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after effects color correcting by the numbers

By lesterbanks | Published: August 25, 2010
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 of [...]
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photoshop cs5 3d extrusion

By lesterbanks | Published: July 9, 2010
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 3D [...]
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compositing v-ray render layers in photoshop

By lesterbanks | Published: July 8, 2010
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 such [...]
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diy photoshop panels using adobe configurator

By lesterbanks | Published: June 23, 2010
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 drag [...]
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rendering motion blur in maya part 2

By lesterbanks | Published: June 21, 2010
Leo Covarrubias returns with an addendum to the rendering motion blur with mental ray tutorial. In this which i deem “part 2″ Leo walks you though finishing off the render setup for batch rendering, and creating a movie file using Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. Maya – Motion Blur Addendum from CG Bootcamp on Vimeo.
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create a wood panel texture in photoshop

By lesterbanks | Published: June 3, 2010
I always say the less your color textures look like a photograph, the better the will end up looking in 3D. In that spirit take a look at this photoshop quick tip tutorial by Bree L by using noise filters, and the liquify tool. Here is a link to the written version of this tutorial Quick [...]
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dave cuerdon, skin smoothing in photoshop

By lesterbanks | Published: May 29, 2010
David Cuerdon is an award-winning visual artist and a true digital pioneer, who was among the world’s first digital fashion photographers. He is widely recognized for his rare combination of creative vision and advanced technical skills. His personal work has been showcased in fine art galleries internationally. David’s clients have included Playboy, Glamour Magazine, Neiman [...]
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photoshop cs5, content-aware workflows

By lesterbanks | Published: May 24, 2010
designProVideo.com with a look at content aware workflow - Even though it was introduced in CS4, the Content-Aware Scale tool can be invaluable for architectural or landscape photographers, because of its ability to improve our composition and aspect ratio, without modifying the overall character of the image in many cases. When used in combination with the [...]
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painting 3d patterns in photoshop

By lesterbanks | Published: February 10, 2010
AdobeTV with the Russell Brown Show showing how to use the 3D features of adobe photoshop CS4 to create 3D patterns and using the patterns as paint.
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how to render quickly in photoshop

By lesterbanks | Published: February 1, 2010
idsketching’s Spencer Nugent is back with a new video painting up a pc box quickly in photoshop cs4, really cool. IDSKETCHING.COM: How to Quickly Render in Photoshop from Industrial Design Sketching on Vimeo. Video demo of a quick rendering technique using Adobe Photoshop CS4. Presented by Spencer Nugent
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