How to Paint Flowers in Adobe Photoshop CS5 [Article] (The best of Karen Sperling's Artistry Tips and Tricks)

This is a tutorial that originally appeared in Karen Sperling's Artistry Tips and Tricks ezine. It covers art lessons and software steps for creating a painting of flowers from a photo in Adobe Photoshop CS5 and is suitable for everyone from hobbyists to professional photographers, from beginners to advance Photoshop users. Included are Karen Sperling's highly regarded art lessons and techniques, including choosing a photo that makes a great candidate to be turned into a painting, setting up Photoshop CS5 for painting, blending with the Mixer Brush Tool, varying brushstrokes and painting with color.
The tutorial is written and illustrated by Corel Painter Master Karen Sperling, who wrote the first several Painter manuals in addition to several Painter books and who has taught Painter in major venues including the national WPPI and PPA conventions, local PPA affiliates and schools, Walt Disney Feature Animation, American Greeting Cards and the American Film Institute, and whose commissioned portraits are held in private collections worldwide.
(Article: 44 pages with illustrations, 3,354 words)