Sherron
Sheppard presents,
"Quick
Steps to Fine Art" CD Collection
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.