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creating AO from nDo normal map in photoshop

By lesterbanks | Published: December 2, 2010

Tweet Sean Marino fires up Photoshop with nDo, the normal map plugin for Photoshop for this quick tutorial on how to create a custom ambient occlusion map using an nDo normal map. Creating AO From nDo Normal Map from Sean Marino on Vimeo. nDo is a melting pot of normal creation techniques. Sculpt using your [...]

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nDo, build normal maps right in photoshop

By lesterbanks | Published: October 19, 2010

Tweet Teddy Bergsman releases nDo, his normal map creation toolkit for Photoshop (CS2-CS5, Windows & Mac). nDo allows you the convenience of creating normal maps right inside of Photoshop using Photoshop’s standard tools – how sweet is that? Check out the site for a download, and also check out the available tutorials on nDo’s use. [...]

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create abstract 3D shapes using maya

By lesterbanks | Published: October 13, 2010

Tweet Haze Long with a tutorial using Maya to generate abstract 3D shapes to compose in Photoshop for a final abstract piece. “Recently I have been fascinated by 3d abstract art. They look awesome and surreal. I had a notion to renew my blog design (again) and was inspired to do something along the lines [...]

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make previews of your 3d files using photoshop

By lesterbanks | Published: October 11, 2010

Tweet Dave Girard with a nifty post on using Photoshop to generate previews of 3D files that you might have lying around in some library. Dave notes: “Yesterday, I picked up a pack of Dosch models to make things a little easier for this visualization job. The problem was that they didn’t come with a [...]

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content aware fill extending transparent object boundaries

By lesterbanks | Published: September 18, 2010

Tweet Dave Girard shows off a Photoshop Action that he created for CS5 that extends transparent object boundaries using content aware fill. Sweet. full blog post and the Photoshop CS5 action here: polygonspixelsandpaint.tumblr.com/?post/?1137767970 Content Aware Fill for extending transparent object boundaries from Dave Girard on Vimeo.

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3 great content-aware tips for photoshop cs5

By lesterbanks | Published: September 11, 2010

Tweet Scott Valentine with three great “power-user” tips for Photoshop CS5′s new content-aware tools, cool stuff! Content-Aware Power Tips for Photoshop CS5 from Scott Valentine on Vimeo. “Are you using Content-Aware tools in CS5? Sure you are! But are you using them like *this*? Check out this two-minute video on turbo-charging the new tools. Fasten [...]

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after effects color correcting by the numbers

By lesterbanks | Published: August 25, 2010

Tweet This Michael DeVowe fellow, has a pretty great little tutorial on color correcting by the numbers using curves in After Effects and in Photoshop. “An in-depth tutorial on color correction using Curves inside of After Effects and Photoshop. This method explains how to color correct most any footage “by the numbers”. It’s a bit [...]

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photoshop cs5 3d extrusion

By lesterbanks | Published: July 9, 2010

Tweet Mike McHugh from Adobe Pacific shows off Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended has got some great additions to its 3D capabilities. Learn how to extrude some text and get it to integrate into a photograph by casting a shadow over the background. This is a pretty straight forward tutorial with a technique that can get [...]

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compositing v-ray render layers in photoshop

By lesterbanks | Published: July 8, 2010

Tweet In this tutorial Ahmed Fathi takes a look at how to composite together V-ray render layers using blending-modes and masks in Photoshop. Once completed, this process allows you to change or tweak any aspect of your image in seconds without having to re-render a thing! Ahmed also covers a few extra post production techniques [...]

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diy photoshop panels using adobe configurator

By lesterbanks | Published: June 23, 2010

Tweet Helen Bradley notes that few people know that you are able to create your own custom photoshop or indesign panels by using Adobe Configurator, now in version 2.0. “Adobe Configurator is a utility application that helps create custom panels for Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS5 and InDesign CS5. Configurator makes it easy to [...]

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