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Our first video tutorial
This is a topic I covered last year, but not in a video format.
Here is Skin smoothing in photoshop 2.0!
Freebie soup for the designer’s soul.
Today I’ve got a combo Spray Paint Pack for yall. It includes high-resolution textures, as well as some high-quality, 2500px Spray Paint Photoshop Brushes. Read more…
Don’t try to be original…just be good.
I know it sounds naive but it’s true.
I love that quote.
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Vintage Color
Posted by randee on Jan 9, 2010 in Tutorials, inspiration
My apologies, I posted a link in a previous blog and didn’t have it linked anywhere.
This is a very simple trick, but not obvious if you’re new to Photoshop. The trick is understanding how Curves work and it’s not specific to Photoshop – you can use curves in Paintshop pro and GIMP for example. From what I understand the only exception is Photoshop Elements, which can’t do this trick because Elements doesn’t have a method to edit the channels (i.e. Red, Green and Blue channel alphas that make up the colors in the image).
Dark skies and sharp eyes
Posted by randee on Dec 17, 2009 in Tutorials, inspiration
I’ll admit, Ive been slacking off. I try to get you a new something to read every week and haven’t done so.
My buddy Luke and I were discussing some techniques that make photos look real…bu unreal. And this is what we came up with. I love the effect. It can be coupled with a low saturation to give a great dooms day feel. If you find anything else, leave a comment below and let us know about it.
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Intricate pattern design.
Posted by randee on Oct 20, 2009 in Tutorials, Uncategorized
Well, so much for the Halloween theme. we’ll head right into Christmas….kinda.
This tutorial will show you how to create intricate patterns in Illustrator super quickly. Stuff that would take you hours to draw manually with the Pen Tool takes just seconds when you use this technique. Read more…
You’re going to need more than a good skin cream…
Posted by randee on Oct 9, 2009 in Tutorials, inspiration
We are going to cover how add texture effects and since its almost halloween, we have a rather creative way to show this can be applied. This is only a variant of how you can achieve that, the key is (like everyone says) to keep experimenting. Textures are very important is photographic manipulations, and used properly can create great effects. Read more…
It’s all fun and games…
Posted by randee on Oct 3, 2009 in Tutorials, inspiration
Until someone gets they’re eye knock out. Then it’s just hilarious. Well, not really. It’s a sad thing to lose an eye, but now you can make a new one and paste it over your eye patch while you’re healing up. Read more…
The Force is strong with this one…
Posted by randee on Sep 28, 2009 in Tutorials, inspiration
I wish I could take credit for this one. This was actually done by my friend Ryan over at vectips.com.
See, working for an agency, he actually has the time to dink around and create stuff like this.
While you won’t be designing any new lightsabers for any upcoming Star Wars movies, but you will get an idea how gradients work to simulate reflective metals, the glow effect, some bits off the pathfinder pallet and other cool path effects. Read more…
Life is an open book, for the whole world to read.
Posted by randee on Sep 22, 2009 in Tutorials, inspiration
Here, we will put several principles of Illustrator together to get this realistic looking book. There are a few more steps to making it look photo realistic, but lets keep it simple. I assume most reading this have some experience with Adobe Illustrator. This is done in CS3 and can be done in as far back as CS with little variation (if any) to the steps.