DIY: Creating Your Own Ring Lighting Setup
Sep 1, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Do-It-Yourself projects are now the new thing to do in your spare time. In this DIY, you will learn how to create a fully functional thirty inch ring light that only costs a fraction of the price of buying one new. So get up off the couch and add a another light to your studio arsenal! Supplies and Tools Here is a list of the supplies you are going to need to pick up from your local hardware or home improvement store. 1 8×4 sheet of 1/2 inch plywood 40 ft lawn and garden extention cord 12 keyless light fixtures 12 full spectrum 60w coated lightbulbs 1 can of flat black high heat spray paint Total amount spent – $63.00 Here is the list of tools that I used for the job.
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Create a Beautiful Paint Brush Icon in Photoshop
Aug 30, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
This tutorial is meant to explain how to design semi-realistic objects achieved through simple procedures. The tutorial mostly uses shape layers, which will help you edit them later on and make your work more flexible and scalable. Continue reading… Continue Reading: Create a Beautiful Paint Brush Icon in Photoshop
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Shooting at Night: 4 Photography Scenarios Explained
Aug 30, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Shooting outside at night is no easy task if you don’t enjoy the unprofessional and merciless glare of a built-in flash. Today we’ll shed some light on the subject and discuss how you should approach venturing into the darkness with your camera loaded and ready to take on the world. We’ll focus on four different styles that you can use as a springboard for your creativity! Hunting Light in the Dark In a sense, photography is the art of capturing light. Your camera is not only a digital image creation tool but more importantly an advanced light collection device.
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Step By Step Guide to Photographing a Beverage
Aug 16, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Are you thirsty? Well, even if you aren’t, go get a large cold drink before you continue reading. I hope the photos in this tutorial make you feel parched. Commercial and advertising photographers spend a lot of time with food and drinks, and they try to do just that.
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How To Capture a Stylish Smoke Photograph
Aug 4, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Today we’re going to delve into the arena of smoke photography, investigate some of the post-processing techniques available to you, as well as a few different methods for obtaining certain effects. Grab your camera, and join us after the jump! Step 1: Equipment Selection While photographing smoke, you can get spectacular images using minimal equipment. I used the following kit in today’s tutorial: A prehistoric flash released in 80′s (power range – 35 Ws) A small halogen floodlight with the power of 100 W (sold in home improvements stores) 2 tripods for holding the lights Optical Flash Trigger Photo Sensor Black fabric background (1.5m square) DSLR camera Pentax K-m with lens DA 18-55 mm Step 2: Illumination Settings Ensure that your flash is installed so that it illuminates the subject from the side. The most important point is that the light from the flash shouldn’t illuminate the background.
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Create a Refreshing Beer Themed Poster Design in Photoshop
Jul 27, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
When you create a print advertisement, it’s important that all the elements of your composition are geared towards selling a product and promoting a brand. Today, we will demonstrate how to create a refreshing beer-themed poster design in Photoshop. Final Image Preview Take a look at what we will be creating. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours Resources Used The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial.
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Make a 3D Recycling Bin Icon with Photoshop
Jul 15, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
Through this Photoshop icon design tutorial, I will show you how to make an appealing drawing of a recycling bin with crumpled and creased white paper inside and around it — all from scratch. We will take advantage of tools such as the Gradient Tool, Custom Shape Tool, Rounded Rectangle Tool, and simple Photoshop functions such as Skew Transform and Free Transform to design our icon. Continue reading… Continue Reading: Make a 3D Recycling Bin Icon with Photoshop
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Free Textures – 15 High-Res Lens Flare Textures
Jul 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
Recently Jan from Sky-Textures.com emailed me about some new textures they have. I checked out their site, and they do have some really cool textures for sale. I particularly liked their upcoming Lens Flare textures Jan showed me. So we got to talking, and they where able to hook us up with this exclusive set of 15 of their lens flare textures.
Tags: Free Fonts, free-brushes, free-ps-brushes, graphic-design-freebies, Light, Resources, Textures, think-design
How to Apply Toon Style Coloring Techniques to a Pencil Drawing
Jun 25, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
It’s hard to go past the benefits of vector illustration for use in printing. Editable scale, color and composition put vector ahead of traditional illustration but it can’t compare to the style of hand drawn images. In this tutorial we will learn how to easily take a pen and pencil sketch and turn it into a vector illustration without losing the aesthetic of a hand rendered image. Drawing materials and tools you need: Thick drawing paper with smooth matt surface Pencils – B & 2B Fine-liner pens with 0.1 – 0.2 mm line width Eraser, preferably kneadable style Scanner Step 1 Begin your pencil sketch on thick paper.
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8 Magical Methods for Adding Mood to Your Photos
Jun 17, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
With today’s modern digital cameras, it’s easy to take a well-exposed photo. But how do you take it a step further and capture an image that encompasses the mood you felt at the time? In this tutorial I’m going to explore some techniques you can use to inject mood and emotion into your photographs. There are several methods you can use to express the feelings that a scene evoked in you.
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