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How to get started with digital painting in Adobe Photoshop

DATE: 02/04/2021
TIME: 5:00 PM ET

Do you want to start painting in Photoshop, but you’re not sure where to start? If your answer is yes, this webinar is for you. You will learn how to start your painting in Photoshop and how to customize your brushes and workspace. If you are a photographer and want to create your next masterpiece based on a photograph, I will show you how to do it. By the end of the webinar, you will be able to download a library with different backgrounds that you can use in your painting in Photoshop.

Part 1:
Description:
In this session, you will learn how to customize your workspace and brushes for your custom needs. Customizing your tools and workspace helps you to be more creative and making your painting process more enjoyable.

Part 2:
Description:
We all have different painting experience, style, inspiration, and vision. In this session, I will show you a few different ways to start your painting.

Part 3:
Description:
Colors play a huge role in painting. I would say that colors are the most powerful and important tool in any art. Sometimes when we just start our painting journey, blending colors could be challenging. In this session of the class, I will show a few ways of blending colors. You can choose the one you like the most.

Part 4:
Description:
I believe that we were born with an artistic soul inside of us. Most of us all want to paint. Creation is the primary language of the universe. I hear it all the time “I want to paint so much, but I can’t.” “I never painted before so I think I can’t paint in Photoshop.”In this session, I will show you how you can create your own masterpiece even if you’ve never painted before.

Part 5:
Description:
I believe that the most important aspect in any painting is to be creative and enjoy what you do. In the 21st century, we can combine both: the artistic and technical sides of our painting in Photoshop. The best part is that if we do it in a smart way we can pay more attention to the artistic side because the technology will do the rest. In this part of our class, I will show you how to do it.

Introduction to digital painting on mobile

DATE: 02/10/2021
TIME: 7:00 PM ET

We all want to have the freedom to create anywhere. Now with Adobe Illustrator on iPad and Adobe Fresco on iPad we can create art from anywhere at anytime. During this class you will learn how to get started in Adobe Fresco and Adobe Illustrator on iPad. By the end of our class I will provide you with a library of backgrounds that you can use in your next project. 

Adobe Fresco on iPad

Part 1:
Description:
In this part, you will learn how to create a new document from scratch or how to use ready-to-go templates and how you can customize them.

Part 2:
Description:
Brushes play one of the biggest roles in a painting workflow. In this part I will show you the different brushes available for use in Fresco and how you can customize them to make each brush more unique.

Part 3: 
Description:
Colors play a very important role in storytelling when creating art. In this part of our webinar, I will show you how you can use colors in Fresco, how to create new colors, how to use the same color across all Adobe applications.

Part 4: 
Description:
The most common question people ask me is “how can I blend colors in digital painting?” In this part of our webinar, I will show you a few techniques for blending colors in Fresco

Part 5: 
Description:
Live brushes in Fresco are incredibly awesome and fun to work with. I will show you how to use them, how to customize them and combine them together to create your next masterpiece.

Part 6:
Description:
How to start a painting and finish it using only one brush. How to use different brushes in one art piece. In this part of our webinar, I will show how to use different brushes, how to take advantage of different brushes in any painting.


Adobe Illustrator on iPad

Part 1: 
Description:
In this part of our webinar, you will learn how to create a new document from scratch or use ready-to-go templates. You will get familiar with the beauty of illustrator on iPad, UI, and art tools.

Part 2: 
Description:
I will show how to use the Pen Tool (you will never believe how easy and how much fun you can have to working with the Pen tool)

Part 3: 
Description:
Colors are important. In this part of our webinar, I will show how to use colors in illustrator on iPad and how to use different types of gradients

Part 4: 
Description:
Yes, we can blend colors in vector art and I will show you how.

Part 5: 
Description:
How to create art in a smart way. In this part of our webinar, I will show you how.


Accessories I love and use every day

  • HD8RV29 Pro Stand facilitates overhead stable live streaming from your phone on a counter, table, podium, desk, or other flat surface
  • TAB131 Tablet Clamp Mount attaches to the shaft/pole portion of the Pro Stand and can be used to log in to live video apps on a secondary device to see comments or to see the view of the phone that’s positioned overhead

If you are planning to purchase this stand, you can use my code “pavlov” to save 20%

   

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Accessories you should have in your mobile workflow

With each year our phones become a bigger and bigger part of our mobile workflow. I would like to point out that when I say “mobile workflow” I don’t mean only the professional part of our lives. Our mobile devices are tools that are always under our fingertips. Using our phones record or take behind-the-scenes pictures, photographing the subject, creating our memories on vacation, birthdays, or wedding parties, the smile of our pets, or first steps of our children. So why not make all of this much easier, quicker?

Photography or Video
Pocket Tripod Pro, at first glance you will think that it’s impossible this small (pocket) tripod will give you the stability to take a clean shot. I thought the exact same thing, BUT when I tried it, I was amazed and now I am using it all the time, everywhere.

This Pocket Tripod is great in landscape or vertical orientation. It has 180° of tilt in both orientations.
Everything you need to adjust the tripod is included in the package. This package includes 7 common sizes for most common cases and phone sizes and also includes a coupon for any size not included. This tripod works with all phones iPhone or Android.

This lightweight, pocket-size tripod is all that you need to keep your phone steady, and best of all it folds down to the size of a credit card so that you can have it with you in your wallet/purse at all times.

I love my new Geometrical Pocket Tripod Pro and I definitely recommend it to anyone who is using their phone’s camera to create memories of everyday life or for professional life.
By the way, you can use my link to order this beauty 🙂

Digital Art and Design
If you know me, you know that digital art is the biggest part of my creative life. I use desktop and mobile devices for my digital art.
In my mobile digital art workflow, I use Adobe Fresco a lot and I was so happy when Adobe introduced Fresco for iPhone. Now I literally can paint at any time from anywhere because my iPhone is ALWAYS with me! Of course, I immediately started looking for a stylist I could use with Fresco on my iPhone. After some research, I found one. Active Stylus Digital Pen. It has a clean look (which I appreciate a lot), easy to set up, and the battery lasts for a long time. When I said “easy to set up” I meant that you don’t have to do anything. Just charge it, turn it on and you are ready to go! This is how easy it is.
The full charge is enough for 8 hours working, 30 days standby. The full charge time takes 40 minutes.
Digital Pen works with iOS and Android touch screen phones and tablets.

I like this stylist. It’s more comfortable than my finger (for sure). The simplicity of the stylist brings one extra good point to it.
This is not an Apple pencil so it doesn’t have the built-in support for pressure sensitivity.
The pen doesn’t work with Windows phones or tablets.



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Select Subject in Adobe Photoshop CC

Select Subject in Adobe Photoshop CC ONLY with one click!!!

 

What’s New in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018

My Books on Amazon:

101 Photoshop Hidden Gems and Tips & Tricks: A collection of 101 hidden features and short tips that will help make you a Photoshop ninja 

Digital Painting for Photographers

The Adobe Mobile Apps Book: Your Complete Guide to Adobe’s Creative Mobile Apps

My Teaching Website

My Website

To bring inspiration to life shouldn’t be difficult

To bring inspiration to life shouldn’t be difficult

 

As an artist I find inspiration everywhere. Because we’re in the 21st century I don’t need to put my inspiration on hold because I’m away from my easel or computer. Now I can create from ANYWHERE at ANY TIME.
I love everything about Autumn. Inspiration is everywhere, in colors, in fresh air, in pumpkin flavor. So I feel that I need to create more and thanks to Adobe mobile apps I can create my art using my mobile devices.
Today I will share with you my Autumn collection I created using Adobe Illustrator Draw, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Where did the inspiration come from? From my yard where I am playing with my puppy, from the trees around the fence, from the fresh and beautiful colors of the sky.

Using Adobe Illustrator Draw I created a pumpkin. I spent probably about 20 minutes and my pumpkin was ready. Because I liked that pumpkin so much I decided  to create another one.

Later on  I was sitting outside with my puppy  and our trees are already ready for the fall season so I decided to create another Halloween Art using Adobe Illustrator Draw, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.  I used the trees as an inspiration and created Halloween Village Art.

Using the same trees as inspiration I created a few leaves in Adobe Illustrator Draw, imported those files to Adobe Illustrator CC and created my new brushes out of those leaves. And now I can create any Fall art using my custom brushes.

The purpose of this post is to bring your inspiration to life. Don’t wait for the “perfect” time to create art. Whatever the inspiration is you will find it. You are able to bring it to life using your mobile devices and Adobe mobile apps. Don’t procrastinate…just do it…just create art anywhere at any time!

 

P.S. I uploaded all of my mobile Autumn Art to  Adobe Stock and all files were approved for sale.  Literally in 7 minutes after my files were approved, I received an email that I made a sale!!! Guess which file was sold??? My pumpkin!

 

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To bring inspiration to life shouldn't be difficult

 

 

 

Two feature requests for Apple to consider

Two feature requests for Apple to consider:

 

 

 

Before you will start reading my blog post I would like to point out: 

I am a huge Apple fan. 
This is not a criticism, it’s just a feature request from an Apple user. 
This post is NOT about AndroidWindows or any other phones. If you are happy with another brand, but Apple, good for you, so please don’t jump in to  tell me how your phone is already better. I’m happy you’re happy. 


 

On September 12th Apple introduced the new amazing iPhone X. I love everything about the new phone and definitely will pre-order it in October.

I am a huge Apple fan and I use Apple products every day, all day in my business and personal workflows. I use an iMac, MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and of course iPhone 7 Plus all day long. As a digital artist, graphic designer and photographer, I combine mobile and desktop workflows every day. My main applications are Adobe CC apps (on mobile and desktop).  iPad Pro and Apple Pencil are “always with me”. I am using Adobe Mobile Apps such as Adobe Photoshop Sketch, Adobe Illustrator Draw, Adobe Lightroom mobile, Adobe Photoshop Fix, Adobe Capture CC every day. Using Adobe Apps on my iPad Pro gave me amazing flexibility to work from anywhere at any time.
Also iPhone 7 Plus is my mobile office as well. I’m using my iPhone to paint and create an art as well (Adobe Photoshop Sketch, Adobe Illustrator Draw, Adobe Capture CC, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Spark Post are my primary apps for my art workflow on  iPhone.
iPhone for MANY of us is something that is ALWAYS with us. It doesn’t matter where we are and what we are doing.  As an artist I LOVE using my iPhone for my painting.  Adobe Photoshop Sketch and Adobe Illustrator, Draw are the best mobile applications for art creation and I really would like to bring my mobile art workflow using iPhone to the next level.

1st Feature Request: 
Apple, please give me ability to use my PERFECT Apple Pencil in my iPhone workflow. I don’t want to use any other stylist (none of them will be even remotely close to Apple Pencil perfection, so why do I need to spend my time and resources to try to find something that will give me better results than my finger?).

2nd Feature Request:
Apple, please let me charge and use my Apple Pencil at the same time.

That’s it. Bring Apple Pencil support to iPhone and don’t stop my work by making me have to charge Apple Pencil.  I can use my iPhone or iPad while it’s charging. The same should go for Apple Pencil.


My Website 

My Teaching Website

My Books

My New Online Training Site

I’m very please to announce my NEW online training site! “Everything Digital” 

About my training site: my main goal is inspire you and make your digital workflow more enjoyable. All of my tutorials are recorded in a conversational manner. No “robotic” talking head tutorials. I want to have a conversation with YOU. I want to make the learning experience more enjoyable. Here you will find different tutorials: from beginner to advanced level. I believe that the learning experience is suppose to be enjoyable and a two-way conversation.  

In my All Digital course you will be able to access all of my courses for one monthly payment of $15.00 

My Books on Amazon:
Digital Painting for Photographers in Adobe Photoshop CC
Adobe Mobile Apps

Three helpful tips for your mobile workflow

Three helpful tips for your mobile workflow

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More and more people are using mobile apps to do real work. Mobile apps on our mobile devices give us the freedom of creativity on the go. These three tips will help you to bring your creativity to the next level.

1:  Bring your project created in another Adobe Mobile app as an image layer to your current Adobe Mobile App. This will help you to jump between Adobe Mobile Apps when working on the same project.

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2: In Adobe Comp CC you can select a few objects to apply same effect at the same time Shift (tap and hold) + Tap. Applying the same effect at the same time  to multiple objects will guarantee identical effects will be applied to  multiple objects and plus it will speed up your workflow.

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3: In Adobe Lightroom mobile use DNG raw when you shoot using the Lightroom camera. Shooting DNG gives you an uncompressed file. DNG file = raw file

 

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My Books on Amazon

The Adobe Mobile Apps 

Digital Painting for Photographers in Adobe Photoshop CC

 

Digital Painting in Adobe Photoshop

Few videos have been uploaded to my YouTube channel

 

Ballerina Painting

 

Speed Painting in Adobe Photoshop CC

The Oil Paint in Adobe Photoshop for Photographers

How to Retouch your image in Adobe Photoshop Fix

 

My Books on Amazon:

Digital Painting for Photographers in Adobe Photoshop

The Adobe Mobile Apps

My Art Store on Amazon 

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My New Book – The Adobe Mobile Apps Book

Now you can preorder my new book – The Adobe Mobile Apps Book: Your Complete Guide to Adobe’s Creative Mobile Apps

 

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Adobe is pushing the creative envelope with what can be done on mobile devices. In this book you will see how to use Adobe’s complete offering of FREE mobile Apps to do everything from photo editing, to layout, video editing, story telling, social media posts and full blown page layout. Whether you plan to just start the creation process on your mobile device and finish on the desktop or do your entire project on your mobile device, this book will show you what’s possible in each app and best of all provide you with the knowledge of how to use the apps.

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