue”

Digital Paint Webinar with guest Darrell Chitty

Thank-you for everyone that joined us in the webinar last week. It was packed! We had space for only 100 and we turned over 27 people away. Sorry for those that did not get on the live demonstration. Below you will find the resources from that webinar.

Darrell Chitty Painting

First this is the video that Darrell Started off with, this is streaming only. If you want to view these videos at full screen click on the little grey square icon in the player like the example below.

Watching Digital Painting Full Screen

To come back out of full screen just hit the escape button.

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Following is the video replay of the webinar, you can watch it here or if you prefer the download link is at the bottom of the player.

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Darrel Chitty Painting

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Chat log questions download

Painting by Darrell Chitty

Audio answers to chat log questions

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