How to design a user icon (Human bust) in Photoshop

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PS Tutorials: creating tentacles, recover from old archive

When brushing through my old archives I came across with one of my old graphics of tentacles. The unique technique involved in manipulating the tentacles, I am going to share the designing process in this tutorial post.

Final Product, this is one of the many ways that you can take advantage of the manipulated tentacle.



Step 1:
Run your version of Adobe Photoshop and open a new document, size of the new file may not cause much of a different although in here I have used 700 x 800 px blank white RGB 72px/inch ideal for web graphic file.

Step 2:
On the left side tool pane, second tool from top, select the "Rectangular Marquee tool" (if the rectangular marquee is not selected, then you will have to right click the marquee tool and select rectangular tool from the sub menu) and as shown in the image below draw a rectangle in the middle of the graphic to show as 1/3 of the graphic.

Step 3:
Having the middle of the graphic selected, click on the gradient fill tool from left side tool pane. From the top tool bar make sure you select "Reflected Gradient". After that click on the middle of the graphic and drag outside the previously selected area so you will get a gradient like shown below. After that press Ctrl+D to deselect the selected area. (The dotted lines should disappear)

Step 4:
Now we need to transform the shape of the rectangle to a triangle. To do this, press Ctrl +T or go to Edit>Transform>Perspective If you press Ctrl+T, then right click on the gradient area and select perspective as shown below.


Step 5:
Having the transform selected to perspective mode, drag the top corner either right or left towards the center so the top would become pointier.


Step 6:
To give the shear appearance to the triangle tentacle we have right now, go to Filter > Distort > Shear then as shown below play with the trend line on top until you arrive at a decent looking tentacle.


Step 7:
Congratulations, you have created a tentacle. You can modify this and colorize using Hue/Saturation as below.

Follow the same method and make several of those tentacles and you will have some generated graphics to play with for your graphic design.

Photomerge Function for the photography

If you can not capture the moment in a single shoot of the button, and there is more outside the camera frame that you want to capture to remind you how unforgettable the scene was, there is always panorama pictures.

panorama creation, basic and educational material coming soon



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Computer Arts 3D text Tutorial

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Finished result

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For the full tutorial:
Source: Photoshop-Garden

PS tutor: Orange skin Porche

Read full tutorial here on how to design it from scratch using photoshop: http://alfoart.com/gold_car_1.html

Photoshop: how to design a Fireball

In this video I explain how to design a stunning looking fireball using Adobe Photoshop CS3.

My Photoshop work - After edit

Here is one of my Photo I edited using Adobe Photoshop. Here I used several color and level balancing and used several Brush effects in overlay setting. Be sure to leave some comments on what you think.

How to design a Jewelry BluePrint in Photoshop

In this Post I am going to talk about designing a blue print for a jewelry prototyp design using Adobe Photoshop.
Skill Level: Advance

Step 1:

Create a new layer and using brush tool draw a basic shape of the design like this. Dont worry about getting it correct. We need a basic structure. Make sure brush size is 2px or less and 100% Opacity

Step 2:

Now reduce the opacity of the layer containing the basic sketch to around 30%. Using "Pen tool" (P) draw an out line along the lines from your sketch. Make sure you select "Path" from top tool bar after you select Pen tool.

Step 3:

You could use "Add anchor tool" under Pen toll menu to shape up the the outline made using the pen tool, so the outline will align with the below sketch you drew earlier.

Step 4:

Now create a new layer. And go to Window>Path and select the layer. Then Choose brush tool (brush size 2px, round brush with fading) and click "Stroke path with Brush" in Path window pane. This will draw a brush line along the outline you just drew using the Pen tool. Now you should be able to see a clear line on the outline of the jewelry design. Just like this draw the outline for the entire design.

Step 5:
Creating Shading and coloring the finished outline.

Make sure you create a new layer to do coloring. So that outline layer will be ontop of the color layer. The new layer selected, using brush tool with desired color paint around the areas like shown in the picture. After that use eraser tool to erasethe colors that went outside the Area and also to reduce Opacity of the coloring. You will require realistic drawing skills to select the right shade of color to paint over the area to give it a 3D dynamic look.



Once everything is done it should look like a professional Blue print of a Prototype design which can be sent to manufacturers....