Nesting Smart Objects for Multimask Effects in Photoshop
One of the biggest drawbacks to smart filters is that all filters applied to a single layer must share a common filter mask. Fortunately, there’s a workaround. To make a long story short, you nest one smart object inside another....
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A while back I created a new model using ZBrush as part of an advertisement for Pixologic at Cinefex Magazine. My idea was to create a digital Picasso, having some fun while he was painting with ZBrush. As Picasso’s likeness...
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Start Tutorials 1. Get yourself a model that needs some hair. Render him out using BEST RENDER in the RENDER panel with whatever light/material/shadow settings you need for your scene. Once the scene is rendered go to the LAYERS panel and...
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Introduction The following article isn’t intended to be a tutorial as such but rather a focused ‘making of’ during which I will attempt to explain a lot of my working practices and techniques. I’m going to illustrate this with Videos and...
Continue reading full post (read 1,532 times) Add a Comment - 1 users commented on this postCreate a Stylized Gradient Mesh Soccer Ball Illustration
In this tutorial, we’ll show the advanced Adobe Illustrator artist how to create a realistic looking soccer ball with mesh objects. You’ll learn how to create reflections with the Opacity Mask. We’ll also make our own swooshes and custom brushes. Final...
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In this tutorial we are going to show you how to easily create digital abstract smoke using both Illustrator and Photoshop. One of the best things about this technique is that it’s very customizable and you can do it pretty...
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here has been such a wonderful response on my vector art tutorial “Beautiful Vector Illustration” that I thought I better write another one. If you recall in that tutorial I discussed how to create vector illustrations using photographs as your...
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Valentine’s coming and I thought you may be interested in doing something for that occasion. Before we get started, let’s take a look at the image we’ll be creating. The way I’ve done that is simple, though there’s a lot...
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