Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration

My clients often ask me to create impossible scenarios, weird landscapes and surreal images for their projects; images that wouldnt be possible in real life. Its situations like these where photo manipulation becomes a powerful design tool. In todays tutorial I will show you how to design a CD cover using several photo manipulation techniques, [...]

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Add Depth of Field to a 3D Scene with Lens Blur

In todays quick tip tutorial, we will demonstrate how to add depth of field to a scene that we will be creating with 3D objects to help improve a presentation to a client. Step 1 First, create a new document (Cmd/Ctrl + N) and make it 600 pixels by 400 pixels. You could of course [...]

Upload Images With MySQL

Intro Ok, lets continue with tutorial requests. This tutorial will cover uploading images to MySQL database. It will not be classic tutorial where I write everything and go through each step, but it will be more like some tips. Upload form First we need upload form. There are few extra parts that you dont have [...]

Create Beautiful Abstract Female Art in Photoshop

Sometimes, all it takes to create a stunning piece of art is a stock photo, a bit of creativity, a great idea, and some time. Today, I will demonstrate how to create a piece of art that I created titled, "Beauty of Gold." Lets get started! Step 1 Lets start by creating a new document [...]

Create a Tiger Striped Cat with Illustrator

I'd like to have a cat here in Krakow but there's too much responsibility attached to such a pet. Until I decide to put up with that, vector cats will have to do. Here's how to create one in Illustrator.

Create a Medieval Fantasy Castle Gate in Photoshop

Photoshops wide variety of tools enable you to perform complex photo manipulations with relative ease. Today, we will demonstrate how to combine Photoshops tools with photo manipulation techniques to create a medieval fantasy castle gate. Lets get started! Resources Used The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial. Each item is freely [...]