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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
We just missed Halloween, but its always a time for scares on TutorialsBeware. We are going to take a look at some techniques that created this haunting imagery inspired by the cover of the American horror film The Last House on the Left
Above is a stock photo of a house at night that seemed to [...]
in Design, Photoshop
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Today we’re going to create a scene of a giant sea creature attack.
Above is a great ad with an octopus we can cut up like a collage. And here is the unknowing sea vessel that’s soon to be wrapped in slimy tentacles.
First, use the Lasso Tools to cut out the first tentacle. Trace the front [...]
By: Mark Rivera in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Here we’re going to learn how to take a screencap of Inglourious Basterds, or any other movie for that matter, and make a stylish desktop wallpaper out if it.
This is the original screencap of Eli Roth and Brad Pitt. Already looking pretty hardcore.
This is how the image looks after cutting out the background. It was [...]
By: Mark Rivera in Design, Photoshop, Wallpaper
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Today we’re going to use a bottle of cola and a simple egg to make Chuck Norris perfom a head-exploding atomic roundhouse of doom.
We start with the original, yet still quite righteous, kick to the face. Did you know that Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of [...]
By: Mark Rivera in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Here we’re going to take a stock photo of a woman sleeping and completely transform the mood of the scene by recreating the demon invasion in the new horror film, Drag Me to Hell.
The following is the unaltered photo of a lady snoozin.
Then I found this great illustration of the goat demon Lamia. I’m skeered [...]
in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Friday, May 1st, 2009
We’ve got a multi-parter today. The obscure comic character Jonah Hex is in film production starring John Malkovich, Josh Brolin and Megan Fox. Inspired by the art in the following pic, I decided to put together some live-action elements to see how this imagery might look.
I first started with this photo as a base. It [...]
in Design, Photoshop
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
A new Tron movie’s coming up and word on the net says Olivia Wilde has been attached to the project. I’m not sure what at what capacity she’s going to appear in the film, but I figure she’s more than deserving of getting the Tron treatment. In this tutorial I’m going to share some layer [...]
in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Here we’re going to take the new Jason Vorhees mask and shine light through the back of it like they used to in the old school flicks. The new Friday the 13th film came out recently and while awesome, we’re going to blend a bit of the old school with the righteous new school.
The first [...]
in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
In honor of the eminent release of Street Fighter IV, I’ve tried my hand at emulating the art style from their character illustrations. They have a unique look that makes use of vibrant paint strokes and splatters prevalent in current design and juxtaposes it with the anime aesthetic that has been associated with the Capcom [...]
By: Mark Rivera in Design, Illustration, Photoshop
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
In this tutorial we will make an album cover for the band Slipknot’s greatest hirts.
Step 1:
Start off by creating a document sized 550 wide and 490 tall. Press ‘D’ to reset the foreground and background colors. Now you can hit ‘x’ to make black the background color and finally hit Ctrl + Backspace, this will [...]
in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop