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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Photoshop How-to: Total Color TranformationCategory: Design and imaging tutorials When clients supply photos for Web sites or print materials, you're never sure what you're going to get. If the images are less-than-ideal but you must use them, Photoshop can help. This tutorial walks you through the process of completely altering colors. The end result would be a positive addition to any project.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 433 |
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Garlic, Garlic, Garlic In ScratchboardCategory: Painting and illustration techniques Got a call from Susan McClellan, the art director for Chapters Publishing. I had already done a project for them, a book about onions with recipes and information about types of onions and their characteristics.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 405 |
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Ralston dog for flex-o printingCategory: Painting and illustration techniques The illustration that I will be taking you through, is just one of several illustrations that will be used on packaging for "Purina One."
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 303 |
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Drawing GutenbergCategory: Painting and illustration techniques The illustration that I will be taking you through, is just one of several illustrations that will be used as a title page for an annual report .
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 311 |
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Third labor of HerculesCategory: Painting and illustration techniques This is the second illustration that was done for a direct mail campaign promoting a motivation lecture. The campaign used the Labors of Hercules as its theme.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 337 |
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Eleventh labor of HerculesCategory: Painting and illustration techniques This illustration was done for a direct mail campaign promoting a motivation lecture.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 513 |
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Spanish soldier for museum SignageCategory: Painting and illustration techniques This is one of nine illustrations that I did for an historical arms museum
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 296 |
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Well armed 1850s gamblerCategory: Painting and illustration techniques Here is another scratchboard illustration (there were 9 illustrations for this project) to be used on signage inside a history of arms museum.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 354 |
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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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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 |
