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SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials

By : Gil Robles
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SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials

By: Gil Robles

Overview of this book

Sketchbook Pro is a professional grade painting app that is easy to use and which helps you create digital art that looks like paintings created using ink and color. Using Sketchbook Pro, you can transform your digital art into true masterpieces that resemble work done using traditional mediums. SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials will show you how to transform your digital art into true masterpieces. This book will guide you through the many tools and options available in Sketchbook Pro such as the symmetry tool, layer editor, and blend modes to create images that look as though they were done by hand using traditional tools and mediums. This unique book offers inspiration with hands-on techniques and gives you an insight into a professional artist's mind. Starting with an overview of the program, this book will help you customize and set your preferences to help you produce the best possible images for use on the Web or for print. You will be able to look over the author's shoulder as he demonstrates the use of the tools to create artwork that looks like it was painted or inked. This book will then show you how you can draw basic illustrations and then how to create acrylic paintings. You will also learn about file saving options; which ones are best for what you intend to do with the artwork. The book will also show you how to export the images you've created to other software and will give you tips and tricks that will help you make the most out of Sketchbook Pro. SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials will give you an extensive overview complete with supporting imagery of how each piece of art was made, and by the end of this book, you will have created multiple drawings using Sketchbook Pro.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Canvas


In the menu bar, go to Edit | Preferences | Canvas. In the pop-up window shown in the screenshot, you will see that the default width, height, and resolution settings are too low.

When you zoom in on an image with these settings, that image will pixelate, and when you print the image, the quality of the print will be very poor.

Set the height and width corresponding to the shape that you want—either rectangular or square. For instance, Width here is set at 4000 pixels and Height is set at 3075 pixels. The canvas area is more or less square shaped. The closer the numbers are to each other, the more square shaped your canvas area will be. It is recommended that at least one side should be set to no fewer than 4000 pixels as shown in the next screenshot. Also, the Resolution per inch should be set to no less than 400. By doing this, you change the default settings for the canvas. This will be applied every time you open a new document. The new settings will ensure better quality for the...