Corel Painter has long been one of the most popular applications for creating digital art. Now in version X3, Corel Painter offers more artistic fun and capability than ever. DIGITAL PAINTING FUNDAMENTALS WITH COREL PAINTER X3 offers step-by-step, full-color instruction for getting started with the digital art software and hardware that are the industry standard: Corel Painter and a Wacom graphics tablet. With these computer tools, you can experiment with things like color theory, composition and brush strokes�but without the toxins, mess, and expenses associated with traditional art. The powerful Corel Painter X3/Wacom combination offers a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting tools can match. The book's many exercises and projects will teach you to control Painter's tools and techniques, and along the way you'll learn traditional art concepts such as composition, line quality, contrast and focal point. Even if you've never painted before, you will be astounded by the creative freedom and expressive possibilities of Corel Painter X3. Pick up your copy of DIGITAL PAINTING FUNDAMENTALS WITH COREL PAINTER X3 and start creating today.

Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X covers the fundamental skills you need to know to get started with pixel-based drawing and painting. It provides step-by-step instructions for using the basic hardware and software that are the industry standard: Corel Painter and a Wacom graphics tablet. Filled with exercises and hands-on projects, it covers techniques designed to give you increasing control of the tools of Corel Painter. It introduces traditional art concepts such as composition, line quality, contrast and focal point. This easy-to-follow guide will help you acquire and sharpen essential skills such as eye-hand coordination and drawing what you see. Benefits: * Covers the fundamental features of Painter using step-by-step instructions and eye-catching illustrations * Maintains an informal tone that makes it easy to follow discussion of each topic * Full of hands-on projects that encourage readers to practice each new skill

Presents instructions for using Corel Painter 12 for pixel-based drawing and painting, covering such topics as basic tools, composition, line quality, contrast, focal point, mixing media, and animation.

Provides instructions for blending traditional drawing and painting skills with technological advances to create digital art.

This textbook introduces the “Fundamentals of Multimedia”, addressing real issues commonly faced in the workplace. The essential concepts are explained in a practical way to enable students to apply their existing skills to address problems in multimedia. Fully revised and updated, this new edition now includes coverage of such topics as 3D TV, social networks, high-efficiency video compression and conferencing, wireless and mobile networks, and their attendant technologies. Features: presents an overview of the key concepts in multimedia, including color science; reviews lossless and lossy compression methods for image, video and audio data; examines the demands placed by multimedia communications on wired and wireless networks; discusses the impact of social media and cloud computing on information sharing and on multimedia content search and retrieval; includes study exercises at the end of each chapter; provides supplementary resources for both students and instructors at an associated website.

Digital Painting Fundamentals covers concepts central to digital painting using the Inkscape 0.91 open source software package as well as the Corel Painter 2016 professional digital painting software package. What You Will Learn • The Terminology of Digital Painting • What Comprises a Digital Painting 2D Modeling and Rendering Pipeline • Concepts and Principles behind Digital Painting Content Production • How to Install and Utilize 64-bit Inkscape 0.91 and Corel Painter 2016 • Concepts behind Curves, Strokes, Fills, Patterns, Rendering and Physics • Digital Painting Data Formats and Data Footprint Optimization.

This book presents a broad overview of computer graphics (CG), its history, and the hardware tools it employs. Covering a substantial number of concepts and algorithms, the text describes the techniques, approaches, and algorithms at the core of this field. Emphasis is placed on practical design and implementation, highlighting how graphics software works, and explaining how current CG can generate and display realistic-looking objects. The mathematics is non-rigorous, with the necessary mathematical background introduced in the Appendixes. Features: includes numerous figures, examples and solved exercises; discusses the key 2D and 3D transformations, and the main types of projections; presents an extensive selection of methods, algorithms, and techniques; examines advanced techniques in CG, including the nature and properties of light and color, graphics standards and file formats, and fractals; explores the principles of image compression; describes the important input/output graphics devices.