Join John Derry for an in-depth discussion in this video The vocabulary of photography, part of Digital Painting in Photoshop: Architecture.
Photography looks like photography, because of its unique visual vocabulary.…We can dissect and isolate these vocabulary elements to provide a consistent…framework for interpreting a photo into a convincing painted result.…Failure to properly eradicate an image's photographic language will result in a…painting that has references to both vocabularies and weaken the final image.…Knowledge of both vocabularies is essential for a satisfying result.…In this video, we'll examine the visual vocabulary of photography.…
Now, the first one I'm going to talk about here is sharpness, sharp detail.…Particularly, if you come from a photographic background, this is your gold…standard, your stock in trade.…Typically, you want to portray detail in sharp focus.…That's why there's so many different lenses for cameras, and good lenses, and bad lenses.…The better the lens, the better the focus, and so a photographer typically works…very hard to get all of this sharp focus in an image.…
But the difference, and we'll talk about this more when we talk about painting,…
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1/3/2013- Setting up a Wacom tablet
- Removing lens distortions
- Correcting distracting image elements
- Making shadow and highlight adjustments
- Simplifying details with filters and Smart Blur
- Modifying color
- Cloning layers
- Using a traditional paint color swatch set
- Using custom actions
- Working with canvas texture
- Creating physical surface texture effects
- Painting with custom brushes
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Introduction59s
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Installing custom content2m 46s
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Setting up Wacom express keys13m 32s
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1. Photographic Reality vs. Expressive Interpretation
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Visual vocabularies3m 49s
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The vocabulary of painting4m 59s
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2. Image Preparation: Working with the Source Photograph
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Removing distractions8m 7s
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Correcting image adjustments2m 58s
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3. Image Preparation: Modifying Tones
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Using the HDR Toning filter5m 25s
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4. Image Preparation: Modifying Color and Detail
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Using the Oil Paint filter11m 51s
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5. Using Nondestructive Layer Painting
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Using cloning layers2m 58s
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6. Working with Brushes
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Adding canvas texture4m 51s
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Using Sample All Layers5m 21s
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7. Expressive Interpretation: The Underpainting Layer
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You must destroy detail2m 9s
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8. Expressive Interpretation: The Intermediate Layer
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9. Expressive Interpretation: The Detail Layer
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The play's the thing5m 18s
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10. Expressive Interpretation: Final Refinements
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It pays to wait a day1m 55s
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