The Importance of Staging

Logo design is an important part of any company’s brand.

A logo tells the world who you are and often becomes iconic in representing your name, brand and world wide identity. For example, go to your refrigerator and open the door. What do you see? Products. Products that have a name or an emblem on them. Something that tells you what is inside the product. If its milk, it might have a cow on the container. If its jelly, it might have a grape on it. What if the product doesn’t have a physical object to describe the product? What happens then?
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August 30th, 2010

Create a Lava effect using Photoshop

Creating special effects for images is where Photoshop really comes in handy. You can create your own brushes and even layer blend modes that can be used later for other images. In this video I show how I created the following effect. I’ve uploaded the PSD file as well as containing brush and style effect for you to try on your own: (Read More…)

August 30th, 2010

Quick Page Curl Effect

Quick page curl effect in photoshop using the warp tool and a little shadow accents.

Click here to watch the video.

Page Curl

August 29th, 2010

Create a Seemlessly Tiled Pattern

One of the things I see people always asking is how to create a seamlessly tiled pattern for use in their wallpaper or textures. I used to think it was difficult until I learned this little trick.

In this video I’ll show you how to make a seamlessly tiled pattern using photoshop. The same method can be applied to nearly any object.

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Most effects and techniques in photoshop are usually a lot more simple than they appear. Its often only a few steps to achieve the end result. Especially if you are creating them from scratch.

August 29th, 2010

Creating a Glamour Shot in Photoshop

Video Tutorial

Creating a Glamuor Shot in Photoshop is not as hard as you would think. The steps are fairly easy, and can help give a little glamour to almost any photo.

Regardless of the subject, whether it be a persons portrait, or even an outdoor scene, this effect will work for nearly any shot with adjustments to your desire.

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August 26th, 2010

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