The course "Getting Started with Corel Painter and Paint Shop Pro"has two distinct sections:

Section 1. Using Corel PaintShop Pro for basic image manipulation

This part dives right in to photo editing techniques with Corel's Paint Shop Pro X8. Here's what will be covered in this section:

• Turning average looking photos into studio quality head shots
• Using tonal tools to create great looking outdoor shots

• Using effects to create Instagram style photos
• Turning a photo into a painting

Section 2. Using Corel Painter and a Wacom tablet for basic digital art creation

This short series gives students a few projects to work on using the latest Wacom Intuos tablet and Corel Painter 2016. You will learn how to get your tablet set up for creating art, and how to use Corel Painter to draw and paint effectively to create visually stunning digital art in just minutes.

This course includes a drawing project and a painting project for you to hone your art skills using a tablet.

While absolute beginners can follow along with this course and create real art by the end, some experience using a tablet and stylus and Corel software is helpful.

This course is ideal for beginners to Corel software, or beginners to image manipulation and digital art.