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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Making bread with scratchboard & Photoshop
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: 257 |
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Direction
The element of direction can have a powerful influence on the mood of a painting. Find out how to control it.
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 249 |
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Digital Painting
This is what the final image will look like. In this tutorial, I am not doing any work on the background, just the candle.
Author: Phillip Williams | Visits: 247 |
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Texturing a Sweater
It looks like a lot of work, but it's really not. Once this process is understood, you can add this sort of complex texture to something like a sweater easily and in about 20 or 25 minutes. Author: Phillip Williams | Visits: 234 |
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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: 218 |
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Colour theory
How colours work
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 216 |
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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: 191 |
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Tips for making your characters look manly
Some tricks that helps you improve your characters who you drawing look manly. Author: KolorfulTutorials | Visits: 189 |
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Pen and Tablet Exercise
This is not really a tutorial. It's an explanation of an exercise I use to get better at controlling a digital pen and tablet. A pretty awkward experience when first getting started. Author: Phillip Williams | Visits: 172 |
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