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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Simple Two Point Perspective
This tutorial assumes that you already know how to use Photoshop's adjustment and transform tools, and the fundamentals of setting vanishing points for a 2 point perspective drawing. Author: Phillip Williams | Visits: 575 |
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Tonal contrast
Add impact to your work
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 564 |
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Sailor & sails with Photoshop & Scratchboard
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: 547 |
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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: 543 |
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Watercolour tips for beginners
Tips and techniques to help you avoid the most common problems encountered with watercolour. This section also includes notes on drawing and important advice on
enjoying what you have accomplished
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 492 |
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Digital video frame to a woodcut icon
In this tutorial a low resolution image is used, a frame from a digital video camera
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 481 |
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Scanning line art
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: 475 |
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Garlic, Garlic, Garlic In Scratchboard
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: 465 |
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Clouds
Exercises and advice on making the sky a major part of the subject
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 449 |
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Drawing with photoshop halftones
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: 444 |
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