Photoshop Zone

    Sunday is the day to play with Photoshop and try some new ideas. As usual I went through some books and Web sites to find some inspiration. I am still addicted to the Handy Book of Artistic Printing, it's a must have book for some old style print references. I got some ideas and also found this amazing image from Alex Beltechi on Dribbble called Twisting in the Wind. Then I new the effect I wanted to know how to create in Photoshop. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a super cool and very easy effect using Photohosp and the Repoussé tool. The whole process is quite simple, it's less than 10 steps and won't take you more than 30 minutes. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. I am using 2560x1680 with 300 DPI (very important) with black background. With the Horizontal Type Tool (T) add a text. I am using for the font Edwardian Script ITC. Notice that I sort of connect the words "the" with "book" with ...

Introduction Of all the tutorials I’ve written this is probably my favorite yet; it’s so simple yet looks so complicated and only takes about 10-15mins to get an awesome result. I got the idea from the second image here by Craig Ward. So basically I’ll be showing you how to achieve this effect really quickly in Photoshop. Hope you like it as much as I do! Step 1 Create a new document with dimensions; 1200x800px then create a new layer and select the gradient tool, click the gradient preview in the main toolbar and choose the gradient that goes from black to white. In the main toolbar change the style to radial and drag from the top right corner to the bottom left to get something similar to the image below. Now just change the opacity of this layer to 15%. Step 2 Select the text tool then click once in the middle of the document, first change the paragraph alignment to center then choose a bold sans-serif font, I used Helvetica but you could also use Arial Black. ...

1. Creating the Studio Setup Step 1 Open Cinema 4D, create a new file and go to render settings , applying the settings shown below. Step 2 Select the > Bezier Spline . Step 3 Change the perspective to a lateral view and draw a spline like the one shown below, we’re going to create a ‘C shaped studio so the light can bounce on the ceiling. Step 4 Duplicate the original spline Step 5 Create a Loft NURBS and drag both the splines to it’s inside, select one of the splines and move it parallel to the other until you get a wide shape like the one below Step 6 This step is optional, I usually create some basic lighting at the beginning of a new project in order to get an idea of how the lighting will work, create 3 Area Light objects and place one of them in the top part of our studio, make sure it’s in the inner side. Step 7 Now move the other 2 Area Light objects to both sides of the studio Step 8 Create a Camera right in front...