Archive for August, 2009

How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation

How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation

Sunday, August 30, 2009 No Comments

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a fantasy landscape using some simple and easy techniques. Everyone with basic Photoshop skills can succeed to recreate this simple image using the most important thing in this kind of photo manipulation – the right stock. So let’s go!

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Category: Design

How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork

How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork

Sunday, August 30, 2009 No Comments

Using stock photography is not always necessary or desired, but we can reference images of real objects to learn techniques for perspective and lighting. In this tutorial, we will be creating an abstract orb. In order to get the highlights, shadows, and perspective as accurate as possible we will study real images to create our own interpretation.

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How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop

How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop

Sunday, August 30, 2009 No Comments

In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks. Let’s get started!

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Hit the Mark with a Realistic Vector Dartboard

Hit the Mark with a Realistic Vector Dartboard

Saturday, August 22, 2009 No Comments

Learn how to use Illustrator’s Live Paint feature, Graphic Styles and Transform Effect while creating a realistic dartboard. All of the features used in this intermediate-level tutorial are contained in Illustrator CS2 and later.

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Category: Drawing

How to Create a Radial Mesh in Illustrator and Make a Vector CD

How to Create a Radial Mesh in Illustrator and Make a Vector CD

Saturday, August 22, 2009 No Comments

Ever wonder about creating Radial Mesh in Illustrator? Yes, now you can and it will reveal more possibilities to you in Illustrator. In the first part of this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a Radial Mesh in Illustrator (without using any 3rd party plugin), and in second part we’ll create a Vector CD using that radial mesh method. So let’s do it!

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Category: Drawing

How to Create a Cute Earth Illustration in Vector

How to Create a Cute Earth Illustration in Vector

Saturday, August 22, 2009 No Comments

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a cute earth illustration. We’ll use basic shapes and some Illustrator knowhow to make this. It’s a fun look at the earth, as seen from space, and interpreted in a cartoon vector style. Let’s get started!

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