Ten Exciting Digital Painting programs or plugins. See how we are using them!

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Art from Photographs with Postworkshop Pro Edition

Check our my new blog post on PIXIQ FREE styles and instructions on how to use them.  POSTWORKSHOP PRO EDITION Get a discount with Code: xyco-u8s3

Tonight I am doing a FREE (yes, really!) webinar at the Photography Schoolhouse. You can register for FREE! You may be wondering where I have been, well between Facebook and my blogging at Pixiq it’s been a wild ride keeping me away from my own blog. But it’s time to get back to connecting with my own blog.  Tonight’s webinar is about easy art for Portraits!

Marilyn Sholin’s  SECRET WEAPON:
Portrait Art on Steroids

Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011 at 6:00PM Pacific Time – Price = FREE

Give your clients art choices for their portraits that only take a few clicks and no painting experience necessary. We are talking about innovation and formulas I’ll give you that only require a few steps and from there you can experiment and create your own. This only takes a few minutes. We will be using basic Photoshop skills (even beginners can do this) and a few new filters like Nik Efex 4. You will be amazed at how fast you can do this and how these new techniques will sell. Be innovative and do something new and different from all the other photographers.

I will be showing you some simple changes with Postworkshop, Topaz Filters, Alienskin SnapArt 3, Nik Filters EFEX 4. Here are a few examples.

True to my word here are the DISCOUNT CODES and all the links I mention in the webinar….PLUS a few others just for good measure.

New Links and Discount Codes

Nik Software

http://bit.ly/ms_nikfilters   Discount Code: msholin

Topaz Filters

http://bit.ly/ms_topazfilters  Discount Code:  msholin

Postworkshop

http://bit.ly/ms_postworkshop  Discount Code:     xyco-u8s3

Alienskin Snapart3 and All Alienskin Software

http://www.alienskin.com/snapart/index.aspx

Discount Code: MSH0901

Lucis Art Pro 6 and Lucis Art 3 ED and Lucis Art 3 SE

http://www.lucisart.com/

Discount Code: : HIDDENIMAGE

Dynamic Auto Painter

http://www.mediachance.com/dap/index.html

Sorry, no discounts available

Think Tank Photo Equipment and Accessories

http://bit.ly/ms_thinktank

Free Gift Code: WS-513

Be sure to go to Pixiq to see more FREE LESSONS and videos!

We are finally off for London,England tomorrow to give three programs at SWPP Convention at the Novotel Hotel West. To make things easy for all three classes I thought I would blog post here all great deals and discount codes that I usually hand out in classes. This will put them in one place and we don’t need to carry paperwork with us.

Discount Codes for Software

Topaz Filters:  TOPAZ Site: CLICK HERE! DISCOUNT CODE: msholin

Alienskin Software: Save 10%  http://www.alienskin.com
Alienskin Discount Code: MSH0901

Any and All NIK FILTERS

http://www.niksoftware.com

DISCOUNT CODE: MSHOLIN

LUCIS ARTS All Versions
Coolest software and you have so many choices with it!
Lucis Art3 ED http://lucisart.com/
Lucis Art3 SE http://lucisart.com/
Lucis Art Pro 6.0 http://www.lucispro.com/

Coupon Code is SAME for ALL: HIDDENIMAGE
I will post more and keep this list updated and add some other links to it but for now this gives everyone the important links and discount codes.

Saturday January 15 2011 Four Hours

This is an exciting program I am giving at the SWPP convention in London next week. I am really looking forward to sharing at this program to help other photographers who are frustrated and stuck in a grind of high school seniors and weddings to find a way to make more money and also sell their images as fine art over and over again.

You don’t need to know much…..you can use many different programs and plug ins but the point is to DO IT! I think some are mistaking this four hour super class for a Corel Painter lesson and it’s not. It is much more than that! It’s about the entire journey of becoming who you want to be!

With over 25 years of experience as a studio owner and master portrait artist, I was silly to take a giant leap with my eyes closed and my mind open into the art world of painting. I still can’t draw a straight line,  do draw stick figure doodles and never had formal art training. Yet, my paintings (developed from photo reference) have hung in airports, won best of show and even  had a one woman and group shows in a very short time and are selling internationally. The finished original canvas paintings have form and texture that are all created with the simplest of acrylic paint products available worldwide.

I am going to show how easy it is to create these finished pieces of art and the magical road to selling them over and over and over creating new income flow that is pure profit. Create it once, sell it a thousand times over in multiple products and market to new collectors who then will become your studios new portrait clients also. Working it full circle will increase sales in all areas.

Sit in with me even if you never painted with a brush and never drew before. I have done all the research and created the information and details to take your studio into a new area of touchable art in simple terms and materials. This is a life changing time for photographers. This is a product that will put your studio above all others and have your clients talking about you as an artist.

Come to SWPP and REGISTER FOR THIS SUPER CLASS

You do NOT need anything but to take notes at this class. If you want to follow along in Painter or Photoshop that is fine, but it is NOT required!

Even includes a video!

Here are the basics to layers in Corel Painter. I try to keep things simple so check out this post including the video and learn the easy way.

Painting On Layers

Video for Painting on Layers

Pssst…..Want to know a secret about Free Corel Painter brushes?

Here is a blog post on free corel painter brushes and how to install brushes.

A few of the Free Brushes being Used

FREE COREL PAINTER BRUSHES AND HOW TO INSTALL BRUSHES IN PAINTER

There is so much great information on the internet it’s a wonder we find anything! Today I posted on PIXIQ about five posts on that site that I think are really wonderful. One of the posts is also, very, very funny! But if you want to learn more and about some alternative art methods,image transfers, how important it is to photograph trees, and much more then go to my site over on PIXIQ and check out Five Posts You May have Missed.

And don’t forget to read my own post on the new Topaz Infocus Plugin that is on sale for a few more days.

Also I have been loading up my Fine Art Prints store just in time for the holidays. Swing by Fine Art America and see some of the newest uploads. Be sure to leave comments on the ones you like. And as always, say nothing about the ones you don’t like!

Topaz Filters Releases New Sharpening Plugin

The new Infocus sharpening filter will help your images and digital art to new levels.

Read all about it on PIXIQ!

It WORKS!

New Book Review

I have posted a new book review of this wonderful book. It’s really a MUST HAVE to learn how to the printing correctly and to move away from the overused word GICLEE!

REVIEW