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Hi there, this is Cher Pendarvis
artist and author of the Painter Wow! books
and Artists Tablet books.
In this video we're going to get started with
Painter Essentials 6.
When you first launch you're greeted with the Welcome Screen
and as you can see,
there's a lot going on here that's helpful.
You have Documents, Layouts, What's new
which is what we're looking at right now,
an upgrade path to Painter 2018
information about Wacom Tablets
Essentials tips and tricks
learn from the experts
updated user interface
and as we scroll down below
more links to artist interviews, more tutorials
technical support, brushes and webinars
here we have a link to tutorials
here we have a link to images that were created with Painter Essentials
and an information about more brushes.
To exit the Welcome Screen,
press the Escape key.
When looking at the Welcome Screen I mentioned layouts
at this time we have the laptop layout
chosen and if I go to the Window Menu
and we choose layouts you see
the laptop layout is chosen and there are
two other layouts, tablet right-handed
and tablet left-handed. Let's have a look at the interface.
When you launch Painter,
by default the interface is set up like this.
Across the top we have the Menu bar.
Underneath the Painter Essentials menu
you'll see the Preferences
which includes Brush Tracking that helps you
set up Painter to work better with your tablet.
This is very important.
And some other items, the File menu, Edit menu
Canvas menu
Layer's, the Select menu
Effects, the Window menu where you'll see other panels and options
and the Help menu where you can display the
Welcome Screen again if you want to.
Press escape to close it.
In the upper left-hand corner you'll see the Brush Selector
and if we open this
you'll see recent brushes at the top
and the Painter Essentials 6 Brush Library
Blenders is chosen and Wet Oily Blender
The Brush Selector is set up
with brush categories
and they reflect media like the Acrylics and Oils
Airbrushes, Blenders, Chalk, Pastel & Crayons
Pens, Pencils and Markers and so on.
Right now Blenders is chosen and you
see the Wet Oily Blender variant
of the Blenders brush is chosen.
Directly below the Brush Selector
we have the Toolbox and right now the Brush tool is chosen.
Here we have the Property Bar
and the options in the Property Bar will
change depending on which tool is chosen
In the toolbox we have
the Brush tool is selected
and the Eyedropper tool the Paint Bucket
the Text tool, the Eraser
the Crop tool, the Rectangular Selection tool
and you can do an oval selection
or different shapes of selections
by clicking this arrow
Rubber Stamp tool and other options
the Dodge and Burn for working with photos
the Mirror painting tool or Kaleidoscope
the Grabber Hand allows you to move around your image
the Zoom in tool
Zoom Out tool and the Rotate Page tool
Here we see the Current color
and the Additional Color
and then in the bottom of the Tool Box you'll see
the Paper Texture picker
and click here to view the other Paper Textures
Here we have the Color Wheel
on the outside is the Hue Ring
and the value and saturation triangle
Right now we have a
peachy color chosen. If we wanted to
instead choose a blue we would click
here in the hue ring and once we have
our blue hue chosen we can
make it brighter or more saturated
by moving to the right in the Triangle
or make it less saturated by moving to the left
Make it lighter by moving up
or darker by moving down.
To begin your own painting, choose File, New
I'm going to accept the default size.
Click OK. Here we have our file.
We have a nice green color, I'm going to
change it to more of an aqua.
Make it lighter just for fun.
Now I'm going to click on the Brush tool
and I'm going to go up to the Brush Selector
Click on the arrow, and I'm going to choose
the Acrylics and Oils and the Opaque Acrylic.
That's how you get started.
I'm going to hide this image,
and here I have a variety of images
that I've painted. All were painted from scratch.
Painter Essentials has a great variety
of brush looks.
The sketches on the left of my cat little doll
I created with the Cover Pencil.
To choose a brush you click here to open the Brush library
and you see
Pencils, Pens and Markers is chosen
and the Cover Pencil is chosen
If I want to choose a different variant
like the Thick and Thin Pencil, I would just click
on it like so. The sketch in the center
Shell study, was created with the Pastels
To choose the Pastels
I would click here on the arrow and I would
choose Chalk, Pastel and Crayons
and the Sharp Charcoal Pencil is a good one
to do the initial sketch.
And then I used the Square Chalk
and the Tapered Large Chalk and Tapered Pastel for the Shell Study.
And on the right, View from Point Loma,
for this painting,
I used the Acrylics and Oils brushes,
for instance the Fine Camel Opaque,
Acrylic Real Oils Filbert
and Wet Soft Acrylic and Wet Oily brush.
I wanted to bring back these panels,
we have the Color Set.
Also the Mixer Panel.
And here I've dabbed a
little bit of the yellow green we can
choose the Dropper Tool
and choose the Brush again
and we can make a combination of these two greens
and blend down into the black
and the Photo Painting panel
if you're interested in painting with your photos.
You can achieve a variety of brush looks
with the media available
in Painter Esentials 6. Happy creating and happy painting.
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