Susan Ruddick Bloom is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at McDaniel College in Maryland. She has a BFA and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is well known for both her traditional wet darkroom alternative processes and her digital darkroom work. Sue has been teaching digital classes since the beginning of Photoshop and has used a Mac from the very first one on the market (128K, with a screen the size of an index card). Trained in drawing, painting, and printmaking, she was at one time a courtroom artist for television and newspapers. Her painterly skills enhance her photographic ones, and her images frequently combine techniques. Sue's work has been exhibited and collected widely.

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• Chapter One Introduction to the Concept of Digital PaintingChapter Two ? Basic Tools for Painting in PhotoshopChapter Three Charcoal Drawings in PhotoshopChapter Four Pastel Drawing in PhotoshopChapter Five Painting with Watercolors in PhotoshopChapter Five Painting with Oil Paints in PhotoshopChapter Six Illustration Techniques in PhotoshopChapter Seven Painting effects using Third-Party Software as Photoshop Plug-insGlossaryIndex

Susan Ruddick Bloom is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at McDaniel College in Maryland. She has a BFA and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is well known for both her traditional wet darkroom alternative processes and her digital darkroom work. Sue has been teaching digital classes since the beginning of Photoshop and has used a Mac from the very first one on the market (128K, with a screen the size of an index card). Trained in drawing, painting, and printmaking, she was at one time a courtroom artist for television and newspapers. Her painterly skills enhance her photographic ones, and her images frequently combine techniques. Sue's work has been exhibited and collected widely.

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• Chapter One Introduction to the Concept of Digital PaintingChapter Two ? Basic Tools for Painting in PhotoshopChapter Three Charcoal Drawings in PhotoshopChapter Four Pastel Drawing in PhotoshopChapter Five Painting with Watercolors in PhotoshopChapter Five Painting with Oil Paints in PhotoshopChapter Six Illustration Techniques in PhotoshopChapter Seven Painting effects using Third-Party Software as Photoshop Plug-insGlossaryIndex

Susan Ruddick Bloom is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at McDaniel College in Maryland. She has a BFA and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is well known for both her traditional wet darkroom alternative processes and her digital darkroom work. Sue has been teaching digital classes since the beginning of Photoshop and has used a Mac from the very first one on the market (128K, with a screen the size of an index card). Trained in drawing, painting, and printmaking, she was at one time a courtroom artist for television and newspapers. Her painterly skills enhance her photographic ones, and her images frequently combine techniques. Sue's work has been exhibited and collected widely.

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• Chapter One Introduction to the Concept of Digital PaintingChapter Two ? Basic Tools for Painting in PhotoshopChapter Three Charcoal Drawings in PhotoshopChapter Four Pastel Drawing in PhotoshopChapter Five Painting with Watercolors in PhotoshopChapter Five Painting with Oil Paints in PhotoshopChapter Six Illustration Techniques in PhotoshopChapter Seven Painting effects using Third-Party Software as Photoshop Plug-insGlossaryIndex