Peeled Back Sticker Effect

Lets jump right in and open a new document by selecting File>New from the main menu or by pressing the keyboard shortcut Command-N (PC: Ctrl-N). The size of my working document for this lesson is 540×300 at 72ppi.Create a new layer by choosing Layer>New Layer from the main menu or by using the keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-N (PC: Shift-Ctrl-N) and call the layer Sticker. Click on the foreground swatch in the Tools palette and set the color to #e0dac7. Now lets grab the Elliptical Marquee tool (which is in the Rectangular Marquee tool fly out menu) and while holding down the Shift key to constrain, click and drag a circular selection onto...

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Layer Style And Layer Mask Interaction

In this Tips & Tricks tutorial I’m going to show you a neat little trick involving layer styles and the way they relate to layer masks.You know how sometimes you think you’re so damn smart… And then you learn something so basic that it makes you feel silly for thinking you were at all smart in the first place? Well, if you’re a long time PS user like me and you don’t know this trick, be prepared to have that feeling.I never new about this little gem and just had processes in my workflow to compensate, so I can’t say I ever missed it, but now that I know, I use it all the time! I’ve setup a simple example below to help me demonstrate. I’ve...

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Creating an Mini Interior Scene

In this tutorial I would like to show you how to make an interior scene using 3dsmax 8 and rendering with Vray . Certainly you can use other version of 3dsmax and Vray but it's possible that you will not get the same result as it's showed. Tutorial is very detailed so beginners should not be worried that they will not manage with this. But it's usefull to know basic tools and interface in 3dsmax.In the final part you can download scene file.Have fun in 3d world ... Step 1: Create a plane with dimensions 5 meters on 8 meters. Andsegments 8 on 5 . Convert to editable poly and extrude the right polygons.The ceiling is about 2,65 meters high.Creating...

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