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“Frozen Valley” – A Guide to Landscape Manips
Sunday, May 10th, 2009 | Filed under Articles, Lessons, Misc | 1 Comment
My most recent photomanip Frozen Valley was created using a few simple steps, that are described in this post. Please note: This is not a step-by-step guide meant to be followed to the letter just so you can create your own “Frozen Valley” (I wouldn’t be happy to see copies popping up all over the net to be honest) – it is instead meant to help you find your way in the fascinating world of photomanips, so you can start creating your own images according to your own visions.
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Watermarks & Art Theft
Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | Filed under Articles, Lessons | 5 Comments
This post deals with watermarking your work to be displayed on the Internet. It shows you how to create a watermark brush that you can use as a signature watermark each time you want to post one of your images.
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Digital Darkroom: Correcting Lense Distortions
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | Filed under Lessons | 2 Comments
Lense distortions can be found in photos that have been shot using a wide angle lense (sperized effect, barreling) or they can be perspective distortions cause by not standing right in front of the subject as well as tilted images or vignette effects. This article will cover methods to remove these distortions both “traditionally” as well as using the Lense Distortion Filter available in PS CS3 and up.
Content:
- Everything in one place: PS CS3 and up
- Correcting Lense Distortion “old style”
- Removing the Spherized Effect (aka “barreling”)
- Removing Unwanted Perspective
- Straightening Crooked Images
Manip Critiques: BloodyMoonLady’s “Star Fox”
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | Filed under Articles, Lessons | 4 Comments
Here’s the second installment in the Manip Critiques series. I hope this one will be just as well-received as the last. Please note that all suggestions in this article are based on the assumption that Adobe Photoshop is used.
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Tutorial Heaven: Philip Straub’s tutorials
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 | Filed under Inspiration, Lessons, Resources | 2 Comments
Tutorial Heaven will be the title of a series of articles dealing with tutorials done by other artists rather than myself. We’re starting off with Philip Straub (PhilipStraub.com) who is Electronic Arts’ Concept Art Director with many valuable tips to share on composition and colour that will be useful in manips just as well as in paintings.
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Manip Critique: arrsistable’s “The Earth Goddess”
Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Filed under Articles, Lessons | 6 Comments
In my recent journal on deviantart, I asked fellow manippers if they wanted one image of their critiqued extensively on my blog, so that not only they could get some insight, but other readers might learn a bit, too — the response was overwhelming and so this will be the first critique in a whole series.
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Digital Darkroom: Colour Gradients
Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Filed under Lessons | 5 Comments
Today we’re taking a look at a basic darkroom technique that can help you greatly in setting a mood for your images – be it in photography or photomanipulation.
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Golden Text with Layer Styles
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 | Filed under Lessons | 2 Comments
Layer styles have the reputation of making things look cheap. You can often see proof of that, but to leave them untouched just because some people don’t know how to use them to their full potential would be a shame. So today, I’ll show you a little trick to make text look all shiny using layer styles.
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Manip Tips & Tricks: Layer Masks
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 | Filed under Lessons | 3 Comments
If you already know me from dA, you will probably say “omg, not with the masks again!” But I do find them to be invaluable, so this is going to be my first “tutorial-post” for the still rather shiny & new blog. And who knows, maybe you’ll find something useful still?
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