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.
Compositing people into scenes where they never actually existed is challenging - particularly if it's an underwater scene.
The use of correct typographic conventions sets professional page designers apart from people who have taught themselves to use a word processor.
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.
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.
Part two of Designing DVD Menus looks at how design and interaction work together to guide the viewer to the content.
For a DVD disc to stand out, it needs a menu that does the content justice. Part one: Designing with motion.
Stop just enhancing reality and start subverting it with our guide to surreal digital effects in Photoshop. Part one: the end of the rainbow.
Stop just enhancing reality and start subverting it with our guide to surreal digital effects in Photoshop. Part one: special effects with skies.
Step-by-step example: explore freely the effects created by a digital calligraphic brush and discover the potential and pitfalls of the Photoshop tool.
Step-by-step example: explore freely the effects created by a digital calligraphic brush and discover the potential and pitfalls of the Photoshop tool.
It's not just about naff font faces you know. Make flowing type look classy not cheesy by doing it properly - by hand.
An in-depth tutorial on creating perfect representations of cyborgs using Photoshop and Poser.
In-depth Sci-fi tutorial on creating a perfect representation of a mad scientist. Marty Feldman not included.