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Category Archives: Tutorials

A tutorial is one method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of learning. More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture; a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task.
Depending on the context a tutorial can take one of many forms, ranging from a set of instructions to complete a task to an interactive problem solving session. – Wikipedia.

Remove an image foreground

I will show you how to remove an object from an image with a simple background. This technique works on complex backgrounds too but also take much longer and you have to use some other tools to get it to look OK.

Planet from a panorama

To make a planet with your panoramas and photographs all you need is a suitable photo and 20 mins. This can be done with pretty much any photo.

A Basic e-mail form

A basic PHP email form if quick and simple to create. It also makes it quicker for your visitors to email you directly from your page. You will need a PHP enabled webserver. If you are using wordpress then you have that sorted already.

Photo panorama

This tutorial will show you how to make a panorama in photoshop using only a few simple tools. All you need is photoshop and some overlapping images. The bigger the overlap the better.

Meta Tags

The tags in question are META tags. They are the bits of code that sit in between the <HEAD> </HEAD> tags and tell search engines whats in a page (except google which actually reads a pages text content).

Sidebar

This is a quick tutorial for anyone using wordpress’s kubrick theme who wants to add a menu sidebar on the side of each of their single posts. It’s pretty basic but it’s also pretty quick to do.

Skin touch-up

I’m going to show you how to touch up skin in a photograph. This will take about 20 minutes depending on how much detail you want to go into. To start with you need a picture. I used my readily available model… me. I also used a close up but this technique will work for [...]

Creating basic texture brushes

Brushes are a crucial part of every creative man and womans photoshop toolbox. Here’s how I go about making mine. Since they can be resized at will once made thay are a great way to add variation to your work at a small one off cost and all you need is 10 mins to get [...]

Creating an image mask

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 [...]

Concept art

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 [...]

Create a 360 skin

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 [...]

Eye enhancement

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.

Vector art hints & tips

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 [...]