Making of ASGVIS VRay for SketchUP Winning Render Dirk de Jongh from DWanimations won the very first render contest hosted by ASGVIS in March 2009 for an interior render done with VRay for SketcHUP with the image you see above. He kindly shares his process with us in this first SketchUP + VRay article on the blog. I hope you’ll enjoy this article, learn from it and share your thoughts by commenting at the bottom of this article’s page. Author: Dirk de Jongh Dirk is the founder of DWanimations, a visualization studio creating images for the real-estate market and also providing training about SketchUP for architects and architectural firms to better their workflow. You’ve probably seen his V-Ray for SketchUp renders in the V-Ray Forum, ASGVIS website, newsletters, and other ASGVIS marketing materials. Feel free to comment about any aspect of this article or things you think need more detailed explanation. The following render won the first VRay for SketchUP render competition. Here is the curtain creation process…
A collection of photos taken at the right time! A perfect photo has to be taken at the right place, on the right time, with the right camera, with the right model maybe and from the right angle of course. But sometimes if the angle is right and the timing is ok, it might lead to a couple of damn funny photos that seem to have a double sense. After more than two hours of hard “research”, we’ve managed to compile this cool collection with some of the best photos taken at the right time. Stunning photos, funny photos, crazy photos and so on… Enjoy! Close This content has been recommended to you by Yavli. Both Yavli and the website displaying the recommendations may receive compensation as a result of the content being clicked. View our Privacy Policy.
V-Ray for SketchUp Manual Photography News 25 New Illustrator Tutorials That Will Make You A Master Of Vector Art Just because you can usually get a similar effect in Photoshop doesn’t mean the end result will be as good as using Illustrator (depending on the project). If you are like me (and I will bet most of you are) you will go ahead and use PS because you know it much better even though the final project will not be as good or as functional as it could be. Well it’s time to buck up and get this learning curve completely out of the way so you make the right choice next time. Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular photo editing programs that has ever been created. This tutorial teaches you how to make a portrait of William Shakespeare in Illustrator using text. Article Link Advertisement A very interesting tutorial, from Design Instruct, that takes you behind the scenes and shows you the illustration process from start to finish. Article Link In this tutorial, you’ll use the Blend Tool, Paintbrush Tool and textures to create a stunning abstract piece of art. Article Link Article Link Article Link
Lytro announces Light Field Camera Plenoptic camera maker Lytro has unveiled its first product - the Lytro Light Field Camera. Available in early 2012, the camera will come in 8Gb and 16Gb versions, costing $399 and $499, and capable of storing 350 and 750 images respectively in their internal memory. The cameras feature a 35-280mm equivalent, constant F2 lens with what the company is calling an 11 megaray sensor, that captures photos that can be refocused after shooting. Company Founder and CEO Ren Ng showed us the camera and talked us through the shooting experience. Click here for our Lytro Light Field Camera overview with Ren Ng Jump to: Press Release: Groundbreaking new camera instantly captures interactive, living pictures to share with friends and family online Mountain View, CA – October 19, 2011 - Today, Lytro, Inc. The Lytro is the only consumer camera that lets people instantly capture a scene just as they see it by recording a fundamentally richer set of data than ever before. The Lytro camera's features include:
20+ Super Professional Photoshop Light Effects Tutorials 20+ Photoshop Light Effects Tutorials to Light up Your Day After recently sharing with you 20+ Awesome Light Effect and Abstract Photoshop Brushes, today we’re going to present, 24 of the best Photoshop Light Effects Tutorials out there. This is a chance to put your learning into action, and to use all those great brush sets to achieve professional results! Create Powerball Effect for Movie Poster Create Energy Lines Around a Dancer Color Variations Into the Light Create 3-D text with some extreme lighting The Brush Experiment Photoshop Lighting Effects Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes Fantastic Disintegration Effect inspired by Watchmen in Photoshop Create a Simple Vibrant Light Effect in Photoshop Striking Text Effect Using Glows and Blends How to Create an Interplay of abstract light streaks Create a great retro-style movie poster in photoshop Flying Girl in Photoshop Create Beautiful Glowing Bubbles On Your Designs Create a Realistic Outer Space Scene in Photoshop Drawing an Abstract lightbulb
40 Awesome Illustrator Tutorials In this roundup we have showcased some of the creative illustrator tutorials from 2011. These include typography, character design, poster design, logo design, portrait design and many more. Enjoy!! Artistic Printing Inspiration in Illustrator and Photoshop Create a Lava Island Scenario in Illustrator Vintage Badge in Illustrator and Photoshop Create a Hellboy Poster in Illustrator Create a Jar Illustration and Splashy, Purple Text Effect Create an Adorable Puppy with Negative Space and the Paintbrush Tool How To Create a Grumpy Troll Character in Illustrator Create a Sparkly Female Portrait in Illustrator Create a Vibrant Abstract Vector Design Illustrator How To Create a Retro Badge/Emblem Style Logo How To Create a Colorful Abstract Poster in Illustrator How To Create an Intricate Vector Heart Illustration Create a Chalkboard Type Treatment Create a Vector Chopper with Illustrator CS5 and VectorScribe How to Create a Retro Style Textured Logo Creating an Illustrative Monogram Vintage vector textures
350 Photoshop Tutorials | Best Photoshop Tutorials Photoshop is what makes the virtual world seem alive. Its nothing less than a blessing for designers. The Internet is full of Photoshop Tutorials and you will find a tutorial on each and every tool. With that being said, we understand that these tutorials require time and effort to find so we’ve saved you both. Who knows, after going through these tutorials, you may end up being the next big thing in the world of Graphic Design. This article is divided in 14 Sections: Advertisement Tutorials for Beginners 5 Common Photoshop Myths Solved for Absolute Beginners In this post, author will provide 5 Simple, Yet Useful Photoshop “How-to”s for Absolute Beginners. More Information on 5 Common Photoshop Myths Solved for Absolute Beginners How to Use and Create Brushes in Adobe Photoshop This tutorial will show you how to get and use brushes. More Information on How to Use and Create Brushes in Adobe Photoshop A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Masks – Part One Bridge is Going to be Your Best Friend Fire
Human Illustration Tutorials Create a Cosmic-Inspired Dreamy Scene in Photoshop In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to use stock photography, 3d elements, and various techniques to create a cosmic-inspired dreamy scene in Photoshop. Let’s get started! The following images were used during the production of this tutorial. Let's start by creating a new A4 document in Photoshop. I want to design the composition for print, so it’s best to work with large files and high quality resources. If you want a new poster in your room, consider doing the same. With black as the foreground color, press Alt + Delete to fill the background layer. Go to Window > Brushes and apply the following settings: Now you can freely give life to your stars. It's time to add some clouds. I want to create a space scene, with a galaxy in the center. Go to Filter > Liquify. Press Cmd/Ctrl+T to activate the transform tool and stretch and rotate the spiral. Finally, set the layer blending mode to screen. The galaxy looks too "clean". Download this photo of clouds and paste it into your document.
Tutorials, Resources and Inspirations » Create a Nebula Cosmolady in Photoshop – Tutorial Final Image Let start opening a new 300 DPI file on 4200px x 5100px. We will use beautiful Cosmo and Nebulas Pictures provide to us by Step 2.) Step 3.) Step 4.) Step 5.) Step 6.) Step 7.) Step 8.) Step 9.) Step 10.) Step 11.) and buy the girl picture. Or you can use one of our Exclusive HQ Model Stock Photos Step 12.) Step 13.) Step 14.) Step 15.) Step 16.) Step 17.) Step 18.) Step 19.) Step 20.) Step 21.) Step 22.) Step 23.) Step 24.) Step 25.) Step 26.) Step 27.) to add some sparkles. Step 28.) Step 29.) Step 30.) Download the 3d Model here
Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS by Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look. This photo is the result of adjusting the color curves, adding two vignettes, and a color fill, which we will walk through step-by-step. First, open your photo in Photoshop and make sure your foreground color is set to white in your side tool bar. You will see the above dialogue box. Now, switch your foreground color to black, and repeat the same steps as above by creating a new fill layer, but this time, check the box that says Reverse, and leave the Scale at 100 and adjust the Angle to 150 degrees. As you can see here, there should be three layers – your Background image, then your two gradient layers. Now, let’s adjust the color curves.
Spherical Perspective « Rob Adams a Painter's Blog This is the first instalment of a few posts on perspective and how we can use it in making images. This post is quite advanced but I do intend to do a “rule of thumb” perspective guide for those not of a mathematical bent. For now we are in the world of curved perspective which can be scary but explains a little about why even when we follow the construction rules of perspective things can look “wrong”. This is especially true when we use what in photographic terms is called a “wide angle”. So here we go… We might assume from what we are taught about perspective that this is the way we actually see. straight lines, so we put them that way into our pictures. cameras that have lenses that carefully distort the world to make it fit with the expectation that straight line should be straight. Have you ever tried to draw that really large checker board floor? the floor and it gets really wild. They never quite fit do they. Let’s find out why this happens. smaller as they move further away.