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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Eleventh labor of Hercules
This illustration was done for a direct mail campaign promoting a motivation lecture.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 599 |
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Spanish soldier for museum Signage
This is one of nine illustrations that I did for an historical arms museum
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 338 |
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Well armed 1850s gambler
Here is another scratchboard illustration (there were 9 illustrations for this project) to be used on signage inside a history of arms museum.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 410 |
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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: 219 |
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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: 264 |
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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: 1678 |
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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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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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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: 663 |
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