{"id":16398,"date":"2010-05-24T09:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T09:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/05\/tools-to-unlock-photoshops-new-painting-chops.html"},"modified":"2010-05-24T09:05:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T09:05:42","slug":"tools_to_unlock_photoshops_new_painting_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/tools_to_unlock_photoshops_new_painting_ch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools to unlock Photoshop&#039;s new painting chops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new painting features in Photoshop CS5 are incredibly powerful, but the app interface doesn&#8217;t provide much guidance as to what to use &amp; when.  Fortunately some painting experts have stepped up to the challenge.<br \/>\nAdobe&#8217;s Russell Brown has used Configurator to create a Painting Assistant panel that steps you through common tasks in converting a photograph into a painting.  Here are a <a href=\"http:\/\/av.adobe.com\/russellbrown\/PaintingAssistant_SM.mov\">demo video<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellbrown.com\/Transfer\/Painting_Assistant_1.0.0.zip\">panel installer<\/a>.<br \/>\nMeanwhile painter John Derry is offering an excellent set of <a href=\"http:\/\/expressivepixels.com\/artists_brushes.html\">Artists&#8217; Brushes<\/a>, together with a texture library &amp; six video tutorials, for $19.95.  Maybe the idea of paying for content seems weird, but this is really well crafted, well vetted material that can make a big difference in what you&#8217;re able to accomplish with the tools. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/expressivepixels.com\/Movies\/preview.mov\">preview video<\/a> for a sample of the tools &amp; the techniques John shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new painting features in Photoshop CS5 are incredibly powerful, but the app interface doesn&#8217;t provide much guidance as to what to use &amp; when. Fortunately some painting experts have stepped up to the challenge. Adobe&#8217;s Russell Brown has used Configurator to create a Painting Assistant panel that steps you through common tasks in converting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}