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The Painter 6 Wow! Book (4th Edition)
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Author: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, Cher Pendarvis
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0201354497
Publisher: Peachpit Press (15 January, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 32,652
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Brush up on your Painter skills
I've had every version of Painter software since it began as a grey-scale sketcher program. Since then, I've learned basic skills in Painter, but even with long experience, I found I needed a text for learning how to get the most out of this powerful but sometimes difficult software.The book is complete in that it contains Basic instruction, tricks, and techniques --for example, how to paint in watercolors and oils. If you've used the software at all, you probably know how to do this. But looking at the fine examples of artwork in the book can help to suggest how to get more from the basics. Where The Painter 6 Wow book really shines is in learning the more difficult techniques such as working with layers and shapes (drop shadows, dynamic text, melting text into water, photo enhancement and especially now to do montage/collage and terrain maps.) There are some nice examples of art work using these techniques. Painter 6 software added some features for working on web images and animations--these are also covered and for me, were the reason I really wanted this book. It's nice to have the CD-ROM with extra textures, and other goodies. There are some trial software programs like Photoshop demo, a collection of stock photos, some "fabulous fonts", some backgrounds and video clips. WELL WORTH THE PRICE.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good Book
This is a very good book. Amazing and clean explanations. All is great, but... where's the trial of Painter 6?. There's trial for Photoshop 5.0, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, etc, but... NOT PAINTER 6!!! How can happen this?!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Frustrated to insanity
As a web design student, I found Painter 6 wow to be fairly difficult to follow. It doesnt do me any good to have examples that make reference to terminology not listed in the index. The step by step examples don't include any of the stock materials I need to replicate the work. I need something simpler than this, I need a Classroom in a Book. I can't understand what the book talks about, and FEW of the other students in my class have had much success either. Please, rewrite a version for college students, before we all drop out of web design!
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