Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Layer masks are where its at. They are better than the eraser tool because the image data is still there but just hidden behind a mask, so you can always change the visable areas later in your image progress. I am going to show how to set up a layer mask so you can start [...]
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
When you need to show someone how something is going to look what better way than a bit of concept art. It’s great for a early on pitch, it’s quite quick and doesn’t take up too many man hours for the results it produces. If you have the time and money you could model in [...]
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Any product or graphic you produce will probably need some form of type on it. You might think all you need to do is choose a font and type away. Wrong! Well 99% of the time anyway. Whether its a simple tag line or a paragraph of information you have to consider two things. Fonts [...]
Monday, February 19, 2007
No sadly for you crazy people out there i’m not going to tell you how to take the skin off a man. For starters I wouldn’t have a clue where to start with that. Instead I am going to show you how I went about creating the 360 skin in the picture below. I tell [...]
Monday, February 19, 2007
Why? For any design the environment is usually a second priority to cost. Businesses run to make money so that is where the focus is aimed. So why would a business want to shift more focus onto the environment. What I am briefly going to cover are a few very good reasons for cost and [...]
Sunday, February 18, 2007
I am briefly going to outline how I make images with altered eyes. If you get it right you should be able to create some interesting looking images. I’m not going to cover this in depth. I’m just covering the basics for now.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Today I am going to briefly show you how to make a vector image like the one below. In case you are not aware vector images are made up of many separate, scalable bits and pieces. The objects are defined by paths and lines instead of pixels, so they always display at the highest quality [...]
Thursday, February 15, 2007
carldashtophamdotcom now has joined the blogging revolution. I will be keeping you up to date on projects, design tips and any other relevent news and info I see fit to share. Â Carl