In Camera RAW for Artists, I’ll reveal just how valuable Adobe Camera RAW can be to you, as a digital artist.

Whether you want to create memorable, unique and artistic photographs, or prepare photographic images for creative cloning in Photoshop or Painter, Adobe Camera RAW is your key to a whole new world of creative potential.

Everyone who uses Photoshop has access to Adobe Camera RAW, and yet it’s something that many digital artists continue to overlook. If you have a camera, any kind of camera, whether it can shoot in RAW format or not, Camera RAW is your passport to painting with light, colour and tone, and is your key to being more creative than you ever dreamed possible, all done in a completely non-destructive way.

I’ll even show you how to use the power of Camera RAW via Smart Objects in Photoshop, giving you the ultimate in creative flexibility.

In this class, I’ll not only demonstrate every aspect of using Adobe Camera RAW, via pre-recorded video, I’ll also show you, during live training sessions, how to use Camera RAW as an artist, and how the power you’ll find there can be every bit as creative and liberating as any brush you’ll ever use!

If you’ve never even looked at Adobe Camera RAW before, by the end of this class, you’ll wonder how you ever survived without it!

Join me, in this revolutionary class at The Artists’ Quarter, and open the door to a new world of creativity!

• Use Camera RAW to rescue photographs you thought were destined for the digital dustbin!
• See just how simple and straightforward all those panels and sliders are
• Learn how to use Camera RAW as one of the vital underpainting stages of your digital paintings
• Paint with light in Camera RAW
• Create powerful faux HDR effects
• Create stunning black and white photographs
• Manipulate colour and tone in ways you never thought possible
• Transform any image into beautiful, artistic photographs
• Cure common photographic problems
• Paint light and colour with the Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filters

You can buy a place in Tim’s brilliant new class in The Artists’ Quarter now! Just come to the Store!

We have lots going on at the moment! If you are thinking of joining, now is the time!

TAQ MAD MARCH SPRING SALE! 50% OFF  

P is for Painterly – the original Peefer; The Magic of Layers; Fast & Loose! Watercolour in Photoshop; The Painted Portrait; The Magic of Layer Masks; Photoshop Brushes – Pure and Simple; Creative Cloning in Photoshop; The Basics of Painting from Scratch; The Photoshop Finishing School; How to Draw: Beginners; How to Draw: Intermediate; How to Draw: Advanced. Also Standalones – Press and Clone; Landscape Mask; Pencil and Wash; Painter Layer Masks; Pastel Painting in Painter; and Over my Shoulder: Buttery Oils Landscape.

Enter this code in the Store during your purchase to claim 50% off the price of the early CS5 and Painter classes and standalones. When you get to the Checkout, click on ‘I have a coupon to use’ and copy and paste this code: TAQMARCH13 and click Apply.

The offer is only valid during March. Please note that the 50% is off the price after your membership discount. The coupon is valid all month, and you can use it as many times as you wish.

DRAWING

We are making a special bundle for those wanting to learn to draw! How to Draw from Scratch! All three of Tim’s brilliant drawing courses, from Beginner to Advanced – on special offer at £90 for the bundle of all three, during the TAQ Mad March Spring Sale! You will find it HERE!

SUBSCRIBER BONUS

To add to Painting a Portrait from Scratch, currently freely available to all Gold and Silver members, we are now adding the original ‘Tim class’ that started the ball rolling. Tim’s Cloning with the Mixer Brush in CS5 is now open to Gold and Silver members as well. This is one very special class, that many TAQers look back to with great affection. We first learnt to paint here! Tim’s methods and feedback are mind-blowing! You will need Flash for the interactive PDF videos. You will find it HERE.

AND!

The Art of Creative Cloning in Corel Painter 12!

Tim teaches us to paint with imagination and local colour (seasoned to taste). Tim paints as if he is using real media, and we do too, but using all the tools and techniques of Corel Painter 12.

Tim’s new class starts on Saturday 16 March. Read about it HERE  and then sign up in the STORE! Each new class, we think Tim has outshone himself, and each time, Tim just does it again! Brilliant stuff!

We are delighted to collaborate with the Poems Please Me Poetry Competition 2013. Members of The Artists’ Quarter will be working on illustrative techniques and skills during the coming months in preparation for illustrating the winning poems. The winner of the poetry competition will have the illustration of their choice printed on canvas, as part of their prize. The chosen illustrator will also receive a canvas print. This may well be the first time digital artists collaborate with poets in this way.

The PPM competition is on the theme of Movement. You will find the details on the Poems Please Me website. If you know any budding poets who may be interested, do please tell them!

This is Tim’s next brilliant class! It is going to fill up rather quickly, so be sure to book your place now! You can read all about it HERE and book your place HERE!

Wow! Is this going to be fun!

Now we can weave impasto into the mix! This is a brilliant course – and will soon be available as  self-study course, for anyone who missed it.

Click HERE to buy this self-study class! Click HERE for more details.

Coming soon – Magic Mucho! Watch this space!

Here’s a short slideshow, showing the progress of a recent CS6 clone-painting, using my Peefer+ brushes.

The Peefer+ class was a terrific success and is now available as a self-study course.

More details about the course here.

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A portrait of my dear old dad, in-progress, using my new Peefer+ brushes in Photoshop CS6 (I’m including the source image here)

My full set of brand new Photoshop CS6 clone-painting brushes are ready for the class, starting tomorrow! For more details about the class, click here

A while ago I developed my own tools and techniques for Mixer Brush clone-painting in Photoshop CS5. The class surrounding these techniques, P is for Painterly (known forever more as Peefer) was one of the most popular classes ever at TAQ, and many Photoshop artists are still using those techniques.

My new Peefer+ class, at The Artists’ Quarter expands on those core Mixer Brush cloning techniques, this time in Photoshop CS6, using a brand new range of my own CS6 Mixer Brush presets, and updated techniques, which result in digital paintings which are virtually indistinguishable from traditional oil or acrylic paintings!

For more details, and to book your place in this class, click the banner below:

To celebrate the release of the Adobe Watercolour Assistant panel for Photoshop CS6, my own set of watercolour cloning brushes and presets are now available for just £18.75 instead of £25.00. That’s 25% off the full price, for a limited time!

The Adobe Watercolour Assistant panel enables you to create beautiful watercolour paintings in Photoshop CS6, but my full set of watercolour cloners adds so much more to the creative possibilities using these core techniques.

The full set features ‘Add Water’ blenders, and a huge range of watercolour stroke effects, that you simply cannot acheive with the panel alone. Included in the pack. you’ll also find a range of watercolour layer styles, to add even more realism to your CS6 watercolour paintings.

I’ve included a sampler below, showing the range of watercolour cloners in this pack. The creative possibilities are endless!

This is a strictly limited time offer, so grab those watercolour cloners now, by clicking here.