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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Ghetto 3D text
Create dimensional text in Illustrator without a plug-in and get great results worth bragging about. Author: Ergo Draw | Visits: 2117 |
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Paint a bird
Two colour limited palette exercise. Great for beginners
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 1576 |
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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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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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Wood Grain Texture
For this tutorial, I'm going to use the background wood panel from my picture called Keywine. Author: Phillip Williams | Visits: 1296 |
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How to paint trees
Trees need not be difficult to paint if you keep a few simple facts in mind
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 1238 |
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Elements and principles of design
A run down on the building blocks that go to make up a work of art
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 1006 |
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Watercolor techniques
Description and examples of different watercolor techniques
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 682 |
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Rikki-tikki-tavi in pencil and Photoshop 5.5
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: 617 |
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Eleventh labor of Hercules
This illustration was done for a direct mail campaign promoting a motivation lecture.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 565 |
