Publishing Your Digital Art

Artists,

I've enjoyed seeing the images grow on Digital Artist...the articles too. Some of you post your Digital Artist images to this as well as other groups and that's fine, but what I'd really like to see is more info on the image itself.

Some of these works of art are just great, but how did you do it? Is it just a digital photograph? Did you enhance the color or use dodge and burn to give it more depth? What fractal software do some of you use? For the more painterly images, did you start from scratch? Use Photoshop? How about Corel Painter?

The exciting thing about digital art is its unlimited possibilities. I look at some of the images on here and I wonder, is this just a great photograph, or did the artist do a clever trick to turn it into something special?

M. Kungl is a classically trained artist who does a lot of his work digitally. The recent edition of Photoshop Wow! describes some of his and other artists techniques. If you get a chance to look at that book, you'll be amazed at what digital art can become. The Wow! book was written by Photoshop Masters, but I'd like for this group to have that same effect.

If you're like me, you're an amateur artist; you have a day job. But people ask me all the time how I create my art, and many times they are surprised that I do it digitally. I see a lot of great work on here and am curious to many of your techniques.

I hope you all will take and extra minute when you post your latest creations, and tell us all a little bit about how you created it.

Blue Skies & Happy Painting/Clicking,