Closing Summary

I have really enjoyed getting more and more practice with Photoshop and I keep expanding myself with all the different tools it has to offer. I have great challenges familiarizing myself with using a mac it has been great experience. The more I use a mac the more I like it. I recently found a keyboard help site help with quick commands and keyboard options. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343.

I have found I much depend on Photoshop for certain adjustments to photographs I have taken and it is a great tool to alter the image for instance; the contrast, the size, cropping, color changes. It is nice to manipulate your own art weather it is paintings I have previously painted or it is photos I have taken.

Corel Painter X has been a fantastic tool. This as not only been a great means to fine tune previous pieces I have painted but it is an exceptional tool in creating new pieces within the software programs themself. There are so many brushes and options use. I have a select group of brushes I like to use as I get used to using the art pad and pen and I have liked using the pastel, charcoal, and the pen for my fine lines.

In many of my pieces it is great to have the layers to revert back to. If I was creating a piece the conventional way it is so easy to keep painting and lose what you had. But in Photoshop and painter you can go back. There are so many stages in working on a piece of art that can be fine art in itself. I enjoyed taking the color out of my pieces and then adding only one color to create a monochromatic image. In painter the water color and the dry flat brush was a nice tool to use.

I can see how these technological tools; Photoshop, Painter, and InDesign will only extended and exemplify work but continue a piece into other avenues of artistic expression.

My plan is to continue to read about and practice using these software tools so it becomes second nature to help me accomplish certain art pieces that I envision in my heart and mind.

I recently went to see about getting a terabyte of storage for all the space I will need to save work I will do in the future with these technological computer software tools. The sky is open for art....Technology and Fine Art. Wow! Look at all the art work this class has produced!