Category: Photoshop E-Book
Digital Tutors – Fundamentals of Caricature Drawing in Photoshop
Digital Tutors – Fundamentals of Caricature Drawing in Photoshop | ISO | 589 MB
In this collection of lessons we will learn about the fundamentals of caricature drawing.
We will get started by learning a bit about what the art of caricature is. We will then move on and learn about each of the core features or shapes involved in created a successful caricature. We will also take some time to understand the relationship between these shapes as well as some ways that we can exaggerate each. To wrap this course up we will be walking step by step through drawing a black and white caricature of a famous celebrity. After completing this course, you will have a great understanding of how caricature artists are able to capture the likeness of a person in a humorous fashion.
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Lynda – Photoshop Top 40 (Complete Tutorials)
Lynda – Photoshop Top 40 (Complete Tutorials)
format FLV & MOV | 1280×720 | English | 7h.13min. | 2.30 GB
There’s nothing people love more than lists, and Photoshop Top 40 offers a great one, highlighting the best features in Photoshop. Deke McClelland counts down to number 1 with a new video each week, detailing one great feature after another in this popular digital imaging application. The videos cover tools, commands, and concepts, emphasizing what’s really important in Photoshop.
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Behind The Scenes – Photoshop Interactive Tutorials
Behind The Scenes – Photoshop Interactive Tutorials | Demo & Info
Behind the scenes footage from many unique photo shoots covering an array of concepts and lighting situations, including detailed diagrams of the light set ups and props. Both studio lighting and simple techniques using standard reflectors are used. Narrated live screen capture of the editing process, describing in detail all my techniques step by step and how you can do them yourself. Even my granny can follow along, but I am confident there is something for everyone to learn.
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Lynda.com – Photoshop for Designers: Color
Lynda.com – Photoshop for Designers: Color
English | Duration: 5h 19m | H264 | 960×540 | AAC 48KHz mono | 1.48GB
Genre: eLearning
In Photoshop for Designers: Color, Nigel French focuses on the tools and features in Photoshop designed for choosing, applying, and editing color. The course looks at concepts such as the color wheel and color harmonies as well as the practicalities of using the Color Picker, leveraging the power of color channels, and the characteristics of different color modes in Photoshop. The course includes exercises on correcting color, enhancing color, shifting and replacing colors, working with spot color channels, hand coloring black and white images, and designing with a reduced color palette. Exercise files are included with the course.
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Practical Photoshop UK – January 2012
Practical Photoshop UK – January 2012
English | 100 pages | PDF | 39.28 MB
Digital-Tutors – Using Texture to Enhance Digital Paintings in Photoshop CS5
Digital-Tutors – Using Texture to Enhance Digital Paintings in Photoshop CS5
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1 hrs. 32 min | December 23, 2011 | Photoshop CS5 | Author: Eddie Russell
VP6 (.flv) 1280×720 | MP3 44.1KHz mono | 737 MB
Genre: eLearning
In this tutorial we will learn several different techniques for adding texture to our digital paintings in Photoshop. Texture and surface detail is one area that is often overlooked by digital painters. By strategically implementing texture in your digital paintings, you can not only raise the quality of the image but also the level of realism. With this course we’ll get started by diving into Photoshop’s brushes. We’ll learn how we can create and configure our own custom brushes to paint texture. From here we’ll learn how to create our own patterns and several of the areas where these patterns can be utilized. Next we’ll look at some ways that we can bring images into our paintings, layering them over areas to create texture with the help of blend modes. Finally, we’ll learn a few methods of making our two dimensional textures appear to wrap around the three dimensional forms of our painting. After completing this course, you’ll be well equipped to begin experimenting with texture in your own digital paintings.
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Digital-Tutors – Creating Stylized Female Character Concepts in Photoshop CS5
Digital-Tutors – Creating Stylized Female Character Concepts in Photoshop CS5
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December 23, 2011 | Photoshop CS5 | Author: Eddie Russell
3h 42m | FLV | 1280×720 | MP3 44.1KHz | 983 MB
In this tutorial we will learn about a workflow that can be used to design stylized female characters with Photoshop CS5. We’ll get started by learning about a few things that should be considered for every character we design. Here we will discuss the importance of things like character intent, character back story as well as references. Once our direction has been established, we’ll jump in and spend some time doing concept sketches. After our initial character design has been settled upon, we will move on and begin exploring our character by rendering them in different poses. To wrap the tutorial up, we’ll learn about techniques that can be used to create inked line-work as well as cell shaded color for our character. After completing this tutorial, you’ll be familiar with a workflow that can be used to develop stylized characters in Photoshop.
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