Although its name clearly implies a close relationship with photography, Adobe Photoshop is widely used as an illustration and design tool. Photoshop has also excelled as a color separation tool for prepress and photochromy jobs. Cartoonists and Illustrators find the possibility of using pressure sensitive tablets with Photoshop a huge asset. Architects use Photoshop to embellish their perspective drawings. Industrial designers and 3d artists can correct and enhance their 3d rendering. Pixel perfect images are created by icon and web designers. This section is a guide to different art and design resources, such as books, software, fonts, clipart and tutorials to help you to build a creative way of thinking and working.
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Painting foliageCategory: Painting and illustration techniques A step by step exercise taking the mystery out of painting foliage
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 201 |
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Guidelines for selecting a logo designCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Simply put, a logo is a name, symbol, or trademark of a company or organization. Logos can be made up of text that is configured in a unique way. Author: Grantastic Designs | Visits: 200 |
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Texturing a SweaterCategory: Painting and illustration techniques It looks like a lot of work, but it's really not. Once this process is understood, you can add this sort of complex texture to something like a sweater easily and in about 20 or 25 minutes. Author: Phillip Williams | Visits: 183 |
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Cleopatra for southwestern bellCategory: Painting and illustration techniques Received a call from Gail Boosmworth, the art buyer for DMB&B (St. Louis), to do black and white art for a Southwestern Bell TV commercial promoting 3-way calling. The commercial would feature three portraits, Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great and Cleopatra.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 176 |
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Perspective - Quick Down & DirtyCategory: Painting and illustration techniques This tutorial assumes that you already know how to use Photoshop's adjustment and transform tools, and you have a good grasp of the fundamentals of perspective drawing. Author: Phillip Williams | Visits: 176 |
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Colour theoryCategory: Painting and illustration techniques How colours work
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 172 |
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Angry EmoticonCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Learn about special effects while converting an ordinary orb into a fantasy art piece in this Adobe Photoshop tutorial. Author: adobetutorialz | Visits: 165 |
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Making bread with scratchboard & PhotoshopCategory: Painting and illustration techniques A pencil is done, working at the same size as the printed piece. I usually work a little larger than the printed piece, but this illustration is fairly large and will generally be viewed from a distance.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 161 |
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Big Prints From Small PrintersCategory: Painting and illustration techniques This tutorial is based on a printer that can print on paper up to 13 x 19 inches. If your printer uses smaller paper, then simply change the paper size numbers in this tutorial to your printer's sizes. Author: Phillip Williams | Visits: 148 |
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20 free fontsCategory: Font foundries and collections Download 20 free decorative fonts for your headlines. Author: Drsmith | Visits: 144 |
