This month we’ll actually try to learn something in Photoshop Madness … a 2nd edition is in the works, stay tuned . . . this time :
* Retouch a Model Portrait with Flawless Natural Skin
* Drawing Effect Making Hair for Cartoon
* Photoshopping an Action Movie Poster
* Create liquid effects in Photoshop
* Develop a Fantastic Car
* Beautify and Retouch
PHOTOSHOP MADNESS is where you practically go mad trying to find the most useful stuff for Photoshop! Welcome to “Back to (Design) School” Madness … here are some pretty good tutorials we’ve gathered in an attempt to help you actually learn something . . .
As always, we remind you — be careful what you click. This is all good clean stuff for’ya this month, because most is at Flickr. But there are always malware, phishing stalker and predator links abundant in many of the replicated sites these days. Whatch those little popups in the text. Just stay on the tutorial / content paths and you’ll be okay.
So, here are yet more links of note…
Photoshopping an Action Movie Poster
To prepare a movie quality’s flyer, it really takes lots of preparations such as lots of different photos. Then you can arrange how movie scene to be.
Once the background is fixed, then you can arrange whoever to be the main character in your flyer. (this one’s from PS TUTS)
Full story : psd.tutsplus.com
Develop a Fantastic Car
If you are a car lover, you may want to design your own car for yourself. It is like drawing other 3D objects, you have to apply shiny and shadow to make it realistic.
Slavche Tanevski, a graphic designer and minimalist artist in Munich, Germany …. www.facebook.com/slavche
Create liquid effects in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will learn how to create interesting, fluid elements using the Liquify filter. Using just a single image, you can create a whole variety of effects by pushing, pulling, rotating, reflecting, puckering and bloating any area as subtly or drastically as you wish.
From Joeo Oliveira Portuguese designer, illustrator and art director
Drawing Effect Making Hair for Cartoon
To whatever cartoon image, hair is a substantial element. Hair style can make your character to be completely different. As a major tool to make hair, its setting and skills to use it would be very important.
No details, but it is at the person calls themselves “sky”
Beautify and Retouch
It is difficult to take a perfect photo, so you may need to use Photoshop to beautify and retouch your photos after. Here will show you to use Photoshop brushes to remove your unfavorable part of your image and apply suitable light and color settings after.
from Victoria Sims, Artist and Professional Photography in the United Kingdom
There are always lots of spectacular Photoshop images and visuals out there! Share them! We’ll be back shortly with MORE Photoshop Madness … and please — BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU SURF … but when you do find a great Photoshop practitioner, or a good Photoshop tutorial, please share it with us! If you create Photoshop Tutorials yourself, please post your info here so you can be considered for a Photoshop Fave!
Of course, some of our favorite editions of Photoshop Madness can be found in the legacy Photoshop Tips & Tricks web site!
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