I was looking for a 'shooting star'
effect recently, for some video work, and found this soopa doopa tutorial. The basics are pure art principals, as
in create depth utlizing a horizon line, but you can adapt this basic idea to create different shooting effects from
text, etc. Good basic primer for people who are new to graphic design.Shooting Stars!
I was looking for a 'shooting star'
effect recently, for some video work, and found this soopa doopa tutorial. The basics are pure art principals, as
in create depth utlizing a horizon line, but you can adapt this basic idea to create different shooting effects from
text, etc. Good basic primer for people who are new to graphic design.Design your own cereal box, win some free stuff!
CES took me out of the ability to blog for anything else but the gadget monolith, Engadget, but now that I'm back, I've got a contetst you've got to start working
on, right this second. Photoshop Cafe is sponsoring a "Design a
cereal box challenge." The basics? design a relatively low-rez (375 x 275) front of a cereal
box. They don't want a 3d box, just work on the actual design (sans printing marks, one can safely assume).
Winners pick up a copy of Photoshop, or a Wacom Intuos tablet (which I love). They didn't quite figure out mime types
either, so you'll have to save the template with a right-click. I'm working on my TUPW brand cereal, right now,
so perfect timing!
Sheep Skull Brushes
Whacky brushes help the Photoshop world go round,
and a good texture here and there can help your gross carbony coal, become glitery gaudy diamonds. While a Sheep
Skull and diamonds typically don't belong in the same post, a great new brush from the folks (person?) at
photoshopbrushes.com lets me make an exception. Check it out, it's free! Plus, the poster says they're
planning on releasing another brush tomarrow based on the cracks and speckles of the skull.They've also got a brush collection available on their website, so check that if you're so inclined.
Photoshop TV, the Vodcast
The self-proclaimed PhotoshopGuys released the first (to my knowledge, and googling) Photoshop Vodcast (thats what the kids are calling it, at least.) In the past, they've had podcasts, but the addition of a visual medium really makes the Vodcast worth watching. In the first episode, they cover sharpening, which doesn't really translate that well to ultra-compressed video, but its a good overview. Check it out, you might learn something!
