Exercise your creativity with Photoshop
Release Date: 2008-01
CD descritpion
Neil Duerden brings new light and airy energy into .psd, creating its new logo and cover gaphic. From his tutorial you will learn how to
produce the great piece of artwork. In his Warming up cold Photoshop tutorial on p.46, Neil teaches you not only great computer tricks
but also how to do Air to Fakie in Photoshop! As always, .psd shows you the best Tips and Tricks done by Robert Anselmi p.60! This time
together with Eva Dennis, you will learn how to paint a character in Photoshop, see p.38. We also invited one of the best graphics, Kevin
Capizzi, who created almost entirely in Cinema 4D his animated character, to share his great techniques with you check p.16. Two Photoshop
Hall of Fame winners: Bert Monroy and Russell Brown, are the ones you will find in our Interview with.. section.
Here’s wishing everyone in the graphics industry a very prosperous 2008!
Articles
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Free Issue to download 01/2008
Free Issue to download 01/2008
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Interview with Russell Brown
Russell has been a creative force at Adobe for the past 18 years, but his influence on Photoshop’s development started right at the beginning. It was Russell’s budding relationship with Thomas and John Knoll, the program’s original developers, that helped shape the future of both Photoshop and Adobe itself. Russell
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Interview with Bert Monroy
Bert Monroy was born and raised in New York City where he spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative director for various agencies as well as his own. Upon discovering computers with the introduction of the Macintosh 128 in 1984, he embarked on a new digital career. He embraced the computer as an artistic medium and is considered one of the pioneers of digital art.
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Sanskirt: Light and Airy
Bright and airy is the feel, but complex and crowded is the reality. It’s all about
getting the balance and composition right. A good idea is to scribble down a
few rough ideas as this will give you a feel for the finished piece target from the
beginning. The concept will change, however, as the piece evolves.
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SWEETENING A CG
I usually take an organic approach to my projects. A lot of times, I’m not sure
I could repeat my results only because of the level of experimentation I like
to use in my art. I guess that’s what makes working with Applications like
Photoshop and Cinema 4D so amazing in this day and age, is the amount of
tweaking and experimenting you can do, then if you’ve gone to far, you can just
hit the history palette and everything is back to where you were. That said, I do
usually have and end result in mind, and that’s were really having a grasp on the
tools Photoshop offers can really pay off. In this tutorial, we’re going to explore
how to sweeten an image based off a 3D rendered image.
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Drawing the Eye in Photoshop
Many people use Photoshop to enhance their photos, hence the name, but
Photoshop is also a wonderful program for freehand drawing and painting. To
get you started we are going to draw an eye using basic shapes and simple
steps. Follow along using this step by step lesson here and on the video and you will
master this technique in no time! For more lessons and to check on Susi’s new DVD
release „The Fine Art of Photoshop”.
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Create a geometric font type
Geometry fonts aren’t beneficial for a body copy, but for headlines, posters
CDs and other such designs you can fast easily create a personal font
featuring the best elements of grid and geometry. Fontlab is a fine program
for making real, legible typefaces, but for geometric shapes, Adobe Illustrator is
much faster and more efficient. In this tutorial I’ll show a fast way to create a custom
font from scratch, drawing the shapes in Illustrator and making an OpenType font
from them in Fontlab. I’m focusing on lowercase letters since they’re usually more
troublesome than uppercase. You can easily create the uppercase letters for your
font by applying the rules used when making lowercase.
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Technical Illustration
The technical pieces generation for the objects, machines and tools explanation
and understanding, it needs of procedures set that they go from the development
of illustrations up to the graphical composition of objects and texts. In many
occasions, if you want to explain adequately the functioning of an object in concretly it is
necessary to appeal the artistic generation to be able to represent elements that of one
or another way would be impossible to visualize easily. In this occasion the excuse is a
double action airbrush, in which a transverse cut is applied, drawing every piece from
layers and using the graphical composition as communicative support.
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S ta r M i s h a
Through this piece I’ve come to understand all pictures go through an evolution. The
change may come when you least expect it, or possibly after a final bout of frustration.
Whichever helps. In this tutorial I will share with you the progress of Star Misha, in
which you will learn about custom brushes, the advantage of the blending modes, tips to
painting fire, and of course, how you paint a character in Photoshop. Keep in mind there are
numerous artists who use Photoshop for digital painting. In this tutorial you will be seeing
my personal techniques, so there may be easier options for every step shared.
S ta r M i s h a
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Warming up cold Photoshop
W
e asked Neil Duerden to do a tutorial for us and he said „Hey I’d love too”. In case
your
not
fimiliar with
his
work
Neil
is a self
conf
essed
Mac monkey
based
in a
rural miners
cottage 20 miles
nor
th
of Manchester in the UK. He creates pieces
that combine elements from mixed media, photography that are interlaced with complex
vectors
to
create
pieces
that
al
ways
hit
the
brief
for
clients
all
around
the
world.
He
is
always hungry for
the
latest
commissions
and trends.
Here are
some
of his
workology
Hey
Guys.
Today
we
are
going
to
explore
a
fine
blend
of
Illustrator
and
Photoshop
in
equal measures. This technique is relati
vely simple and gives a good amount of room for
experiment and personalization with a great end result that is both flexible and positi
ve.
You
do however
need
a
good
computer
–
this
is
both
heavy
on
your processor
and ram
so
I’d
rec
ommend
a
good
mac
setup
otherwise
you
’ll
be
sat
for
hours
watching
a
slow
moving
blue bar! Before you star
t decide on what subject or
theme as this is key to this
style. Gather
a good shot o
f
your
subject and also
a fitting full
background then make a
coffee and we’ll begin.
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Creating Panorama
I’ve always liked the idea of creating panorama photographs. Ten years ago, I had a
camera that had a panorama feature that essentially was a switch you would slide
to one side or the other and when you looked through the viewfinder, voila! You had
a pano shot. Well, not really, two pieces of black plastic just came in and cropped your
viewfinder and the developer at the lab would just cut the film.
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The real time shoe
F
irst of all, let us discover Webseed 3D
Studio’s uses. It will enable you to see 3D
objects on the Internet in a realistic and
interactive way with quality that has never been
attained without using a DirectX plug-in. The
tutorial explains all of the creation procedures
for an online 3D applet, from the time the object
comes out of the 3D program to on-lining,
including texture work in Photoshop.
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Creation of clipping mask in Photoshop
When we work on transparencies in Photoshop, we take the risk that when we
place them into programs of vectorial edition, layout or only with impression
intentions, problems with the Alpha channels occur. These problems take to
impression difficulties and wrong visualization. One of the ways to avoid those problems
is the creation of a clipping mask in Photoshop to isolate sectors of the images that we
want to work on. Here, you will find the necessary steps to generate them.
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Wireless Mice Review
On the hunt for a new mouse? Whether working with a desktop computer or a
laptop the best is probably to go for a wireless device, which will give you more
freedom of movement and can be used on pretty much any surface. The latest
cordless mice also pack extra features to make full use of all multimedia functions on
your computer. Let’s take a look at four different products on the market and determine
which one seems to offer the best bang for your buck.
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