Sherron
Sheppard presents,
"Quick
Steps to Fine Art" CD Collection
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In today's competitive marketplace, being creative is the only way to set your self apart. Clients are willing to pay more for "Art". The "Quick Steps to Fine-Art" CD Collection covers Foundation and Artistic Techniques that give new life to your images and enable you to add additional "fine art" products to you business.
The Photoshop Actions found on these CD's were personally created by Sherron while working on her own artistic images. Sherron uses these actions on almost every image she creates.
Sherron Corel Painter CD includes her custom made Painter brushes that look and feel like real art brushes. Also included is custom palettes organized according to what the brush can be used for. This palette organization makes it so much easier for beginners to start using Corel Painter and a huge time saver for those already familiar with Painter.
CD #1...Foundation
Toolbox CD
To achieve a handmade fine art look in
your digital images, you need to start with a strong foundation that can be
achieved quickly, giving you more time for the "Artistic Enhancements"
your clients will pay more for.
The Foundation Toolbox actions are fast building blocks that help you create
a foundation for your "Artistic Enhancements" with very little effort.
Included
on CD: 28 Photoshop Actions
Combining Layers, Dodge Layer, Burn Layer, De-Fogging an Image, 4 Color Correction
Actions, Color Elimination, Color Fringe Correction, Warm Up Filter, Lighting
Enhancement, Outside Edge Vignetting, Darkening the outside Edges, Diffused
Pop, Sharpening, Graduated Neutral Density Action, Dust and Scratch Repair,
Add Brightness and Spark, 2 Black and White Conversion Methods, Sepia Toning,
Feathering a Selection, plus Printer Color Correction using Variations, part
A & part B.
Actions are written to include instruction to help you through the procedure.
Also
included on the Foundation Toolbox CD:
•Step by Step Color Management Instructions, plus, Printer to
Monitor Color Adjustment Procedure using Variations (for hard-to-match papers),
Color Correcting an image, Digital Workflow and Loading Actions and Presets.
•Tips & Techniques created on 4x6 index-card size - for fast
retrieval. PC and Mac Shortcuts, Removing Morie Patterns, De-Fogging Enhancements,
Camera Raw Tips, Unsharp Mask Settings, Color Chart, Batch Processing files
in Camera Raw, Color Management Settings and Tips, Where to Place Custom Paper
Profiles, Level Clipping, Preview Tips, Straightening Lines, and Custom Shortcuts.
•55 of Sherron's Custom Brushes, developed for Artistic Photo
Enhancements.
CD #2...Artistic
Enhancement CD
Fast Artistic Embellishments that help you create "Custom
Fine Art" images with a handmade look. By adding custom artistic enhancements
to your images, you will be able to produce high-end products that make your
photography unique.
Included
on CD: 37 Photoshop Actions
Adding a Deckle Edge, Art History Custom Painting, Black and White Conversion
with Sepia Toning, Digital Infrared, Misty Lens Blur, Antique Color, Custom
Hand Tinting, Porcelain Glow with Sepia Tint, Soft Focus Glow, Diffuse Glow,
Cross Process, Pen & Ink Watercolor Technique, Watercolor Wash, Art Edges
with Custom Shapes, Grainy Glow, Painting with Combined Filters, Glorious
Glow, Charcoal Mystery, and Traditional Oil & Chalk Painting.
Also included on the Artistic Enhancement CD:
•Sherron's Custom Tool-Presets: Approx. 122 Tool Presets - designed
to work with the above actions and other Artistic Enhancements.
•Sherron's Artistic Edges: Easy-to-Use handmade Deckle Edges for
a "Handmade Fine Art" look.
•Sherron's Custom Styles and Gradients: Sherron's Fine Art Paper
Textures were created with art enhancements in mind. Handmade paper and traditional
watercolor paper textures are included in the Artistic Enhancement CD.
CD
#3...MORE Quick Artistic Enhancements CD
“More
Quick Artistic Enhancements II” adds more actions to your art toolbox,
enabling you to create digital art without using a manual for step by step
instructions.
Included
on CD:
*28 Actions - High Impact BW, Traditional Watercolor, Old World Romance,
SX70 Art Effect, Pencil Sketch, Old Masters Oil Painting, Ethereal Color,
Ethereal Black and White, Soft Focus Lens, Colored Pencil Sketch, Lith Print,
Split Toning, 3D Brush Stroke Enhancement, Blend Mode Magic, Glow in the Dark,
Cyanotype Prints with hand painted edges, Advanced Selections.
*Tool Presets - Approx. 132 Tool Presets - designed to work with the
above actions and other Artistic Enhancements.
*Custom Artistic Edges - Sherron hand painted 21 Watercolor and Canvas
edges to enhance your images with edges that have the look of real art strokes.
*10 of Sherron’s Workflow Actions - including Sherron’s Quick
Advanced actions with no stops for fast image turn around with a fine art
look.
CD
#4...Quick-Click to Color Harmony CD
Being able to have more color control
will improve your art by giving it more impact and lead to more gallery shows
and/or client sales: Color is one of the most powerful tools an artist can
use and color harmony is essential to an artist.
Color is what we see first, in our environment and also in art. Trying to achieve color harmony in your art can be a complicated and sometimes frustrating experience. The “Quick Clicks to Color Harmony” can be used with any digital graphic/art program to help you easily stay within a color scheme and bring color harmony into your work. Each “Quick-Click Color Wheel” template moves allowing you to select any color within a particular color scheme. This makes choosing pleasing colors that give you total color control, a breeze.
Included
on Quick-Click to Color Harmony CD:
10 “Quick-Click to Color Harmony” Color Wheel images including:
Primary Color Scheme, Secondary Color Scheme, Complementary Color Scheme,
Double Complementary Color Scheme, Split-Complementary Color Scheme, Intermediate
Triad Color Scheme, Analogous Color Scheme, Discord Color Scheme, Monochromatic
Color Scheme and Analogous Color Scheme.
Documents on all CD’s are written in PDF form and Microsoft Word.
CD #5...Quick
Step Art Cards CD
Time is Money….and fine art takes valuable time
to produce. No more wasting time looking through books to find techniques
that will help you produce fine art. Store art techniques at your finger tips
in an index card box with Sherron's 4x6 inch "Quick Step Art Cards".
The secret to keeping computer time to a minimum is to have information at
your fingertips. Sherron has written her art techniques to be printed on 4x6
index cards and kept beside your computer at all times. With Sherron's time
saver "Quick Step Art Cards", fine art techniques will always be
close at hand.
Included
on CD:
•Step by step instructions - for the following art techniques:
Adding Canvas, Adding Texture, Art History Painting, Converting to Black and
White, Brighten Images and Add Spark, Chalk Cloner Painting, Charcoal Mystery,
Color Fringe Correction, Color Noise Elimination, Cross Processing, Darken
Edges, Custom Deckle Edge Painting, Defogging Prints, Diffused Glow, Sherron's
method for Dodge and Burn, Dust and Scratch, Glorious Glow, Grainy Glow, Installing
Actions and Presets, Layer Masks, Painting by Combining Filters, Traditional
Oil Painting, Porcelain Glow, 3 Methods for Hand Tinting, Vignetting Edges,
Wacom Tablet Set-Up, Watercolor Wash, Watercolor Pen and Ink, Digital Infrared,
Shortcuts for Art. Also included is a list of Brush Tool-Presets Sherron uses
in her paintings (Brush tool-presets are found on the Artistic Enhancement
CD).
Also
included,
•Sherron's Quick Step 4x6 size Instruction Cards: Each card is
designed to give you, at your fingertips, instructions on Sherron's 28 Foundation
Toolbox and Sherron's 37 Art Enhancements Actions.
Quick Step Art Cards created in Microsoft Word and PDF.
CD
#6...Corel Painter X, 11 (and Beyond) - "Quick
Start" Toolbox:
Included
on CD:
*101 Painter
Fine Art brushes - set up for fine art painting. Brushes included are
oil brushes, chalks, impasto, custom blenders, detail brushes, gouache, watercolor
brushes. Each fine art brush has been created to give more of a traditional
artist medium look to your digital images. Also included: Info on loading
brushes.
*20 “Quick Start” Custom Palettes - set up for a speedier
painting workflow. Sherron has created individual palettes that will give
you a “quick start” to organizing Painter. Included are Custom Palettes
for painting eyes, hair, clothing. watercolor paintings, backgrounds, oil
paintings, impasto effects, details, blending colors, cloners, and more. Also
included: Information on loading and using Sherron’s “Quick Start”
Custom Palettes.
*44 “Quick Color Harmony” Color Sets - Using these color
sets takes the confusion out of picking colors. These color sets give you
the ability to pick colors quickly and make it easy to stay within a color
schemes. Included are color sets for Primary color scheme, Secondary color
scheme, Complementary color scheme, Triad color scheme, Discord color scheme,
Analogous Complementary color scheme, and Tetrad color scheme. Also included:
5 of Sherron's flesh color sets and instructions on loading and using Sherron’s
Quick Color Harmony color sets.
*Tutorial Palette Explanations - for Auto Painting palettes, Brush
Creator palette, Color Palette,
Brush Control palette, Color Mixer palette and Painter color management.