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Mysterious Lighting Effect You Can Create in Photoshop

On 30, Mar 2010 | 25 Comments | In Blog, Tutorials | By grapikom

Here’s a nifty little lighting effect that we can create in Adobe Photoshop using the

Lighting Effects filter. It’s a really simple way to give a flat graphic some flare!

What We’re Making

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you a nice and easy way to use the Lighting Effects
filter in Photoshop to add a mysterious ambiance to almost any graphic. To see the effect
in action, hover over the image below:

Demonstration of the Lighting Effect we are going to make with Photoshop

Getting Started

This effect typically works best on graphics that are a bit less saturated and bright. You’re welcome to
use our original graphic to try this effect out on, otherwise, we suggest you do the following if you’re
working with a bright graphic with vibrant colors.

Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation
Decrease the brightness and saturation of your graphic until you feel like it’s more

fitting for this effect.

Once you have a graphic ready to use, continue on to the next part of the tutorial.

Single Layer Graphics Only!

Before continuing, please make sure that your graphic is contained on one layer only! The method
we will be teaching in this tutorial requires that you are working with ONLY 1 layer. To merge all of
your layers into one, select all of your layers in the layers palette, and go to
Layers > Merge Layers (Ctrl + E).

Another Easy Way to Merge Layers

CJ.H pointed out another really great way to merge layers for our purposes here without getting rid
of our other layer data. By using the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E, we can merge all layers below
our currently selected layer, and place the merged copy on top! Simple, and very effective! Thanks CJ.H!

Render the Lighting Effect

This effect essentially centers around the lighting effects filter. If you’ve ever worked with the filter
before, you may already have a few guesses as to how to accomplish this. However, you have
nothing to worry about if you have no experience with this filter, because we’re going to go
through the process, step by step.

First, go to Filter > Render > Lighting Effects.

You should be immediately greeted with a
bunch of confusing settings and a thumbnail of your image:

Default Lighting Effect Settings

This is simply the default lighting effects settings. We’re not going to use them, but I’d like to
quickly explain what a few of the different settings do:

Style – From here, you can select one of many preset styles that come with Photoshop, or use

the “Default” lighting setup (shown above).Light Type – There are 3 different lighting types,

including Spotlight, Directional, and Omni. From here, one can control the color of the light

(on the right), intensity (brightness), and focus (how hard or soft the light is).

Properties – From the properties settings, a user can adjust the properties of all lights, such
as Gloss (how reflective the surface seems), type of material (should it appear more like a
plastic or metallic surface), exposure, and ambient light (which the color of can be
changed if desired on the right).

You’ll also notice this icon underneath your preview area. To add a new light to the scene,
drag and drop from this icon into your image area. To remove a light, drag it from the image
area into the trash icon to the right.

Configure the First Light

Be sure your Light Type is set to Spotlight. There are 4 handles surrounding the center of the
light: The Handle with the line extending towards the center along with the handle on the
opposite side determine the length of the light. The other two handles determine the width.
Additionally, the center of the light can be dragged to reposition the light.

From any of the 4 handles, the light can be rotated. It’s also important to know that the handle
with the line extending towards the center is the source of the light, meaning that the light will
appear to come from that direction.

With all this in mind, reposition your first light source and settings to reflect what is shown in
the diagram below:

Configure the first light to look like this

Configure the Second Light

Add a new light into the image (as mentioned earlier, drag a new light from the lightbulb
icon into the image area), and configure it to look like this. We want it to appear as if it’s a single
ray coming in, separate from our large, first light source, so we want it to be thin, and coming in
at a slightly different angle.

Configure 2nd Light

Switch Between Lights

You may have noticed that as soon as a new light was created, the settings and handles
for your other light disappeared. They can STILL be editied! To switch between lights,
just click the white center of the light.

Doubling Up

Often times, you’ll need to double up lights in order to create bright streaks of light streaming
in over your graphic. To do this, simply add an additional light source that’s approximately
the same width and length, and going in about the same direction as the light you’re trying to
increase the intensity of.

When you create a light to double up with, you may want to decrease the intensity and focus by
pretty large amounts, as we’re simply trying to increase the overall intensity of the first beam.
We don’t want to give the light source an overly hard appearance.

Doubling up light sources to increase intensity

Add More Streams of Light

Add another stream of light, coming from a different angle, in a different area of the image.
It should appear as if the streams are being separated by an object in the way, such as light
pouring through bars of a jail cell, or something of the like.

The Final Configuration of Light Sources

Finished!

Just Press OK to apply your lighting effects filter, and you’re all set to go. If things don’t turn
out looking great, just undo the filter, and go back to Filter > Render > Lighting Effects.
It will keep the setup previously used, so you shouldn’t have trouble making any modifications!

Final Result

Save for Reuse!

If you develop a lighting effects filter that you’d like to use some other time elsewhere, be sure to
click Save in the Lighting Effects settings box. You’ll have the opportunity to create a custom
lighting effect that you can use whenever you’d like!

Tags | lighting effect, mysterious, Photoshop

30

Mar
2010

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Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop

On 30, Mar 2010 | 10 Comments | In Blog, Tutorials | By grapikom

In this tutorial we are going to create a photo manipulation inspired by Valhalla, one of Mariusz Karasiewicz`s works. He is an amazing artist and his work is absolutly stunning. I want to thank him for allowing me to write this tutorial.

Note from Editor: This tutorial, while well explained, is intended for more experienced Photoshop users. If you’re new to Photoshop, please consider trying out School of Photoshop and other Photoshop Tutorials first!

Materials Needed:

Large Gothic Doorway (Only can be used for works on DeviantArt)
Knight
Clouds
Shield
Wings
Sword
Light Beams and Rays Brushes
Feather Brush Set

Step 1: Create a new document

Go to File > New (Ctrl+N) to create a new canvas. Mine is 1700px wide by 2400px high at 300dpi.

Step 2: Large Gothic Doorway

Open in Photoshop the Large Gothic Doorway image and use the Move Tool (V) to drag it into the document you are working in. Then go to Edit > Free Transform (Ctrl+T) and scale the image down to fit your canvas. Change the name of this layer to Large Gothic Doorway.

Step 3: Apply the Sharpen Filter

To apply the sharpen filter, go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen.

Step 4: Select the gate

Now we need to cut the floor and everything that is behind the gate. In the next steps we will put some nice clouds there. So, use the Pen Tool (P) to create a path along the gate. Then, with the Pen Tool still selected, right-click on your image, select Make Selection and click OK.

Step 5: Put the selection in a new layer

Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), right-click on your image, and select Layer via Copy. Now the selection is in a new layer. Later we will use this layer to create a clipping mask for the clouds layer.

Step 6: Add the clouds

Open in Photoshop the clouds image and move it in your document using the Move Tool (V). Change the name of this new layer to clouds.

Step 7: Create a Clipping Mask

Right-click on your clouds layer and select Create Clipping Mask. Now the clouds layer is using the layer directly beneath it (Layer 1) as a mask.

Step 8: Mask the clouds layer

We don`t want the clouds to be at the bottom of our image. To fix that, make sure that you have the clouds layer selected and go to Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All. Then select a black soft brush (B) with the diameter of 200px and mask the bottom part of the clouds layer. Take a look at the following image for reference.

Step 9: Duplicate the clouds layer

To duplicate a layer, right-click on it and select Duplicate Layer (Ctrl+J). Use the Move Tool (V) to move this layer at the top of the gate. Then add a layer mask to this layer, select a black soft brush with the diameter of 200px and mask the bottom part of this layer. Take a look at the next image for reference.

Step 10: The knight

Open in Photoshop the knight photo and use the Pen Tool (P) to cut the knight from the image. Then using the Move Tool (V), move the knight to the document you are working in. Also, change the name of this layer to knight.

Step 11: Add a mask to the knight layer

Make sure that you have your knight layer selected. Then go to Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All. Select a black soft brush with the diameter of 80px and mask the horse`s legs like I did.

Step 12: Lights

Now we are going to create some lights and shadows for the knight layer. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves, make sure that the Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask option is checked and click OK.

Use the settings from the next image for the curves. Then fill the layer mask with black using the Paint Bucket Tool (G), select a soft white brush with the diameter of 50px and paint with this brush on the mask to create some lights on the knight.

Step 13: Shadows

Repeat the previous step to create some shadows on the knight. For the Curves layer use the settings from the next image.

Step 14: The wings

Open the wings image in Photoshop. Then copy and paste the wings that you like into your document and put them on the knight`s back. Also, change the name of this layer to wings.

Step 15: Adjustments for the wings layer

Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves, make sure that the Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask option is checked and make a curve like I did.

Then go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast and use 24 for the brightness and 38 for the contrast. I also painted with a black soft brush on this layer`s mask because some areas of the wings were too bright.

Step 16: The shield

Open in Photoshop the Black Knight V image and use the Pen Tool (P) to cut the shield from the image. Then move it into your document using the Move Tool (V). Go to Edit > Free Transform, hold down the Shift key, scale the shield down and rotate it like I did. Change the name of this layer to shield.

Step 17: The sword

Now it`s time to give to the knight a sword. Open in Photoshop the sword image, cut the one from the middle and move it in your document. Change the name of this layer to sword and put it beneath the knight layer. The knight is almost complete now.

Step 18: Group all the knight`s layers

Hold down the Ctrl key and select all the knight`s layers. Then hit Ctrl+G to group them. Change the name of this group to knight.

Step 19: Add a mask to the knight group

Make sure that you have the knight group selected. Then go to Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All and paint with a black soft brush with the diameter of 50px and the opacity set to 60%. Take a look at the following image for reference.

Step 20: Transform the knight group into a Smart Object

Right-click on the knight group and select Convert to Smart Object. Now the knight is in just one layer. If you want to edit the knight, double-click on the layer`s thumbnail. A new document will appear with all the knight`s layers. When you finish editing, save this new document and close it. Then the changes will be applied to the smart object. You can read more about smart objects on Veerle`s blog.

Step 21: Add a shadow to the knight

Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the knight layer`s thumbnail. This will make a selection of the knight. Now create a new layer, fill it with black and go to Select > Deselect (Ctrl+D). Then go to Edit > Free Transform, right-click on the image, select Flip Vertical, move the layer at the horse`s legs and hit the Enter key.

Now go to Edit > Transform > Distort, hold down the Shift key and distort the shadow like I did. Take a look at the next image for reference.

Next, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 2px. Then change the opacity of this layer to 50% and its name to shadow and put it beneath the knight layer.

Step 22: Add a gradient map to the knight layer

Click on the knight layer to select it, then go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map, make sure that the Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask option is checked and click OK. Then use the settings from the next image. The colors which I used to create the gradient (from left to right) are #252c2e, #26353c, #aabac2 and #d1dde2.

Then set the opacity of this layer to 40%.

Step 23: Add some mist

Create a new layer, set the foreground color to #252c2e and the background color to #d1dde2 and go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Then hit Ctrl+Shift+F two or three times, to increase the contrast of the clouds.

Next, you will have to add three filters to this layer:

Noise (Filter > Noise > Add Noise)
Despeckle (Filter > Noise > Despeckle)
Diffuse (Filter > Stylize > Diffuse)

Now add a mask to this layer (Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All), fill it with black using the Paint Bucket Tool (G), select a white soft brush with the diameter of 150px and the opacity 70% and paint with this brush on the mask, at the bottom of the image. Then change the name of this layer to mist.

Step 24: Add some adjustments to the mist layer

Now we are going to create three adjustment layers:

Brightness/Contrast (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast);
Gradient Map (Layer > New Adjustment Layer >Gradient Map) – the colors which I used are #161d1c, #322402, #6a5728, #fffbf3; also, set the opacity for this layer to 40%;
Color Balance (Layer > New Adjustment Layer >Color Balance).

Note: Every time you add these adjustment layers, make sure that you check the ‘Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask’ option.

For each adjustment layer use the settings from the following image.

Step 25: Rays

Open in Photoshop the Light Beams and Rays Brushes. You can use the Preset Manager (Edit > Preset Manager) for this. Then create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N), select the Brush Tool (B) and use this tool to draw some white rays. You can use a mask to remove some parts of this layer, if you want. Is not a must. Change this layer`s name to rays.

Step 26: Add the feathers

Again, use the Preset Manager to open the feathers brush set which you have downloaded at the begining of this tutorial. Then use the Brush Tool (B) to draw some feathers. Put each feather in its own layer and use the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) to rotate them.

Step 27: Final Adjustments

All we have to do now is to add some adjustment layers. You can create them from the Layer > New Adjustment Layer menu.

Curves - we will use the curves to create some rays. Use the settings from the next image. Then select a black soft brush with the diameter of 100px and the opacity 75% and paint with this brush some rays on the curves layer`s mask.

Color Balance - set the opacity of this layer to 50%

Brightness/Contrast - we will use the Brightness and Contrast adjustment layer to make the image darker on the edges. Use the settings from the following image. Then select a black soft brush with the diameter of 300px and the opacity 100% and mask the center of this layer.

Photo Filter - use the color #5c6f85

Brightness/Contrast - this time we will use the Brightness and Contrast adjustment layer to increase the brightness of our image`s center. Use the settings from the following image. Then fill this layer`s mask with black using the Paint Bucket Tool (G), select a soft white brush with the diameter of 300px and paint with this brush on the image`s center.

Curves – we will use again the curves to make the image`s egdes darker. Use a black soft brush with the diameter of 200px to mask the center of this layer. We want the curves to affect only the edges of our image.

Gradient Map - this is our last adjustment layer. To create the gradient use the colors #181a1b, #19262c, #3c4e57, #fffbf3. Set this layer`s opacity to 60%.

Step 28: Add a quote

This step is optional. Select the Type Tool (T) and write a quote or whatever you want at the top of the image. I have chosed a quote which belongs to James R. Cook: “Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” I have used the Trajan font to write this.

This is the end of the tutorial. I hope you enjoyed it.

Final Result

Tags | fantasy warrior, Photoshop, Tutorial

24

Mar
2010

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Amazing post production and photo manipulation by Platinum FMD

On 24, Mar 2010 | 25 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom

Platinum FMD is a Brazilian image manipulation studio which uses combination of photography, illustration, 3D and CGI to make “the impossible become reality”

Tags | alter, manipulation, Photography, Photoshop

30

Dec
2009

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30 Awesome Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

On 30, Dec 2009 | No Comments | In Blog, Tutorials | By grapikom

Last year, I compiled a very popular list of 80 Photoshop Text effects. Since then, a lot of new and spectacular text effects tutorials have been created. Not much more to add to this statement. Just take a look at this new roundup of 30 Awesome Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials.

Flowery Text Effect

Papercraft Text Effect

Colorful Glowing Text Effect

Smoke Text Effect

Ironman Text Effect

Flaming Meteor Text Effect

Star Wars Text Effect

Layered Glowing Text Effect

6 Quick Text Effects From Scratch

Spectacular 3D Text Effect

3D Grass Text Effect

Dramatic Fire Text Effect

Soft Stylized 3D Type

Candy Coated Text Effect

Realistic Chrome and Glossy Plastic Text Effect

Shaded text effect

Stylish Retro Text Effect

Dream Design 3D Text Effect

Suspended Text Effect

Text Inside Text Effect

Neon Text Effect

Super Cool Frilly Bits Text Effect

Text in Stitches

Wood Inlay Text Effect

License Plate Text Effect

Hell Text Effects

Watercolor Text Effect

Patches Text Effect

Cracky Text Effect

Starcraft 2 Text Effect

Tags | Photoshop, text effect, Tutorial, Tutorials

30

Dec
2009

321 Comments

Create a Furious Pink Panther Poster

25+ Photoshop Tutorials for Poster Design

On 30, Dec 2009 | 321 Comments | In Blog, Tutorials | By grapikom

For Photoshop users who are interested in experimenting and learning something new, poster design is an excellent way to practice. With a large canvas area and unlimited possibilities, there is plenty of room for creativity. Last year I published a collection of tutorials for designing posters in Photoshop. Since other outstanding tutorials have been published since then, today we’ll feature another 28 tutorials.

Create and Then Shatter a Grid, While Making a Typographic Poster

Designing a Typographic Concept Poster

Designing a Portable Gaming Device Poster

Make a 3D Colour Explosion

Creating a Retro Grunge Poster

How to Draw an Electronic Angel Working Up an Image of a Girl

How to Design a Rockin’ 80’s Party Poster

Giving a Mafia Look to a Business Photo

Create a Mock-Retro Poster Concept

Poster from the Words

Make a Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster

Awesome Snowboard Poster

Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements

Create an Impactful Child Welfare Poster

Design a High Impact Gig Poster Suitable for Screen Printing

Retro Movie Poster Art

Create Sci-Fi Poster Art in Photoshop

How to Create an Ice-Cold Poster with 3D Text

Creating a Grunge Rock Poster

Never Forget

Create a Poster Illustration with Floating Floral Elements

Sweet Radio Station Advert Design

Orange – Design Your Life

Make a Cut and Paste Rock Club Flyer

Create an Awesome Music Poster

Making an Anti-Terrorism Poster

Gig Poster Art in Photoshop

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Tags | design, Photoshop, poster, Tutorial, Tutorials

30

Dec
2009

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How to Make Skin Beautiful using Photoshop

On 30, Dec 2009 | 15 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom

Let me start this tutorial by stating the obvious, not everyone has beautiful skin. To compound this problem we have skin eruptions, uneven tan, freckles, unwanted highlights, large pores, etc. In addition, today’s cameras and lenses magnify every imperfection and freeze it for all to see. This tutorial will help the photographer put their models in the best light so to speak. I will start at the point where you have completed your basic processing and have an image with the correct exposure value and white balance.

Overview

This subject will be covered in steps as follows:

Removing or softening major flaws in the skin
Touching up undesired reflections and highlights
Apply a Gaussian blur to the skin to soften and blend it.
Spot sharpening

Note for MAC users: Substitute the Option key for the Alt key when specified in the tutorial.

Removing or softening flaws

There are many ways to remove flaws from the skin; however, I like to use the clone tool. I do not use the clone tool to remove and replace the skin but rather in a special way that will allow me to work slowly to hide the flaw or blemish on the skin. The beautiful young lady pictured here is typical of teenagers in that hormones may cause zits or other eruptions on their skin that are unsightly. As a photographer it is our job to lessen that and make the model look their best. You will note on the neck of this young lady a rather large skin eruption. This is not a normal mark and one that I am sure she wishes were not there.

On the tool bar on the left hand side of the workspace is the clone tool. Click on this tool. Now go to the mode setting at the top and select a soft brush that is near to or smaller than the blemish. Move to the right and click on mode, setting it to lighten. Move to the right and set the opacity to around 12% and the flow rate to 100% or less. You are now ready to begin hiding the blemish. Find a good patch of skin near the blemish, position your brush on it, hold down the ALT key and click your mouse once. Now begin to soften the blemish by doing a click and hold while going over and over the blemish. You will note that it begins to lighten. Continue until the blemish is gone. In the center of the blemish it is lighter than the surrounding skin. Set mode to darken, ALT click on the good skin and repeat the process above to darken this lighter area. The blemish is now gone as shown in the image. You might also note that I have lightened some of her permanent moles and fixed other light or dark areas using the same technique described above. I generally do not totally remove permanent moles on a models face.

Touching up undesirable highlights and reflections

The end of nose is a particularly onerous place for reflections and burned out highlights as you will note on the model above. Removing them is just as simple as removing a blemish. The difference is that you set the clone tool mode to darken. Select a patch of skin with the appropriate color and do an ALT click. Now go over the highlight until it looks good to you. Be careful not to go too far a field from the highlight itself as you can make the nose look flat in that area instead of rounded as it normally is. If you make a mistake, it is simple to go back a step in the history palette and redo that step. Don’t hesitate to switch between darken and lighten if need be. At this stage do not worry if everything is not perfect as the Gaussian blur will take care of minor imperfections in your work.

Apply a Gaussian blur to the skin to soften and blend it

Much of the information in this part of the tutorial was gleaned from Scott Kelby’s great book entitled The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, which I recommend highly to everyone new to Photoshop.

I will attempt to keep the “how to” part of this tutorial as detailed as possible so that those new to Photoshop will be able to follow along. This is an advanced technique so stay with me. First thing to do is to open the picture that you want to apply the Gaussian blur to. Create 2 additional layers of this image in the Layer’s pallet. An easy way to do this is to hold down the Ctrl key and click on the J key twice. You should now see three layers of the image. Hide layer 1 copy by clicking on the Eye icon next to it in the layers pallet. Highlight the middle layer by clicking on it and your layers pallet should now look like this:

In the drop down box on the Layer’s pallet change the blend mode from Normal to Darken. Next go to the menu at the top of the screen and click filter/blur/Gaussian blur and then apply a 35 pixel blur to the image. Don’t worry that your image looks bad at this stage.

On the Layers pallet, click on the little Eye icon beside the middle layer to hide this layer and then click on the top layer to make it active. Now change the blend mode from Darken to Lighten by clicking on Lighten in the drop down box. Next run a 50 pixel blur on this top layer (Filter/blur/Gaussian Blur).

After you have applied the blur, click on the middle layer to make it the active layer and then lower the opacity to 30%. Hide the background layer from view by clicking on the Eye icon beside it and then create a new layer by clicking on the New Layer Icon at the bottom of the Layers pallet. This icon is on the bottom right just next to the little garbage can. When the new layer is created click and drag this layer to the top of the stack as shown.

Next, hold down the Alt Key and with your mouse go to the top and click (hold) on Layers and while holding the mouse button down go to the bottom and release the mouse button over Merge Visible as shown here.

This creates a flattened version of your document in the new layer. In the layers pallet, make the background layer visible with the Eye icon and hide the two middle layers by removing the Eye icon from them. Make sure the top layer is the active layer and then lower the opacity to 37%. This is a subjective adjustment and you should set it at the point that your image has the right amount of blur to suit your taste. All that is left now is the removal of the Gaussian blur from the hair, eyes, eyebrows, lips, jewelry, clothing and anything else that you don’t want blurred.

Click on the layer mask icon at the bottom of the layer pallet (third from the left). Insure that your foreground color is set to black. You can change the background/foreground easily by clicking on the small x while watching it change on the leftmost tool pallet. Select a soft edged brush from the tool pallet and paint over everything that you do not want blur on (eyes, mouth, hair, etc.). Generally this is everything except the skin. Change the size of the brush so that it is easy for you to do that without getting over into the skin. Your layers pallet will now look like this.

At this point you may flatten the layers and discard the unused layers (Layers/Flatten Image). If you feel a little touch up for the brightness of the image is needed, do that with levels or Brightness/Contrast.

Spot Sharpening

Select the spot sharpener from the tool pallet on the left hand side of your screen and quickly go over the eyes, mouth, and anything else that you want sharpened.

Applying a final sharpening is up to you but in any event do not over sharpen. Watch the eyelashes and hair especially so as not to create artifacts or halo’s. Here is the final product:

Don’t be intimidated by this tutorial, once you run through it a few times it is quite easy. One last caution, it is better to error on the side of too little blur than too much. It is easy to make the skin look plastic and unnatural. The goal is to accomplish the softening but yet not have it noticed. If you remove all traces of texture to the skin you will have failed for most types of portraits.

Tags | beautiful skin, Photoshop, retouching, skin

30

Dec
2009

One Comment

Francesco Mugnai's Photostream Inspiration

On 30, Dec 2009 | One Comment | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom

He is Florentine. He’s a web designer, graphic designer, art director, network administrator, blogger, technology evangelist. He has a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Multimedia. Currently he teaches digital graphic techniques in a renowned Italian institute of Art and Design in Florence, where he also work as web manager. He’s featured in several european magazines like Computer Arts, Advanced Photoshop and Web Designer Magazine. And…few days after the opening of this web-garden he wants to say thanks to CssMania, Webcreme, SmashingMagazine, CssBased, Designflavr, Onepagelove, Bestcssgallery, Cssfreshblend, CSSclip, CSSstar, Sharebrain, CSSleak, CSSimpress, Irie, Dlounge, Designineurope, Fantasticss, Spyline, Plasticpilots, Csszone, Commandshift3, Cssscoop, Stylesinspiration, Designcharts, Csstea, Gravento, Ccs-design-yorkshire,…

The Magic Box	Space Circles
I recently made two free icons for all of you mac lover (for private use only).	Another personal work. Just Photoshop. I tried to merge my style with that of James
The Sky Was Blue	iLoveGrey
A wordpress theme mockup. I love minimalist websites with large “typographic”	A wordpress theme mockup.
Jump	All Howl’s Eve
Photoshop CS3 + Cinema 4D @ Francescomugnai.com	An exercise…just for the hell of it Original Picture by L’Etrusco Design
Template	3D Explosion?
Just a simple excercise. I decided to release this template for free.	Design by Francesco Mugnai
Creating a new mind	J-CMYK
Design by Francescomugnai.com ©2008	Design by Francescomugnai.com ©2008
Colors in B&W	Bare Skin
Design by Francescomugnai.com ©2008	An illustration for the portfolio. Just a nice picture and Photoshop
A girl, many colors &…Photoshop	Colors of Rock
Photoshop CS3 + Custom Brushes + Colors Credits: Original Pictures by Mariana Marques	Another example of good mix of Photoshop and Xara3D. Credits: bittbox for the texture
Colors
Photoshop CS3, some brushes & Xara 3D

Tags | francesco, mugnai, Photoshop, photostream

30

Dec
2009

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