Free Photoshop Tutorials,textures,film text effects

Create a Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster

Posted on 31. Jan, 2010 by admin.

In this tutorial, we are going to get creative with layering, lighting, and texture to build fantastic abstract piece. More specifically, we’re going to employ some unusual techniques to make a fan poster for the band Omega Code, but you’ll quickly see many different applications for what is taught here.
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Create high-impact light effects

Posted on 31. Jan, 2010 by admin.

Turn low-key pieces into brilliant artworks with João Oliveira’s simple brightening tricks
Lighting effects can bring any piece to life, turning a dull-looking image to a glowing and vivid artwork.
In my recent works I’ve been using these kind of techniques a lot, which has attracted many emails asking me how to achieve the glowing effects. Despite [...]

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Sure Target 2

Posted on 30. Jan, 2010 by admin.

• Sure Target 2 is a plug-in for controlling the AE Camera
• Features Inertia, Auto-focus, Camera Roll and more!

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Sculpting in ZBrush for 3D Printing

Posted on 30. Jan, 2010 by admin.

Introduction :
Jeff Feligon takes you step by step through the process of preparing your ZBrush sculpture for 3D printing.

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Making of S-Force

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by admin.

Software Used:
3ds Max, ZBrush, Photoshop and BodyPaint
Whenever I try to make a new character, I always try to give that character a particular personality which is different from all my other characters. For “S-Force”, I decided I wanted to make a female character that was not only sexy, but also kind of powerful.
This was the [...]

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Design a Space Inspired Iphone Advert

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by admin.

Learn how to create amazing space age lighting effects as part of a sleek, professional Iphone advert.

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How to Create a Serene Panorama from Multiple Photographs

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by admin.

In this tutorial, we’re going to teach you how to combine multiple stock photos into a single, coherent scenery in Photoshop. We’ll start off with a single panoramic photo, and integrate two others along the way. Also, we’ll look at ways to make the final result look more dynamic and appealing with a few adjustments [...]

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Making of Distributor

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by admin.

Software Used:
3ds Max, VRay and Photoshop
Concept:

The main idea of this image was to create an atmospheric environment with a sci-fi setting. So I settled on the idea of a dimly lit room with a massive old distributer, dilapidated walls and plenty of rusty pipes.
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Three Ways to Create Celtic Knots in Illustrator

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by admin.

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create magical Celtic knots. Ornaments accompanied Celts in life and in death. Ornaments decorated clothes, books, furniture, ware, weapons, and gravestones. I’ll show you three ways to create Celtic knots in vector – from simple to the difficult. The last techniques allows one to create knots of any [...]

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How to Create a Stylish Pair of Headphones

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by admin.

In this tutorial, you’ll see how to create a sleek pair of headphones, mainly using the Pen Tool and Blending Options. The tutorial is based on teaching some simple ways of using the Layer Styles to create some great shadows and a realistic sense of 3Dimension. This tutorial also involves showing you some interesting ways [...]

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A Basic Guide to Photoshop’s 3D Tools

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by admin.

From opening a 3D file to rotating, scaling and moving it, working with meshes, creating textures or even materials, adding lights, and more, this tutorial covers most of the secrets of the useful feature 3D Tools of Photoshop CS4 Extended. If you have it, why don’t you try? I can assure you that you will [...]

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Making OF Stranded

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by admin.

Software Used: Painter
Introduction
Some of you may remember that I wrote a tutorial about painting basic landscapes with Painter in Issue 24 of 2d Artist. Well I was also recently asked to write a “Making Of” for one of my more matte painting style image creations, “Stranded” (Fig01), which was also handled in Painter. Hopefully you’ve [...]

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Create an Abstract Style, Vibrant Jumping Man Scene in Photoshop

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by admin.

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can utilise the amazing power of image adjustment layers to make colour, contrast and lighting change for any chosen image in Photoshop, by walking you through the design process of this man jumping scene.
The reason I put up this basic tutorial is that lately I have [...]

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Big Guy

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by admin.

Software Used:
ZBrush 3.5, 3ds Max, Photoshop

Introduction:

I have always been fascinated by Sci Fi and creatures. I wanted to create something from scratch, trying to learn the new ZBrush 3.5 features at the same time. For this character I was inspired by the artwork of Mass Effect. I love all the concept art you can find [...]

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How to Make Super-Sharp, Vector Swords

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by admin.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to draw a sword in Illustrator, using the Rectangle Tool, gradients, and other Illustrator tools. Actually the tutorial isn’t very hard, let’s see the final result that is our goal first!
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Create an Interactive 3d Model Viewer using 3ds Max and Wirefusion

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by admin.

In this two part tutorial, you will learn how to create an energy drink can in 3ds Max using poly modeling and splines, and then export your mesh to Wirefusion and add a user interface wich will allow you to move, zoom and rotate your can in real time, and finally create a feature that [...]

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