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Digital Painting (5/2008)  »Digital painting Is it cheating? You can create real looking paint effects through the use of photoshop and painter but in this simple tutorial I have decided not to go that route and instead create a stylized paint effect that looks digital as I believe leave true painting to 100% hand based artists as the effects and tactile qualities of real paint will never be beaten. It will give you a real insight and if you expand on the simple effect shown you can create a real fantasy looking piece quickly and effectively. »The painter The idea of making a picture in the picture in the picture came me when I saw this fountain. This picture is made only with Photoshop fi lter without external fi lters. »Exotic Fashion In this Photoshop tutorial, we will walk you through several techniques to get you started with digital painting. The fi rst few steps will show you how to set up your canvas, create layers and apply Brush strokes that are pressure sensitive. The rest of the tutorial will walk you through techniques for creating shadows and highlights on skin, hair and feathers. You will also learn how to make patterns, twigs that looks 3 dimensional and how to create a spongy textured background using only the basic Tools found in Photoshop. »Tips for Digital Painting Digital paint is a fl exible, versatile medium, but it can take practice and experimentation to fashion it into the fi nal image you see with your mind’s eye. Digital painting from scratch doesn’t need to be a venture into an unknown land, however. It is possible to work with Photoshop’s most basic tools to really get the feeling that you are using traditional and free-fl owing painting techniques. »The Portrait Sugar and Vice The beauty of using a computer generated medium is that you are free to experiment at will. This tutorial approaches painting and portraiture in a loose, multi-pass manner that just about anyone can do with a basic understanding of Photoshop and simple pressure sensitive brushes. »Painting process of Shaman In this tutorial I'd like to show how I start a painting, how to work with custom brushes in Adobe Photoshop, paint fur, texture and add effects like realistic fire. The first step is a pencil sketch based on a reference photo provided by http://darknight-stock.deviantart.com/. »Just Shoot Yourself Already Welcome to this, a series of short paragraphs that will tell you everything you probably already knew about Photoshop. By me. Once reaching the end of these next few pages you will come to realize that you don’t need to know millions of different tools to paint up something great enough to show off to your couple of good friends. All that is really needed is the bare minimum. And time. And plenty of cigarette breaks. Unless you are a non-smoker, then I suppose you can just punt around your pet turtle. »Dragon Digital Painting Tutorial There are many different ways and techniques to digitally paint - its all to do with what you’re comfortable with and suits your style of working. Traditional styles of painting using by layering acrylics and oils have also infl uenced me. In this tutorial I’ve just explained what and how I’ve created this painting with screen captures to illustrate it. »Don't sweat the Technique An abbreviated look into the process of creating a digital painting using basic Photoshop tools and techniques. »Lips In every picture I take, I want to express the emotions which have inspired my mind, my heart and my soul to create the shot. I love to shock, fascinate and amaze the audience with my emotional shots combining all of my emotions. My photography is continually encouraged by my ability to do these things. Visit www.erikbont.com to see more of my works. »Thought Your Heart Is Breaking In this tutorial I will show how I produce my textured portrait images, from the creation of the textures themselves using traditional techniques and harnessing them through custom brush technique, to digitally layering the image thus creating a rich and textured, yet raw and expressive piece. »Creating Gel Styles in Photoshop Gel Styles are very common these days. Windows Vista uses them in their new Operating System design, mainly in the Title bars on their windows, and Apple has been using them for years on their buttons. The gel look provides a plastic translucency to graphic objects, making them appear smooth and graduated. Photoshop can easily recreate this look using Layer Styles, and this is a perfect way to get to know Styles if you’re not already familiar with using them. I don’t intend to recreate the exact styles used by Microsoft or Apple, but rather demonstrate something similar. »Light This tutorial will help you to create dramatic colored lighting. There are also instructions on creating simple, crisp illusions of space. A few handy shortcuts will be discussed as well. »From DVD direct to Lichtenstein-Art Using Photoshop is basically the answer to any problems with computer generated images. But there are still other smaller specialized programs which can save you time, money and a lot of nerves. Without these brilliant examples of software I would have never been able to do the following tutorial of Vincent Vega in the style of pop-artist Roy Lichtenstein. Using the .psd Photoshop Magazine CD The disc contains a valuable collection of valuable textures, trials, full versions of photo software, pdfs of the latest .psd covers' tutorials and source files for this issue materials. The disc interface requires Windows NT/2000/XP or Mac OS 9/X. You will also need an active Internet connection to make full use of the CD. In Windows the CD should autorun when inserted into the drive. OS X Users to launch the interface select the autorun.exe file. If you have trouble launching the interface, you can find all content relating to the magazine inside the CD. |
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