"Like many artists, Catherine McIntyre created traditional art for decades before going digital. Despite the medium or specific tools used, the decision-making processes for working with both traditional and digital art are quite often the same. These working methods are the subject of this book. As an aesthetic guide to composition, color, texture, and all of the other means of communication that an artist has at their disposal, Visual Alchemy explores the creative process of using these tools to express an artistic vision digitally. The techniques it explains are those of the artist, rather than the computer operator, and will apply to any digital program and to any medium"--provided by publisher