Web Picks #6
Jan 5, 2009 Best of the Web
Well, last week was a fantastic week. We featured some lists of the absolute best of design from 2008, so if you missed it, go check out those articles! Meanwhile, back to your regularly scheduled programming. It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to feature the best articles from the previous week.
This week, we have some of the best Wordpress themes, some great Photoshop tutorials as usual, and links to several great year-end roundups. If you like it, be sure to subscribe and submit it to your favorite social networking site. If you want to contribute, just get in contact with me. Thanks everyone, and have a great rest of your week!
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Paint a Realistic Yet Illustrative Portrait
Nov 30, 2008 Photoshop
Learning how to paint portraits that aren’t only realistic, but also capture emotion and feeling can be difficult. A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.
Tags: Photoshop Tutorial
Valentine’s Day 3D Text Effect
Nov 30, 2008 Photoshop
3D Text effects are an essential part of design. There are several techniques for accomplishing this, so here’s a really great tutorial on putting the finishing touches on 3D text made in Xara3D.
http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/valentines-day-photoshop-style/
Tags: Photoshop Tutorial
13 of the Most Advanced Tutorials for Photoshop
Nov 29, 2008 Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is probably one of the most popular graphic editing program used extensively. There is one simple reason for that. Photoshop is easy to learn and offer a variety of advanced tools to optimize and emphasize some impressive results.
Tags: Photoshop Tutorial
