Need a good source for Corel Painter tutorials

[sathish_rao]

I recently saw an article in PCPhoto featuring an interview with Bruce Dorn

and Maura Dutra, both being photographer's who customize their photos with oil

painting effects. They have an unique style of using their photos to create

amazing painting using Corel painter IX. I have been scouring the web on more

information on this. I got the software, Corel painter IX, and am now looking

for some information on achieving these effects using the software. I couldnt

find any books or tutorial written by these two people. I would really

appreciate it if anybody in this forum is familiar with such work and have any

recommendations for me. I saw one boo\k by Martin Addison, but am not sure if

this is the one I need.

[zee]

Hi Sathish,

 

The best Painter books, imho, are written by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis. Her Painter 9 Wow Book can be found at Amazon, among other places:

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321305329/103-6232543-8125438?v=glance&n=283155

 

See if you can grab a copy at your local bookstore and browse through it. The tutorials are outstanding and cover a wide variety of techniques, including this type of work (it's called cloning from a photo, incidentally). You might also want to try some of the online tutorials at GFXartist.com:

 

http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/

[marissa_c._boucher]

I too saw that article and it inspired me to buy corel, but Iam also having a hard time finding valuable info on corel. I want to make images look pin up style but and having a very difficult time acheiving this.