Perfectly Capture Glass With Minimal Photo Equipment

In this tutorial I will show you how to capture and post-process professional looking photos of glass with minimal photo equipment. You’ll learn to take some stunning photos with professional lighting, and a stylish background. For both photos you will use the same background and props, but different camera settings. First I will describe common parts for both photos, then I will tell you how to capture each photo and outline post-processing steps to take in Photoshop.

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Vitrahaus, The 12 Houses in One

Try to imagine a lot of houses built overlapped, 12 houses, one over another. Well, this is the project Vitrahaus, designed by Herzog e De Meuron to the Vitra’s showroom, a beautiful sample of deconstruction and modernity. <!–break–> Located at the Weil Am Rhein, between Switzerland and Germany, will be latest architectural addition at the Vitra Campus complex, which already features buildings by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando, among others. The house is a piece of art, built with concrete walls and huge windows, allowing you to have an amazing view form the campus during the day, becoming big ‘store windows’ at night, showing the pieces inside of it.

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How to Create a Stained Glass Effect in Illustrator

This tutorial shows how to create a stained glass effect in Adobe Illustrator. The method is rather quick and simple, but the outcome looks very nice – especially when you use a beautiful image for reference. Let’s get started! Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one?

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