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3dsmax (9+) Tutorial, A Basic Ambient Lighting Setup and Key Terms
May 11, 2012
In this tutorial, I cover how to use 3d Studio Max's built in "Light Tracer" lighting plugin to set up nice, smooth, ambient light. This tutorial also covers what all the key terms on the lighting tab mean, and how they affect your renders. This simple setup can be completed in about a minute, and will give your renders a clear, crisp look, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the final output a big boost.
Using Gaussian Blur On Your Layer Masks For Smoother Editing
May 04, 2012
In this tutorial, I cover how to make use of the guassian blur filter when doing photo editing with layer masks in Photoshop. This technique really simplifies a lot of the process of making sure elements you're adding to a photo blend in properly. This can be used for many different things, but in this example, I show how to clone one spot of an image over another, and blend it in seamlessly.
Doing a Spot-To-Spot Gradient (Pantones) with Overprint
March 16, 2012
In this tutorial, I cover how to use opacity masks to successfully make a spot color to spot color blend without that nasty looking grey problem in the center. This tutorial also covers a little bit of printing process terms, and helpful hints.
Using The Offset Filter To Make Looping Textures & Correcting Uneven Lighting
March 02, 2012
In this tutorial I cover briefly how to use the offset filter to make looping textures in Photoshop, and how to address a common problem with uneven lighting that occurs when doing so.
Making Custom Brushes In Illustrator For Fonts and Illustration
February 24, 2012
In this tutorial, I cover how to create your own custom brushes in Illustrator that have better features than the custom brush settings allow in the brushes palette. I also cover how to create a looping brush for paths that are continuous, like a circle.
Using Bounding Boxes As Guices To Help Align Perspective In Photoshop
February 10, 2012
In this tutorial, I cover how to use boxes as alignment guides when placing objects in perspective in your designs and illustrations.
Making Distressing or Grunge Brushes Quickly In Photoshop
February 03, 2012
In this super-quick tutorial I show you how to quickly take any dirty texture and turn it into a distressing brush in Photoshop for quick grunge effects.
Let’s Make Art - Lord Of The Shrooms, Part 3
January 27, 2012
This is the third part of three in a new series called "Let's Make Art".
Let’s Make Art - Lord Of The Shrooms, Part 2
January 20, 2012
This is the second part of three in a new series called "Let's Make Art".
Let’s Make Art - Lord Of The Shrooms, Part 1
January 13, 2012
This is the first in a new series called "Let's Make Art". I'm a little torn on how to go about uploading these, since it's going to be hours of footage, so for this first project, I went with just the raw footage, sped up to 8x.