With a simple and direct methods described in this tutorial, you can create a female portrait easily. This process will have you creating anatomically correct human faces in no time. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS 3 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 60 minutes Step 1 Let’s open a new document in Illustrator (File > New). Step 2 We start with the construction of the ideal [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop Difficulty: Advanced Estimated Completion Time: 4 – 5 Hours Photoshop is a great tool to work with both vector and pixel shapes. In this tutorial we will demonstrate a powerful combination of vector shapes, layer styles, and manual drawing to create a photorealistic camera. So realistic you’ll think it’s just an ordinary photo. Final Image Preview Let’s take a look at the image we’ll [...]

Basics Although there are many ways of shooting water drops, and some are more professional and / or practical, this is how I’ve done it with my setup. It just requires patience, and it helps to have an external flash, because we’ll be doing 1/200 shutter speed and f/13 aperture, and there aren’t many natural light sources to accomplish that and still control where your lighting hits. Materials The before mentioned flash and remote trigger; [...]

If you are a graphic designer looking for freelance graphic design jobs or full-time graphic design jobs then you have come to the right place. Below is a list of 10 great places to find graphic design jobs. Most of these sites will also be extremely useful for other creatives such as web designers, animators and illustrators. What if I’m not looking for a job yet? One of the best things you can do is [...]

You don’t have to be a professional to do cool and artistic things. You can be a biochemist working for a large international pharmaceutical company developing biopharmaceuticals (protein molecules) to treat cancer and diabetes, for example, like Linden Gledhill. But with a passion for photography. Check this amazing shots. Shapes made out of water based paints and sound from a speaker. Motion captured with mic triggered SB800 Nikon flash controlled by StopShot. Check the whole [...]

This is a Photoshop tutorial showing you all the steps you need to take in order to photo-manipulate yourself into a Na’vi (based on the characters in James Cameron’s movie “Avatar”). I used Photoshop CS2 in order to create this, but newer and older versions should do the same, as I used basic Photoshop tools only. I hope you will find this helpful. Step 1 Import a photograph of your choice, but make sure its [...]

Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 3 – 4 Hours Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Announcing Adobe CS5! Join us for the exclusive Global Online Launch Event, Monday, April 12, 2010. As designers, we occasionally need digital versions of electronic devices to use in our designs. All to often however, we find that the device we need doesn’t actually exist in the format that we need. In times like [...]

Tutorial Details Difficulty: Basic Completion Time: 1 hour Requirements: Camera with adjustable shutter speed For many photographers, darkness is their worst enemy. After getting a basic understanding of how cameras work, the next things photographers must understand is how to operate in low light. Most new cameras have advanced dedicated flashes (sometime built into them), which can make dark situations easier to shoot in. But almost all modern cameras also have slow shutter speed settings [...]

Today we will be making a 2010 Olympic Gold Medal similar in style to those used in the current Vancouver Winter Games. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an interesting warped metal effect using the Gradient Mesh Tool. You’ll also learn some interesting ways to create and use masks while we construct this gold medal. Author: Joshua Bader Joshua Bader is a graduate of Sheridan College’s Media Arts program with over a decade’s [...]

Purpose: Have a sliding horizontal bar, highlighting your horizontal menu Difficulty: Intermediate In Short: Using simple actionscript to create the movement. Actionscript used: (sample) easeSpeed = 5; //slider_mc is your Movie Clip’s name, not the Instance Name. slider_mc.onEnterFrame = function() { this._x += (xMove1-this._x)/easeSpeed; }; button_1.onPress = function() { xMove = button_1._x; }; button_2.onPress = function() { xMove = button_2._x; }; button_3.onPress = function() { xMove = button_3._x; }; button_4.onPress = function() { xMove = [...]