Intermediate Skills: Digital Painting with Photoshop

Adobe states that digital painting is almost everywhere you look. It has existed in some form since the 1960s, but today, it covers many styles of artwork, including digital illustration. Digital artists can see the value of digital painting over traditional approaches, including its convenience, editing ease, improved productivity, long-term cost-effectiveness, and ability to share their digital paintings conveniently.

Photoshop is a powerful photo editing tool for digital painting and artists...

3 Months / 9 Course Hrs

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Details + Objectives

Course code: T14870

This online digital painting course assumes that you have taken Introduction to Photoshop CC or have the equivalent experience. While you do not need to be an advanced Photoshop expert, you need to be familiar with Photoshop, its tools, layering, the basics of photo editing and how Photoshop works. This digital painting course is designed for someone who is generally familiar with Photoshop and would like to expand on their abilities, specifically emphasizing the features that paint.

During your training lessons, you will get an introduction to digital painting, including the tools and panels used to create and apply color to images. Next, dive into the world of hand-painting images, where you will work with creating complementary sets of colors, adding gradients to an image, and then hand-painting to colorize existing images. Closing this chapter with a thorough overview of Photoshop's brush tool, layers, and layer blending modes to add or change color—and how to give realism to images using the Burn and the Dodge tools.

Your lessons will include advanced brush techniques, including some of the Kyle Webster special effects and dry media brushes. The digital painting course will also cover an overview of Photoshop's most advanced painting tools, where you can apply the mixing brush and the art history brush to realistically paint in different styles of paint such as wet media watercolor and other styles.

What you will learn

Comprehend and apply digital color theory
Explore how to hand paint images using Photoshop
Identify basic and advanced brush techniques

How you will benefit

Explore techniques used to colorize images
Learn to apply tools and techniques toward hand-painting images
Customize images with brush techniques

How the course is taught

Self-Guided, online course
3 Months access
9 course hours

Outline

Introduction to Digital Painting

Before you begin working with painting, it's important to have a good foundation in how color works both in paint and with a computer on screen and in print.

You will also learn the tools and panels used to create and apply color to images. In this lesson you will use selections and masks along with adjustment layers to recolor an image.

Hand-Painting Images

In this lesson, you'll work with creating complementary sets of colors, adding gradients to an image, and then hand painting to colorize existing images. You will work extensively with Photoshop's brush tool, layers and especially Photoshop's layer blending modes to convincingly add or change color. Lastly, the lesson will wrap up with applying small details to an image to give it realism such as with the Burn and the Dodge tools.

Working with Brushes

In this lesson, you will start to use some of the more advanced brush techniques including some of the Kyle Webster special effects brushes as well as learning to use dry media brushes. This lesson will work through detailed projects applying advanced color techniques to an image to create a realistic painted subject.

Mixing and Painting

In this lesson, you'll really roll up your sleeves and start painting with some of Photoshop's most advanced painting tools. You'll use the mixing brush and the art history brush to very realistically paint in different styles of paint such as wet media watercolor and other styles. You'll also be able to make use of the history panel to draw from previous versions of the image and paint them into the current version. You will also add to Photoshop's existing set of brushes by downloading and installing many advanced brushes for your painting needs.

Instructors & Support

Self-Study

Requirements

Prerequisites:

The learner should have completed Introduction to Photoshop CC or contain the knowledge provided in the course.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac. Chromebooks are not compatible.

Software Requirements:

PC: Windows 10 or later.
Mac: macOS 10.14 or later.
Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Creative Cloud, or any version of Adobe Creative Suite CC that includes the Adobe Photoshop CC or Photoshop only (not included in enrollment). Previous non-subscription versions of Photoshop are not appropriate for the course.
Microsoft Word Online
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

FAQ

Your course begins immediately after you enroll.

You have 3 months of access to the course. After enrolling, you can learn and complete the course at your own pace, within the allotted access period. You will have the opportunity to interact with other students in the online discussion area.

There is no time limit to complete each lesson, other than completing all lessons within the allotted access period. Discussion areas for each lesson are open for the entire duration of the course.

Because this course is self-guided, no extensions will be granted after the start of your enrollment.

Intermediate Skills: Digital Painting with Photoshop

University of Central Florida