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 Photoshop
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: 1391 |
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Big Prints From Small Printers
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: 173 |
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Building a house with Photoshop
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: 470 |
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Cartoon clouds
A handful of circles, an effect and a bit of path-finding, and you're on your way to creating light and fluffy stylized clouds. Author: Ergo Draw | Visits: 1446 |
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Cleopatra for southwestern bell
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: 198 |
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Clouds
Exercises and advice on making the sky a major part of the subject
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 394 |
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Color your sketch
No need to use any color pencil to color your hand-drawing nowadays. You also use Photoshop to finish all of them as well. Author: KolorfulTutorials | Visits: 227 |
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Colour theory
How colours work
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 197 |
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Create custom reference with liquify
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: 284 |
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Creating a monster with Photoshop 5.5
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: 309 |
