Turn Photographs Into Digital Paintings Using Photoshop (Udemy.com)
Step ahead of the competition by offering unique portrait art, paint in Photoshop from a photograph.
Created by: Lori Jill
Last updated March 2017
What you will learn
- Prep your images for a painting
- Use and have a better understanding of Photoshop's brushes and brush engine.
- Use many of the other tools that you will need in order to paint in Photoshop
- Save, share, print, and even sell your art work
Course Description
- Photographers who wish to do more with their images
- Artists who wish to learn how to paint using digital medium
- Anyone who wants to learn how to create a digital painting from a photograph
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
486 Reviews
Lori Jill
My passion for teaching is fueled not only by my love for photography, Photoshop, art, and business but more importantly by the excitement it gives me to be able to help others succeed and obtain their goals.
I have been involved in education and training quite literally my entire life. As a child, I was raised by two teachers and their passion for helping and educating others has been happily inherited.
Although the focus of most of my training and workshops is on the art of photography, along with post processing techniques, I have also found a lot of enjoyment in sharing my knowledge about business and marketing as well.
After about 15 years in a prosperous corporate career as a trainer and manager for two very large companies, I went to work for myself.
In pursuing my passion for photography I opened a small boutique photography business about 10 years ago. This has allowed me to acquire many skills, not just in photography and post processing, but also in things such as running a small business, marketing, and selling.
Today, I organize and teach 1000's of students throughout the United States. I teach on both the aspiring and professional photography level and most recently decided to move some of my training on-line.
I find that the teaching and coaching aspect of my business has become the most rewarding thing that I do today! I still love the art of creating and I believe I will grow old photographing the world and the people in it. But
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Reviews
By Grace on 11/7/2020
So far understand things more.
By Joseph Begue on 10/24/2020
Great course!!
By Michael Clark on 9/26/2020
Great course so far. Just the right amount of detail so as to not be too boring, while providing adequate detail to understand the sections.
By Henrik Marccos on 8/23/2020
tima experincia, gostando muito
By Troy Wilson on 7/15/2020
Excellent. Instructor is very knowledgable and easy to listen too. Very good clear interesting teaching.
By Fred Vanderburgh on 7/3/2020
Lori Jill knows her material and presents it very well. There is a lot of information presented and I'm taking my time absorbing it. The subject is very thoroughly demonstrated and explained with a lot of detail. I've learned a lot of technique from this course.
By Jenny Vanbergen on 5/26/2020
its very good, but out of date for photoshop cc
By Michael Robert Izquierdo on 5/6/2020
Much of the material was dated. In particular when the instructor covered brushes and tool presets, it did not match what I was seeing with Photoshop 2020 CC. It made it very difficult to follow. Also, it seemed like the instructor was no longer active with this course. She covered particular brushes when she was painting the girl with the red hair, but I was a little lost on the different brushes she used. She showed how to upload pictures on Udemy, but it looks like you can't do that anymore. It would have been great for the instructor to provide critique. Not having direct access to the instructor is frustrating when you have questions. I asked several questions and never got answers. There was some good content that made it worth my time.
By Edward Tepper on 4/23/2020
The course needs to be. updated for more recent versions of Photoshop. The brush tools presets are now completely different and it's impossible to follow the course materials. I have to emphasize that point. I've had to go out to You Tube to find other tutorials to help to find how to work with brushes because she's using an antique version of photoshop.
By Kvnh Nguyen on 4/1/2020
This course was created in 2014 so the Photoshop brush engine has changed. Brush Preset is no longer support and Tool Preset for brush is also no longer supported even though there is a way to save often-used brushes to Tool Preset. Despite those drawbacks, the rest of the tutorial still applies. You need to deal with the challenge to find out what are missing features in the your current photoshop version versus what the teacher is demonstrating. The course is so interesting.
By Linda Burek on 3/11/2020
This course is only good for the version of software she used in developing the course. It is very frustrating in using the current version of Photoshop 2020 that what she describes is not how the current version works. In the beginning of the course, I thought it was worth getting the concepts and then figuring out where everything is later. Once she got to the cloning section, there was no hope. I've googled to figure out how to make that work in the current version and it is not clear to me. The reason to purchase a course like this is to make it a little easier. I wish the description would have been more clear that if you are using current versions, don't bother purchasing this because most of it won't work for you. Perhaps at the time it was developed, it was a great course. I have taken other Udemy courses that provided updates with each new version of the software. That would be helpful here.
By Bruce Tracy on 3/6/2020
I've been trying a variety of painting applications and methods, and I really like Lori Jill's approach. Her teaching method is clear and easy to understand. I highly recommend her courses here on Udemy.
Quality Score
Overall Score : 92 / 100








