Making A Wooden Baseball Bat

by: ReyRey - 09/10/2011 Here's how you make a realistic wooden baseball bat completely from scratch. A longer tutorial but very worth the time to do.

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Ripple Effect

by: ReyRey - 09/03/2011 ReyRey will show us how to make a nifty looking distorted/rippled/pushed-up effect in Photoshop.

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Creating Fabric

by: ReyRey - 09/03/2011 In this tutorial ReyRey shows us how to create a billowing fabric from scratch.

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Making Brushes

by: SCWIDVICIOUS - 02/22/2010 Making brushes is an important part of the chopping process for me, and it is an art all on its own you should master. Over the time I went from making normal little quick brushes to some rather intense and advanced ones, so I thought I would share some of this info with you guys and gals here.

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How to Create GIF Animations

by: Tawiskaro - 03/17/2009 Whether this is your first time creating a GIF animation or not, this tutorial will be able to help you with the concept and technique of how to create them.

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Shadows (Part I)

by: ledirlo - 04/26/2008 In this first theorical part of this four part shadow tutorial, shadows will be explained using 3D software. The analysis of the shadows will prepare you for part two.

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More Texturing

by: ledirlo - 04/02/2008 This tutorial demonstrates an effect that gets so photorealistic it led to some cheating controversies in the past. Aside from the interest of the created effect it also gives key layer technique information.

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Displacement Water

by: aliased - 03/15/2006 Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion.

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The Liquify Filter

by: armogeden - 02/10/2006 This is a tutorial to show you how to transform animals into other animals by using the liquify filter and for those of you who want and actual example, how I made this picture.

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Object Transformation

by: Claf - 12/23/2005 First, it's important to visualize enough well if there's enough elements in the original picture that can be used to make the transformation. Secondly, it can be helpful to find some good pictures as references to make the new object. For this one, I used no reference.

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Clipping Mask 101

by: ReinMan - 12/23/2005 There is one funky feature of Photoshop that many people seem either terrified of, indifferent to, or possibly in ignorance of. I speak, of course, about the Dreaded Clipping Mask feature of Photoshop.

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Making Snow

by: YerPalAl - 02/03/2005 Making snow is not all that hard, but it does consume some time. We will start with an earlier picture that is appropriate and start with the basics and proceed from there. First thing I do with any chop is to up the resolution from the crappy 72 dpi to 300. This allows me cleaner work overall. This also adds some steps that may or may not be needed if you dont do this.

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The Peel Effect

by: Brent - 12/07/2004 The Peel Effect is a (cliché) way to turn an object in a spectacular eye caching image. You peel of the skin of an object, so the inside will be visible. Im going to peel a bulb.

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Simple Wood in Photoshop CS

by: irishstu - 12/06/2004 It used to be a lot of work to make realistic-looking wood in Phototoshop, then Photoshop CS came along with its extra fancy filters, especially the one were going to use today, the Fibers filter. Now its as easy as one, two, three. Just follow this simple tutorial.

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Photograph Color Correction

by: ScionShade - 12/06/2004 Color correction can be done in moments. It is a simple and effective way to take your digital images and make them warmer, brighter and more pleasing to the eye. We will use "Threshold", "Curves", a little erasing. Finally, for an added punch we'll use PS's "Color Filter". After doing this process a couple times, an image can be greatly enhanced in only one or two minutes.

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Depth of Field

by: chadchud - 11/30/2004 For the effect i wanted to create, I needed to work on the original image before it was to be pasted into the main file. I wanted the image to look printed, with bleeding lines (as if the head wasn't aligned properly) and I wanted the colours to be slightly different, and a bit more plain.

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Perspective

by: Fugue - 11/29/2004 Have you ever looked at an entry and thought "something looks wrong here, but I can't quite put my finger on it"? Well, 9 times out of 10, it's probably a perspective problem. Sometimes you can cheat or "force the perspective" without it being an obvious problem, just as you can cheat the realism of shadows/reflections to some degree.

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Cutting Up

by: ReinMan - 08/02/2004 Taking things from one image and putting them into another image is one of the basic concepts that one needs to master if one is to continue down the path to Photoshop Guruhood. I'll go step by step through this process and perhaps you'll pick up a few tips along the way.

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Pen Tool as Mask Selector

by: ReinMan - 05/05/2004 One of the main things that every PhotoChopper needs to know is how to free-up, or separate, different parts of an image. With programs like Photoshop there are a number of ways to do this. But this particular tutorial will deal with one of my favorite way to get this sometimes challenging job done. And the main tool for this tutorial will be: the pen tool.

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More luminosity

by: ledirlo - 04/28/2004 I'll say it again: luminosity is the key to making good pictures; for those who don't know , PHOTOgraphy means "light-print".Photo means light (photon), when your eyes see an object , it doesn't see the object but the light it reflects, absorbs, and/or emits.The intensity of light , it's tint, falloff , difuse map are what make your brain recognize an object.

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Textures

by: ledirlo - 04/05/2004 Here I want to explain some of the terms you have to understand when you come to creating textures for 2D or 3D rendering: the aspect of a "texture" is obtained my mixing different channels and/or maps, and we have to give a definition for every of them.

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Masks

by: ledirlo - 04/05/2004 In the first lesson about cut/paste stuff, I just wanted to let newbies it existed...but the masks are just the key to being able to modify, retouch, tweak your image anyway you want.

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History

by: ledirlo - 04/05/2004 The history palette is just like a fantastic expansion of the edit menu: it lets you handle different states of your documents so you can always go back, it lets you save some RAM, and is especially usefull when you submit different versions of a project.

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Color and Luminosity

by: ledirlo - 04/05/2004 Light is the basis of photography, therefore it's the part one has to master in order to produce consistent pics, but it is also the toughest part.From correcting the colors, the exposition, painting the highlights and shadows, and/or reflections, handling glossiness, light should be the center of your preocupations.

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Layer Blending Optons

by: ledirlo - 08/13/2003 As you may have noticed, the bevel option is very very cool, as it lets you make a pasted object more realistic, though it is more obvious when it is set with a background, so the depth cue is more obvious.When you buy Photoshop, you discover you have many layer styles that are pretty useless, according to me they are just included so you get to learn how they work.

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Blending Layer Modes

by: ledirlo - 08/12/2003 The layers blending modes are the quintessence and the most powerfull aspect of Photoshop. They interact with eachother differently according to the colors and modes you use; but before get try some funny stuff, we should understand the basics.

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General Design Tips

by: ledirlo - 08/11/2003 Photo editing, or illustration may be practiced for fun, but no one can pretend being a "designer" without knowing the rules of graphic design.Many people think that being original, and thinking out of the box is a good thing, but it actually isn't if you don't follow the rules...Even the weirdest looking ads,or the funniest ones, follow these rules.

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Photoshop Introduction

by: ledirlo - 08/09/2003 You may find just as many tutorials as you want on the web,the fact is that most of them will show you how to replicate an effect, etc....which is pretty useless, as long as many people dont know the basics of Photoshop. These tutorials will try to teach you how to use Pshop by yourself, not in order to make effects, but in order to edit photographs.

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Cut and Paste Options

by: ledirlo - 08/09/2003 The most important thing to master in Photoshop is how to perform perfect cut/paste operations.You may want to try effects, or illustration, a great pic is always simple, and CLEAN. No blurry edges.

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