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How to become perfect
Release Date: 2009-01
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Free Issue: How to become perfect
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Corona’s Bottle
I am known for creating images that look like photographs. Upon close inspection you will notice that these images really don’t look like photographs because unlike a photograph, everything is in focus. My intention is to have the viewer feel like they are looking at the actual place depicted in the painting. Wherever their eye travels, the image will come into focus.
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Skin Retouch
Don’t you want the pictures that you take of your friends to look their best? Here are some simple Photoshop techniques to clear up some of those imperfections and blemishes that may show up when using the megapixel cameras available today.
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Interview with Bert Monroy
Bert Monroy was born and raised in New York City where he spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative director for various agencies as well as his own. Upon discovering computers with the introduction of the Macintosh 128 in 1984, he embarked on a new digital career. He embraced the computer as an artistic medium and is considered one of the pioneers of digital art.
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Interview with David Gensler
To celebrate Rochambeau’s second collection, The KDU created a one of a kind 19″ × 22″ hand made book. The book serves as a temporary artifact showcasing the brands most recent collection – then will self destruct through an accelerated moxidation. The fine papers, leathers and silk used in the construction will soon be overcome by thegold, silver, bronze, copper and iron hand painted and embedded on each page.
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Loosing Your Mind
The aim of this tutorial is to propose you to create an effect of decomposition, as if the character was composed only by pixels. The hardest task will be to give the impression that we used a picture issued from a 3D software to achieve this work on Photoshop and Illustrator. It’s better to use a graphic tablet for the final retouching. This effect has already been used to make faces’ deformations created in 3D in Poser for example. Here, we’ll adapt this deformation in a natural way to a face (no-modeling) in order to make this effect more striking.
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Beauty Retouch
Beauty retouch is one of the most popular areas within photo editing. This tutorial provides you with an in-depth retouching process, from start to finish. We will be showing you how to produce perfect skin, enhance make-up, reshape the face and improving photo focus.
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Translucent Girl
In this tutorial we will take a regular photo of a girl and make her look translucent as if she is made of glass or see-through chrome. There are many tricks and techniques that photoshoppers use to reproduce chrome or glossy materials. I will show you one way that does not require any painting skills.
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High End SkinRetouching
An image of pure perfection is desired by all Photographers and Image Retoucher’s. In this tutorial, we pay attention to the finer details within a photograph. Applying these simple techniques can seamlessly improve all inconsistencies and give your photograph the professional treatment it deserves.
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Her, of Winter
There seems to be question on many creatives lips, asking ‘where does the inspiration come from? I guess every creative person would give you their specific answer, completely different to one and other. I believe to look makes you not to find. The harder you look, the less of a chance you’ve got. Well, at least this is my point of view. I had an idea to collaborate with my friend, model Ellen Hancock for a personal piece for My New Book of Colours. She came back with a bunch of great images, and this was an instant inspiration for the piece. A natural process in the making.
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Create a Dark Fashion Photo
Creating a dark fashion image requires a top notch model as well as a bit of finesse and a few added lighting effects to accentuate mood.In this tutorial I will provide some basic guidelines that will get you started on creating your own dark and moody fashion illustrations. I recommend using a pen tablet to speed things up. The stock image used is provided for free by the website www.sxc.hu. I strongly encourage further exploration of the site as it has many images that are updated on a daily basis. Remember your final image is only as good as the stock you use. Follow these steps and finding great stock are the first steps to making hot contemporary fashion images.
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Spring in Sight
Unless you are a pro snowboarder or work on the ski slope, many of us city dwellers can’t usually wait until the snow goes away, air changes and the trees get back their green coats. Spring and summer rock, it’s the best time of the year to have fun and feel positive so much til your face hurts too much from laughing. If you were to ask me how I’d see a visual representation of the Spring time, I guess it would look like the image here. Nice, happy, vibrant … simply positive and beautiful. To prove my point even more, I was born on the first day of the Spring indeed.
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How to Specify Type
We’ve come a long way. Typography once was an almost arcane craft, with its own technology, its own terminology, and even its own measurement system – ever heard of picas? However everything changed since the decisive breakthrough of the personal computer a quarter of a century ago.
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Adriana Typographic Illustration
This tutorial shows how to create a dynamic beautiful image using typography in a novel way. This piece is predominantly created in Photoshop although I do sketch out the initial ideas in a sketchbook. Photoshop is great because it adds a new level of freedom and control that I would not be able to have by working on a canvas. The inspiration from this piece comes from my undying love for typography. I also strive to push boundaries and come up with design, and illustrative styles that have not been conceived of before to push things in a new direction.
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Creating Humanoid Objects
One of the easiest ways to create a surrealist world is to take two objects that have no relation in terms of their nature, but have a connotative bond and combine them in a bowl. Man Ray, one of the most significant artist of the century, created the photograph called, Le Violon d’Ingres (Ingres’s Violin), which is a picture of a woman with the shape of a violin’s acoustic openings on her back. I will create a similar image using a blond woman and a telephone.
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How to Restore a Photo
Have no fear! Retouching is here! The average to extreme wear and tear of images has now become but a distant memory thanks to programs such as Adobe Photoshop CS4. With a few simple steps, one can easily make any picture look brand new, or even better than the original! This tutorial will illustrate how the art of retouching actually works. Let’s use this picture I worked on in my Digital Imaging class last winter. As you can see the picture is creased, stained, filled with holes and more importantly, pink.
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