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Archive for the ‘Special Effects’ Category

Posted on April 10th, 2008
Written by John and filed into the Basics, Design, Miscellaneous, Special Effects, Effects category.

I have seen some pretty neat wallpapers for vista, especially the one with the different colored curved lines. Even if you don’t care for windows products you can still use this technique to make a cool wallpaper for any system. The wallpaper I am about to show you isn’t supposed to look like the actual vista wallpaper, just similar in style.



Click Here for Large Version

Here are the other versions I made for my screen size and the 1024X768 with and
without the logo:

1680X1060

With Logo:
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Without Logo:
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1024X768

Without Logo:
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Posted on March 11th, 2008
Written by John and filed into the Basics, Brushes, Design, Web Graphics, Special Effects, Effects category.

In this tutorial I am going to run you through some blending options that will give you a nice glass looking orb, that would be a nice touch to a website or any other project.

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Posted on February 25th, 2008
Written by John and filed into the Brushes, Basics, Miscellaneous, Special Effects, Effects category.

I am going to show you an easy tutorial on how to make a neon sign in Photoshop. This will show you some tricks with the pen tool and a few blending options to make this effect. This might be a way you could make a logo for your site or just something fun to mess around with.

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Posted on August 20th, 2007
Written by Mark Rivera and filed into the Special Effects, Effects category.

Affect the mood of your drawing by using different colors of light reflections. When color rendering your artwork, it is easy to fall into the trap of rendering your subjects with only literal colors: Only red with an apple, water: blue or grass: green. Lights of all colors cast upon surfaces that we see and we can use different lights to a dramatic effect in our art. I’ve drawn Sarah and Jackie Bryant of the Virtua Fighter series and they will assist us on the journey.

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Posted on August 7th, 2007
Written by Mark Rivera and filed into the Basics, Special Effects, Effects category.

I’ve drawn Superman’s cousin Kara and her alternate dimension counterpart, Powergirl but no background! KwikClouds™ to the rescue! This tutorial allows a Photoshop user to quickly create stylized cartoon-like clouds when you need a pesky background fast!

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