I use Photoshop to paint like some people use Painter. I have been keeping diaries of my progress shots on my site. These are not tutorials, but rather a peek into the evolution of my work. I dont know if it will help anyone, but you can find my last two at http://shehaub.haubworld.org/nw1.html http://shehaub.haubworld.org/eb.html

Attached Link: http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/

It is interesting to see someone using Photoshop as a pure painting tool & I enjoyed the insights into your artistic thinking.I know you said you are not writing it as a tutorial,but I would have liked a little more technical information,particularly on that wonderfull texture you created to use outside the window.(The nw1,link) The above link should take you to a site of another artist who paints directly in the computer with Photoshop in a manner similar to yourself. If you have not seen his work it may be of interest to you & the site includes a nice tutorial. Happy Painting.

Ever see Bob Ross do his landscape magic with those 2" brushes to make his "happy little flower right here" Well.. I got a two inch scruffed up brush and looked.. well it just makes spots that sometimes blends with the underlying paint and sometimes doesnt. So you render a cloud, then you do a difference cloud render... and then you fade it (sometimes a lot of times to get the real scruff) then you make a selection of the most interesting part of it and voila! make that a brush. I used my bob ross book that I keep telling my mom I lost as an idea on what colors to use and how to place what where. It amazingly works a lot like oils. That background is my dabbing my scruffy brushes all over the canvas using the various colors.

One of the few things I miss from traditional painting are the "happy accidents" and thats kind of heading that way.Thanks for the tip.