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"Photo-Imaging for Painters"
Book with CDs
by Johnnie Liliedahl
Learn Step-by-step in 27 exercises, how to enhance your photos for painting resources, or for publication.
 190+ pages and 2 CDs
with all of the images used
in the exercises.
Dear Friends,
For years, I have used Photoshop® to prepare
my photographs as painting references, and as guides to help me
see various compositions, values and color schemes. Many of you
have seen the elaborate references I've prepared for classes where
paintings are based solely on photographic references. Those references
always bring forth the inevitable questions of how I use Photoshop®
and how to navigate its sometimes obscure features to create paintable
photo images.
In response to this demand, I taught a hands-on class to train painters
how to use Photoshop® on their laptop computers.
And to help them, I prepared a tutorial workbook using my own photographs
as exercises to show how to do all the things the program offers
me. This workbook eventually evolved into a full-blown book, with
190+ pages of click-by-click instructions on every aspect of Photoshop®
that I use, as a painter.
The book is unique, in that it relates painting language to the
language of Photoshop®, and guides you to
the screens and functions that give you references to value, hue,
planes, shapes, and color schemes---all concepts that have different
names in the computer program. No other Photoshop®
tutorial addresses the needs of painters. Most are directed at photographers
and graphic designers.
I hope you enjoy using this resource as another of your powerful
painting tools, as much as I have. After you have used the tutorial,
I welcome your comments and questions. See below to order your copy.
Johnnie Liliedahl, Artist
NOTE: It is intended that you have Adobe®
Photoshop® Version 6, Version 7, or Adobe®
PhotoshopCS® in order to follow this tutorial
step-by-step; however, adequate cross-referencing is provided to
be able to also use Adobe® Elements®
V3.0 as well, as it also contains most of the necessary functions.
Essentially, for the purposes of this book, Adobe®
Photshop® Elements V3.0 can do everything
mentioned in this book except for the Actions function.
Please see my review, below, for the differences between using
Adobe® Photoshop®
and Adobe® Photoshop®
Elements V3.0 with this book.. As mentioned above, in addition to
the step-by-step instruction for Photoshop®,
the book will also contain adequate references at the end of each
exercise that will assist owners of Photoshop®
Elements® V3.0 to successfully complete each
exercise.
The concepts and techniques described in each lesson are a valuable
reference in themselves and may be duplicated in other "brands"
of image editing programs provided that program has the image manipulation
capabilties described in this book.
In that case, the user/purchaser would be responsible for determining
how their own program (something other than Adobe®
Photoshop® or Adobe®
Elements® V3.0) can be used to achieve similar
results to those described in this book, as we are unable to provide
"cross reference" support for programs for which we are not familiar.
USE OF THIS BOOK WITH ADOBE®
ELEMENTS Version 3
Almost all the functions described in this book can
be executed in Photoshop Elements V3.
Following are the features of Photoshop CS that have no exact counterpart
in Elements: Guides, Trim, Actions, Color
Match, Curves, Extract.
When using Adobe® Elements V3, you can work
easily without the Guides, Trim, and Extract
functions by using other tools that are explained in this book.
It only requires more laborious techniques (than Photoshop®)
to achieve the same results.
The Actions palette and the Color Match feature in
Adobe® Photoshop®
have no counterparts in Adobe® Elements V3;
however, you may achieve the same results as Color Match
by trial and error in Elements V3 (as was once necessary in Photoshop®
itself before this feature was introduced to it).
Curves is not available in Elements V3, but most of its features
can be replicated by using the Levels, Hue/Saturation,
and Color Variations functions that are available
in Elements V3.
The Extract command is a recent, powerful tool added to Photoshop®,
which automates a combination of tools. Elements V3 does not
have the Extract command; however, it does contain
all the tools to perform the function of Extract in Photoshop®,
but it is a more laborious method. This method is addressed
in my book for Photoshop users who do not have the latest versions
of Photoshop 7.0 and Photoshop CS and is applicable to Elements
V3 as well).
Essentially, for the purposes of this book, Adobe®
Photshop® Elements®
V3.0 can do everything except Actions.
However, please note that the menu for Elements®
V3.0 is different than that of Photoshop, and commands explained
in the book may be located in a different place within the menu
structure in Elements®. I was able to locate
all the commands I needed in Elements® by
accessing the Elements® Help screen and scrolling
through the Glossary of Terms to find the location of the coordinating
tool I was looking for.
Owners of Photoshop® Elements®
V3.0 using this book should be able to find virtually all the tools
necessary to perform these functions in their programs.
Johnnie Liliedahl, Artist, Author
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