Turn Photographs Into Digital Paintings Using Photoshop

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction & Welcome

Lecture 1: Intro Video

Lecture 2: START HERE – Instructions and a Personal Welcome

Lecture 3: Tools for Digital Painting

Lecture 4: DOWNLOAD FILES HERE

Chapter 2: Helpful Things to Know in Photoshop for Painting

Lecture 1: Setting Up a Custom Painting Workspace in Photoshop

Lecture 2: Best Keyboard Shortcuts to Know and Learn

Lecture 3: Learn How Destroy Photographic Detail and Why

Lecture 4: Adjustment Layers

Lecture 5: Making Life Easier With Actions

Lecture 6: Adding a Texture (DL)

Chapter 3: Photoshop's Brushes and Brush Engine

Lecture 1: Overview of The Brushes

Lecture 2: Overview of the Brush Panel

Lecture 3: Static Brushes

Lecture 4: Artist Brushes

Lecture 5: Airbrush Brushes

Lecture 6: Erodible Tip Brushes

Lecture 7: The Mixer Brush

Lecture 8: The Brush Option Bar

Lecture 9: Brush Tip Shape

Lecture 10: Brush Shape Dynamics and Transfer

Lecture 11: Brush Texture

Lecture 12: Scattering and Color Dynamics Added to a Brush

Lecture 13: The Art History Brush

Lecture 14: Making Your Own Brushes

Lecture 15: Loading, Saving, and Organizing Brushes in Photoshop

Chapter 4: Understanding The Tool Preset Panel – AKA "Tool Boxes"

Lecture 1: Loading Tool Presets into Photoshop – Windows

Lecture 2: Understanding the Tool Preset Panel Part 1

Lecture 3: Understanding and Using the Tool Preset Panel – Part 2

Chapter 5: Prepping Your Photograph To Be Painted

Lecture 1: Using Camera Raw 1st to Make Adjustments to Your Photograph (DL)

Lecture 2: Using the HDR Toning Filter for a More Painterly Starting Point

Lecture 3: Using Match Color Command to Copy a Color Palette from Another Image

Lecture 4: Using Layer Masks to Create Painterly Edges

Lecture 5: Extending The Canvas for Painterly Edges

Lecture 6: Some of My Favorite 3rd Party Plugins For Creating Underpaintings

Lecture 7: Some of My Favorite Filters in Photoshop for Creating an Under Painting

Chapter 6: Creating Your First Painting from a Photograph

Lecture 1: Maternity Painting in an Impressionist Style – Under 15 minutes

Chapter 7: Learn How to Clone Paint from a Photograph

Lecture 1: Beginning in Camera Raw (DL)

Lecture 2: Using Topaz Plugin to Create an Under Paintng

Lecture 3: Using Photoshop's Default Action to Clone Paint

Lecture 4: Setting Up Clone Painting for CS5 Users

Lecture 5: The First Clone Layer – Creating the Base

Lecture 6: Clone Painting – Intermediate Strokes

Lecture 7: Clone Painting in the Details Layer – Part 1

Lecture 8: Clone Painting in the Details Layer – Part 2

Chapter 8: Intro to Painting Portraits

Lecture 1: An Overview to Painting Portraits of People (DL)

Lecture 2: Setting Up Skin and Hair Brush Tools

Lecture 3: Painting Skin

Lecture 4: Using LAB Mode to Enhance Skin Painting

Lecture 5: Beginning to Paint the Hair – Under Painting

Lecture 6: Adding the Texture or Overlay Background

Lecture 7: Reshaping the Hair

Lecture 8: Adding Details to the Hair

Lecture 9: Final Touches

Chapter 9: Quick Tips – Under 2 Minute Helpful Tutorials

Lecture 1: Quick Tip – Painting Straight Lines

Lecture 2: Quick Tip – Loading a Brush with Color

Lecture 3: Quick Tip – Painting in Two Windows

Lecture 4: Quick Tip – Easily Duplicate Your Image in Photoshop

Lecture 5: Quick Tip – Using Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects Before Painting

Lecture 6: Quick Tip – For Clone Painting Using a Layer Mask

Lecture 7: Quick Tip – Adding Texture to the Final Painting Easily

Lecture 8: Quick Tip – Short Key for Flipping Your Canvas

Lecture 9: Quick Tip – Upload Your Images to Udemy Course

Chapter 10: Acquiring Reference Photos and Places to Sell Your Digital Paintings

Lecture 1: Explanation of Copyright Rules When Using Photographs as a Reference

Lecture 2: Acquiring Images to Paint From if Not Your Own

Lecture 3: Congratulations – You Are Officially an Artist

Lecture 4: Let Other People or Websites Sell Your Art for You

Lecture 5: Easily Create a Website for Showcasing Your Art