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Design an Awesome Product Ad

2009-03-06T04:18:00.000-08:00

One of a companies main goals is to convince consumers that they’re getting their money’s worth with any particular product. Sometimes, a good advertisement design will go a long ways in the industry. This tutorial will teach you a few techniques to improve your designs in general.

For this tutorial I will be using Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator CS3. You shouldn’t have any problems following along if you’re using other recent versions of the Adobe Creative Suite.

For those that work in the design industry, we are all to familiar with having to establish an advertising campaign for products. No matter the product, it’s up to you to convince the potential buyer that this product is worth their money. Successful advertising can make or break a product. Apple is a great example of this: They generate a lot of product hype and develop gorgeous ads for their products well before they come out. As a result, Apple can convince consumers to pay ridiculous amounts of money for their products.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you a few techniques that may improve your design abilities when creating advertisements. One of the best ways to hone your skills is to practice making Ads for products that you’ve never seen advertised before (or simply don’t exist at all). More than likely wont be swayed into copying their style.

For this tutorial I’ll demonstrate with the LG KE800 Chocolate Platinum.

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5 Pixel Popping Techniques

2009-03-06T04:15:00.001-08:00

In this tutorial, I will show you 5 great ways to really make your pixels pop in layout and interface design using Photoshop. These essential techniques will really give your designs a more 3D, tangible feel to them!

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Designing a 3D Software Box

2009-03-06T04:13:00.001-08:00

In this tutorial, we are going to create a 3D software box using Photoshop. It’s rather simple but the results can be quite realistic, providing a creative way of going about and creating box designs for your own personal use.

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Design Vector Based Badges

2009-03-06T04:11:00.000-08:00

Creating your own badges has never been easier. These badges are vector based, which means that you can scale them to whatever size you need without loosing any quality, and maintain a very crisp graphic with clear edges.

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Easily Create a Beautiful Unique Website Header

2009-03-06T04:09:00.000-08:00

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can create a beautiful, unique, abstract website header in just a few easy steps. This abstract lighting technique is one you’ll “Wow” a lot of visitors with!

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Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves

2009-03-06T03:57:00.000-08:00

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design some amazing vector based Retro Rainbow Curves using Adobe Photoshop. These retro artifacts have become a popular trend in modern design!

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A Simple Layer Mask

2008-12-07T02:23:00.001-08:00

A layer mask is simply a way to hide parts of a picture or text. Even though the masked parts are hidden they are still available if you need them.
In order to use a layer mask you need to understand two things: black takes away and white adds it back.
When you create a layer mask your foreground and background colors change to black and white.
If you fill an area on your layer mask with black, that area will disappear. However you use black, whether you use a brush, a selection, or a fill, the area will disappear. The reverse holds true if you use white. White will reveal all there is in the layer mask while black will hide all there is in a layer mask.This is a simple layer mask tutorial. The purpose of this tutorial is to mask the lettering so that it looks like it's behind the glass and so you can have a basic understanding of how a layer mask works.

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Colorizing Line Art

2008-12-07T02:22:00.001-08:00

Using layer blending modes to simplify the process and get dynamic results.

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Displacement Maps and Textures (Making a wooden banana in photoshop)

2008-12-07T02:19:00.000-08:00

Through general information and practical application, this tutorial will give you a better idea of how to apply a texture to an object through the use of displacement maps.

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Doing an Invisible (A Basic Approach)

2008-12-07T02:18:00.001-08:00

As in all image manipulations there are usually several ways to do the job. When doing an invisible this is particularly true. It depends on the original image and what needs to be replaced. In most cases using various areas of the original can create the missing background and either by cloning or duplicating, most of the needed area can be created.

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Fattening Folks

2008-12-07T02:16:00.001-08:00

My attempt to help beginners get familiarized with various approaches to fattening people.

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Find out how to face swap!

2008-12-07T02:11:00.001-08:00

The following are some observations I have made regarding the art of "faceswapping", a skill that is used primarily in ModRen and mating type contests. A seamless faceswap should give a viewer the uncomfortable feeling of "Oh God! He's so pretty!" instead of, "Oh God! He's a mutant!" I feel the key to a quality image is recognition of the subject. Recognition relies on the proper matching of your source images, using correct alignment, scaling and masking.

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Fire in the Night

2008-12-07T02:09:00.001-08:00

This tutorial is geared toward the intermediate Photoshop artist who already has a basic grasp of the program's interface and tools. You will learn more advanced masking and lighting techniques, plus some hand-drawn illustration techniques to make your images come alive.

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For Enhancing Your Scanned And Digital Camera Images

2008-12-07T02:06:00.001-08:00

These are the basic steps in image enhancement. Almost every image you’ll see in print will have had these basic steps performed. Granted, some images have had many, many more modifications done, yet these steps will be paramount in the mix. And these steps are early in the batting-order. This is the ways the pros do it.

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Gender Bending

2008-12-07T02:05:00.001-08:00

A few people had asked me how I did some of the work on Reese Witherspoon in Gender Bending 3. For those of you who are interested, I've put together a little step by step to show some of my nasty little secrets.

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Hand Drawn Stitches in Photoshop (How the Yoda Badge was Made)

2008-12-07T02:03:00.001-08:00

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How I Created the Wormhole effect

2008-12-07T02:01:00.001-08:00

This tutorial shows an example how created a whorhole effect on a picture using photoshop.

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How I Cubed a Cherry

2008-12-07T01:59:00.000-08:00

This tutorial shows an example How to combine illustration and photoshopping to achieve a cool result.

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How I Puppetized Charlize!

2008-12-07T01:57:00.001-08:00

A guide to turning a human into a puppet by using photoshop.

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How I turned Ayumi into a Pinocchio

2008-12-07T01:55:00.001-08:00

How to adjust a real person's features into a cartoonesque caricature by using photoshop.

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How to Create Rain (Rainy Day)

2008-12-07T01:52:00.001-08:00

A few people wanted to know how I created the rain effect in the "Turrets" contest, so I tried my best to write a tutorial, and here it is!

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How to Make Your Own 3D Images (A Use for those Dorky 3D Glasses)

2008-12-07T01:51:00.001-08:00

Learn how to make one of those cool 3D images that you can look at with those 3D glasses.

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Make Grafitti with Adobe Photoshop

2008-12-07T01:49:00.001-08:00

This is a pretty simple tutorial that shows how to make a wall image overlay.

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Masks in illustration

2008-12-07T01:47:00.001-08:00

This tutorial shows an example of how masks can be useful when creating original illustrations in Photoshop.

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Mmmmmotion

2008-12-07T01:45:00.001-08:00

After seeing several of the Mmmmotion contests, I think most of the mistakes have to do with incorrect subject focus or just plain "overdoing it." I tried to address both issues here. Hope some of you find this useful

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Modern Ruins

2008-12-07T01:42:00.001-08:00

How to turn a modern day city into decaying ruins by using photoshop.

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Out Of Bounds Shadows-Mini Tut

2008-12-07T01:41:00.000-08:00

This is an update of an old mini tut, inspired by the beginning of the then new Out Of Bounds contest format. There were quite a few images using an incorrect or impossible shadow treatment. While there are considerably fewer entries containing this mistake I felt it might be of some help, to beginners particularly, to update it. Essentially this is intended to be of some help to those who are either beginners to graphics programs or new to the OOB concept and would appreciate some very, very basic advice.

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Out-of-Bounds

2008-12-07T01:38:00.000-08:00

Here is a simple tutorial to explain the process behind a typical Out Of Bounds (OOB) entry.

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Perspective

2008-12-07T01:23:00.000-08:00

I've been saying I'd get around to posting something about perspective for awhile cuz I dunno how often I see pictures where things are matched up very nicely but the perspective is off, which makes object look tilted.

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Tattoos (Body Art)

2008-12-07T01:21:00.001-08:00

Having had a bit of success applying tattoos to celebrities I'll explain the tricks and tweaks I used to create realistic tattoos. This tutorial uses a few basic photoshop techniques, masking, colour adjustment, liquify and the resize and transformation tools.

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The Aging Process (Age Pregression of a Female Face)

2008-12-07T01:18:00.000-08:00

Here’s a little tutorial showing you how I basically go about aging a woman’s face in Photoshop.

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The Slime Factory (Web Design Effects)

2008-12-07T01:14:00.000-08:00

Follow along with the steps the author took to create a navigation bar for the "Slime Factory" website. This shows how to mix metallic textures with gelatinous substances.

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Turning People into Statues (How I Made the Anthony Hopkins Bust)

2008-12-07T01:07:00.000-08:00

A few people wanted me to share how I created my Anthony Hopkins Bust for Future Memorials 7. The technique I used is different from the methods presented in the other two statue tutorials posted here, and I hope some of you can find my technique useful.

How I Made the Anthony Hopkins Bust

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Unwrapping Hatteras

2008-12-07T01:02:00.000-08:00

A real beginner's guide to Unwrapping Cape Hatteras Lighthouse for Invisible World 16. Written from the perspective of a 'chopper with just a little artistic ability but a huge addiction.

In this tutorial, i will show you how i made black stripes of cape Hatteras Lighhouse vanish and reveal the insides for all to see.

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Zebraceros (Animal Crossbreed Example)

2008-12-07T00:52:00.000-08:00

Using the transform, liquify filter and some shading, were going to effectively dress up a rhino in zebra fur.

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Zombifying Mandy Moore

2008-12-07T00:47:00.000-08:00

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