now that I ordered painter 7, I better start getting ready!

Your photo-based Painter creations will always be welcome in the Photo-art forum, Jack!

Web Forums:

http://www.critical-depth.com/cgi-bin/idd/FORUM.asp?FORUM_ID=6

http://talkgraphics.infopop.net/1/OpenTopic?q=Y&a=frm&s=98519178&f=048197611

http://www.dmnforums.com/htm/homeset.htm

Usenet groups:

alt.fractal-design.painter

corel.graphic_apps.painter

From my bookmark folder:

http://www.pixelalley.com/

http://kaburaya.pobox.ne.jp/eng/

http://home.earthlink.net/~athene/painter/index.html

http://www.artistrymag.com/

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/paintercommunity/

The last one has lots of links

I have just begun to learn painter 7 and these are great links you posted.
I think that http://www.artistrymag.com/
is a great site, I had known of it before, she has great cds for learning.
I wish there were more tutorials like photoshop, in class we used the WOW book, and I still see the WOW 6 as well as 7, there are some great tutorial like klessons in them.

Hi platscha,

Did you buy any Artistry Mag CDs for Painter? Are the lessons in movie form?

Oh, I just remembered that VTC has Painter training CDs. They also let you watch the first several lessons for free so you can get an idea of what they are like.

http://www.vtc.com/productdetail.lasso?sku=33288

http://www.vtc.com/productdetail.lasso?sku=33379

I didn't remember about these when I started using Painter three weeks ago. So I bought the Jeremy Sutton tapes for version 5.5. I figured most of Painter had not changed, and this could get me started. So far I'm pretty happy with them.