Archive for July, 2009
I created this awesome “heavy metal” effect in Adobe Illustrator CS2 using a 2005 tutorial from Layers magazine. Because of that, unfortunately, there isn’t a way for me to share it with y’all unless I type it all out myself. It’s very detailed and requires basic navigation of the software, which I kind of didn’t [ READ MORE ]
Follow Ryan McGinnis’ tutorial here. After yesterday’s sprinkle, today’s Texas heat combined with the humidity made it especially unbearable to shoot outside, but I wanted to see if I could create the HDR look with photos of the backyard. Mine isn’t spectacular but it must have been because I shot a poor photo in the [ READ MORE ]
Follow Anja’s tutorial here. I used my own photo for this tutorial–something I just snapped up from earlier today specifically for this. This tutorial requires Photoshop, as most of the ones I’ll be doing will. If you don’t have Photoshop but want to try this, download the 30-day free trial. Anja does a pretty good [ READ MORE ]