Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

Posted in Illustrator, Text Effects on December 4th, 2008 by admin

flox-300x220 Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

Create a document of size 750×550 pixels.

Set the foreground color to #004B64 and background to #000000.

Using the Radial Gradient tool, drag a circular gradient from the top downwards.

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Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers

Posted in PS Design, PhotoShop Tutorials on December 4th, 2008 by admin

bcard-front-277x300 Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers

Business cards are a useful resource for any business, for designers in particular it gives an opportunity to create something a little out of the ordinary and artistic to showcase their creative flair. Follow this walkthrough in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign to create your own double sided business card design, resulting in a print-ready file to send to your favoured print firm.

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Building a fantasy scene castle

Posted in Photo Effects, Photo Retouching on December 4th, 2008 by admin

 

castleonahilltutorial-300x225 Building a fantasy scene castle

Fantasy art is a genre all of its own: just like any other art form, it has its own rules and conventions. Slick, polished finishes are central to fantasy art. To achieve these slick finishes, you’ll need razor-sharp compositing skills and a neat way with colour – you’re aiming for something that looks as though it could be real, but that nonetheless has a faraway, dreamlike feel.

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How to Create a Movie Quality DVD Cover

Posted in PS Design, Photo Effects on December 3rd, 2008 by admin

cover-248x300 How to Create a Movie Quality DVD Cover

In this tutorial we will be learning how to take a few different stock images and put them together with some text to make a movie poster/DVD cover design. If you followed the first part of this tutorial on destroying a plane then you can use that image as well.

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Slow motion bullet shot effect tutorial

Posted in PS Design, Photo Effects on December 3rd, 2008 by admin

bullet1-300x237 Slow motion bullet shot effect tutorial

Hi! In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a nice bullet shot effect. I decided to use a technologic object such as a remote control to show a lot of tiny parts flying off after the impact: the circuitboard, the buttons, a few chips…

For this tutorial I used Photoshop CS3 and I think is pretty necessary. Is also recommended that you still know how to:

- select an area with the pen tool
- how the liquify filter works (we’re not going to use it much but it can be useful for some threatments).

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Transform a blue sky landscape into a stormy weather scene

Posted in Photo Effects on December 3rd, 2008 by admin

storm-300x200 Transform a blue sky landscape into a stormy weather scene

Transform this cloudy country side picture into a stormy and dramatic evening by adding simple lightning effects!
Start off by duplicating the default layer (CTRL+J) as Layer 1.

Reduce brightness of duplicate image by dragging center point of the Curves tool (CTRL+M).

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Custom contact lenses and eye retouching in photoshop

Posted in Photo Effects, Photo Retouching on December 2nd, 2008 by admin

contact-lense-finished2-300x179 Custom contact lenses and eye retouching in photoshop

A true meaning to the term “eye candy”. This tutorial will show you how to add colors and patterns to your eyes giving the look as if you were wearing colored contact lenses.

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