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Exercise your creativity with Photoshop (1/2008)  »Sanskirt: Light and Airy Bright and airy is the feel, but complex and crowded is the reality. It’s all about getting the balance and composition right. A good idea is to scribble down a few rough ideas as this will give you a feel for the finished piece target from the beginning. The concept will change, however, as the piece evolves. »SWEETENING A CG I usually take an organic approach to my projects. A lot of times, I'm not sure I could repeat my results only because of the level of experimentation I like to use in my art. I guess that's what makes working with Applications like Photoshop and Cinema 4D so amazing in this day and age, is the amount of tweaking and experimenting you can do, then if you've gone to far, you can just hit the history palette and everything is back to where you were. That said, I do usually have and end result in mind, and that's were really having a grasp on the tools Photoshop offers can really pay off. In this tutorial, we’re going to explore how to sweeten an image based off a 3D rendered image. »Drawing the Eye in Photoshop Many people use Photoshop to enhance their photos, hence the name, but Photoshop is also a wonderful program for freehand drawing and painting. To get you started we are going to draw an eye using basic shapes and simple steps. Follow along using this step by step lesson here and on the video and you will master this technique in no time! For more lessons and to check on Susi’s new DVD release „The Fine Art of Photoshop”. »Create a geometric font type Geometry fonts aren’t beneficial for a body copy, but for headlines, posters CDs and other such designs you can fast easily create a personal font featuring the best elements of grid and geometry. Fontlab is a fine program for making real, legible typefaces, but for geometric shapes, Adobe Illustrator is much faster and more efficient. In this tutorial I'll show a fast way to create a custom font from scratch, drawing the shapes in Illustrator and making an OpenType font from them in Fontlab. I'm focusing on lowercase letters since they're usually more troublesome than uppercase. You can easily create the uppercase letters for your font by applying the rules used when making lowercase. »Technical Illustration The technical pieces generation for the objects, machines and tools explanation and understanding, it needs of procedures set that they go from the development of illustrations up to the graphical composition of objects and texts. In many occasions, if you want to explain adequately the functioning of an object in concretly it is necessary to appeal the artistic generation to be able to represent elements that of one or another way would be impossible to visualize easily. In this occasion the excuse is a double action airbrush, in which a transverse cut is applied, drawing every piece from layers and using the graphical composition as communicative support. »S ta r M i s h a Through this piece I’ve come to understand all pictures go through an evolution. The change may come when you least expect it, or possibly after a final bout of frustration. Whichever helps. In this tutorial I will share with you the progress of Star Misha, in which you will learn about custom brushes, the advantage of the blending modes, tips to painting fire, and of course, how you paint a character in Photoshop. Keep in mind there are numerous artists who use Photoshop for digital painting. In this tutorial you will be seeing my personal techniques, so there may be easier options for every step shared. S ta r M i s h a »Warming up cold Photoshop W e asked Neil Duerden to do a tutorial for us and he said „Hey I’d love too”. In case your not fimiliar with his work Neil is a self conf essed Mac monkey based in a rural miners cottage 20 miles nor th of Manchester in the UK. He creates pieces that combine elements from mixed media, photography that are interlaced with complex vectors to create pieces that al ways hit the brief for clients all around the world. He is always hungry for the latest commissions and trends. Here are some of his workology Hey Guys. Today we are going to explore a fine blend of Illustrator and Photoshop in equal measures. This technique is relati vely simple and gives a good amount of room for experiment and personalization with a great end result that is both flexible and positi ve. You do however need a good computer – this is both heavy on your processor and ram so I’d rec ommend a good mac setup otherwise you ’ll be sat for hours watching a slow moving blue bar! Before you star t decide on what subject or theme as this is key to this style. Gather a good shot o f your subject and also a fitting full background then make a coffee and we’ll begin. »Creating Panorama I've always liked the idea of creating panorama photographs. Ten years ago, I had a camera that had a panorama feature that essentially was a switch you would slide to one side or the other and when you looked through the viewfinder, voila! You had a pano shot. Well, not really, two pieces of black plastic just came in and cropped your viewfinder and the developer at the lab would just cut the film. »The real time shoe F irst of all, let us discover Webseed 3D Studio’s uses. It will enable you to see 3D objects on the Internet in a realistic and interactive way with quality that has never been attained without using a DirectX plug-in. The tutorial explains all of the creation procedures for an online 3D applet, from the time the object comes out of the 3D program to on-lining, including texture work in Photoshop. »Creation of clipping mask in Photoshop When we work on transparencies in Photoshop, we take the risk that when we place them into programs of vectorial edition, layout or only with impression intentions, problems with the Alpha channels occur. These problems take to impression difficulties and wrong visualization. One of the ways to avoid those problems is the creation of a clipping mask in Photoshop to isolate sectors of the images that we want to work on. Here, you will find the necessary steps to generate them. »Wireless Mice Review On the hunt for a new mouse? Whether working with a desktop computer or a laptop the best is probably to go for a wireless device, which will give you more freedom of movement and can be used on pretty much any surface. The latest cordless mice also pack extra features to make full use of all multimedia functions on your computer. Let’s take a look at four different products on the market and determine which one seems to offer the best bang for your buck. »Interview with Russell Brown Russell has been a creative force at Adobe for the past 18 years, but his influence on Photoshop’s development started right at the beginning. It was Russell’s budding relationship with Thomas and John Knoll, the program’s original developers, that helped shape the future of both Photoshop and Adobe itself. Russell  »Interview with Bert Monroy Bert Monroy was born and raised in New York City where he spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative director for various agencies as well as his own. Upon discovering computers with the introduction of the Macintosh 128 in 1984, he embarked on a new digital career. He embraced the computer as an artistic medium and is considered one of the pioneers of digital art. Neil Duerden brings new light and airy energy into .psd, creating its new logo and cover gaphic. From his tutorial you will learn how to produce the great piece of artwork. In his Warming up cold Photoshop tutorial on p.46, Neil teaches you not only great computer tricks but also how to do Air to Fakie in Photoshop! As always, .psd shows you the best Tips and Tricks done by Robert Anselmi p.60! This time together with Eva Dennis, you will learn how to paint a character in Photoshop, see p.38. We also invited one of the best graphics, Kevin Capizzi, who created almost entirely in Cinema 4D his animated character, to share his great techniques with you check p.16. Two Photoshop Hall of Fame winners: Bert Monroy and Russell Brown, are the ones you will find in our Interview with.. section. Here’s wishing everyone in the graphics industry a very prosperous 2008! |
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