Last week I decided to spend some time playing with Illustrator and trying to come up with a cool black and white artwork. My inspiration came from some skateboard deck designs which have this sort of 3D effect without using gradients or anything, and not exactly a woodcut effect either. After a few hours I [...]
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Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration
Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by admin.
My clients often ask me to create impossible scenarios, weird landscapes and surreal images for their projects; images that wouldn’t be possible in real life. It’s situations like these where photo manipulation becomes a powerful design tool. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to design a CD cover using several photo manipulation techniques, [...]
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With this tutorial we will create a hi-tech style button that can be used in splash pages, applications or Powerpoint presentations. We will use Illustrator to create complex vectors and Photoshop to develop realistic effects.
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In this tutorial we will learn a technique to offset the animation of the CC Ball Action effect to create a cool transition. This effect uses only built-in plug-in and offers creative flexibility for a variety of looks. The project file also includes a script for offsetting the layers by 1 frame to make the [...]
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Motion design in After Effects can be as complex or simple as you desire—that’s down to your own design aesthetics and execution, and of course, the project at hand. Whether you need thousands of intricate layers forming rich and beautiful tapestries of color and detail, or a handful of elements creating bold and striking images, [...]
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In my previous tutorial Shoot Out Stars with the Stardust Particle Engine, I explained the basic workflow of Stardust. This time, we’ll take things further and examine a couple of techniques for creating true 3D particle effects!
Introduction
We’ll begin with a demonstration of how to use the Stardust’s native 3D engine. Then, I’ll show you how [...]
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In the ranking of the most important art principles, you’ll find colour theory in
a solid second place, beaten only by values. Of all of the different aspects of art studies, colour studies are probably the most commonly undertaken, and they’re probably also
the hardest to master.
Getting to grips with and successfully applying the most [...]
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Here is a tutorial showing how you can create a fairy out of a human, as shown below. The psd file for this tutorial can be found at the bottom of this post.
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Final Image Preview
This image is inspired from the cover of LAYOUT, dasar & penerapannya, a graphic design book by Surianto Rustan published by Gramedia in Indonesia. Before starting this tutorial, see the result below. Click here to see the image at a higher resolution. The Illustrator and Photoshop files can be found at the bottom [...]
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Learn How To Design a translucent 3D Frosted Glass Box based on the Safari Icon in Adobe Photoshop
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