Transform your favorite photographs into beautiful paintings using Corel Painter software. This 4-week course - taught by master photographer and author Jim Zuckerman - is open to anyone who wants to learn the creative potential of Corel 8.0 or higher. Used primarily by artists but open to photographers as well, Painter allows you to create oil paintings, mosaics, pastel sketches, and impressionistic masterpieces from your photos. In no time at all, this course will teach you how to make such great works of art that Van Gogh and Picasso will seem like amateurs!
Benefits:
You get direct feedback on your photos from world-acclaimed, professional photographers. You can learn photography in this way from anywhere in the world.
Jim Zuckerman Few people are able to spend most of their time pursuing their passion in life. I'm one of them, and I feel blessed to have had a love affair with photography since I began taking pictures.
In 1970, I decided to abort my intended career as a doctor in favor of photography and have never regretted it. Photography has enriched my life more than I can tell you. My career has taken me to over 60 countries, and I've seen and photographed wondrous things.
I specialize in wildlife and nature, international travel, and digital effects. In addition, I also shoot nudes, photo- and electron microscopy, children, and other subjects that stimulate my visual or emotional sensibilities.
For 25 years, I shot a medium format camera, specifically the Mamiya RZ 67, for its superior quality. When I would lecture, I’d project the large, glass mounted transparencies, and it was really an incredible experience to see the brilliant color saturation and resolution of these slides. However, I went digital in 2004 because the technology finally equaled or surpassed medium format. I now shoot the Canon 1Ds Mark II digital camera with a variety of lenses.
I am the author of 12 books on photography. My work is sold in 30 countries around the world, and my images have appeared on scores of magazine and book covers, calendars, posters, national ads, trade ads, brochures, and corporate promotions.
For many years I've led photography tours to exotic places. These include Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Burma, Greece, The Czech Republic and Slovakia, Spain, Morocco, and Peru.
Week 1: Making a Pastel Portrait Assignment: Upload a pastel painting along with the original photo. Take your time to make it just what you want. I would advise you not to start with a snapshot or a picture with harsh lighting, but rather use a fine image you've photographed that will translate well into a painting.
Week 2: Turning a Photo into Van Gogh Masterpiece Assignment: Convert a photo into an impressionist painting using either the impressionist sub-brush or Flemish rub, or both. Both of them are found in the Artists category. Chose your original carefully because not all photographs translate well into impressionism.
Week 3: The Chalk Brush and Impasto Assignment: Two remarkable tools help you create beautiful and unique paintings. For this assignment, make a colored chalk sketch and an Impasto painting
Week 4: Making an Oil Painting Assignment: Upload a before and after photo using one of the oil brushes. You may prefer a very subtle approach, where the blending of colors is soft and the brush strokes are hardly visible because they've been blended so well together, or you may like a more aggressive style where the brush strokes are large and easily seen.
No, you do not need to be online at any specific time. The lessons are sent to your email and you are also provided the Campus Square - where you interact with your classmates and instructor. This is also where you upload your photos to be critiqued by your instructor. The instructors are very punctual and respond quickly.
Will I have access to the instructor to ask questions during the photo course?
Absolutely! Students can ask questions in the special Q&A forum set up in the course's Campus Square, or can ask the instructor via email.
Do you offer a money back guarantee?
Yes. We are confident that you will fully enjoy our courses. All the same, for our 8-week classes, we offer a 100% money-back guarantee before the Wednesday that Lesson #3 is sent out. If for any reason, you are not satisfied and let us know that you would like to withdraw before the Wednesday that Lesson #3 is sent, you will be promptly refunded.
For our 4-week courses, we offer a 100% money back guarantee before the Wednesday that Lesson #2 is sent out from BetterPhoto. If for any reason you are not satisfied and you let the ordering department know that you would like to withdraw before the Wednesday that Lesson #2 is sent, you will be refunded within 7 days. After the second lesson has been sent out, no refunds will be given.
Jim Zuckerman
