Top 5 Free Tutorials for the Week

spherical puzzle Top 5 Free Tutorials for the WeekHello everyone, hope you have had a good week and are looking forward to an even better weekend. Here is our selection of the best tutorials for this week. We hope you enjoy them.

- Our favorite tutorial for the week is this video tutorial that explains in detail the art of Painting with Lasers in CS5. The video is very well edited, easy to follow and the results are excellent. We encourage you to follow this tutorial if you are interested in painting or in changing the textures of your photographs with CS5.

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Recommended Reading by Tutorial-Index: Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and mental ray

Realistic Architectural Visualization Recommended Reading by Tutorial Index: Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and mental ray

Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and mental ray, Second Edition by Roger Cusson and Jamie Cardoso is a highly recommended book for experienced users in modeling. The book jumps straight into the practicality of the subject so you must have experience in this field if you want to get out the most from it.

It is a perfect recommendation for architects and architecture students. Its shows you step by step and in a very clear manner how to render architectural scenes using mental ray in 3ds Max. Programs in general are quite difficult to get a hang of and there always seems to be a point of frustration with all books, this particular book tries to tackle these feelings by using a lot of images and all sorts of marks that will help you follow through the examples with success and a smile, or at least without a frown.

We hope you enjoy it and find it useful!

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5 Top Free Tutorials of the Week: Fantasy, Realism and Practicality

time piece 181x300 5 Top Free Tutorials of the Week: Fantasy, Realism and Practicality This week due to the great quality of the tutorials we have received it has been quite difficult to determine out top picks, after some debate this is the outcome for this week. We hope you enjoy our selection it is made up of original proposals with great artistic value and imagination.

These are our top picks:

Create a Fantastic Glowing Decorated Time Piece with Photoshop, and how fantastically it is decorated indeed! Check out the intricacies of this design and how no detail has been neglected. The tutorial it extremely well explained and takes you step by step in the outmost detail.

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2011 has arrived with a Great Selection of Free Tutorials

 2011 has arrived with a Great Selection of Free TutorialsWelcome 2011! I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday and a great start of the New Year.

Our contributors have been busy and we have received a great variety of new free tutorials which we hope you will find interesting. Here is our selection of the week!

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New Free Tutorials: Modeling Smartphones, Furniture and Easy Tricks with Photoshop

HTC Tattoo 3ds Max Tutorial 1024x768 300x225 New Free Tutorials: Modeling Smartphones, Furniture and Easy Tricks with PhotoshopThe week between Christmas and New Year has been full or surprises, for many of you the weather! And for us the great quality of tutorials that have been submitted to Tutorial-Index.com.

Our top tutorial for this week shows you step by step how to Model a HTC Tattoo Android Phone, the tutorial covers modeling and rendering. Very complete and the outcome is amazing.

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5 Free Tutorials: Let your imagination run with our best picks of the week

desktop cat 300x187 5 Free Tutorials: Let your imagination run with our best picks of the weekEven though the Christmas frenzy is on a high this week our contributors have made time to send us their best tutorials and post them on Tutorial-Index.com. Thank you for sending us such great material!

This week we have made a random selection of tutorials, no particular theme to them just useful tricks and tools that you would like to know of or even refresh your memory with.

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Top 5 Free Tutorials: Design Christmas cards and gift cards and other great Photoshop effects

santa 240x300 Top 5 Free Tutorials: Design Christmas cards and gift cards and other great Photoshop effectsWith Christmas round the corner we though we would do a special post on Christmas motives and ideas to use during this season.

Using Adobe Illustrator one of our members has sent us a tutorial on How to Draw a Cute Santa. The result is indeed very cute and it will look great on your season greetings e-cards to friends and family.

Placing many presents under the tree? Well how about designing and personalizing your gift tags? This Photoshop Tutorial takes you step by step to Design Christmas Gift Name Tags, no need to buy them anymore you can use your imagination to design your own. A fun and very personal touch that your loved ones will cherish and greatly appreciate.

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A Book for Photoshop Beginners: “Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature”

Layers Book Dic A Book for Photoshop Beginners: “Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshops Most Powerful Feature”Tutorial-Index recommended Reading for December is “Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature (2nd Edition)” by Matt Kloskowski’s. This is the second edition of a very successful Photoshop book that deals with all the major applications of layers. The Chapters cover: Layer Basics, Blending Layers, Adjustment Layers, Layer Masks, Type and Shape Layers, Enhancing Photos with Layers.

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5 Top Free Photoshop Tutorials: Step by Step Best Picks of the Week

snowman 300x210 5 Top Free Photoshop Tutorials: Step by Step Best Picks of the WeekThis week a video tutorial for Photoshop has been submitted, we love video tutorials they are easier to follow. In this case the author has created a step by step tutorial on how to replace a Film Star’s face with your own face. This is with no doubt our top pick of the week, imagine the amount of creativity that will come out of this tutorial…we hope you enjoy it and send us some famous scenes with your face: Marilyn Monroe wearing the famous white dress, Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca or any of the contemporary film scenes that are on their way to becoming all time classics.

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Fantasy and Imagination: 5 Top Free Tutorials of the Week

3dic 240x300 Fantasy and Imagination: 5 Top Free Tutorials of the WeekThis week the draw has been tough, we have received fantastic Photoshop tutorials that will make you want to find the right materials to get you going. All are very well explained and easy to follow, for different levels of difficulty. I hope you enjoy them as much as we have!

Fantasy taken to its maximum level, we love how this author has created a fantasy scene with mystery and action using Photoshop CS5: Fantasy Scene of a Sorceress and a Tree Monster . Absolutely love how real bit and pieces of trees have been used to create this very real effect. Our favourite of the week!

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