Introduction to Digital Art
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 23 Minutes
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.
Today’s tutorial Part 1: Introduction to Digital Art will provide an overview of digital art in general and will explain the most essential things you will need to know in Photoshop to work efficiently. You will learn how to customize the user interface, create your own panels, and how to work with Layer comps to easily switch between different compositions. Let’s get started!

This is great! Thank you
thank you for great tips and everything else.
very helpful article especially for the beginners.
Finally, i found something useful. i hope the series tell u step by step on digital art. looks promising!
I can’t see the images of this page. It says: ” The connection has timed out ” .Please fix it
Thank you so much for this tutorila. I have new graf. tablet and I want to do digital art so this tutorial series is perfect for me and many others I guess :)
i can’t seem to watch the video.
i got this text quote”sorry we’re unable to play this episode.”
Thanks for this intro video, it’s really great and I learned some extra tricks from this. I’m going to follow the rest of the series. I have my drawing tablet ready :)
Keep it up!
Pleas do sanctify Martin!
i cant seem to get some of the tips you mention this video, am using a windows pc not a mac, i guess thats why it didnt work. Like holding the z key and pressing ctr,shift & command..it didnt work on mine