Life & Style tutorial: Natural world - lightning
A masterclass on creating fake real world effects in Photoshop. Part two - simulating lightning.
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Life & Style tutorial: Natural world - rain
A masterclass on creating fake real world effects in Photoshop. Part one - simulating rain.
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Life & Style tutorial: Optical Colour Effects
There are several important ways in which colours interact. Because of the psychology of perception, they are not always as most people would expect.
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Life & Style tutorial: All about the mood
Fine-tuning brightness and contrast can alter the character and lighting of a scene for a personal interpretation.
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Life & Style tutorial: Colour in publications
Learn to use colours creatively for magazine and book design.
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Life & Style tutorial: Games Characters
Top advice on creating characters that players want to know and love.
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Life & Style tutorial: Colour composition 2
Follow the conventions of colour composition to create better images. Part 2: Composing with colour.
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Life & Style tutorial: Colour composition 1
Follow the conventions of colour composition to create better images. Part 1: Designing with colour.
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Life & Style tutorial: Surreal Photography 4
Layer Masks and filters can work together as a very effective means of effortlessly combining images. Siren, by Laurence Acland, artfully mixes traditional film photography with digital techniques to produce a striking image.
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Life & Style tutorial: Surreal photography 3
Compositing people into scenes where they never actually existed is challenging - particularly if it's an underwater scene.
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Life & Style tutorial: Font Masterclass 3
The use of correct typographic conventions sets professional page designers apart from people who have taught themselves to use a word processor.
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Life & Style tutorial: Font Masterclass 2
As you build up a collection of fonts, you will need to make decisions about the types of font that you choose and obtain some tools to help you work with them.
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Life & Style tutorial: Font Masterclass 1
To be able to use fonts appropriately, so that they complement the design rather than clash with it, designers need to master some of the skills of the typographer.
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Life & Style tutorial: Designing DVD Menus 2
Part two of Designing DVD Menus looks at how design and interaction work together to guide the viewer to the content.
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Life & Style tutorial: Designing DVD Menus 1
For a DVD disc to stand out, it needs a menu that does the content justice. Part one: Designing with motion.
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Life & Style tutorial: Surreal photography 2
Stop just enhancing reality and start subverting it with our guide to surreal digital effects in Photoshop. Part one: the end of the rainbow.
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Life & Style tutorial: Surreal photography 1
Stop just enhancing reality and start subverting it with our guide to surreal digital effects in Photoshop. Part one: special effects with skies.
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Life & Style tutorial: Calligraphy in Photoshop 3
Step-by-step example: explore freely the effects created by a digital calligraphic brush and discover the potential and pitfalls of the Photoshop tool.
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Life & Style tutorial: Calligraphy in Photoshop 2
Step-by-step example: explore freely the effects created by a digital calligraphic brush and discover the potential and pitfalls of the Photoshop tool.
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Life & Style tutorial: Calligraphy in Photoshop 1
It's not just about naff font faces you know. Make flowing type look classy not cheesy by doing it properly - by hand.