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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Adding color to line art with PhotoshopCategory: Painting and illustration techniques To use Photoshop 5.5 in this process of adding color to line art, it's important that you begin with the art in Bitmap mode.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 1135 |
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Sailor & sails with Photoshop & ScratchboardCategory: Painting and illustration techniques This scratchboard illustration was to run in one of a series of three different ads for ASU Group, a Midwestern insurance company.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 477 |
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Building a house with PhotoshopCategory: Painting and illustration techniques To do this conceptual line art illustration that will be used in a newspaper ad for GE Mortgage, Illustrator was used for the outline drawing and Photoshop was used to add the final details.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 403 |
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Digital video frame to a woodcut iconCategory: Painting and illustration techniques In this tutorial a low resolution image is used, a frame from a digital video camera
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 390 |
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Rikki-tikki-tavi in pencil and Photoshop 5.5Category: Painting and illustration techniques Rikki-tikki-tavi is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. The story, and my illustration, were to be used by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in a text book for 6th grade students, used to teach reading skills.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 581 |
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Drawing with photoshop halftonesCategory: Painting and illustration techniques This image that will be used for the cover of a bimonthly newsletter going to orthodontist, was done by converting sections of grayscale tones into line halftones.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 345 |
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Create custom reference with liquifyCategory: Painting and illustration techniques I received an e-mail from Paradigm, the publisher of a magazine in Japan. They wanted an illustration of a Tyrannosaurus Rex...
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 242 |
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Scanning line artCategory: Painting and illustration techniques Getting a good line art scan with a desktop scanner is easy, but there are some extra steps you need to take to insure the best quality.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 367 |
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Creating a monster with Photoshop 5.5Category: Painting and illustration techniques This illustration began as a detailed pencil drawing that was scanned and used as a guide in Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and Adobe Illustrator 8.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 272 |
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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 |
