Basics
Learn some Essentials
Learn some Essentials
Here I give you some basic instruction for how to make use of some frequently used tools in iColorama and Metabrush and some other apps.
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Making a Digital Collage from Digital Collage Papers. It’s easy to make digital collage papers to use in making digital collages. Here I show you how to use SketchClub to make a small drawing and then use it to generate a pattern. Once you have your pattern, then you can add a background color and add texture to your digital collage paper. Then I show you how to make shapes from your collage papers and assemble them into a collage in SketchClub.
Creating Brushes in Metabrush. I show you some of the many possible variations of brushes you can create in Metabrush, and how to make them.
Brush Settings in Metabrush. In Metabrush it is possible to create all manner of unique effects. I show you how to use the brush settings to create the effects you desire.
Masking in iColorama. I show you how to use a brush mask to make local adjustments to an image, such as changing the eye color.
Using Warp in iColorama. I show you how to use Form/Warp to change the shape of a face or figure, in a way that alters the expression, or even just to drag distracting elements off the edge of the canvas.
Distorting over Cubes in iColorama. Here I show you how to drape, or distort, an image over a pattern of cubes.
Inserting Text Along a Curve in iColorama. iColorama has a feature that lets you place text along any curve that you define. I show you how to do it, using one of my images as an example.
Creating Textures in Metabrush. Here I show you how you can create many unique textures from a single image.
Layer Masks in Paintstorm Studio. Here I show how to create, modify and apply layer masks, and the effects of doing so.
Layering Effects in Metabrush. I show you how to non-destructively layer different foreground, middle-ground and background effects.
Metabrush Portraits. I show how I to make painterly portraits in Metabrush, starting with a photograph.
SketchClub Basics. Here I show you the very basics about how to get started in SketchClub, and where to find all the functionality you will need to start trying it out.