Saturday, July 31, 2010

How to Draw a Realistic Mobile Phone with Photoshop

 
 

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In this Photoshop tutorial, we will draw a realistic mobile device. Our aim is to make our work appear so realistic that it looks just like a regular product shot. We will cover basic concepts for drawing a true to life object, making a basic pattern for the speakers of our mobile device, leveraging plenty of layer styles to keep our techniques flexible and non-destructive, and more. The key technique we will stress upon is paying attention to the small details, which greatly affects realism. Continue reading...



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Ease Eye Strain with F.lux

 
 

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If you're like me and tend to work around the clock, you know how bad things get for your eyes. The monitor just isn't good for them! While looking away every ten minutes is a good habit, I'd also recommend installing F.lux. It's a free program that will change the way you work.

This handy little program was recommended to me by a friend on Twitter after I complained about irritated eyes during a marathon writing session one night. I downloaded it, set my location and . . . my screen turned orange. Uck!

Fortunately, I stuck it out and now I use F.lux ALL the time because it really has eased the eye strain. Here's how it works:

During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.
F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

Nice and simple, huh? You set where you live and the program figures out when to gradually phase out the "sun" mode and go to warm mode which works with indoor lights.

I'll warn you up front, it takes a couple of days to get used to this. You're going to feel like your monitor is awfully orange at first, but stick it out . . . the results are DEFINITELY worth it. It is so much easier on the eyes.

Also, it's free, which is even better. Go download F.lux here.

Disclosure: I am reviewing this program because I love it, the company has no clue I'm writing this.

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Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know [APPS]

 
 

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Another rad browser plugin called Google Alarm hit the Internets this week, which alerts you every time your personal info is sent to Google's servers. How? Via notifications, a running tally of dangerous sites and, naturally, a super annoying, vuvuzela-like alarm.

After seeing this new plugin — which works with both Firefox and Chrome — on F.A.T., I contacted the developer who made it: Jamie Wilkinson, who also created Know Your Meme and Mag.ma. Google Alarm, which was made during F.A.T.'s F*ck Google Week in Berlin, is supposed to make users aware of how much info they're sending to the search giant.

According to Wilkinson, "Google makes great products and gives them all away for free, which has made them into a ubiquitous and omniscient force on the Internet. Google Alarm and F*ck Google in general are meant to illustrate how this single unregulated company now captures more information about us than any government agency ever could. When I started developing Google Alarm I was blown away to discover that 80+% of websites I visit have some kind of Google tracking bugs on them."

So how does the plugin work? "[It] inspects each page you visit for Google-related URLs: googleanalytics.com/ga.js for Google Analytics, doubleclick.net/googlesyndication.com URLs for AdSense, youtube.com/v/ for YouTube embeds, and many more," Wilkinson says. "Each service triggers an individual visual and audible alert to help you become more aware of when you're transmitting data to Google." If you're into the idea, the source code is currently open, and Wilkinsen welcomes suggestions. Check out the video below for more info:

We've been seeing a ton of interesting plugins like this lately — Shaved Bieber, BP Oil, Ex-blocker (which, disclosure, I helped come up with). It would be interesting to see if they actually become legit tools. Wilkinson would tend to agree: "Browser addons offer a unique opportunity to hack our web browsing experience," he says. "We spend so much time on the web that it's only natural to begin playing with how we observe and interact with it. I wish we had something as powerful for our TV sets."

What do you think of this plugin? I personally would not recommend enabling it unless you really dig the vuvuzela.

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Brilliant Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorials From 2010

 
 

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 is a new, but experienced kid on the block. With its new powerful features, it provides designers with a flexible tool for printing, making a video or designing for the Web. Some of the features added in Photoshop CS5 are Puppet Warp, 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé, smart radius feature, Content-Aware Fill and Raw Image Processing, to name a few. In this post we showcase Adobe Photoshop CS5 tutorials from which you will learn a lot about different features of Adobe Photoshop CS5.

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Create a Cosmic Love Goddess With Photoshop CS5
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Quick HDR Effect Photoshop CS5 Tutorial
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create HDR from a single image. This technique will make the bright portions of the image darker, and dark portions of the image lighter. This also gives the image a more realistic look.

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Create an Abstract Light Streaks poster in Photoshop CS5
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an abstract light streaks poster from scratch using Lighting effects, Noise, and Wave Photoshop CS5 filters. Layered PSD file included.

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New Techniques for Cutting Outbhair in Photoshop CS5
In this tutorial author will be replacing a dull background with a very cool sunset, and use different new features in CS5

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CutOut Painting Effect Photoshop CS5 Tutorial
In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to turn a photo into an CutOut painting, using a few filters with a very simple technique.

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Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Photoshop CS5
In this tutorial, author will tell how to blend fashion photography with custom brushes into dramatic and surreal illustration using Photoshop CS5 techniques. Layered PSD file included.

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Photoshop CS5: Camera RAW
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New in PS CS5: Refine Edge and Smart Radius
The brand new Smart Radius feature in Photoshop CS5 allows you to do more complex selections a lot quicker than previously.

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Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5's Content Aware Feature
In this tutorial, author will show how Content Aware feature allows you to quickly fill in a selection with surrounding content making it look like a part of the original image.

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New in PS CS5: Usable Sharpen tool
In this tutorial,author will show you how to use Usable Sharpen tool.

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Playing with Inflate in Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended
In this tutorial, author will show you the Inflate option in Repoussé.

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How To Make 3D Text in CS5 – Photoshop tutorial
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Favorite Features of Photoshop CS5
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Removing Skin Blemishes With The Spot Healing Brush
In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll look at one of the most amazing and time saving photo retouching tools available, the Spot Healing Brush, the first of three image "healing" tools in Photoshop.

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Photoshop CS5 New Features – Content-Aware Healing
In this tutorial, author shows you how content aware healing feature is helpful.

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3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended
In this tutorial, author will show you charm of new feature the Repoussé. This new feature or tool will allow us to create 3D objects extruding texts, selections, paths and layers masks.

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New in PS CS5: Brush Engine
This tutorial highlight a feature in Photoshop CS5, new brush engine with the exciting bristle brushes that will let you paint in a much more realistic way.

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Cartoon Text with Background Animation Effect
In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create a cartoon style text and animate it using clipping masks and tweening. Photoshop CS5 is required for use of puppet warp feature.

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3D Water Text Effect with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5
In this tutorial author will show you how to create a water text. Even though it might look complex it's a very simple effect. We will be using the new Repoussé then some stock photos to create the effect.

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Turn A Sunny Day
In this tutorialauthor shows us how to deal and turn cloudy days into sunny photo effects.

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How to Make a Reflection in CS5 – Photoshop tutorial
You will Learn how to make a great reflection in this Photoshop CS5 tutorial.

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Create 3D type art using Photoshop CS5
In this tutorial, author will use the new Repoussé tool to extrude some text in a way previously only possible in a full 3D application.

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Create an Animated Banner Ad in Photoshop CS5
In this article, author will demonstrate how to use Photoshop to create an animated gif in Photoshop CS5.

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Create gif animation using puppet warp
In this video tutorial, author will show you how to create a gif animation using the new puppet warp tool in photoshop CS5.

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Photoshop CS5 Digital Painting Tutorial
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CS5 – Hair Masking – Photoshop tutorial
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Use Puppet Warp in Photoshop CS5 to Tweak Your Images
In this quick tip tutorial author will demonstrate how to correct a Photo with puppet wrap tool in minutes.

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Blending fashion image with Photoshop CS5 custom shapes
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to transform fashion photography into abstract illustration by mixed some custom shapes and applying different Blending modes using Adobe Photoshop CS5. Layered PSD file included.

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Human Aquarium Illustration Photoshop Tutorial
In this Photoshop tutorial we'll be walking through the process of creating a human aquarium illustration using some awesome techniques.

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How to create Retro-style Photoshop illustration
In this tutorial, author will create some textures for background using brushes, manipulate some stock photos to give them a retro-style look, and make some color variations. Layered PSD file included.

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Horizontal horizon in Photoshop CS5
In this tutorial, author will tell how to make horizontal horizon in Photoshop CS5

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PS QT: Make Layer Style Options Default in CS5
In Photoshop CS5 you can finally make your own default options for the layer styles. Just go into the blending options, mess with the settings until you have what you want as your default, and click the "Make Default" button at the bottom of the window to save this as the default for all other times.


 
 

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