Tweet Peter Anderson with a great demonstration on using Photoshop’s Smart Objects to help texturing tasks more efficient. For more great tutorials check out CG Bootcamp, and also be sure to check out Peter Anderson’s site here.
Tweet Dimitar Ivanov Katerov with a quick tip showing how to alter some lighting information by the use of the black and White Adjustment in Photoshop, which will allow you to change a 3D render by tweaking the lighting range a bit. “In today’s quick tip, new Cgtuts+ author Dimitar Katerov shows us how to [...]
Tweet A tutorial from Thomas Havlik dealing with baking textures out of a 3D program, in this case Autodesk Maya, and 3D Studio Max, and then painting them up in Photoshop to finish up the work on them. Painting Textures from Baked Textures – Part 1 (Maya edition) from Thomas Havlik on Vimeo. Painting Textures [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
