Monthly Archives: November 2010

Top Tutorials of the Week

Posted on November 23, 2010 by editor

best tutorial of the week Top Tutorials of the Week1. Best V-Ray Settings – Antialiasing and Color Mapping

This great tutorial will show you how to setup the V-Ray renderer for 3ds Max, which seems to be the fundamental and, probably, the most controversial and frequently raised subjects in the 3d rendering. You will learn what are the best universal settings for V-Ray interior rendering, how to setup V-Ray for good exterior renderings, and a lot, lot more!

2. Add Ultra Realistic Colors to Any Gray-Scale Photo

A detailed Photoshop tutorial on how to colorize your B&W photos. You’ll be shown all the steps necessary to give their outfit nice realistic colors.

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This Week’s Top 5 Tutorials

Posted on November 16, 2010 by editor

best tutorials of the week This Week’s Top 5 Tutorials 1. This week our “Best tutorial of the week” Award goes to Blue_Chi for the excellent tutorial on how to use the swipe gesture in Flash mobile applications using ActionScript 3 so that the user can execute a command by swiping his finger across the screen. This feature is supported by every iPhone app created using Flash.

2. Second place is for Daddy Design and their great tutorial that shows how to make digital 8-bit style corners using only CSS. The result is beautiful quick rendering 8-bit style corners requiring zero images. There is only one drawback to using this method: you must use a solid color background in your design.

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Spooky Halloween Photomanipulation Wins “Top Tutorial of the Week”

Posted on November 3, 2010 by editor

top of the week halloween Spooky Halloween Photomanipulation Wins “Top Tutorial of the Week”We don’t know (and we don’t even want to guess…) what this year’s Halloween parties taught you, but we do know what you can learn from a great tutorial that won this week’s “Top Tutorial of the Week” Award: Create a Spooky Halloween Photomanipulation, by Jarka Hrncarkova, shows you how to change lights and shadows, use custom brushes, warping objects and create strong focal point. Some “magic” PS techniques you always wanted to be familiar with. Enjoy Jarka’s work and don’t miss the rest of “Top 5 of the week” tutorials we have carefully chosen for you:

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers, a must on your bookshelf

Posted on November 1, 2010 by editor

adobe photoshop book Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers, a must on your bookshelfTutorial-Index recommended Reading of the Month is “Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: a professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC”, we believe that this book is for people with some Photoshop experience, even though the book does review the basics and then goes deeper into a wide variety of techniques aimed at photographers or graphic designers.

Marty Eveningn the author is himself a professional photographer and an experienced writer in the subject of Photoshop. The book is like an encyclopaedia on Photoshop, it guides you through all aspects of the software, don’t expect to read it in one go, it is a guide and will be most useful when you have a picture in mind and an idea of what you would like to do with it. We hope you find our recommendation interesting, “Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: a professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC”, is a very handy resource to have on your bookshelf.

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