| Introduction | p. xix |
| Basics | p. 1 |
| Welcome To Painter 6 | p. 2 |
| What's New, Pussycat? | p. 2 |
| Palette Pleasers | p. 2 |
| Brushes All In A Row | p. 3 |
| Material Things | p. 4 |
| Objects | p. 4 |
| Floaters, No; Layers, Yes | p. 4 |
| Layer It On | p. 5 |
| Project: Creating Fruit Layers | p. 5 |
| Working With Layers | p. 7 |
| Project: Manipulating And Moving Layers | p. 8 |
| Layers, Layer Editing, And Masks | p. 9 |
| Project: Creating Objects | p. 11 |
| Other Painter "News" | p. 14 |
| Getting Organized | p. 14 |
| Getting Customized | p. 15 |
| Customize Your Libraries | p. 16 |
| Customize Your Icons | p. 17 |
| Regrouping Variants | p. 18 |
| Painter 6 And Other Programs | p. 19 |
| Painter For Photoshop Users | p. 19 |
| Poser | p. 20 |
| Project: Life Drawing Practice | p. 20 |
| Brush Effects | p. 23 |
| Getting Acquainted With Brushes | p. 24 |
| Jump Right In! | p. 24 |
| Project: Refrigerator Art | p. 24 |
| Project: Using The Look Designer | p. 25 |
| Methods Without Madness | p. 26 |
| Project: Testing! Testing! | p. 26 |
| More Brush Controls | p. 27 |
| Just A Dab | p. 27 |
| Project: Anatomy Of A Brush | p. 27 |
| Input Variables | p. 29 |
| Project: Express Yourself | p. 29 |
| Project: Theme And Variations For Piano | p. 30 |
| New Dabs | p. 31 |
| Project: Consider The Source | p. 32 |
| New And Improved Categories | p. 33 |
| Different Strokes | p. 33 |
| Project: A Rake's Progress | p. 33 |
| Bristle Basics | p. 34 |
| Project: Bristling With Excitement | p. 35 |
| Held Captive | p. 36 |
| Project: Taking Prisoners--Creating A Captured Dab | p. 36 |
| Different Layers | p. 38 |
| Deeper Is Better | p. 38 |
| Project: Thick, Thicker, Thickest | p. 38 |
| Wetter Is Better | p. 39 |
| Project: Water Color Still Life | p. 40 |
| Meanwhile, Back At The Palettes | p. 42 |
| Oil's Well | p. 42 |
| Project: Smear And Blend | p. 42 |
| Keep On Plug-In | p. 43 |
| Project: Changing Leaves | p. 43 |
| Send In The Clones | p. 45 |
| Basic Techniques | p. 46 |
| Chalk Cloner | p. 46 |
| Project: Pastel Drawing | p. 47 |
| Project: Scribbling A Clone | p. 49 |
| Project: Using The Melt Cloner For A Watercolor Look | p. 50 |
| Project: Oil Painting | p. 51 |
| Project: Colored Pencil Drawing | p. 52 |
| Soft Cloner And Straight Cloner | p. 53 |
| Project: Selective Reverting | p. 54 |
| Project: Selective Elimination | p. 55 |
| Project: Two-Point Cloning | p. 57 |
| Project: Sunflowers And The Van Gogh Cloner | p. 58 |
| Advanced Cloning | p. 60 |
| Making Watercolor Cloners | p. 60 |
| Project: Watercolor Study | p. 61 |
| Project: Watercolor Wash | p. 63 |
| Project: Felt Marker Sketch | p. 64 |
| Project: Still Life And The Impressionist Cloner | p. 66 |
| Paper Textures | p. 69 |
| Anatomy Of A Texture | p. 70 |
| What's The Value? How Paper Textures Texture | p. 73 |
| Textures By Design: The Make Paper Command | p. 77 |
| Project: Engineering The Texture | p. 77 |
| From Triangles To Black Satin | p. 78 |
| Reengineering The Texture | p. 80 |
| Making The Crinkly Texture | p. 81 |
| Express (Texture) Yourself! | p. 82 |
| Repeat It Again, Sam | p. 85 |
| Project: How Textures Repeat | p. 86 |
| Project: Texture Tango | p. 88 |
| Go Water Buffalo! | p. 89 |
| Floating Color | p. 91 |
| Toning A New Texture | p. 92 |
| Crackle Multiplied | p. 93 |
| Rhoda's Text-ures | p. 94 |
| Project: It's Greek To Me | p. 94 |
| Graphics With Impact | p. 95 |
| Impastable Text | p. 96 |
| Project: Bulging Paper Text-ures | p. 96 |
| Project: Randomizing Textures | p. 98 |
| Patterns | p. 101 |
| A Pattern Primer | p. 102 |
| Language Of Pattern | p. 102 |
| Creating Rectangular Repeats | p. 103 |
| Project: Single Motif Repeats--Part 1, The Block | p. 103 |
| Painter's Offsets | p. 104 |
| Project: Single Motif Repeats--Part 2, Using The Offset Slider | p. 105 |
| Motif-Based Drops And Bricks | p. 106 |
| Project: Single Motif Repeats--Part 3, Half-Drop Repeat By Hand | p. 107 |
| Project: Single Motif Repeats--Part 4, Creating A Diaper Pattern | p. 110 |
| Building The First Double-Repeat | p. 111 |
| Building The Vertical Double-Repeat | p. 113 |
| Creating The Final Pattern Tile--Start Loop | p. 114 |
| Finishing Up | p. 117 |
| Linked Motifs | p. 118 |
| Project: Linked Motif Pattern | p. 119 |
| Painted Patterns | p. 121 |
| Using The Pattern File | p. 121 |
| Project: Fire And Confusion--Pattern Process | p. 122 |
| Playing With Fire | p. 122 |
| Dry Brush And Image Hose | p. 125 |
| Photographic Patterns | p. 127 |
| Project: A Simple Seamless, Endless Repeat | p. 127 |
| Learning To Love Lines | p. 129 |
| Project: A Four-Way Repeat | p. 129 |
| Patterned Prose | p. 132 |
| Project: Text In A Shape | p. 132 |
| Primitive Pennies: Putting Patterns Into Practice | p. 134 |
| Project: Counterfeiting Coins | p. 134 |
| Ancient Coin | p. 136 |
| Coin Paper | p. 136 |
| Scaled Litmus | p. 137 |
| Many Patterns | p. 137 |
| Dissolving Coins | p. 137 |
| Difference | p. 138 |
| High Pass | p. 138 |
| Blue Gold | p. 139 |
| Embossed Color | p. 139 |
| Color High Pass | p. 139 |
| Masked Litmus | p. 139 |
| Soft Litmus Mask | p. 141 |
| Double Circle | p. 141 |
| Stone Circle | p. 142 |
| Masked Patterns | p. 142 |
| Project: Kimono My House | p. 144 |
| Collage | p. 147 |
| E Pluribus Unum | p. 148 |
| Project: Hands On Collage | p. 148 |
| Twenty-One Flavors | p. 151 |
| Project: Surrealist Poster | p. 153 |
| Seamless Blends | p. 158 |
| Project: Mystery Novel Cover | p. 158 |
| Animation And Scripts | p. 163 |
| Animation Basics | p. 164 |
| Project: Toon Man Walking | p. 164 |
| Moving The Background | p. 165 |
| Combining The Background With The Cartoon Character | p. 166 |
| Experimental Animation | p. 167 |
| Project: Photo-mation | p. 168 |
| Abstract Animation | p. 169 |
| Project: Neon Spiral | p. 169 |
| Project: Recorded Stroke Effects--Purple Heart | p. 170 |
| Project: As The Worm Turns--Caterpillar Convention | p. 171 |
| Scripting Movie Effects | p. 173 |
| Scripting Basics | p. 173 |
| Project: A Script To Invert Color And Distort | p. 174 |
| Rotoscoping | p. 175 |
| Consider The Source | p. 175 |
| Project: Muybridge Child Running | p. 176 |
| Style 7.20: A. Negative Space | p. 177 |
| Style 7.20: B. Gradient Color | p. 177 |
| Style 7.20: C. Inverted Gradient Color | p. 179 |
| Style 7.20: D. Fiber Clone | p. 179 |
| Style 7.20: E. Van Gogh Clone | p. 180 |
| Style 7.20: F. Van Gogh Clone Inverted And Distorted | p. 180 |
| Splicing Movies Together | p. 180 |
| Web Effects | p. 183 |
| Painter And The Web, A Brief Introduction | p. 184 |
| Color For The Web | p. 185 |
| File Formats For The Web | p. 186 |
| Painter And The 216 Web-Safe Colors | p. 186 |
| Color Sets | p. 188 |
| Project: Creating A Small Web-Safe Color Set | p. 189 |
| Graphic Techniques For Low Color | p. 191 |
| Creating Low Colors Through Posterization | p. 191 |
| Project: Using The Posterize Using Color Set Command | p. 192 |
| Project: Posterizing The Image, Part 1 | p. 193 |
| Project: Posterizing The Image, Part 2 | p. 193 |
| Using Some Current Gradient Effects | p. 195 |
| Project: Using Pop Art Fill | p. 195 |
| Project: The Gradients Express In Image Command | p. 197 |
| Project: Creating A Graphic Print Brush | p. 198 |
| Creating The Graphic Print Brush | p. 198 |
| Using The Graphic Print Brush | p. 199 |
| The Graphic Print Brush, Continued | p. 199 |
| Patterns And Texture | p. 200 |
| Project: Developing A Background Pattern | p. 201 |
| The Illusion Of Depth | p. 202 |
| Project: The Great Emboss | p. 203 |
| Come To The Masquerade | p. 203 |
| Adding Surface Texture | p. 204 |
| Finishing Up | p. 205 |
| Buttons And Interface Items | p. 205 |
| Project: Swan Song | p. 206 |
| Image Maps | p. 209 |
| Project: A Road Is A Road Is A Road (And Is Also An Image Map) | p. 210 |
| Images Sliced, Diced, And Rolled (Over) | p. 214 |
| Project: Slicing Up An Image | p. 216 |
| At First Slice | p. 216 |
| A Chance To Dice | p. 218 |
| Recombinations | p. 219 |
| Setting Slices | p. 221 |
| Exporting The Table | p. 222 |
| Dynamic Effects | p. 227 |
| About Dynamic Layers | p. 228 |
| Creating Rice Paper | p. 228 |
| Project: Burning Your Bridges With The Burn Dynamic Layer | p. 228 |
| Growing A Paper | p. 230 |
| Project: Growing Things With The Growth Command | p. 230 |
| The Liquid Lens--Or How To Make Pudding From Paper | p. 234 |
| Project: Mixing Up Some Liquid Pulp | p. 235 |
| Textures To The Rescue | p. 236 |
| Project: To Texture Twice | p. 236 |
| Controlling The Burn Dynamic Layer | p. 238 |
| Project: Making Deckled Paper | p. 238 |
| Heavy Metal | p. 240 |
| Learning Liquid Metal | p. 242 |
| Project: A Touch Of Liquid Metal | p. 243 |
| Project: Drawing An Abstract Painting In Metal | p. 247 |
| Bevel World | p. 248 |
| Project: A Beveled Ornament | p. 248 |
| Beveled Liquid Metal Topping | p. 248 |
| Building A Beveled Base | p. 249 |
| Dynamic Layers And Masks | p. 252 |
| Project: Masking An Effect | p. 252 |
| Text Effects | p. 255 |
| Vector-Based Text | p. 256 |
| Staying In Shapes | p. 256 |
| Project: Strokes And Fills | p. 256 |
| Project: Font Stylin' | p. 257 |
| Making A Commitment | p. 259 |
| Project: Esoterica Fills | p. 259 |
| Project: Image Fills | p. 261 |
| Project: Quick-And-Dirty Marbling | p. 263 |
| Project: Me And My Shadows | p. 265 |
| All Together Now | p. 267 |
| Project: Alphabet Sampler | p. 267 |
| Dynamic Text | p. 269 |
| Project: Flaming Type | p. 271 |
| Esoteric Effects | p. 273 |
| Mosaics | p. 274 |
| Creating Random-Image Mosaics | p. 274 |
| Project: Creating A Mosaic Repeat Pattern | p. 275 |
| Tiling Nothing | p. 275 |
| Creating A Background Tile | p. 277 |
| Repeat Pattern Deja Vu | p. 279 |
| Creating Image-Based Mosaics | p. 280 |
| Project: Creating A Mosaic From An Image | p. 280 |
| Laying A Foundation | p. 280 |
| Color And Select | p. 282 |
| Putting It All Together | p. 284 |
| Marbling | p. 287 |
| Preparing A Base | p. 287 |
| Project: Meet The Blob | p. 288 |
| Creating A Get Gel | p. 290 |
| Project: Recipe For Marbling | p. 290 |
| What Can You Do With A Get Gel? | p. 292 |
| Project: Making A Tiny Rake | p. 292 |
| Creating Your Own Pattern | p. 292 |
| Project: Roll Your Own | p. 293 |
| Fine Art Techniques | p. 295 |
| The Big Picture | p. 296 |
| Practice! Practice! | p. 296 |
| Learning To Draw With Painter | p. 296 |
| Project: Warm Up | p. 297 |
| Project: Shape Up | p. 298 |
| Project: Line Up | p. 300 |
| Project: What You See Is What You Draw | p. 301 |
| Project: Accentuate The Negative | p. 303 |
| Learning From The Old Masters | p. 305 |
| Tonality | p. 305 |
| Geometry | p. 307 |
| Project: Simplifying Shapes | p. 307 |
| Use Your Edge | p. 308 |
| Stealing From The Old Masters | p. 309 |
| Drawing On Reality | p. 309 |
| Project: Still Life Painting | p. 310 |
| Still Life Using Paper Cutouts | p. 311 |
| Room With A View | p. 313 |
| Life Drawing | p. 314 |
| Project: Imitation Of Life | p. 315 |
| Portraits | p. 316 |
| Project: Portrait Of The Author As A Middle-Aged Woman | p. 317 |
| Project: Self-Portrait Painting | p. 320 |
| Trace And Fill | p. 320 |
| Wet And Dry | p. 321 |
| Mixed Media | p. 322 |
| Index | p. 323 |
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