$79. Never work from poor reference (or even worse, someone else's!) again.

There's no need to keep using substandard reference material that isn't designed for making paintings. This course will show you how to create your own beautiful reference images that you can use to create better work.
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Course curriculum

  • 1
    Welcome to the course!
    • Welcome to the Course
    • How to use this course
    • Before we begin...
  • 2
    Let's get started!
    • The Why
    • The What
  • 3
    Setting Up your Subject
    • Still Life Set Up
    • Light, and the Orientation of Your Still Life Stand
    • North Light?
    • Form Light
    • Controlling the Light on your Subject
    • Beggining to think about Cropping and Composition
  • 4
    Taking the Picture
    • How to take the best photo you can
    • Setting up the Stand
    • Camera Settings
    • Changing things around and Composing
  • 5
    Image Processing
    • Colour Correction and Cropping the Image
    • Why we need to Colour Correct our Photos
    • Creating a Camera Profile for Adobe Lightroom
    • Importing the Profile and Applying it to the Image
    • Cropping the Image
    • Adding a Grid to the Image
  • 6
    Nailing the Values
    • Creating a "Value Map" from the photo