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This tutorial will walk you through the simple steps used to turn a regular photograph into an interesting digital painting illustration, using Photoshop’s Filter Gallery and the Smudge Tool. Depending on the photograph you choose, it shouldn’t take you more than a couple of hours to complete.

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This tutorial is a collaboration between myself, Alex Beltechi, and college pal, Andrei Bacter. I’ve requested his help to bring you a bit of what we don’t do a lot on Psdtuts – Matte Painting. This technique combines photo scenery and tablet drawn details. As such, the tutorial is divided in two parts. The first one covers how to draw the actual character, which Andrei covers entirely. After that, we’ll jump straight into Part 2, where I teach you how to combine the sketch and photo with a pen tablet.

This one’s another collaboration with my good friend Toma Alin Gabriel. In this tutorial you will learn how to manipulate stock images and turn them into your puppets to express your desired feelings.

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• Program: Photoshop CS4
• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Estimated Completion Time: 7 hours

Resources

First of all I would like to thank the authors of these great stock images: Julia Starr, MouritsaDA-Stock, mjranum-stock, mjranum-stock, mjranum-stock, SXC and the brush zigabooooo.

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Mythical creatures have been part of legend and folklore since the dawn of time. These imaginary creatures are often hybrids, or a combination of two or more animals such as a centaur (human and horse) or a minotaur (human and bull). In this tutorial we’ll take inspiration from these fantastical creatures and transform a portrait into a terrifying horned beast. You’ll discover how to blend animal and human anatomy, then add convincing skin textures to really pull off the effect. />

Tutorial Details

• Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3 or later

During the this tutorial I’m going to take you through building a simple slider that will scroll a personal microsite. We’ll use the GreenSock Timeline Lite class and demonstrate just how straight-forward it can make your Flash animation workflow.

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Let’s take a look at the final result we will be working towards:

Introduction

From time to time, changes happen in our lives, changes that force us re-think the way we act. This is especially true in our community, where we are faced daily with changes that question the way we build what we build.

Last week I was checking out some of the Typography Mania posts, and got really inspired to try something new. So I decided to create an abstract composition with light effects and apply that as a texture of a text, everything done only using Photoshop.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create an easy and super quick text effect in Photoshop. We will play with Brushes, Blend Modes, basic filters like Blur and Liquify, and also text.

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create a new document. I used 2560×1440 pixels. Then with the Gradient Tool (G) fill the background with a radial gradient with 2 shades of purple (3d2626) Lighter and (060404) darker.

After such a positive response to my first tutorial Implement a Map Using the Google Map API for Flash I decided to write a second. Since that first tut the Google Map API has been updated, allowing developers to (amongst other things) add 3D viewing to maps. This is a great feature and during this tutorial I’ll explain how to use it.

Also, lots of people requested an explanation for adding custom markers; that’s the second thing we’ll discuss here today.

With a simple and direct methods described in this tutorial, you can create a female portrait easily. This process will have you creating anatomically correct human faces in no time.

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Tutorial Details

• Program: Adobe Illustrator CS 3
• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Estimated Completion Time: 60 minutes

Step 1

Let’s open a new document in Illustrator (File > New).

Here it is, the final part of our video player tutorial! All we need to do now is get the time indicator working, add our home button click function, position and size the current video and get the featured bar filled with videos along with its scrubber. Let’s get started!

Step 1: Video Time

First we need to add a listener to the stage called videoTimeEnterFrame that updates the video time every frame. Add this line to the videoItemClick function.

stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, videoTimeEnterFrame);  // runs this function every time we enter a new frame

Now let’s add the videoTimeEnterFrame function.

Hot on the heels of our Perfect Alpha Reflections Quick Tip comes this excellent utility class for dynamically reflecting your display objects, courtesy of Martin Christov.

How do I use it?

Step 1:

Copy the ReflectEffect.as file into the classpath of your Flash project (or the same directory as your FLA if you’re not using classpaths).

Step 2:

In your code, create a new instance of the ReflectEffect class, passing it the display object that you want it to reflect, like so:

var reflect:ReflectEffect = new ReflectEffect(movieClipToReflect);

Step 3: